AWS re:Invent 2016

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DAT316: How Telltale Games migrated its story analytics from Apache CouchDB to Amazon DynamoDB Dec 25, 2016

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Every choice made in Telltale Games titles influences how your character develops and how the world responds to you. With millions of users making thousands of choices in a single episode, Telltale Games tracks this data and leverages it to build more relevant stories in real time as the season is developed. In this session, you’ll learn about Telltale Games’ migration from Apache CouchDB to Amazon DynamoDB, the challenges of adjusting capacity to handling spikes in database activity, and how it streamlined its analytics storage to provide new perspectives of player interaction to improve its games.

DAT317: Learn how IFTTT uses ElastiCache for Redis to predict events and index terabytes of logs Dec 25, 2016

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IFTTT is a free service that empowers people to do more with the services they love, from automating simple tasks to transforming how someone interacts with and controls their home. IFTTT uses ElastiCache for Redis to store transaction run history and schedule predictions as well as indexes for log documents on S3. Join this session to learn how the scripting power of Lua and the data types of Redis allowed them to accomplish something they would not have been able to elsewhere.

DAT318: Migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL: How PlayStation Network Moved from MySQL to Amazon DynamoDB Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, you will learn the key differences between a relational database management service (RDBMS) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases like Amazon DynamoDB. You will learn about suitable and unsuitable use cases for NoSQL databases. You'll learn strategies for migrating from an RDBMS to DynamoDB through a 5-phase, iterative approach. See how Sony migrated an on-premises MySQL database to the cloud with Amazon DynamoDB, and see the results of this migration.

DAT320: AWS Database State of the Union Dec 25, 2016

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Raju Gulabani, vice president of AWS Database Services (AWS), discusses the evolution of database services on AWS and the new database services and features we launched this year, and shares our vision for continued innovation in this space. We are witnessing an unprecedented growth in the amount of data collected, in many different shapes and forms. Storage, management, and analysis of this data requires database services that scale and perform in ways not possible before. AWS offers a collection of such database and other data services like Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon EMR to process, store, manage, and analyze data. In this session, we provide an overview of AWS database services and discuss how our customers are using these services today.

DCS201: Open-Source Resources Dec 25, 2016

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This session discusses the open-source community, its vital place within the AWS ecosystem, and how AWS works to provide seamless integration points. Our speakers share their experiences building and deploying cloud-based open-source projects while also reviewing some of today's most popular and relevant open-source platforms and solutions.

DCS203: Building and Growing a Successful AWS User Group Dec 25, 2016

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Our panel of experts lead AWS user groups in San Francisco, Yokohama, Munich, and Shanghai. In this session they share the stories behind how their groups began, list best practices for sustaining a technical meetup over time, and offer advice for AWS enthusiasts who are considering starting up a new user group in their city.

DEV201: DevOps on AWS: Accelerating Software Delivery with the AWS Developer Tools Dec 25, 2016

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Today’s cutting edge companies have software release cycles measured in days instead of months. This agility is enabled by the DevOps practice of continuous delivery, which automates building, testing, and deploying all code changes. This automation helps you catch bugs sooner and accelerates developer productivity. In this session, we’ll share the processes followed by Amazon engineers and discuss how you can bring them to your company by using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy, services inspired by Amazon's internal developer tools and DevOps culture.

DEV202: From Dial-Up to DevOps - AOL’s Migration to the Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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AOL originally provided dial-up service to millions of people. Today, AOL powers advertising and media experiences for the web’s top destinations. How do you maintain observability and reliability to both business and technical teams for high-traffic services in a dynamic infrastructure? Join us as we discuss AOL’s DevOps journey. We will dive into its engineering culture, automation, and monitoring best practices that have allowed AOL to successfully reinvent their infrastructure, as they moved from globally distributed data centers to the AWS Cloud. Session sponsored by Datadog.

DEV204: How A Federal Agency Transformed Work and Adopted DevOps with GitHub Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, you’ll hear from GitHub and Accenture Federal Services, a trusted advisor to the US government, on why they have continued to invest in the adoption of and transition to cloud services. After migrating to AWS cloud, one agency deployed GitHub, the cloud-hosted, distributed version control and collaboration platform, as the backbone of its DevOps program.

DEV302: Automated Governance of Your AWS Resources Dec 25, 2016

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AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch Events, AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), Trusted Advisor, AWS Config Rules, other services? In this session, we will help you use existing and recently launched services to automate configuration governance so that security is embedded in the development process. We outline four easy steps (Control, Monitor, Fix, and Audit) and demonstrate how different services can be used to meet your governance needs. We will showcase real-life examples and you can take home a blog post with code examples and the full source code for scripts and tooling that AWS professional services have built using these services.

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