AWS Online Tech Talks

Type: Service Intro | Level: 100

When: July 20, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Learn how the Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA) empowers your organization to make data-driven migration decisions for Windows workloads based on actual resource utilization. The OLA provides right-sized and licensing-optimized instance recommendations for your on-premises or other-cloud Windows workloads to optimally run in AWS, including opportunities for reserved instances, optimized CPUs, dedicated hosts, and Microsoft BYOL options. Use the OLA to gain visibility of your environment, make the most of your existing Microsoft licenses, build a business case for migrating, or even start the migration planning process.

What you'll learn:

• Learn what business problems are addressed by running an OLA
• Learn what the process is for running an OLA
• Discover how to get started with an OLA

Speaker(s): Clark Fancher, OLA Product Manager, AWS

Who Should Attend: Any IT professionals, such as system architects, IT administrators, developers, or engineers, with Windows instances on premises or in the cloud

Type: Service How To | Level: 300

When: July 20, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Learn cost, fleet, bundle and network management for end user computing services. This tech talk will dive deep into best practices to optimize your Amazon WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0, and WorkDocs deployments.

What you'll learn:

• Learn about cost management and optimization
• Understand AppStream fleets and usage reports
• Learn how to manage your bundles and instance types and about network sizing and directory services options

Speaker(s): Navi Magee, Senior Specialized Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: IT leaders who manage deployment and permissions, SMBs interested in launching an EUC service, and contingent workforce mangers

Type: Service How To | Level: 300

When: July 21, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Students and teachers need to connect regardless if they are in school or working from home. The Amazon Chime SDKs integrate audio and video into any learning application, making it easy to bring together virtual classrooms while giving you control of the security and student experience. Instead of sending your students to a separate meeting application - make one!

What you'll learn:

• Learn about how the Amazon Chime SDKs can embed audio and video into learning applications
• Learn how to use some of our pre-built templates to test and create real-time experiences
• Learn about the Amazon Chime global infrastructure, including 14 regions and security models

Speaker(s): Sid Rao, General Manager - Chime, AWS

Who Should Attend: Education Technical Experts

Type: Service How To | Level: 200

When: July 21, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Overall Equipment Effectives (OEE) is a measure of manufacturing productivity. OEE is key to not only understand how operations are running overall, but provides some valuable insights into how to reduce COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) by optimizing throughput across lines/assets. At Bayer Crop Science, they aim to achieve roughly 80% OEE and it all begins with having visibility across different areas in their manufacturing process. In this tech talk, you will discover how AWS IoT SiteWise enables plant operators at crop processing sites to monitor equipment performance. By tracking OEE within each site, and allowing comparisons across sites, Bayer are able to identify abnormal wastage and tune equipment performance to reduce this wastage.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment
• Learn how to compute industrial performance metrics
• Discover how customers are able to increase operational efficiency of industrial processes

Speaker(s): Saras Kaul, Senior Product Manager, AWS; Peri Subrahmanya, IoT Product Lead at Bayer Crop Science

Who Should Attend: Business Decision Makers, Business Owners, Data Architects, Cloud Architects, Industrial Developers, Engineering Teams and Leadership

Type: Virtual Workshop | Level: 200

When: July 21, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM PST

Track and trace is often a challenge for today’s supply chains due to outdated paper processes and disconnected data silos. The lack of connectivity can cause visibility gaps, inaccurate forecasts of supply and demand, human error, counterfeiting, and compliance violations. With Amazon Managed Blockchain, entire supply chain networks can track updates on a single shared ledger, providing optimal data visibility and a single source of truth. In this hands-on virtual workshop, learn how to set up a blockchain network and build a track-and-trace application using Amazon Managed Blockchain. No prior experience is required.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how to build a multi-party blockchain network
• Understand how to build a track-and-trace supply chain application
• Learn the basics of enterprise blockchain applications

Speaker(s): Carl Youngblood, Blockchain Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, Architects, Data Engineers

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 200

When: July 22, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Learn how to find your most expensive line of code! It's challenging and time consuming for even the most experienced code reviewers to identify problematic code before it reaches customer facing applications. This can often result in bugs and performance issues that consume costly infrastructure once the application is in production. Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code. In this tech talk you will learn how to use Amazon CodeGuru to augment steps in the application development cycle, including how to build it directly into your existing workflow. We will show you how to use Amazon Code Guru Reviewer to improve code quality before the code reaches customer facing applications and how to use Amazon Code Guru Profiler to find the most expensive lines of code that impact application performance and increase in infrastructure costs. You will also learn how Amazon CodeGuru provides specific intelligent recommendations on how to fix problematic code and makes it easier to prioritize remediation.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how Amazon CodeGuru helps developers find the most expensive lines of code and provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and application performance
• Learn how Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer uses machine learning to identify critical issues and hard-to-find bugs during application development to improve code quality
• Learn how Amazon CodeGuru Profiler optimizes performance for applications running in production and identifies the most expensive lines of code, reducing operational costs significantly

Speaker(s): Daniela Tzvetkova, Sr. Product Manager, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, DevOps, TDMs and BDMs

Type: Solutions Best Practices | Level: 200

When: July 22, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Serverless applications benefit from a pay for value pricing model that enables organizations to closely align their costs with their usage, and this usually results in a lower total cost of ownership (IDC, Deloitte). As a result, predicting and managing costs in serverless applications requires a fundamentally different approach to cost optimization. In this tech talk, we provide insight into how serverless application costs are calculated, and how you can optimize application design to minimize that cost. We’ll cover strategies for optimizing your bill and making cost more predictable, and share real life examples comparing expectations to reality. Expect to leave with a solid understanding of how to build and manage cost-optimized serverless applications.

What you'll learn:

• Understand the biggest factors in the cost of your serverless application
• Build strategies to make the cost of your serverless applications more predictable
• Learn about Compute Savings Plan to optimize your Lambda bill

Speaker(s): Chhaya Pandey, Principal Product Manager, AWS; Bryan Landerman, Enterprise Strategist, AWS

Who Should Attend: Engineering and IT leaders, solution architects, and anyone who wants to learn more about optimizing the cost of their serverless applications

Type: Solutions Best Practices | Level: 200

When: July 23, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

It is expected that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will plan to have shut down their traditional data centers, versus 10% today. While many enterprise customers have been planning or considering migrations to the cloud for some time, many data center closures are driven by a merger, acquisition, or divestiture that requires an accelerated exit approach. In this tech talk, we will share common migration issues and solutions to accelerate your data center exit.

What you'll learn:

• Learn the most common migration blockers delaying a successful outcome
• Learn how to implement migration best practices to avoid post-migration challenges
• Learn which AWS services and tools can help ensure that your team has the experience and skills to migrate

Speaker(s): Barb Malik, Principal, WW AMS Specialist Solution Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: CIOs, CISCOs, VP Operations, IT Leaders, Business Unit Leaders, Head of Cloud, VP of Finance, CFO, CTO

Type: Use Case How To | Level: 300

When: July 23, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

Many business critical applications still run on mainframes. However, this technology struggles to exist in today’s world due to high costs, lack of agility, and a diminishing talent pool. These challenges can be overcome by migrating to AWS cloud. In this tech talk we will provide an overview of the different patterns to migrate mainframe applications to cloud. We will take a specific use case such as a COBOL based mainframe batch application and convert that into a cloud-native application on AWS using automatic refactoring.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how mainframe migration to AWS Cloud is possible
• Learn about how to migrate from mainframe to AWS and the corresponding tools and techniques that make it possible
• Understand the target architecture of a refactored mainframe batch application

Speaker(s): Madhuri Susarla, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS; Keerti Shah, Global Account Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Customers and developers with mainframe workloads who are looking to adopt AWS Cloud

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 200

When: July 24, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM PST

Maintaining high availability and business continuity for mission critical systems is often challenging. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Attend this tech talk to learn about the high availability capabilities built into Amazon Aurora and how you can leverage Amazon Aurora for solving your business continuity challenge in the cloud.

What you'll learn:

• Get an overview of Amazon Aurora's cloud-native architecture and understand how it provides high availability to your applications
• Get an overview of how Amazon Aurora can help you achieve your business continuity goals
• See how you can add high availability and disaster recovery configurations in your Amazon Aurora Cluster

Speaker(s): Saikat Banerjee, Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, Architects, DBAs, DevOps Roles, IT Leaders

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 300

When: July 24, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Companies today are using VPN overlays, or routing traffic through their own corporate networks, to manage connectivity between AWS Regions. With AWS Direct Connect, AWS Direct Connect Gateway and AWS Transit Gateway customers can connect multiple regions in a centralized, cloud-native manner. In this tech talk we will analyze architectural patterns for achieving redundant and secure multi-region connectivity. Plus, you’ll learn how to take advantage of AWS Transit Gateway Inter-Region peering.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how to deploy redundant AWS Direct Connect links in multiple regions
• Understand how to leverage AWS Transit Gateway inter-region peering
• Explore the capabilities of the different approaches to Multi-Region connectivity

Speaker(s): German Gonzalez, Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Cloud architects, network administrators, and IT engineers who are looking to build resilient, multi-region networks across AWS

Type: Service Intro | Level: 200

When: July 24, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

In this tech talk you will learn about AWS CodeArtifact, a fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages. Through a live demo, you'll learn how to configure CodeArtifact to automatically fetch software packages and dependencies from public artifact repositories so that you and your teams have access to the latest versions. Additionally, you will learn how CodeArtifact works with commonly used package managers. Finally, you will build tools like Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, Twine, and PIP, making it easy to integrate into existing development workflows.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how to configure AWS CodeArtifact to fetch software packages from public repositories such as NPM Registry, Maven Central, and PyPI with just a few clicks
• Learn how to use existing package managers such as NPM, PIP, Yarn, Twine, and Maven to publish packages developed within your organization, allowing development teams to retrieve packages published to and shared in a central organizational repository
• Learn how you can approve packages for use by building automated workflows using CodeArtifact APIs and AWS EventBridge

Speaker(s): Richard Boyd, Sr. Developer Advocate, DevTools, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers

Type: Service How To | Level: 200

When: July 27, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Customers have a constant need to define a desired configuration for their resources, following internal policies or regulatory requirements. In this tech talk we will show you how to set a desired configuration, audit, and remediate your resource configurations using AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail. You will also learn how to use AWS Config to monitor and track resource configuration, and AWS Config Rules and Conformance Packs to set desired configuration, evaluate configuration compliance and risk, and remediate configuration drift. We also cover how to use AWS CloudTrail to simplify compliance audits by recording and storing event logs for actions made within your AWS account.

What you'll learn:

• Learn the basics of AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail
• Understand how configuration compliance works with AWS Config
• Understand how auditing can be simplified by using AWS CloudTrail

Speaker(s): Archana Sridhar, Sr. PM, AWS Config Rules, AWS; Rodney Bozo, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Security Professionals, Audit and Assurance Professionals, DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Employees of Cloud Center of Excellence Organizations

Type: Service How To | Level: 300

When: July 27, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Fast parallel file systems can help your workloads achieve peak performance and reduce costs. AWS makes it easy to launch and run the world’s most popular high-performance file system in the cloud. In this tech talk, we’ll dive deep into Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed, POSIX-compliant shared file system, integrated with S3. FSx for Lustre provides high performance storage for EC2 compute resources without the overhead and complexity of a self-managed file system. We’ll discuss common opportunities to reduce the cost of running compute-intensive workloads and how these opportunities can be addressed using Amazon FSx for Lustre. We will also share tips and technical demos to help you get started and begin capturing these savings.

What you'll learn:

• Learn about the most common cost reduction opportunities available for compute-intensive workloads
• Discover how these opportunities can be addressed using a fast, parallel file system
• Explore new features and best practices for optimizing performance

Speaker(s): Darryl Osborne, Principal Solution Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: IT Directors, IT Pros, IT Professionals, IT Leaders, System Administrators, Storage Administrators, Developers, APN Partners

Type: Service How To | Level: 200

When: July 27, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

Amazon EC2 customers are always looking to optimize cost and performance of instances for their workloads. AWS Graviton2 processors are custom built by AWS to enable the best price performance for a wide variety of workloads in Amazon EC2. The general purpose M6g, compute optimized C6g, and memory optimized R6g instances enable up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a broad set of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. In this tech talk, we will discuss the instance types available, suitable workloads, performance benchmarks, adoption considerations, and ecosystem support, before diving into a demo of the AWS Graviton2 based EC2 instances.

What you'll learn:

• Learn about AWS Graviton2 based instances
• Understand the benefits AWS Graviton2 based instances offer
• Learn how to adopt AWS Graviton2 based instances

Speaker(s): Jeff Underhill, EC2 Principal Business Development Manager, AWS; Arthur Petitpierre, Sr. Specialist SA, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, IT practitioners, and anyone making decisions on, or working with cloud compute infrastructure

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 300

When: July 28, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Customers running containers on ECS with EC2 as the compute layer have to manage scaling in two places: the cluster and the services running on the cluster. ECS Cluster Autoscaling does the heavy lifting of scaling the compute layer by managing the underlying auto scaling group. In this tech talk, we will walk through setting up ECS Cluster Autoscaling on an ECS cluster using Capacity Providers. Next, we will deploy services to the cluster and force load to trigger container autoscaling and watch as our backend EC2 infrastructure scales to support the capacity needs of the application.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how to deploy ECS Cluster Autoscaling in an ECS cluster
• View a real-world scaling scenario where the cluster meets the scaling demands of the service
• Understand how you can configure ECS to scale your autoscaling groups automatically and focus on running your tasks.

Speaker(s): Adam Keller, Developer Advocate - Containers, AWS

Who Should Attend: DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, Cloud Infrastucture Engineers, Developers, Software Engineers, users of Amazon ECS

Type: Solutions Best Practices | Level: 300

When: July 28, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

You're using Amazon Elasticsearch Service and you love the powerful way that it allows you to dig in to your data and visualize it in real time. At the same time, you wonder whether you can get more out of your domain - are you doing it right, and following all best practices? In this talk, you'll learn ten best practices on how to configure, secure, scale, and monitor your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain.

What you'll learn:

• Learn about domain configuration, such as instance types and sizes
• Understand security, such as baseline practices for a secure domain
• Learn about Elasticsearch configuration like indexes, shards, tenants

Speaker(s): Jon Handler, Principal Search Services Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, DevOps, Architects

Type: Virtual Workshop | Level: 200

When: July 28, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

QLDB is a new kind of database. Developing against QLDB requires knowing how to create and manipulate Amazon Ion documents and how to use QLDB's unique driver. In this virtual workshop, you'll learn how to use the Amazon Ion library for Java and the QLDB Java driver while building a small data loader program. You'll learn how to work with QLDB transactions, understand QLDB optimistic concurrency, and parse the QLDB S3 export format.

What you'll learn:

• Learn to use the Amazon Ion library for Java to build and manipulate Amazon Ion documents for storage in QLDB
• Learn to use the QLDB Java driver to create, read, update, and delete Ion documents in a QLDB ledger
• Learn how QLDB optimistic concurrency works and how to handle concurrency exceptions

Speaker(s): Dan Blaner, QLDB Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, Cloud Architects

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 300

When: July 29, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

As business processes grow in complexity, modern application developers look to distribute work across multiple independent services. While this can help with scale and enable more rapid development, it comes with challenges around increased failure handling requirements and state management. With AWS Step Functions you can ease some of these concerns and even reduce the burden on application developers looking to solve these complexity challenges. In this session, we’ll cover what’s new with Step Functions in 2020 and highlight the key patterns for building distributed business workflows to handle scale and workflow sophistication. We’ll touch upon best practices for handling issues in your workflow and how you can instrument around your workflow for better observability.

What you'll learn:

• Discover additional features/capabilities that have launched for AWS Step Functions in the past year
• Learn about patterns for handling failure and recovery in your workflows
• Learn about integrations with AWS services such as EventBridge, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Fargate and more

Speaker(s): Rob Sutter, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Who Should Attend: Developers, Software Developers, DevOps Engineers, Architects, anyone interested in serverless

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 300

When: July 29, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Deploying and managing models in production is often the most difficult part of the machine learning process. Enter model servers, which make it easy to load models and which offer production-critical features like logging, monitoring, and security. In this tech talk, learn more about the collaboration between AWS and Facebook to offer TorchServe, a PyTorch model-serving library that makes it easy to deploy trained models at scale without writing custom code.

What you'll learn:

• Discover the value of model servers for your ML workflows
• Learn about TorchServe, a PyTorch model-serving library
• Learn how to easily deploy trained PyTorch models to production with TorchServe

Speaker(s): Aditya Bindal, Senior Product Manager, AWS; Geeta Chauhan, Head of AI Partnership Engineering, Facebook

Who Should Attend: Data Scientists, ML Developers, Data Engineers

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 300

When: July 29, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

Enabling chat in your contact center offers customers a way to receive support from their preferred channels, however agents can be limited by a customer’s response time which can decrease their efficiency and leave customers frustrated. Amazon Connect’s asynchronous chat automatically preserves the full context of a conversation for agents, allowing customers to respond at their own pace. In this tech talk we will explore how to build an experience that allows agents to maintain productivity while chatting with a customer. You will also learn how to notify and re-engage with your customers via a different channel, even after closing a chat.

What you'll learn:

• Explore how enabling chat in your contact center improves customer engagement and allows customers to receive support in their preferred channel
• Learn how asynchronous chat preserves a conversation’s context, allowing customers to step away from a chat and respond at their own pace
• Notify your customers through a separate channel that they have received new messages and redirect them to the chat using Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon’s multichannel customer communication service

Speaker(s): Erin Hall, Solutions Architect - Amazon Connect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Business Decision Makers, Contact Center Managers, IT Professionals, Agents, Customer Experience Leaders

Type: Solutions Best Practices | Level: 300

When: July 30, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

AWS Well-Architected helps customers build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. The security pillar of Well-Architected has recently been updated to reflect the latest best practices and guidance. In this tech talk, we will walk you through the key best practices for securing your workload, using AWS services including AWS Identity & Access Management, AWS Single Sign-On, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Config. We’ll also discuss how you can use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to identify potential risks, and build better workloads for the cloud.

What you'll learn:

• Learn about key security best practices for your workload
• Learn about enabling AWS security services, features, and how they fit together
• Understand architectural best practice guidance

Speaker(s): Ben Potter, Security Lead, AWS Well-Architected

Who Should Attend: Solution Architects, Technical Decision Makers, Developers, Engineers

Type: Use Case How To | Level: 300

When: July 30, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Provisioning cloud applications can be a challenging process that requires you to perform manual actions, write custom scripts, maintain templates, or learn domain-specific languages. AWS CDK uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications. It provides you with high-level components that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications without needing to be an expert. Using the AWS CDK, we will build and deploy our containers to ECS using three of the high-level ecs patterns available today. The patterns we'll demo will be: deploying an application load balanced Fargate service, an SQS queue consumer service, as well as a time based scheduled task that runs on an interval.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how to deploy your containerized applications to ECS using the AWS CDK
• Understand how AWS CDK constructs can help save time and effort when deploying containerized services to ECS using pre-defined patterns
• Learn how to deploy common patterns to Amazon ECS using the AWS CDK

Speaker(s): Adam Keller, Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

Who Should Attend: DevOps Engineers, Developers, Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects

Type: Solutions Best Practices | Level: 200

When: July 30, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

When planning for cloud migration, it can be challenging for businesses to get a clear baseline of what they’re running today to project future-state cloud costs. Learn how running a migration assessment with Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO Logic) can prepare a directional business case for your organization to make accurate decisions on the best path forward.

What you'll learn:

• Learn how Migration Evaluator (formerly TSO Logic) works, from data collection to modeling to interpreting outputs
• See a demonstration of Migration Evaluator (formerly TSO Logic) in action
• Learn how to request the service and run an assessment for your organization

Speaker(s): Aaron Rallo, General Manager, AWS; Paul Wakeford, Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: VP, Director, Manager of Infrastructure, Database Experts, Cloud and Software Architects, Migration Tech Leads, Cloud/Migration Project Managers, Cloud Admin, IT Admin, Customers with workloads on-premises or on Azure and Consulting Services Leaders

Type: Service How To | Level: 200

When: July 31, 2020, 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Game development is all about building an experience that will delight players. But, how do game developers know which decisions are the right ones? Learn how to build a Game Analytics Pipeline to help launch a scalable serverless data pipeline that ingests, stores, processes, and analyzes telemetry data generated from games and services. In this tech talk, developers will learn how to deploy the AWS Game Analytics Pipeline, enabling them to gain valuable game insights within minutes from ingesting streaming data and spend time improving game features instead of managing infrastructure. Developers will see AWS services in action, including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue, and Amazon QuickSight.

What you'll learn:

• Understand which data to gather based on the questions you are looking to answer in your game
• Learn how to use key AWS services to ingest, store, process, and visualize data
• Explore a one-click deployment AWS Solution that will deploy a serverless game analytics pipeline with little overhead

Speaker(s): Greg Cheng, Solutions Architect, Games, AWS; Gena Gizzi, Solutions Architect, Games, AWS

Who Should Attend: Intended for small to medium sized game studios who want to gain insights from their game but don’t want to spend time managing infrastructure. This includes game developers, game directors, cloud architects, data analysts, CTOs, and more.

Type: Service Deep Dive | Level: 300

When: July 31, 2020, 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST

Modern customer applications are requiring more out of their relational databases than ever before, making it essential to find solutions that can improve database scale, security, and reduce downtime. Amazon RDS Proxy is a new fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon RDS announced at re:Invent 2019. In this Tech Talk, we will dive into the core concepts of this exciting new service to show you how to implement and take advantage of these exciting new features. We'll also include a demo to show how easily you can integrate this into all of your applications - from containers and serverless to more traditional architectures.

What you'll learn:

• Learn to use Amazon RDS Proxy to improve the scalability, availability, and security of your applications
• Understand how Amazon RDS Proxy can help reduce downtime by up to 66% during database failovers
• Learn the target use cases and best practices for using Amazon RDS Proxy

Speaker(s): Joe Chapman, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Who Should Attend: Database Administrators (DBAs), Developers, Engineers, users of RDS Postgres, MySQL, and Aurora databases

Type: Solutions Best Practices | Level: 300

When: July 31, 2020, 1:00 PM PST | 4:00 PM EST

Financial service institutions are collecting an unprecedented amount of data but for many, legacy infrastructure, siloed data storage, and analytics tools don’t provide the agility and flexibility needed to use that data. By building a data lake on AWS, financial service institutions can integrate multiple data sources into a consistent data set that is readily available to be categorized and processed. AWS data lakes make it easy to leverage AWS analytics to identify operational efficiencies, ensure compliance, and gain deeper customer insights to drive innovation. Join our tech talk to see a demo of AWS Lake Formation and deep-dive data lake reference architectures that will help optimize your data quality pipeline, master data management, and data protection.

What you'll learn:

• Understand key security considerations that financial service institutions must focus on as they build their data lakes on AWS
• Review proven patterns based on actual data lakes deployed by financial service customers on AWS
• Understand how AWS Lake Formation features, including the new permission model, can help financial service institutions secure their data lakes with fine-grained access controls

Speaker(s): Ilya Epshteyn, Principal Solutions Architect, Financial Services, AWS; Jeremiah O'Connor, Solutions Architect, Financial Services, AWS

Who Should Attend: Chief Data Officer, Director of Analytics, Architects, Application Developers, Business Intelligence Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Modelers, Data Scientists, Data Warehouse Administrators, Database Administrators, DevOps Engineers, LOB Knowledge Workers