AWS re:Invent 2018

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BAP205: Build Cloud-Native Applications in an Enterprise Environment Dec 01, 2018

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Learn how Volkswagen Financial Services is reaching its ambition to have core financial products online, worldwide by 2022. In this session, Daniel Matthies, Head of the Digital Unit at Volkswagen Financial Services, discusses how to leverage AWS for development and create a compliant SaaS office solution. Discover where the areas of freedom are when working within local markets. Learn best practices for engaging subsidiary companies and a cross-location team to ensure everyone is truly enabled, while tackling the doubts some colleagues may have previously had about stepping into the world of cloud technology and solutions. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Cloudreach Inc.

BAP208: Say Goodbye to Legacy Network File Shares with Amazon WorkDocs Drive Dec 01, 2018

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Amazon WorkDocs is a secure, fully managed, content creation file collaboration and management service with an extensible SDK that runs on AWS. Amazon WorkDocs Drive is an economical and secure alternative to your on-premises network shares and complicated VPN setups that brings all your WorkDocs content into your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. In this session, learn how you can have billions of files available on your desktop for collaboration and sharing with Amazon WorkDocs Drive, all without taking any hard drive space.

BAP303: Build the Next-Gen Meeting Room Experience Using Alexa for Business Dec 01, 2018

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Alexa for Business brings a conversational UI to help you simplify your meeting room experience. In this session, learn how you can bring Alexa for Business to your meeting room and integrate it with your existing meeting room systems. In addition, the Amazon IT team discusses best practices, and they describe how they piloted and deployed Alexa for Business in over 800 conference rooms at Amazon. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Build the Next-Gen Meeting Room Experience Using Alexa for Business (BAP303-R1)

BAP305: How to Move to Amazon WorkSpaces and Replace Your Legacy VDI Dec 01, 2018

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Learn why more customers than ever are leaving the complexity and costs of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for cloud desktop solutions like Amazon WorkSpaces. In this session, we discuss how you can use Amazon WorkSpaces to give your employees a responsive, secure, and delightful desktop experience while simplifying your own processes. We demonstrate the flexibility of Amazon WorkSpaces and show how easy it is to get started. We also cover more advanced topics, including using Microsoft Active Directory for end-user management and authentication, and using Amazon WorkSpaces to implement a bring- your-own-device policy.

BAP309: Customizing Your Amazon Connect Contact Center Dec 01, 2018

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Hear from Amazon Connect customers on how they seamlessly integrated their business applications with Amazon Connect using a combination of development tools and available AWS services. axialHealthcare demonstrates their HIPAA-compliant phone platform, built around Amazon Connect, which enables its clinical care team to increase provider and patient outreach efficiency, enhance client reporting, and improve provider and patient satisfaction while ensuring the safety of protected health information. Rackspace shares how they used the Amazon Connect Streams API to build a customized agent experience through a native desktop application to accommodate diverse agent configurations and multiple platforms.

BAP322: Bring the Power of AI to Your Amazon Connect Contact Center Dec 01, 2018

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With Amazon Connect, a cloud-based contact center service, businesses can create dynamic contact flows that provide personalized caller experiences by taking history and past context into consideration to anticipate callers' needs. Join us to learn how customers are executing successful strategies using Amazon Lex to add NLU chatbots into their Amazon Connect customer experience workflows. Learn how using Amazon Lex, an AI service that enables you to create intelligent conversational chatbots that can turn your contact flows into natural conversations using the same technology that powers Amazon Alexa. Learn how to automate repeatable routine tasks such as password resets, order status, and balance inquiries without the need for an agent.

BAP323: Desktops & Applications to AWS with Amazon WorkSpaces & AppStream 2.0 Dec 01, 2018

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IT organizations today need to support a modern, flexible, global workforce and ensure that their users can be productive anywhere. Moving desktops and applications to the AWS Cloud offers improved security, scale, and performance with cloud economics. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0, and we discuss the use cases for each. Then, we dive deep into best practices for implementing Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0, including how to integrate with your existing identity, security, networking, and storage solutions. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Move Your Desktops & Applications to AWS with Amazon WorkSpaces & AppStream 2.0 (BAP323)

BAP324: Moving Large Scale Contact Centers to Amazon Connect Dec 01, 2018

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In this session, you will learn how Intuit and Hilton are migrating their large scale contact centers to Amazon Connect, a self-service, cloud-based contact center offering based on the same technology used by over 70,000 Amazon Customer Service Associates. We will begin the session with an overview of Amazon Connect and hear from Intuit and Hilton about their experiences and best practices that will help prepare any large scale business planning a migration to Amazon Connect.

CMP201: Better, Faster, Cheaper Cost Optimizing Compute with Amazon EC2 Fleet Dec 01, 2018

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Amazon EC2 Fleet makes it easier than ever to grow your compute capacity and enable new types of cloud computing applications while maintaining the lowest TCO by blending EC2 Spot, On-Demand and RI purchase models. In this session, learn how to use the power of EC2 Fleet with AWS services such as Auto Scaling, ECS, EKS, EMR, Batch, Thinkbox Deadline and Opsworks to programmatically optimize costs while maintaining high performance and availability - all without breaking a sweat. We will dive deep into cost optimization patterns for workloads like containers, web services, CI/CD, batch, big data, rendering and more. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Better, Faster, Cheaper - Cost Optimizing Compute with Amazon EC2 Fleet #savinglikeaboss (CMP201-R1)

CMP202: Scale Your Studio: Rendering with Spot and Deadline on AWS Dec 01, 2018

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What if you could scale your rendering pipeline to near-limitless capacity- what would that mean for your studio? Learn how Amazon EC2 Spot and AWS Thinkbox Deadline can help scale your VFX and CG rendering pipeline, creating faster feedback cycles and most artist time focused on creating content, and how you can optimize your compute costs along the way. This session focuses on rendering workloads combining Deadline (an AWS rendering pipeline management tool) and Spot for scalable cost-effective computing. Find out how real customers working on Hollywood productions are integrating their pipelines with AWS to realize the elasticity and scale provided by Amazon EC2, as well as how they intend to leverage AWS in the future to scale their superpowers.

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