AWS re:Invent 2016

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IOT401: Serverless IoT Back Ends Dec 25, 2016

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This session will cover common customer implementations and patterns for building connected/smart home implementations with AWS IoT. This includes the end-user experience for onboarding a smart home appliance and then integrating it with the AWS ecosystem (for targeted push notifications, predictive maintenance, and so on). iRobot will join us to discuss their smart home integrations with the Roomba 980 and AWS IoT.

IOT403: Robots: The Fading Line Between Real and Virtual Worlds Dec 25, 2016

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Experience how live virtual 3D worlds rendered with Amazon Lumberyard, a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine, interconnect with IoT devices in the real world. This session will illustrate how AWS IoT can be used to remotely control animate objects with Bluetooth, such as a Sphero robot. By using AWS Lambda and AWS IoT, we will create a bi-directional communication between moving robots that detect collisions and a virtual world rendered in Amazon's game engine. By using AWS IoT with the Alexa Skills Kit and the Amazon Echo, we will learn how to control the physical and virtual robots through voice.

LFS301: Building a Platform for Collaborative Scientific Research on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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This session discusses the architecture, formation, and usage of a collaborative HPC/big data scientific research and analysis environment on AWS. The pharmaceutical industry trend toward joint ventures and collaborations has created a need for new platforms in which to work together. We'll dive into architectural decisions for building collaborative systems. Examples include how such a platform allowed Human Longevity, Inc. to accelerate software deployment to production in a fast-paced research environment, and how Celgene uses AWS for research collaboration with outside universities and foundations.

MAE304: High Performance Cinematic Production in the Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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The process of making a film is highly complex, and comprises of multiple workflows across story development, pre-production, production, post-production and final distribution. Given the size and amount of media and assets associated with each stage, high performance infrastructure is often essential to meeting deadlines.

MBL202: Taking Data to the Extreme Dec 25, 2016

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As GoPro expands into content networks and launches new products, new challenges have appeared. One of the most critical challenges facing GoPro during this period of rapid growth is their ability to make effective use of massive amounts of data. Every day, GoPro collects increasing amounts of data generated by internet connected consumer devices (smart cameras, smart drones), GoPro mobile apps, GoPro content networks, GoPro e-commerce sales, and social media. This data ranges from raw camera logs to refined and well-structured e-commerce datasets. In the past, it took GoPro months to understand new inbound data and determine how to transform or augment it for analysis. To streamline this process and bridge the gap between tech-savvy engineers and data-savvy analysts, GoPro is creating an analysis loop, which informs product usage trends and product insights. This analysis loop serves a large ecosystem of GoPro executives, product managers, engineers, data scientists, and business analysts through an integrated technology pipeline consisting of Apache Kafka, Apache Spark Streaming, Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop, and Tableau’s Data Visualization Software as the end user analytical tool. Session sponsored by Tableau Software.

NET202: DNS Demystified: Getting Started with Amazon Route 53, featuring Warner Bros. Entertainment Dec 25, 2016

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Whether you’re running a simple website, a mobile app, or a suite of business applications, DNS is a fundamental part of any architecture in the cloud. In this mid-level architecture session, we’ll cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS’s highly-available DNS service. You’ll learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS; how to configure DNS failover using health checks; how and when to use private DNS within your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC); and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2’s DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network.

NET303: NextGen Networking: New Capabilities for Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and gives you complete control over your virtual networking environment. Amazon VPC continues to evolve with new capabilities and enhancements. These features give you increasingly greater isolation, control, and visibility at the all-important networking layer. In this session, we review some of the latest changes, discuss their value, and describe their use cases.

NET304: Moving Mountains: Netflix's Migration into VPC Dec 25, 2016

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Netflix was one of the earliest very large AWS customers. By 2014, we were running hundreds of applications in Amazon EC2. That was great, until we needed to move to VPC. Given our scale, uptime requirements, and the decentralized nature of how we manage our production environment, the VPC migration (still ongoing) presented particular challenges for us and for AWS as it sought to support our move. In this talk, we discuss the starting state, our requirements and the operating principles we developed for how we wanted to drive the migration, some of the issues we ran into, and how the tight partnership with AWS helped us migrate from an EC2-Classic platform to an EC2-VPC platform.

NET305: Extending Datacenters to the Cloud: Connectivity Options and Considerations for Hybrid Environments Dec 25, 2016

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Many enterprises on their journey into the cloud require consistent and highly secure connectivity between their existing data center and AWS footprints. In this session, we walk through the different architecture options for establishing this connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and VPN. With each option, we evaluate the considerations and discuss risk, performance, encryption, and cost. As we walk through these options, we try to answer some of the most common questions that typically arise from enterprises that tackle design and implementation. You'll learn how to make connectivity decisions that are suitable for your workloads, and how to best prepare against business impact in the event of failure.

NET307: NEW LAUNCH IPv6 in the Cloud: Virtual Private Cloud Deep Dive Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, we explore AWS support for IPv6 for full end-to-end connectivity for EC2 instances inside of a VPC. IPv6 on EC2 instances introduces new capabilities and interesting new wrinkles into the VPC model. Customer VPCs receive IPv6 addresses from an Amazon address block, and existing features such as security groups, network ACLs, route tables, peering, and gateways have been enhanced to support IPv6. Finally, we look at some future capabilities planned for IPv6 in VPC.

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