AWS re:Invent 2018

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ARC212: Trends in Digital Transformation Dec 01, 2018

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As industries digitally transform their existing business models to fend off competitors or disrupt new markets, they find their IT to be a limiting factor. In this session, we cover the trends of disruptions and opportunities of digital transformation, and the evolution of IT monoliths to microservices and now cloud native services. We also explore dependency management, or lock in, through a 'choosing, using, and losing' mental model. Finally, we explore chaos architecture as an evolving method for exposing weaknesses before they become real problems.

ARC217: Foundations of AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure Dec 01, 2018

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The unique global cloud infrastructure offered by AWS helps customers build reliable, available, secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications. AWS has more experience operating global cloud infrastructures that enables customers to run business-critical workloads in the public cloud than anyone else. In this session, learn how AWS is continuously enhancing and expanding the AWS global infrastructure through more Regions and Availability Zones, custom hardware, purpose-built global network backbone, and innovative energy management systems to deliver to our customers lower latency, greater reliability, greater scalability, and operational efficiencies.

ARC218: Enabling a Digital Platform with Microservices Architecture Dec 01, 2018

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Bajaj Finserv Direct Limited (BFDL) serves millions of customers with its comprehensive portfolio and innovative offerings in financing, general insurance, life and health insurance and retirement and savings. BFDL envisioned building a cloud-native digital platform to offer an unmatched experience to its customers. In this session, hear from BDFL how they built a robust digital backbone on AWS with a scalable microservices architecture deployed using Docker containers. The session also focuses on how a scalable microservices-based architecture can be developed using various AWS services. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp.

ARC305: Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices Dec 01, 2018

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As serverless architectures become more popular, customers need a framework of patterns to help them identify how to leverage AWS to deploy their workloads without managing servers or operating systems. This session describes reusable serverless patterns while considering costs. For each pattern, we provide operational and security best practices and discuss potential pitfalls and nuances. We also discuss the considerations for moving an existing server-based workload to a serverless architecture. This session can help you recognize candidates for serverless architectures in your own organizations and understand areas of potential savings and increased agility.

ARC307: How Intuit TurboTax Ran Entirely on AWS for 2017 Taxes Dec 01, 2018

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In this session, Intuit presents how they prepared TurboTax to take the production load, and how they gained the confidence to run their 2017 peak activity entirely on AWS. They discuss resiliency testing, game days, operational run books, working with AWS Support, and how each of these activities impacted their confidence in their reliability and availability.

ARC309: From One to Many: Evolving VPC Design Dec 01, 2018

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As more customers adopt Amazon VPC architectures, the features and flexibility of the service are encountering the obstacles of evolving design requirements. In this session, we follow the evolution of a single regional VPC to 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. Please join us for a speaker meet-and-greet following this session at the Speaker Lounge (ARIA East, Level 1, Willow Lounge). The meet-and-greet starts 15 minutes after the session and runs for half an hour.

ARC318: Inference at the Edge: A Case Study at the Amazon Spheres Dec 01, 2018

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In this talk, we consider the unique challenges of the biosphere that recently opened in downtown Seattle. We address two of those challenges using modern deep learning techniques: computer-vision-based plant health monitoring, and microclimate anomaly detection using autoencoders on time-series data extracted from multiple sensors. Our focus is on architecting the inference pipelines for solving these problems at scale. Specifically, we highlight the inference steps and TensorRT optimizations for AWS Greengrass ML inference.

ARC324: Architecting Next Generation Serverless SaaS Solutions on AWS Dec 01, 2018

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The emergence of serverless infrastructure and services represents a fundamental shift in how developers approach architecting applications. This is especially relevant in the world of SaaS where systems must efficiently and cost-effectively respond to continually shifting multi-tenant loads and profiles. We'll conduct an end-to-end review of all the elements of a serverless SaaS architecture that leverages a combination of AWS Lambda, Fargate, and Aurora Serverless. We'll look at how serverless influence the core elements of your architecture, including tenant isolation, service decomposition, management and monitoring, deployment, and identity. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT] Architecting Next Generation Serverless SaaS Solutions on AWS (ARC324-R)

ARC333: From Russia with Love: Fox Sports World Cup Production Dec 01, 2018

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The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the biggest production in Fox Sports 20-year history in terms of personnel, hours, and scale. With 64 matches broadcast, it totalling more than four previous World Cups combined. To deliver this, they deployed a revolutionary joint solution from AWS, Aspera, and a portfolio of APN partners that enabled the live delivery of a broadcast video from Russia to Los Angeles for remote production. In this session, learn the architectural patterns of large-scale data and content movement to the cloud over long distances with low-latency requirements, the high-availability requirements around broadcast workloads, and tradeoffs to consider. We cover how Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and other services processed over 1.9 PB of original content over the 30-day tournament.

ARC334: Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Netflix Devices Dec 01, 2018

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Netflix built Zuul Push, a massively scalable push messaging service that handles millions of always-on, persistent connections to proactively push time-sensitive data, like personalized movie recommendations, from the AWS Cloud to devices. This helped reduce Netflix's notification latency and the Amazon EC2 footprint by eliminating wasteful polling requests. It also powers Net

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