AWS re:Invent 2016

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ENT304: Fueling Migration: Shortcutting your Application Portfolio Assessment Dec 25, 2016

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For many large enterprises, gathering data on your applications and developing a detailed business case for an all-in migration to AWS can be a time consuming activity. Instead of waiting on a full analysis to be completed, a global healthcare company decided to take a shortcut by reinventing the portfolio assessment process in a brilliantly simple manner. This new streamlined approach enabled them to immediately take advantage of the increased speed and innovative capabilities of AWS. In this session, IT directors and enterprise architects can learn these techniques to quickly identify which of their own applications fit cloud-friendly patterns; including, how to build a prioritized and multi-threaded migration queue that maximizes velocity and business value.

ENT307: Saving at Scale with Reserved Instances Dec 25, 2016

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As your Reserved Instance portfolio grows, tracking your ROI becomes more critical. You’ll need the right tools, metrics, and strategies in place to make sure you’re maximizing RI savings and minimizing unused RI hours.

ENT308: Building a Solid Business Case for Cloud Migration Dec 25, 2016

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Learn how to create a compelling business case for a large-scale migration to AWS. We present a framework and tools for creating your business case, and guidelines for using AWS services to maximize value and optimize cost for migrations to the AWS Cloud. Learn a new way of thinking about cost that includes automation, new technologies, organizational change, and other factors.

ENT310: Choosing the Right Partner for Your AWS Journey Dec 25, 2016

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You have decided to shut down a data center and move your applications to AWS, and you know you’ll need some help. Whether you need just tools, boots on the ground to move those applications, or someone to teach you how, you can find help among the group of elite partners that the AWS Partner Network has assembled to assist customers with meeting their business objectives. In this session, you will discover the variety of services our partners provide, learn how to select the appropriate partner for your needs, and hear about the experiences of customers who used partners to accomplish big objectives on AWS.

ENT311: Identifying Your Migration Options: the 6 Rs Dec 25, 2016

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Learn about the 6 Rs of migrating, migration patterns, and how to map your portfolio to the patterns. Discover how your business drivers and overall IT strategy determine the migration patterns you need, and learn best practices for selecting the appropriate Rs.

ENT312: Develop Your Migration Toolkit Dec 25, 2016

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Learn about some of the most useful and popular tools that you can leverage at various stages of a migration project. These tools will allow your teams to focus on coordinating the migration and automating as many migration activities as possible.

ENT313: FINRA in the Cloud: the Big Data Enterprise Dec 25, 2016

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Large-scale enterprise migration can be a complex undertaking, especially for organizations that re-architect solutions to leverage the benefits of the Cloud. FINRA, which regulates US equities and options markets, recently completed a 2.5-year migration and re-architecture of its Big Data platform. Their platform consumes billions of market events every day. FINRA has developed scalable platforms and services on AWS that enable migrating enterprise applications and business functions to the Cloud quickly. Their data management platform takes advantage of AWS storage and compute products. In this session, IT influencers and decision makers will learn lessons from FINRA’s migration, including how to create an enterprise-class Cloud architecture and which technology skills are required for transitioning to the Cloud. We also share examples of the business value FINRA has realized.

ENT314: Insurance and Financial Services' Journey to Cloud: Designing a Hybrid Cloud and Migrating Regulated Workloads to AWS Dec 25, 2016

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Migrating regulatory workloads can be complex and time consuming. Come learn how Guardian Life Insurance migrated their regulated workloads to the AWS Cloud. Guardian Life's hybrid cloud journey started with moving web and application tiers into AWS, while keeping legacy repositories on premises. Key planning activities included vendor selection, migration planning, hybrid architecture design, compliance ensurance, and AWS and partner tools selection. Guardian Life shares how they defined security, compliance, and data management controls and solutions, which enabled them to migrate entire applications to AWS. The session also covers lessons learned and key considerations for hybrid cloud architectures.

ENT315: Start Your Cost Optimization Program: Learning from Intuit’s Cloud Journey Dec 25, 2016

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How do you optimize costs when migrating user-facing services from a proprietary data center to the Cloud? When Intuit faced this thorny question, they formed a cost-optimization team, built visibility into cost and usage data, decided when to use automation, and developed a culture of cost consciousness. Who do you select for this cross-functional team? How do you empower the team to reach across business units? Which metrics should you focus on first? How do you align your organization with this cause? Which roadblocks and issues could you face along the way? How will you create an internal chargeback model? Hear from the Intuit team about their journey, learn from the challenges that they overcame, and hear about the results they've achieved.

ENT317: VMware and AWS Together - VMware Cloud on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to Amazon’s public cloud, delivered as an on-demand, elastically scalable, cloud-based VMware sold, operated and supported service for any application and optimized for next-generation, elastic, bare metal AWS infrastructure. This solution enables customers to use a common set of software and tools to manage both their AWS-based and on-premises vSphere resources consistently. Further virtual machines in this environment have seamless access to the broad range of AWS services as well. This session will introduce this exciting new service and examine some of the use cases and benefits of the service. The session will also include a VMware Tech Preview that demonstrates standing up a complete SDDC cluster on AWS and various operations using standard tools like vCenter.

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