AWS re:Invent 2017

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ENT225: How to Successfully Exploit the Power of the Matrix Dec 01, 2017

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Leading Edge Forums (LEF) has labelled the synergistic combination of cloud computing and machine intelligence (MI) as ‘the Matrix': the combination of cloud services such as IaaS, IoT, MI, and edge computing. For companies to thrive, they need to know the answers to the following questions: How are successful companies harnessing the power of the Matrix? How do they structure their organizations? What makes them so agile? How do they attract and retain skilled employees? LEF studies successful businesses and learns what makes them great. Our 6-month research program has dived deep with multiple AWS customers to understand not only their use of the technology, but also the business transformation program that allowed them to maximize the value that AWS provides. Attend this session to learn more about the research that has been done, client examples, observations that the LEF has made and how this can be used to help drive your transformation program. Session sponsored by DXC Technology

ENT226: Serving Five Billion Meals a Year, Compass Group Relies on AWS to Run SAP Dec 01, 2017

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Compass Group, better known for its brands, Bon Appetit, Eurest, Canteen, Wolfgang Puck, among others, is one of the world's largest foodservice companies, serving millions of people daily and employing over 500,000 associates across all continents. Compass Group relies on SAP to run their business, from supply chain and financials to payroll. Compass Group started deploying their SAP Landscape on AWS a few years ago, first in India and LATAM, where they deployed SAP Business Suite on HANA. Subsequently, they moved their Japan SAP Landscape on Microsoft SQL to AWS. Last year, they migrated both their EMEA SAP Business Suite on Oracle as well as their UK SAP Business Suite on DB2 to AWS. In this session, Compass shares the details this journey, the benefits they gained running SAP on AWS, and the lessons they learned. They also discuss how they integrated their different SAP Landscapes with other legacy systems, how they architected for resiliency, and what's next in their journey.

ENT227: Envision Energy's Cloud Transformation Dec 01, 2017

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As a China-based global technology company that is helping some of the world's largest energy providers transition into renewable energy, Envision Energy is leading a digital disruption of the traditional energy system. In this session, Envision discusses how they used the AWS Cloud to create a technology infrastructure that connects and orchestrates millions of smart energy devices around the globe for their Energy IOT platform. They also review how AWS is used to host Envision's core systems, including SAP and Citrix.

ENT228: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon MQ Managed Message Broker Service for ActiveMQ Dec 01, 2017

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Amazon MQ is a new managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ manages the work involved in setting up an ActiveMQ message broker, from provisioning the infrastructure, to installing the software and ongoing maintenance. It supports industry-standard messaging APIs and protocols, so you can switch from any message broker to Amazon MQ without re-writing the supported applications. This session provides an overview of how Amazon MQ makes enterprise messaging and migration more manageable. You'll learn how you can use Amazon MQ to launch a production-ready message broker in minutes. Guest speakers from Volvo WirelessCar and GE will share how they're using messaging in their own applications and systems, and the advantages enabled by a managed ActiveMQ service on AWS.

ENT301: Real-World AI and Deep Learning for the Enterprise Dec 01, 2017

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Artificial Intelligence is here this time, to stay. For the Enterprise, AI materializes into solutions that improve customers' experiences by optimizing, automating, and personalizing high-volume tasks while lowering cost and time to market, therefore accelerating innovation. In this session, we cover AWS' AI products and services that enable innovation in the enterprise while maintaining compliance with different regimes such as HIPAA, PCI, and more. Finally, we discuss enterprise architectures on AWS for machine learning and deep learning workloads.

ENT302: Optimizing Costs as You Scale on AWS Dec 01, 2017

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The cloud offers a first-in-a-career-opportunity to constantly optimize your costs as you grow and stay on the bleeding edge of innovation. By developing a cost-conscious culture and assigning the responsibility for efficiency to the appropriate business owners, you can deliver innovation efficiently and cost effectively. This session will review a wide range of cost planning, monitoring, and optimization strategies featuring real-world experience from AWS customers.

ENT303: VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Deep Dive Dec 01, 2017

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VMWare Cloud on AWS allows your teams to migrate existing assets to the AWS Cloud quickly by using tools you are already familiar with. VMware Cloud on AWS 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. This session uses practical, real world customer deployment examples to dives deep on hybrid cloud network connectivity, data protection best practices, and AWS native service integrations. Attendees will walk away with practical guidance and tips on getting the best of both worlds with VMware and AWS hybrid cloud solution.

ENT304: VMware Cloud on AWS: A World of Unique Integrations Between VMware and AWS Dec 01, 2017

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VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware's enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to the AWS Cloud, and enables customers to run production applications across vSphere-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Delivered, sold, and supported by VMware as an on-demand service, customers can also leverage AWS services including storage, databases, analytics, and more. With the same architecture and operational experience on-premises and in the cloud, IT teams can now quickly derive value instant business value from use of the AWS and VMware hybrid cloud experience. Session sponsored by VMware

ENT315: Landing Zones: Creating a Foundation for Your AWS Migrations Dec 01, 2017

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When migrating lots of applications to the AWS Cloud, it's important to architect cloud environments that are efficient, secure, and compliant. Landing zones are a prescriptive set of instructions for deploying an AWS-recommended foundation of interrelated AWS accounts, networks, and core services for your initial AWS application environments. In this session, we will review the benefits and best practices for developing landing zones as well as how to incorporate them into your migration process.

ENT316: Keeping Pace With The Cloud: Managing and Optimizing as You Scale Dec 01, 2017

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With cloud maturity comes operational efficiencies and endless potential for innovation and business growth. It is critical to have a well-thought-out strategy for governing your cloud infrastructure. Visibility, accountability, and actionable insights are some of the invaluable considerations. The AWS Cloud enables convenience and cost savings for organizations that know how to leverage its potential. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, in particular, present a tremendous opportunity when scaling to save significantly on capacity. But there are many considerations to fully reap the benefits. CloudCheckr CTO Patrick Gartlan presents issues that every organization runs into when scaling, provides best practices for how to combat them, and helps you show your boss how Reserved Instances can help your organization save money and move faster. Session sponsored by CloudCheckr

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