AWS re:Invent 2016

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ARC303: Cloud Monitoring - Understanding, Preparing, and Troubleshooting Dynamic Apps on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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Applications running in a typical data center are static entities. Dynamic scaling and resource allocation are the norm in AWS. Technologies such as Amazon EC2, Docker, AWS Lambda, and Auto Scaling make tracking resources and resource utilization a challenge. The days of static server monitoring are over.

ARC305: From Monolithic to Microservices: Evolving Architecture Patterns in the Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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Gilt, a global e-commerce company, implemented a sophisticated microservices architecture on AWS to handle millions of customers visiting their site at noon every day. The microservices architecture pattern enables independent service scaling, faster deployments, better fault isolation, and graceful degradation. In this session, Emerson Loureiro, Sr. Software Engineer at Gilt, will share Gilt's experiences and lessons learned during their evolution from a single monolithic Rails application in a traditional data center to more than 300 Scala/Java microservices deployed in the cloud. Derek Chiles, AWS Solutions Architect, will review best practices and recommended architectures for deploying microservices on AWS.

ARC306: Event Handling at Scale: Designing an Auditable Ingestion and Persistence Architecture for 10K+ events/second Dec 25, 2016

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How does McGraw-Hill Education use the AWS platform to scale and reliably receive 10,000 learning events per second? How do we provide near-real-time reporting and event-driven analytics for hundreds of thousands of concurrent learners in a reliable, secure, and auditable manner that is cost effective? MHE designed and implemented a robust solution that integrates AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB, HDFS, Amazon EMR, Amazopn EC2, and other technologies to deliver this cloud-native platform across the US and soon the world. This session describes the challenges we faced, architecture considerations, how we gained confidence for a successful production roll-out, and the behind-the-scenes lessons we learned.

ARC307: Accelerating Next Generation Healthcare Business on the AWS Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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Hear Geneia's design principles for using multiple technologies like Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling in end-to-end solutions to meet regulatory requirements. Explore how to meet HIPAA regulations by using native cloud services like Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS volumes, encryption services, and monitoring features in addition to third-party tools to ensure end-to-end data protection, privacy, and security for protected health information (PHI) data hosted in the AWS Cloud. Learn how Geneia leveraged multiregion and multizone backup and disaster recovery solutions to address the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements. Discover how automated build, deployment, provisioning, and virtual workstations in the cloud enabled Geneia's developers and data scientists to quickly provision resources and work from any location, expediting the onboarding of customers, getting to market faster, and capturing bigger market share in healthcare analytics while minimizing costs. Session sponsored by Cognizant.

ARC308: Metering Big Data at AWS: From 0 to 100 Million Records in 1 Second Dec 25, 2016

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Learn how AWS processes millions of records per second to support accurate metering across AWS and our customers. This session shows how we migrated from traditional frameworks to AWS managed services to support a large processing pipeline. You will gain insights on how we used AWS services to build a reliable, scalable, and fast processing system using Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, and Amazon EMR. Along the way we dive deep into use cases that deal with scaling and accuracy constraints. Attend this session to see AWS’s end-to-end solution that supports metering at AWS.

ARC309: Moving Mission Critical Apps from One Region to Multi-Region active/active Dec 25, 2016

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In gaming, low latencies and connectivity are bare minimum expectations users have while playing online on PlayStation Network. Alex and Dustin share key architectural patterns to provide low latency, multi-region services to global users. They discuss the testing methodologies and how to programmatically map out a large dependency multi-region deployment with data-driven techniques. The patterns shared show how to adapt to changing bottlenecks and sudden, several million request spikes. You’ll walk away with several key architectural patterns that can service users at global scale while being mindful of costs.

ARC310: Cost Optimizing Your Architecture: Practical Design Steps For Big Savings Dec 25, 2016

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Did you know that AWS enables builders to architect solutions for price? Beyond the typical challenges of function, performance, and scale, you can make your application cost effective. Using different architectural patterns and AWS services in concert can dramatically reduce the cost of systems operation and per-transaction costs. This session uses practical examples aimed at architects and developers. Using code and AWS CloudFormation in concert with services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, CloudFront, and more, we demonstrate the financial advantages of different architectural decisions. Attendees will walk away with concrete examples, as well as a new perspective on how they can build systems economically and effectively.

ARC311: Evolving a Responsive and Resilient Architecture to Analyze Billions of Metrics Dec 25, 2016

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Nike+ is at the core of the Nike digital product ecosystem, providing services to enhance your athletic experience through quantified activity tracking and gamification. As one of the first movers at Nike to migrate out of the datacenter to AWS, they share the evolution in building a reactive platform on AWS to handle large, complex data sets. They provide a deep technical view of how they process billions of metrics a day in their quantified-self platform, supporting millions of customers worldwide. You’ll leave with ideas and tools to help your organization scale in the cloud. Come learn from experts who have built an elastic platform using Java, Scala, and Akka, leveraging the power of many AWS technologies like Amazon EC2, ElastiCache, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, DynamoDB, Amazon ES, Lambda, Amazon S3, and a few others that helped them (and can help you) get there quickly.

ARC312: Compliance Architecture: How Capital One Automates the Guard Rails for 6,000 Developers Dec 25, 2016

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What happens when you give 6,000 developers access to the cloud? Introducing Cloud Custodian, an open source project from Capital One, which provides a DSL for AWS fleet management that operates in real-time using CloudWatch Events and Lambda. Cloud Custodian is used for the gamut of compliance, encryption, and cost optimization. What can it do for you?

ARC313: Running Lean Architectures: How to Optimize for Cost Efficiency Dec 25, 2016

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Whether you’re a cash-strapped startup or an enterprise optimizing spend, it pays to run cost-efficient architectures on AWS. This session reviews a wide range of cost planning, monitoring, and optimization strategies, featuring real-world experience from AWS customers. We cover how to effectively combine Amazon EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot instances to handle different use cases; leveraging Auto Scaling to match capacity to workload; choosing the optimal instance type through load testing; taking advantage of Multi-AZ support; and using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor usage and automatically shut off resources when they are not in use. We discuss taking advantage of tiered storage and caching, offloading content to Amazon CloudFront to reduce back-end load, and getting rid of your back end entirely by leveraging AWS high-level services. We also showcase simple tools to help track and manage costs, including Cost Explorer, billing alerts, and AWS Trusted Advisor. This session is your pocket guide for running cost effectively in the Amazon Cloud.

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