AWS re:Invent 2018

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ARC338: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures Dec 01, 2018

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At AWS, we obsess over operational excellence. We have a deep understanding of system availability, informed by over a decade of experience operating the cloud and our roots of operating Amazon.com for nearly a quarter-century. One thing we've learned is that failures come in many forms, some expected, and some unexpected. It's vital to build from the ground up and embrace failure. A core consideration is how to minimize the "blast radius" of any failures. In this talk, we discuss a range of blast radius reduction design techniques that we employ, including cell-based architecture, shuffle-sharding, availability zone independence, and region isolation. We also discuss how blast radius reduction infuses our operational practices.

ARC407: A Chronicle of Airbnb Architecture Evolution Dec 01, 2018

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Airbnb is going through tremendous growth internationally, evolving from a home sharing company to a global travel community with many product offerings. The growth driven by the business, increase in traffic, and aggressive hiring created a new challenge for the Production Infrastructure Team. The team has grown from a small team of 10 to a production platform organization with 100 engineers that builds foundational services that support homes, experiences, luxury, and China. We shifted our priority and focus to move away from putting out fires to building a platform that can grow with the company. In this session, we chronicle Airbnb's architectural evolution that aligns with organizational growth strategy, and review how we overcame different architectural challenges leveraging AWS technologies.

ARC418: Deconstructing SaaS: Building Multi-Tenant Solutions on AWS Dec 01, 2018

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SaaS presents developers with a unique blend of architectural challenges. While the concepts of multi-tenancy are straightforward, the reality of making all the moving part work together can be daunting. For this session, we'll move beyond the conceptual bits of SaaS and look under the hood of a SaaS application. The goal here is to examine the fundamentals of identity, data partitioning, and tenant isolation through the lens of a working solution and highlight the challenges and strategies associated with building a next-generation SaaS application on AWS. We'll look at the full lifecycle of registering new tenants, applying security policies to prevent cross-tenant access, and leveraging tenant profiles to effectively distribute and partition tenant data. The goal here is to connect many of the conceptual dots of a SaaS implementation, highlighting the tradeoffs and considerations that will shape your approach to SaaS architecture.

ARV201: Create a Virtual Concierge Using Sumerian Hosts Dec 01, 2018

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In this talk, we review the challenges of adding a virtual character to AR/VR applications and highlight how Amazon Sumerian solves these challenges. We discuss leading use cases and demonstrate how customers are creating dynamic, interactive virtual concierges using Sumerian hosts integrated with various AWS technologies, such as Amazon Polly, Amazon Lex, Amazon Rekognition, and AWS Lambda.

ARV203: What's New in AR & VR: State of the World Report Dec 01, 2018

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In this session, Amazon Sumerian leaders provide an overview of the evolution of the augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) industry. They discuss what has changed since Sumerian was announced at re:invent 2017. They also talk about key market trends, and they highlight areas with the highest adoption and potential. This is an immersive session, with examples and demonstrations of immersive experiences created using Amazon Sumerian.

ARV204: Create Immersive Experiences Using Amazon Sumerian Dec 01, 2018

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Anyone can create and publish augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and 3D applications quickly and easily with Amazon Sumerian. In this session, learn how to use Sumerian to build a scene that can be published and viewed on laptops, mobile phones, VR headsets, and digital signage. Take a tour of the Sumerian interface, and learn how to build a scene, add assets and hosts, and add behaviors to create dynamically animated objects and characters in an AR/VR experience. Also see how Sumerian integrates into AWS services such as Amazon Polly, Amazon Lex, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB.

BAP201: Securely Deliver Desktop Applications with Amazon AppStream 2.0 Dec 01, 2018

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In this session, learn how to provide your users with instant access to critical desktop applications through a browser on any computer. We present an overview of Amazon AppStream 2.0, a fully managed application streaming service, and walk through common application streaming use cases for enterprises, ISVs, 3D design and engineering firms, and educational institutions. We close with a simple walk through to help you get started.

BAP202: Paying Less Is the New Black with Amazon Chime Pay-Per-Use-Pricing Dec 01, 2018

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Are you constantly challenged to find the right tools to meet your company's collaboration needs while keeping costs down? You might have decided to use chat and meeting solutions bundled with an enterprise collaboration suite that doesn't meet all your needs. Even worse, you might be overpaying for features that you don't even use. Join us in this session to learn how Connexity was able to roll out Amazon Chime in just a few steps. Costs were not only reduced, but using Chime's pay-as-you-go pricing resulted in collaboration costs dropping by 25% and administrative overhead dropping to zero.

BAP203: Leadership Session: Alexa for Business Dec 01, 2018

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Alexa transformed the smart home market segment and is now transforming how we interact with applications and technology at work. Alexa for Business is a service that helps you manage Alexa devices, users, and skills and helps you voice-enable your workplace. In this session, Collin Davis, GM, Alexa for Business, talks about the new features in Alexa for Business and how customers are adopting Alexa VUI in their workplace.

BAP204: Using AWS End User Computing Services for Your Modern Workforce Dec 01, 2018

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Tens of thousands of customers are moving their desktops and application infrastructure to the cloud to help IT be more efficient and help their employees be more productive. Join us to hear from AWS leaders and customers alike to learn about end user computing services from AWS. Get insights into how you can use these services. We discuss the most recent announcements from Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream, and we explain how you can use AWS capabilities to deliver end user computing solutions for your organization.

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