AWS re:Invent 2018

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DIG205: Overview of Amazon Digital User Engagement Solutions Dec 01, 2018

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This session, we describe how AWS provides the Amazon customer-centric culture of innovation, key technology building blocks, and a user engagement platform to help companies better engage their users. You also learn how Disney Streaming Services is utilizing the Amazon approach to engage its users. The intended audience is developers and business professionals who are responsible for digitally transforming their company.

DIG301: Listen to Your Customers Voice & Engage Them w/ Delightful Experiences Dec 01, 2018

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In this session, we demonstrate how to easily deploy an AWS solution that ingests all Tweets from any Twitter handle, uses Amazon Comprehend to generate a sentiment score, and then automatically engages customers with a personalized message. The intended audience includes developers and marketers who want to leverage AWS to create powerful user engagement scenarios. We highlight how quickly a machine-learning marketing solution can be deployed. We cover the AWS services Amazon Pinpoint, a digital user engagement service, and Amazon Comprehend, a natural language processing service that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to find insights and relationships in text.

DVC201: Making AWS User Communities More Inclusive Dec 01, 2018

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At technical community gatherings, Meetups, or events, the majority of attendees and speakers tend to be men. Women often feel uncomfortable attending such events, leading women in technology to start technical communities for only for women. Although the purpose of these women-in-tech communities is to help more women feel welcomed and create equality between men and women in the industry, these communities might be inadvertently doing the exact opposite. In this talk, we share perspectives on gender diversity in technology, and we discuss the value of participating in mixed-gender Meetups. We also share insights from AWS user communities worldwide, and we discuss steps we take to make our AWS community in Israel-one of the largest in the world, with over 6,000 members-more inclusive. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC202: Build AWS Skills Through Community-Led User Groups Dec 01, 2018

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Did you know that there are over 300 AWS User Groups worldwide? In this session, join a panel discussion featuring AWS community leaders from around the world, and learn the value of attending community-led AWS Meetups in your region. Community leaders share their experiences, talk through how local communities help developers solve problems and achieve their goals, and discuss the benefits of participating in peer-to-peer AWS knowledge sharing and networking activities. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC203: ProTips for Scaling AWS Training to Accelerate Adoption Dec 01, 2018

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Learn the tips, techniques, and tricks for accelerating your team's cloud transformation with an education framework that scales. As director of cloud engineering at Capital One, Drew Firment founded a cloud engineering college that was integrated within a Cloud Center of Excellence. As the Dean of Cloud Computing, Drew earned a patent for measuring cloud maturity and demonstrated how cloud education program can accelerate adoption. Come to this session to hear key lessons from his experience, and learn how to apply the framework to your organization's cloud transformation journey. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC301: Building Fraud Detection Systems with AWS Batch and Containers Dec 01, 2018

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When analyzing information for fraud detection, tasks must be run periodically. When building a fraud detection system, start by preparing the data, and work with small chunks of data and run parallel jobs so your machine learning (ML) models can predict fraudulent activity. For that, you schedule computer resources and, of course, the script. With AWS Batch, you only worry about your application job and run it at scale. With containers, you think in small processes and let AWS Batch run them concurrently. In this session, learn to build a fraud detection system and integrate it with other AWS services. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC303: CI/CD for Your Machine Learning Pipeline with Amazon SageMaker Dec 01, 2018

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Amazon SageMaker is a powerful tool that enables us to build, train, and deploy at scale our machine learning-based workloads. With help from AWS CI/CD tools, we can speed up this pipeline process. In this talk, we discuss how to integrate Amazon SageMaker into a CI/CD pipeline as well as how to orchestrate with other serverless components. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC304: Red Team vs. Blue Team on AWS Dec 01, 2018

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Red teamers, penetration testers, and attackers can leverage the same tools used by developers to attack AWS accounts. In this session, two technical security experts demonstrate how an attacker can perform reconnaissance and pivoting on AWS, leverage network, AWS Lambda functions, and implementation weaknesses to steal credentials and data. They then show you how to defend your environment from these threats. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC305: Applying Principles of Chaos Engineering to Serverless Dec 01, 2018

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Chaos engineering focuses on improving system resilience through controlled experiments, exposing the inherent chaos and failure modes in our system before they manifest in production and impact users. However, much of the publicized tools and articles focus on killing Amazon EC2 instances, and the efforts in the serverless community have been largely limited to moving those tools into Lambda functions. How can we apply the same principles of chaos to a serverless architecture built around AWS Lambda functions? Can we adapt existing practices to expose the inherent chaos in these systems? What are the limitations and new challenges that we need to consider? Come to this session and find out. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share first-hand, technical insights on trending topics.

DVC306: Serverless: It All Started in Vegas Dec 01, 2018

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This talk dives into Trustpilot's journey to serverless compute. The journey starts at re:Invent 2016 and follows how the company fast-tracked its adoption within its engineering organization using a "serverless first" engineering principle. A representative from Trustpilot shares lessons learned and insights gained from running over 200 AWS Lambda functions with 12M invocations/day in production. Also covered are fun stories of what helped the company adopt serverless, how to make those stories actionable, a review of architectural patterns, and a discussion of why they choose serverless over traditional compute every day. This session is part of re:Invent Developer Community Day, a series led by AWS enthusiasts who share firsthand technical insights on trending topics.

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