AWS re:Invent 2017

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ARC304: From One to Many: Evolving VPC Design Dec 01, 2017

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As more customers adopt Amazon VPC architectures, the features and flexibility of the service are squaring off against evolving design requirements. This session follows this evolution of a single regional VPC into a multi-VPC, multi-region design with diverse connectivity into on-premises systems and infrastructure. Along the way, we investigate creative customer solutions for scaling and securing outbound VPC traffic, securing private access to Amazon S3, managing multi-tenant VPCs, integrating existing customer networks through AWS Direct Connect, and building a full VPC mesh network across global regions.

ARC310: Avoiding Groundhog Day - Enabling Transformation on Day 1, 100, or 1000 of your Journey to the Cloud Dec 01, 2017

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Migrating workloads to the cloud requires detailed planning and execution. When you're an established business with users that rely on your cloud workloads, this can seem like an insurmountable task. A complete migration is a victory often celebrated as the end of the journey, when in reality it is just the first step in a process of continual optimization and evolution. To truly optimize the power of AWS and reap the financial and performance benefits of cloud computing, it is critical that you evaluate your workloads for opportunities to continue to evolve to drive business value and embrace the innovative nature of the AWS Cloud. In this session, join Rackspace to learn about key components to consider in order to execute a successful migration to AWS, the importance of optimizing your AWS environment over time, and how customers are leveraging Rackspace's Fanatical Support for AWS to help them migrate and transform their workloads on AWS. Session sponsored byRackspace

ARC311: Serverless Encoding at Scale with Content Moderation via Deep Learning-Based Video Analysis Dec 01, 2017

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With more companies entering the OTT market, AWS sees customer demand for ways to decrease the time it takes to get content into their users' hands, while increasing operational efficiency and lowering IT infrastructure costs. Using deep learning-based image analysis can provide users actionable feedback about the content they view. When combining a new serverless architecture approach using Amazon Elastic Transcoder with AWS' deep learning technology Amazon Rekognition, companies can provide near real-time, on-demand encoding of assets and content moderation. This session covers serverless versus virtualized infrastructure, handling encoding jobs with AWS Lambda, encoding dynamic media assets with Elastic Transcoder (or Elemental), moderating content with Amazon Rekognition, and storing metadata with Amazon DynamoDB. We also provide a demo to test a production-ready serverless encoding architecture.

ARC312: Why Regional Reserved Instances Are a Game Changer for Netflix Dec 01, 2017

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Learn how Netflix efficiently manages costs associated with 150K instances spread across multiple regions and heterogenous workloads. By leveraging internal Netflix tools, the Netflix capacity team is able to provide deep insights into how optimize our end users' workload placements based on financial and business requirements. In this session, we discuss the efficiency strategies and practices we picked up operating at scale using AWS since 2011, along with best practices used at Netflix. Because many of our strategies revolve around Reserved Instances, we focus on the evolution of our Reserved Instance strategy and the recent changes after the launch of regional reservations. Regional Reserved Instances provide tremendous financial flexibility by being agnostic to instance size and Availability Zone. However, it's anything but simple to adopt regional Reserved Instances in an environment with over 1,000 services, that have varying degrees of criticality combined with a global failover strategy.

ARC314: Bringing the Superpower of Bots to Your Company with a Serverless Bot Solution Built on AWS Dec 01, 2017

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Bots are leading the next disruptive wave of how people and companies communicate. Companies can use bots for internal communications, such as facilities management or support, or for external communications, such as selling products, helping customers with searches, and acting as a trusted advisor in other ways. In this session, we show how easy it is to deploy a bot and how it improves customer interactions. Further, most bot solutions operate with a single language. We show how to build a language-agnostic bot solution using AWS Lambda and other AWS services.

ARC315: The Enterprise Fast Lane - What Your Competition Doesn't Want You to Know about Enterprise Cloud Transformation Dec 01, 2017

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Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane! Learn how AutoScout24, the largest online car marketplace Europe-wide, is building its Autobahn in the Cloud. The secret ingredient? Culture! Because “cloud” is only half of the digital transformation story. The other half is how your organization deals with cultural change as you transition from the old world of IT into building microservices on AWS, with agile DevOps teams in a true „you build it, you run it“ fashion. Listen to stories from the trenches, powered by Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway and much more, backed by AWS Partners, AWS Professional Services, and AWS Enterprise Support. Learn how to become cloud native, evolve your architecture, drive cultural change across teams, and manage your company's transformation for the future.

ARC316: Getting from Here to There: A Journey from On-premises to Serverless Architecture Dec 01, 2017

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In this session, go on a journey from traditional, on-premises applications and architecture to pure cloud-native environments. This transformative approach highlights the steps required to incrementally move to AWS technologies while increasing resiliency and efficiency and reducing operational overhead. We challenge traditional understanding and show you how different types of workloads can be migrated using real-world examples. Additionally, we demonstrate how you can assemble and use the AWS building blocks available today to bolster your success and position yourself to inherit the power of our managed services, such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon SNS and our AWS CodeStar suite. You leave this session armed with the knowledge you need to begin your own voyage towards serverless architecture.

ARC317: Application Performance Management on AWS Dec 01, 2017

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Cloud is the new normal, and organizations are deploying different types workloads on AWS. Understanding the performance efficiency and overall application performance is critical to ensuring that you can scale your workload to meet the demands of your customers. Understanding how well your application performs over time helps you to continuously improve and innovate your software to get the most out of the AWS platform. If you aren't measuring custom application metrics, you are operating your software blindly and cannot pinpoint areas of improvement. Learn how to use Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics, alerts, dashboards and AWS X-Ray to architect an application monitoring service to provide insight to your workload's performance.

ARC318: Building .NET-based Serverless Architectures and Running .NET Core Microservices in Docker Containers on AWS Dec 01, 2017

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In this session, we first look at common approaches to refactoring common legacy .NET applications to microservices and AWS serverless architectures. We also look at modern approaches to .NET-based architectures on AWS. We then elaborate on running .NET Core microservices in Docker containers natively on Linux in AWS while examining the use of AWS SDK and .NET Core platform. We also look at the use of the various AWS services such as Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB, which provide the backbone of the platform. For example, Experian Consumer Services runs a large ecommerce platform that is now cloud based in the AWS. We look at how they went from monolithic platform to microservices, primarily in .NET Core. With a heavy push to move to Java and open source, we look at the development process, which started in the beta days of .NET Core, and how the direction Microsoft was going allowed them to use existing C# skills while pushing themselves to innovate in AWS. The large, single team of Windows based developers was broken down into several small teams to allow for rapid development into an all Linux environment.

ARC319: How to Design a Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture Dec 01, 2017

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Many customers want a disaster recovery environment, and they want to use this environment daily and know that it's in sync with and can support a production workload. This leads them to an active-active architecture. In other cases, users like Netflix and Lyft are distributed over large geographies. In these cases, multi-region active-active deployments are not optional. Designing these architectures is more complicated than it appears, as data being generated at one end needs to be synced with data at the other end. There are also consistency issues to consider. One needs to make trade-off decisions on cost, performance, and consistency. Further complicating matters is the variety of data stores used in the architecture results in a variety replication methods. In this session, we explore how to design an active-active multi-region architecture using AWS services, including Amazon Route 53, Amazon RDS multi-region replication, AWS DMS, and Amazon DynamoDB Streams. We discuss the challenges, trade-offs, and solutions.

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