AWS re:Invent 2016

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DEV304: Building the Future of DevOps with Amazon Web Services Dec 25, 2016

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At Dynatrace, we challenged ourselves to build a virtual team member to help operations teams run large-scale cloud infrastructures. Think J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man, but for operations. We built our cloud infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, and Auto Scaling groups for real-time scalability, Amazon Route 53 for instant customer access, Amazon Echo and Alexa for voice interaction, AWS Lambda for fast prototyping of the human-interaction layer, and Amazon DynamoDB for handling complex conversations. In this session, we will also discuss how we extend the service by using Amazon Machine Learning and AWS IoT to more naturally integrate our virtual assistant into the real world.

DEV316: NEW LAUNCH! Introduction to AWS X-Ray Dec 25, 2016

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Analyzing and debugging production distributed applications built using a service-oriented or microservices architecture is a challenging task. In this session, we will introduce AWS X-Ray, a new service that makes it easier to identify performance bottlenecks and errors, pinpoint issues to specific service(s) in your application, identify the impact of issues on users of your application, and visualize a request call graph and service call graph for your applications. We will show interactive demos, and code samples for the demo will be available to all session attendees.

DEV319: Automating Cloud Management and Deployment for a Diverse Enterprise Application Portfolio Dec 25, 2016

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Building scalable automation tools that work across heterogeneous application environments is challenging and can inhibit enterprise cloud migration efforts. Learn how the DevOps team at Infor, one of the world’s leading ISVs, manages dozens of enterprise applications built with a variety of technologies and application architectures. In addition to Infor’s approach to deployment and management automation, this session will cover the core tools they’ve developed on top of native AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS Lambda.

DEV320: What hundreds of companies show us about how to build a DevOps Culture Dec 25, 2016

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Adam Jacob, the CTO of Chef, will walk through what a DevOps Culture really means, explaining the most important concepts through examples and stories from the trenches. We'll talk about how to build empowered organizations, design delightful products, run effective operations, and more.

DEV321: Enabling DevOps for an Enterprise with AWS Service Catalog: The John Wiley & Sons Journey with AWS Professional Services Dec 25, 2016

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As incumbent enterprises move to the cloud, questions arise how transform the legacy IT culture to maximize the agility and flexibility AWS provides. Speed and dexterity must be implemented in a consistent manner, minimizing the impact to the organizational structure, but taking into account the existing skill sets and knowledge base. With AWS Service Catalog, you can manage commonly deployed AWS CloudFormation template versions, enable controlled self-provisioning, and leverage those same products in your automated deployment pipelines to AWS. In this session, developers, operations leads, architects, and IT managers learn how to leverage AWS Service Catalog and AWS CloudFormation to transform IT culture to maximize the agility, flexibility, and value that the AWS platform provides. Additionally, John Wiley & Sons, a 200-year-old enterprise, demonstrates how AWS Professional Services helped them balance the velocity achieved by moving to AWS with a structured governance model to deploy their cloud infrastructure and application code.

DEV401: Automating Workflows for Analytics Pipelines Dec 25, 2016

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Learn how to leverage new workflow management tools to simplify complex data pipelines and ETL jobs spanning multiple systems. In this technical deep dive from Treasure Data, company founder and chief architect walks through the codebase of DigDag, our recently open-sourced workflow management project. He shows how workflows can break large, error-prone SQL statements into smaller blocks that are easier to maintain and reuse. He also demonstrates how a system using ‘last good’ checkpoints can save hours of computation when restarting failed jobs and how to use standard version control systems like Github to automate data lifecycle management across Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Aurora. Finally, you see a few examples where SQL-as-pipeline-code gives data scientists both the right level of ownership over production processes and a comfortable abstraction from the underlying execution engines. This session is sponsored by Treasure Data.

DEV402: The Effective AWS CLI User Dec 25, 2016

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Understanding the internals of the AWS CLI will make you a more effective user. This talk provides a deep dive into the architecture, debugging techniques, advanced usage patterns, and some of its more advanced features. We recommend this talk for people who are already familiar with the AWS CLI because the topics will be advanced. By the end of the talk, audience members will have a deeper understanding of the AWS CLI, allowing them to tackle current or future applications from a different perspective.

DEV403: DevOps on AWS: Advanced Continuous Delivery Techniques Dec 25, 2016

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Continuous delivery makes teams more agile and quickens the pace of innovation. Too often, though, teams adopt continuous delivery without putting the right safety mechanisms in place. In this talk, we'll transform a simple but typical software release process into one that is safe. We'll use DevOps techniques like continuous integration, a variety of non-production testing stages, rollbacks, machine redundancy, Availability Zone redundancy, canary deployments, canary tests, and dashboards. We'll use AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon CloudWatch alarms and dashboards, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

DEV404: Develop, Build, Deploy, and Manage Containerized Services and Applications on the AWS Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, we walk through the simple process of deploying and managing your own Linux-based application in the cloud and also discuss key use-cases and benefits to automated configuration, deployment, and administration of application stacks.

ENT201: Deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at Enterprise Scale to Deliver a New Desktop Experience Dec 25, 2016

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Your enterprise has decided it is exiting the traditional desktop business and migrating to Amazon WorkSpaces. Your challenge: how do you provide end users a high quality experience using DaaS while integrating key enterprise services? Focusing on user adoption and simplified operational management DaaS offers significant benefits over traditional physical desktops and VDI solutions. These benefits include hourly consumption pricing, sizing flexibility, linear scalability, and simplified management.

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