AWS re:Invent 2018

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DAT313: Accelerate Database Development and Testing with Amazon Aurora Dec 01, 2018

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Build faster, more scalable database applications with Amazon Aurora, a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. We cover Aurora Serverless, which automatically scales your database up and down to meet demand; Fast Database Cloning, which makes data instantly available for application development; Backtrack, which rolls back your database between test runs; and Performance Insights, which helps assess the load on your database and optimize your SQL queries.

DAT314: Migrating Your NoSQL Database to Amazon DynamoDB Dec 01, 2018

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AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) can help migrate databases from many supported data sources to supported targets. In this session, we review how the combination of AWS DMS and AWS SCT can help migrate your NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB and Cassandra, to Amazon DynamoDB. We provide an overview of AWS DMS and AWS SCT, and we demonstrate migrating a sample Cassandra database into DynamoDB.

DAT316: How Do I Know I Need an Amazon Neptune Graph Database? Dec 01, 2018

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When do you need to use a graph database? What kinds of applications can benefit from using a graph-based approach? In this session, learn how customers are using graph databases to accomplish use cases from knowledge graphs to recommendations to network security. Hear how PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) is using graph-based approaches with Amazon Neptune and partners to build new applications. See how Tom Sawyer Software helps to visualize Amazon Neptune graphs.

DAT317: Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases on Amazon RDS Dec 01, 2018

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) continues to be a popular choice for Oracle DBAs moving new and legacy workloads to the cloud. In this session, we discuss how Amazon RDS for Oracle helps DBAs focus their time where it matters most. We cover recent RDS Oracle features, and we go deep on key functionality that enables license optimization, performance, and high availability for Oracle databases. We also hear directly from an AWS customer about their journey to Amazon RDS and the best practices that helped make their move successful.

DAT318: Migrating Your Oracle & SQL Server Databases to Amazon Aurora Dec 01, 2018

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Organizations today are looking to free themselves from the constraints of on-premises commercial databases and leverage the power of cloud-native and open-source systems. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database that is built for the cloud, with the speed, reliability, and availability of commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. In this session, we provide an overview of Aurora and its features. We talk about the latest advances in migration tooling and automation, and we explain how many of the common legacy features of Oracle and SQL Server map to modern cloud variants. We also hear from Dow Jones about its migration journey to the cloud.

DAT319: Airbnb's Journey from Self-Managed Redis to ElastiCache for Redis Dec 01, 2018

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At Airbnb, we use Redis extensively as an in-memory data store to reduce latency and provide sub-millisecond response for our website, search, images, payments, and more. We migrated our self-managed Redis environment from EC2 classic to fully-managed Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to reduce operational overhead and improve availability. Now, all our Redis is in an AWS managed service that provides multi-Availability Zone support, automatic failover, and maintenance. Attend this session to learn how we migrated our Redis environment while ensuring data integrity and zero downtime.

DAT321: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database Dec 01, 2018

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Come to this session to learn how Amazon DynamoDB was built as the hyper-scale database for internet-scale applications. In January 2012, Amazon launched DynamoDB, a cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance, and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. This session discloses for the first time the underpinnings of DynamoDB, and how we run a fully managed nonrelational database used by more than 100,000 customers. We cover the underlying technical aspects of how an application works with DynamoDB for authentication, metadata, storage nodes, streams, backup, and global replication.

DAT322: Deep Dive on MySQL Databases on Amazon RDS Dec 01, 2018

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In recent years, MySQL has become a top database choice for new application development and migration from overpriced, restrictive commercial databases. In this session, we provide an overview of the MySQL and MariaDB options available on AWS. We also do a deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a fully managed MySQL service, and Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database with up to 5X the performance, and many additional innovations.

DAT323: Best Practices for Running SQL Server on Amazon RDS Dec 01, 2018

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides a managed service to run SQL Server databases in AWS. While Amazon RDS handles provisioning and maintaining the SQL Server instance, there are things you can do to ensure that the SQL Server instance is healthy. We'll review some best practices involved in configuring the Amazon RDS SQL Server instance, focusing on availability, security and migration. We'll also hear from our customer Allstate, sharing details about their use of Amazon RDS.

DAT324: Deep Dive on PostgreSQL Databases on Amazon RDS Dec 01, 2018

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In this session, we provide an overview of the PostgreSQL options available on AWS, and do a deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, a fully managed PostgreSQL service, and Amazon Aurora, a PostgreSQL-compatible database with up to 3x the performance of standard PostgreSQL. Learn about the features, functionality, and many innovations in Amazon RDS and Aurora, which give you the background to choose the right service to solve different technical challenges, and the knowledge to easily move between services as your requirements change over time.

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