AWS re:Invent 2016

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MBL204: How Netflix Achieves Email Delivery at Global Scale with Amazon SES Dec 25, 2016

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Companies around the world are using Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to send millions of emails to their customers every day, and scaling linearly, at cost. In this session, you learn how to use the scalable and reliable infrastructure of Amazon SES. In addition, Netflix talks about their advanced Messaging program, their challenges, how SES helped them with their goals, and how they architected their solution for global scale and deliverability.

MBL310: Add User Sign-In, User Management, and Security to your Mobile and Web Applications with Amazon Cognito Dec 25, 2016

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Secure user sign-up and sign-in is critical for many mobile and web applications. Amazon Cognito is the easiest way to secure your mobile and web applications by providing a comprehensive identity solution for end user management, registration, sign-in, and security. In this product deep dive, we will walk through Cognito’s feature set, which includes serverless flows for user management and sign-in, a fully managed user directory, integrations with existing corporate directories, and many other features. In addition, we will cover key use cases and discuss the associated benefits.

MBL402: Re-imagining Insurance Processes with AWS Mobile Services Dec 25, 2016

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Insurance processes are fragmented and manual in nature. For the next generation of digitally savvy consumers, New York Life Labs uses modern technology and analytics to engage with and provide best-in-class customer service. This session will discuss how New York Life Labs is mobilizing key insurance technology components including customer service, underwriting, policy administration, and claims processing. This session will focus on how New York Life Labs is taking a mobile-first approach in redesigning claims processing with responsive design, automated workflows, and AWS mobile services. Some of the services discussed will be Amazon Cognito, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon SWF, and how they all come together.

MBL404: Deep-Dive: Native, Hybrid and Web patterns with Serverless and AWS Mobile Services Dec 25, 2016

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In this deep-dive session, we outline how to leverage the appropriate AWS services for sending different types and sizes of data, such as images or streaming video. We'll cover common real-world scenarios related to authentication/authorization, access patterns, data transfer and caching for more performant Mobile Apps. You learn when you should access services such as Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, or Amazon Kinesis directly from your mobile app, and when you should route through Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda instead. Additionally, we cover coding techniques across the native, hybrid, and mobile web using popular open-source frameworks to perform these actions efficiently, and with a smooth user experience.

NET201: Creating Your Virtual Data Center: VPC Fundamentals and Connectivity Options Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, we walk through the fundamentals of Amazon VPC. First, we cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPC, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We then transition into different approaches and use cases for optionally connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This mid-level architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks that AWS makes available with Amazon VPC and how you can connect this with your offices and current data center footprint.

NET203: From EC2 to ECS: How Capital One uses Application Load Balancer Features to Serve Traffic at Scale Dec 25, 2016

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Capital One began moving to AWS just two years ago. Every day, the amount of traffic we serve from the cloud continues to grow. With development teams having the freedom to choose their own technology stacks, many teams have quickly started moving applications to Docker. In this session, learn how Capital One uses a combination of the Elastic Load Balancing service along with Application Load Balancer features to increase deployment speed and reliability.

NET204: NEW LAUNCH IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and AWS Service Overview Dec 25, 2016

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Recently, AWS announced support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for several AWS services, providing significant capabilities for applications and systems that need IPv6. This session provides an overview of IPv6 and covers key aspects of AWS support for the protocol. We discuss Amazon S3 and S3 Transfer Acceleration, Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF, Amazon Route 53, AWS IoT, Elastic Load Balancing, and the virtual private cloud (VPC) environment of Amazon EC2. The presentation assumes solid knowledge of IPv4 and those AWS services.

NET205: Future-Proofing the WAN and Simplifying Security On Your Journey To The Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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You can leverage the agility and scale of cloud services and consolidate your data centers, but performance and security are only as good as your WAN. Is this session, learn best practices for connecting cloud, data center, and branch sites through public and private networking to maximize performance, minimize costs, and simplify security.

NET301: Cloud agility and faster connectivity with AT&T NetBond and AWS Dec 25, 2016

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Learn how the AT&T MPLS VPN with the network of tomorrow’s virtualized network functions and Software Defined Networking (SDN) will help you create and deliver agile workloads for your Enterprise. You’ll also learn how AT&T combines trending viability of open standards-based software for broader network applications. Additionally, you’ll see how the AT&T NetBond API integration with AWS Direct Connect removes the complexity and enables on-demand, private connection within minutes via a self-service portal. AT&T NetBond connects your people, your data, and your business directly to your AWS services. This fast, highly secure, scalable, private network connection increases performance, while improving control and delivering a better ROI for your enterprise applications. Join us for an informative session on how you can enhance your cloud connectivity with AT&T and AWS.

NET302: Global Traffic Management with Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow Dec 25, 2016

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As companies grow and expand their global footprint, it becomes increasingly critical to make systems highly available while also improving responsiveness to end-users. Companies are choosing to place their applications closer to end-users to improve performance, which introduces the complications of how to route end-user traffic to the most appropriate endpoints and how to most efficiently route traffic within internal systems.

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