AWS re:Invent 2017

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ARC201: Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users Dec 01, 2017

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Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. If you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, "Where do I start?" Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from one to millions of users. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure in the cloud.

ARC205: Born in the Cloud, Built like a Startup Dec 01, 2017

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This presentation compares three modern architecture patterns that startups are building their businesses around. It includes a realistic analysis of cost, team management, and security implications of each approach. It covers AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon CloudFront. Attendees will also hear from venture capital investor Third Rock Ventures (TRV) who has launched 40+ biotech startups over the last 10 years. TRV will outline how it launches cloud native startups that turn bleeding edge science into new treatments across the spectrum of disease, with highlights drawn Relay Therapeutics and Tango Therapeutics.

ARC207: Monitoring Performance of Enterprise Applications on AWS: Understanding the Dynamic Nature of Cloud Computing Dec 01, 2017

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Applications running in a typical data center are static entities. But applications aren't static in the cloud. Dynamic scaling and resource allocation is the norm on AWS. Technologies such as Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Auto Scaling provide flexibility in building dynamic applications and with this flexibility comes an opportunity to learn how an enterprise application functions optimally. New Relic helps manage these applications without sacrificing simplicity. In this session, we discuss changes in monitoring dynamic cloud resources. We'll share best practices we've learned working with New Relic customers on managing applications running in this environment to understand and optimize how they are performing. Session sponsored by New Relic

ARC208: Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency on the Cloud Dec 01, 2017

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At Netflix, we make explicit tradeoffs to balance our four key focus domains of innovation, reliability, security, and efficiency to ensure our customers, shareholders, and internal engineering stakeholders are happy. In this talk, learn the strategies behind each of our focus domains to optimize for one without detracting from another.

ARC209: A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer III Dec 01, 2017

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Netflix is a large, ever changing ecosystem system serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, scaling at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime.

ARC210: Building Scalable Multitenant Email Sending Programs with Amazon Simple Email Service Dec 01, 2017

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Many companies use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to build applications that enable their users to send millions of emails every day. In this session, you learn how to build applications using the scalable, reliable Amazon SES infrastructure. You also learn how to monitor email sending and enforce compliance rules on individual accounts without impacting other accounts. Zendesk discusses the architecture of its multitenant email sending platform, the historical challenges it faced, its phased approach to platform migration, and the ways Amazon SES helped them meet their goals.

ARC213: Open Source at AWS—Contributions, Support, and Engagement Dec 01, 2017

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Startups and enterprises are increasingly using open source projects for architectures. AWS customers and partners also run their own open source programs and contribute key technologies to the industry (see DCS201). At AWS, we engage with open source projects in several ways. Through bug fixes and enhancements to popular projects, including work with the Hadoop ecosystem (see BDM401), Chromium (see BAP305) and Boto, and standalone projects like the security library s2n (see NET405) and machine learning project MXNet (see MAC401). We have services like Amazon ECS for Docker (see CON316) and Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL (see DAT305) that make open source easier to use. In this session, learn more about existing AWS open source work and our next steps.

ARC217: Self-Service Analytics with AWS Big Data and Tableau Dec 01, 2017

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As one of the thought leaders in Expedia's cloud migration, the Expedia Global Payments Business Intelligence group architected, designed and built a complete cloud data mart solution from the ground up using the AWS and Tableau online. In this session, we will discuss our business challenge, the journey to the solution, high-level technical architecture (using S3, EMR, data pipelines, Redshift, Tableau Online) and lessons learned along the way, including best practices and optimization methods, etc. Session sponsored by Tableau

ARC219: Digital Transformation Dec 01, 2017

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Many industries are going through a digital transformation as their existing business models are being disrupted and new competitors emerge. The key driver is a need for faster time-to-value as a direct relationship with customers provides analytics that drive personalization and rapid product development. There's a cultural aspect to the change, as well as new organizational patterns that go along with a migration to cloud native services. Application architectures are evolving from monoliths to microservices and serverless deployments, and they becoming more distributed, highly available, and resilient. The highly automated practices that have built up around DevOps are moving to the mainstream, and some new techniques are emerging around security red teams and chaos engineering.

ARC303: Running Lean Architectures: How to Optimize for Cost Efficiency Dec 01, 2017

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Whether you're a cash-strapped startup or an enterprise optimizing spend, it pays to run cost-efficient architectures on AWS. This session reviews a wide range of cost planning, monitoring, and optimization strategies, featuring real-world experience from AWS customers. We cover how to effectively combine Amazon EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances to handle different use cases; leveraging Auto Scaling to match capacity to workload; and choosing the optimal instance type through load testing. We discuss taking advantage of tiered storage and caching, offloading content to Amazon CloudFront to reduce back-end load, and getting rid of your back end entirely by serverless. Even if you already enjoy the benefits of serverless architectures, we show you how to select the optimal AWS Lambda memory class and how to maximize networking throughput in order to minimize Lambda run-time and therefore execution cost. We also showcase simple tools to help track and manage costs, including Cost Explorer, billing alerts, and AWS Trusted Advisor. This session is your pocket guide for running cost effectively in the AWS Cloud.

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