AWS re:Invent 2016

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ENT209: Cost Optimization at Scale Dec 25, 2016

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Organizations where cloud adoption has matured into broader enterprise deployment are facing the need to better manage and control their costs and expenditures. Cost optimization at scale is a process that involves a number of changes across the business, including technical, organizational and cultural transformation. In this session, you will learn the fundamentals of cost optimization and how this can be used to help your organization drive costs down and still being able to meet capacity, demand and organizational requirements. Key topics being discussed are right sizing services, optimizing purchase models and implementing a culture of cost management.

ENT210: Deep Dive on AWS Cloud Data Migration Services Dec 25, 2016

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When evaluating and planning migrating your data from on premises to the Cloud, you might encounter physical limitations. Amazon offers a suite of tools to help you surmount these limitations by moving data using networks, roads, and technology partners. In this session, we discuss how to move large amounts of data into and out of the Cloud in batches, increments, and streams.

ENT211: Getting Started with the Hybrid Cloud: Enterprise Backup and Recovery Dec 25, 2016

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This sessions is for architects and storage admins seeking simple and non-disruptive ways to adopt cloud platforms in their organizations. You will learn how to deliver lower costs and greater scale with nearly seamless integration into your existing Backup ad Recovery processes to achieve fast, simple wins that demonstrate the scale and flexibility of cloud services for storage. Services mentioned: S3, Glacier, Snowball, 3rd party partners, Storage Gateway, and cloud data migration services.

ENT212: Preparing for a Large-Scale Migration to AWS Dec 25, 2016

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Many organizations rely on a TCO calculation to build a business case for migration to the Cloud. Unfortunately, this approach overlooks organizational readiness and wider economic factors, such as the total cost and the benefits of migration. This session provides executives with a toolkit for measuring readiness and developing a compelling business case.

ENT213: Best practices for running enterprise workloads on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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Fortune 500 companies are increasingly using cloud services to run enterprise workloads to improve security, increase agility, and enable scale. Learn how OpenEye is running their AWS-native platform and workflow engine to support collaboration and data sharing at large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer. In this session, OpenEye will share cloud best practiced around security controls, cross-departmental collaboration across the enterprise, and agility at scale. Attendees will gain practical tips for using AWS in the enterprise and healthcare industries.

ENT214: The Cloud Is Enterprise Ready: How the University of Arizona Is Migrating Core Enterprise Systems to the Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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As enterprises seek to fully realize the scalability, availability, security, and agility of cloud computing, many are learning that they must migrate core business applications, such finance and human resource systems, not just public-facing websites. The University of Arizona shares how they addressed the challenge of creating a more efficient and agile IT operation. After initial success in migrating their Research Administration system, UA became the first major university to migrate their PeopleSoft application environments—Learning (EL), Human Resources (HR), and Student (SA)—to AWS. Learn about the university's enterprise migration roadmap, lessons learned, plans and budgets, and the tools available to support major enterprise migrations. See how to create a roadmap to cloud computing, transform application development, deploy mission-critical workloads at scale, and retrain staff.

ENT215: Building Enterprise Cloud Operations As a Service with T-Mobile Dec 25, 2016

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After launching several thousand EC2 instances in the cloud, we've learned that the key to running an IT fleet successfully on AWS is enforcing operational and economic discipline. As AWS service consumption grows, operational costs and overhead shouldn't grow linearly. Instead, IT should encourage new tenants that migrate from data centers to AWS to slowly shift toward a self-service delivery model and adopt the DevOps operations model. Creating and offering an AWS Cloud operations service catalog enables organizations to efficiently take full advantage of AWS' flexibility and modularity. T-Mobile, whose journey to AWS Cloud management started more than 2 years ago, uses a service catalog to enforce operational discipline in the Cloud. Their catalog is custom crafted for each Cloud-based IT workload. This session provides insight into the AWS Cloud operations strategy and its transformation, the creation of a Cloud operations service catalog, and how this approach supports reliable engineering on AWS. S

ENT217: Migrating Enterprise Messaging to the Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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Enterprises rely on messaging to integrate services and applications and to exchange information critical to running their business. However, managing and operating dedicated message-oriented middleware and underlying infrastructure creates costly overhead and can compromise reliability. In this session, enterprise architects and developers learn how to improve scalability, availability, and operational efficiency by migrating on-premises messaging middleware to a managed cloud service using Amazon SQS. Hear how Capital One is using SQS to migrate several core banking applications to the cloud to ensure high availability and cost efficiency. We also share some exciting new SQS features that allow even more workloads to take advantage of the cloud.

ENT218: Simplify Cloud Migration with AWS Server Migration Service Dec 25, 2016

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Data center migrations are often long and complex projects that involve thousands of servers. Without automated tools, these migrations can consume hundreds of hours. The recently launched AWS Server Migration Service speeds and simplifies the migration of on-premises servers to the AWS Cloud. SMS automates incremental replication of live server volumes, speeding up the migration process and significantly reducing the manual tasks required for server migration. This session for IT managers introduces key features and benefits of SMS, and includes a demo of the SMS end-to-end workflow.

ENT320: 20k in 20 Days - Agile Genomic Analysis Dec 25, 2016

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AstraZeneca is a global science-led biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines used by millions of patients worldwide. With AWS, AstraZeneca processed more exomes in 20 days than during the previous 3 years, enabling scientists to receive results more quickly, develop medicines faster, and treat more patients sooner. AstraZeneca was able to identify ~20% more patients with actionable variants of major cancer types by using VarDict, an internally developed, open source contributed variant caller, at scale in the Cloud. Learn how AstraZeneca used the AWS Cloud Services to rapidly develop and scale an asynchronous architecture to meet an urgent business opportunity, accelerating the speed of scientific discovery in a cost effective manner.

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