Title	Track	Number	Session	Description
AWS re:Invent 2019: DevOps so easy, anyone can do it (DEM55-S)	DEM	55	DEM55	DevOps is getting more and more complex, and at the same time, companies are struggling to find the senior technical talent that they need to support their growing technology initiatives. In this session, join Kyle Campbell, founder and CEO of CTO.ai, and explore how to simplify DevOps in a growing organization. Learn how to increase developer effectiveness by investing in amazing developer experiences that simplify complex tasks in your organization that are running on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by CTO.ai, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Monitoring user experience and third-party APIs for your AWS workloads (DEM53-S)	DEM	53	DEM53	Building complex, distributed, and API-centric applications in the cloud means that you have dependencies on third-party providers, APIs, SaaS solutions, and the internet. In this fragmented ecosystem, how does one monitor application performance comprehensively while not losing sight of the customer experience? Join Archana Kesavan, director of product marketing at ThousandEyes, as she discusses the need for visibility beyond your own AWS virtual private clouds, and watch a live demonstration of how to measure, manage, and monitor third-party dependencies to ensure the best possible user experience. This presentation is brought to you by ThousandEyes, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cloud security is a shared responsibility: What does that really mean? (DEM46-S)	DEM	46	DEM46	We have all heard the phrase “cloud security is a shared responsibility.” But what does that really mean, especially in a hybrid cloud world where applications need to translate seamlessly between on-premises and AWS environments? Manual implementation and auditing of security controls is not enough and is not scalable. In this session, you learn about a variety of automated governance policies that hybrid cloud users should implement to provide an added layer of security for their applications and data on AWS and in on-premises environments. This presentation is brought to you by Nutanix, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerating AI pipelines w/ NVIDIA on AWS: An autonomous driving case (DEM40-S)	DEM	40	DEM40	In this session, learn about hardware and software technologies that help accelerate end-to-end platform development for artificial intelligence (AI). From data collection, model training, and testing in simulation to the deployment of smart, safe, self-driving cars, we discuss an autonomous driving use case and use it to demonstrate how you can tune your cloud deployments to great scale and push the boundaries of innovation in your industry. This session is brought to you by NVIDIA, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Windows to Linux: Replatforming assistant for SQL Server databases (DEM161)	DEM	161	DEM161	Are you still paying the Windows Server licensing tax? Customers are looking to modernize their Microsoft SQL Server workloads from a Windows to Linux operating system to save on Windows licensing costs. AWS simplifies this replatforming with SQL Server replatforming assistant. In this demo, learn how you can use the replatforming assistant with any Windows Server virtual machines (VMs) hosted in the cloud or with on-premises environments running SQL Server 2008 or later. The tool checks for common incompatibilities, exports databases from the Windows VM, and imports into an EC2 instance running SQL Server 2017. The automated process results in a ready-to-use Linux VM configured with your selected SQL Server databases.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data storage on AWS made simple (DEM160)	DEM	160	DEM160	It doesn’t matter what platform you are developing on, what your application type is (business-critical, analytics, machine learning, AI, or robotics), or what your compute needs are (EC2, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or Lambda), you still need to store data. In this demo, we show you how to store your data and make it accessible to any of these platforms. By making data accessible, you can accelerate your digital transformation journey and time to market for business innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Monitor security & automate compliance checks with AWS Security Hub (DEM157)	DEM	157	DEM157	AWS Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of high-priority security alerts and compliance status across AWS accounts. Security Hub provides a single location to aggregate, organize, and prioritize your security alerts or findings from multiple AWS services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and Amazon Macie, as well as from AWS Partner solutions. You can also continuously monitor your environment using automated compliance checks based on the AWS best practices and open standards that your organization follows. In this demo, we provide a walkthrough of how Security Hub aggregates findings, conducts compliance checks, and helps you respond and remediate findings.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Demo of ECS CLI 2 (DEM153)	DEM	153	DEM153	With modern architecture comes the need to segment a project into several well-defined, self-contained microservice applications, each with its own infrastructure and deployment management. Are you looking to eliminate the undifferentiated heavy lifting of setting up and deploying these applications into multi-account, multi-region, and multi-environments? In this demo, we walk you through the latest Amazon ECS command line tool to build, provision, test, deploy and manage your containerized applications with simple, well-organized set of commands that sets up everything with default AWS best practices.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Run big data workloads faster and cheaper (DEM151)	DEM	151	DEM151	Learn how to run big data frameworks such as Apache Spark, and Hadoop through Amazon EMR while maximizing for scale, performance, and deep cost savings with Spot Instances. Access significantly higher compute capacity and reduce the time to process big datasets at a fraction of the cost. Learn how to configure clusters and instance fleets for the right mix of On-Demand and Spot Instances for long-running and transient workloads.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build predictive models using Amazon SageMaker (DEM148)	DEM	148	DEM148	Amazon SageMaker is fully managed service that you can use to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models with little effort and at low cost. This demo walks you through how to build a predictive model using fully managed Jupyter notebooks. We also show you how to easily deploy your model to an auto-scaling cluster spread acorss multiple Availability Zones to deliver both high performance and high availability.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive on new features in Amazon RDS for Oracle (DAT365-R1)	DAT	365	DAT365	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle databases in the cloud. This session dives deep into the new features and best practices that make your Amazon RDS for Oracle database deployments highly available, scalable, and secure.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive on new features in Amazon RDS for SQL Server (DAT364-R1)	DAT	364	DAT364	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server databases in the cloud. This session dives deep into the new features and best practices that make your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database deployments highly available, scalable, and secure.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Whatʼs new with Amazon ElastiCache (DAT323-R1)	DAT	323	DAT323	Since re:Invent 2018, the Amazon ElastiCache team has been hard at work innovating on behalf of customers. In this session, we review the work that has been done in 2019 to make sure that ElastiCache is the most cost-effective and best performing Redis- and Memcached-compatible cloud service.
AWS re:Invent 2019: MySQL options on AWS: Self-managed, managed, and serverless (DAT316-R1)				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; Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database with up to five times the performance; and many additional innovations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon Aurora storage demystified: How it all works (DAT309-R1)	DAT	309	DAT309	Amazon Aurora is a high-performance, highly scalable database service with MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. One of its key components is an innovative storage system that is optimized for database workloads and specifically designed to take advantage of modern cloud technology. In this session, hear from the team that built Amazon Aurora's storage system about how the system is designed, how it works, and what you need to know to get the most out of it.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Real-world customer use cases with Amazon Neptune (DAT220)	DAT	220	DAT220	Why do you need a graph database? In this session, we deep dive into the use cases of Amazon Neptune. You hear from Uber and NBCUniversal about how they have deployed highly scalable graph solutions with Neptune. This session also covers the companies’ design decisions, the lessons they learned, and their experiences with this service.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 2] What's new in Amazon RDS (DAT207-R2)	DAT	207	DAT207	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a fully managed database service that allows you to launch an optimally configured, secure, and highly available database with just a few clicks. It manages time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you to focus on your applications and business. In this session, we look at all of the new capabilities launched for Amazon RDS across different engines and review the latest features available.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS infrastructure for large-scale training at Facebook AI (CMP304-R1)	CMP	304	CMP304	In this session, the Facebook AI team discusses its major machine learning models and workloads and the infrastructure challenges it faced with large-scale distributed training. They share details of how they tested these ML workloads on AWS infrastructure and the results of this benchmarking. Then we discuss how the deep breadth of AWS infrastructure for ML workloads in compute, networking, and storage helps address large-scale ML challenges. Specifically, we dive deep into the AWS machine learning stack to choose the right Amazon EC2 platform to fit your ML workload while leveraging 100 Gbps networking and high-performance file systems to efficiently scale from a single GPU to hundreds or thousands.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS Outposts: Extend the AWS experience to on-premises environments (CMP302-R1)	CMP	302	CMP302	AWS Outposts extends AWS to your on-premises and connected edge environments to support applications with latency and local data processing requirements. Attend this session to learn more about how it works and about key customer use cases.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Studio in the cloud: Content production on AWS (CMP203)	CMP	203	CMP203	In this session, learn how AWS Thinkbox and our partners are helping studios work with the best talent to scale their VFX and CG pipelines and produce some of the most popular and award-winning content. We cover several in-depth post-production topics around real-world VFX studio pipelines, and we focus on virtual workstations and rendering workloads, combining Amazon EC2 and AWS Thinkbox Deadline for scalable, cost-effective computing. Learn how real customers working on Hollywood productions integrate their pipelines with AWS to realize the elasticity and scale provided by Amazon EC2 and how they intend to leverage AWS in the future.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building modern applications with data on Heroku, Salesforce, and AWS (ARC415-S)	ARC	415	ARC415	Modern application development requires distributed architectures, multi-directional application and data workflows, and multi-disciplinary teams. These are complex interactions in isolation, but they are even more complex when the demands of infrastructure, architecture, and people are intertwined. Data is the lifeblood of this effort, and the ability of data to move across these three boundaries is critical to delivering value. In this session, you learn how Heroku helps developers and enterprises solve these challenges. This presentation is brought to you by Salesforce, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] What’s new with Amazon Redshift, featuring Yelp (ANT320-R1)	ANT	320	ANT320	Learn about the most important and hottest new features of Amazon Redshift. In this session, we discuss the architectural evolution of Amazon Redshift and how it uses machine learning to create a self-optimizing data warehouse. We also review recent performance, concurrency, elasticity, and manageability enhancements behind its record price-to-performance ratio. Finally, we share a glimpse of our vision for the data warehouse of the future and hear from Yelp about how Amazon Redshift’s latest features have helped Yelp achieve its optimization and scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Visibility Without Borders: NETSCOUT to help migrate apps to AWS (ANT242-S)	ANT	242	ANT242	The combination of cloud, co-location, and virtualization is changing the data center in ways we never expected. As enterprises implement new technology and look to improve connectivity, the complexity of the hybrid cloud environment can add both security and performance challenges to mission-critical applications. It’s not enough to isolate a problem to a specific domain; you need to have visibility across the entire hybrid cloud infrastructure. In this session, learn how some of the world’s largest enterprises have leveraged NETSCOUT to provide visibility across this environment as they build and migrate applications to AWS. This presentation is brought to you by NETSCOUT, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Easily find & subscribe to third-party data in the cloud (ANT238-R1)	ANT	238	ANT238	AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.This session explores how AWS Data Exchange removes the friction of finding, licensing, and using datasets. Without it, you might spend days or weeks licensing data and moving it where you need it to power analytics. Learn to use AWS Data Exchange to fuel in-place analytics with AWS services like Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. For data providers, learn how AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to reach millions of customers migrating to the cloud by removing the need to build and maintain infrastructure for data storage, delivery, billing, and entitling.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Data lakes and data integration with AWS Lake Formation (ANT218-R1)	ANT	218	ANT218	Want to build and secure a data lake without all the hassle? Learn how AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue consolidate and simplify the steps of ingesting, encrypting, cataloging, transforming, and provisioning data. Understand how to make data readily accessible to different analytics services and users, while enforcing granular access control policies and audit logging. Hear about how AWS customers have implemented Lake Formation and AWS Glue for their businesses. Hear how NU SKIN has recently completed an all-in migration to AWS and leveraged AWS Lake Formation to manage their data lake.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Prime Video: Processing analytics at petabyte scale (AMZ304)	AMZ	304	AMZ304	In this session, learn how an analytics platform team in Amazon Prime Video processes, governs, manages schemas, and stores data at petabyte scale. Discover how they were also able to secure and deliver easy access to teams across the Prime Video organization in a heterogeneous technology environment. In addition, the speakers present how Prime Video leverages a combination of data warehousing and data lake technologies along with scalable compute engines like Amazon EMR and serverless technologies like Amazon Redshift Spectrum. Finally, hear how they choose the right data processing technologies, and learn about their best practices.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on Project Jupyter (AIM413)	AIM	413	AIM413	Amazon SageMaker offers fully managed Jupyter notebooks that you can use in the cloud so you can explore and visualize data and develop your machine learning model. In this session, we explain why we picked Jupyter notebooks, and how and why AWS is contributing to Project Jupyter. We dive deep into our overall strategy for Jupyter and explain different use cases for Jupyter, including data science, analytics, and simulation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Fraud: How to detect and prevent it using ML (AIM322-R1)	AIM	322	AIM322	Looking to protect your company from anonymous activity and prevent bad-actor behavior? This session details how to implement a customized fraud detection and prevention solution using machine learning services, how to proactively identify these use cases, and how to implement changes to protect your enterprise and your customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The right instance type in Amazon SageMaker, ft. Texas Instruments (AIM311-R1)	AIM	311	AIM311	Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service for machine learning, offers several compute capabilities and instance types to meet the needs of your use case. In this session, we review the compute options available to you, including GPUs, CPUs, AWS Inferentia, Amazon SageMaker Neo, and Amazon Elastic Inference. We discuss best practices and key criteria to choose the right capabilities that meet the specific needs of your machine learning workload.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Why observability requires the marriage of AI, metrics, and logs (AIM310-S)	AIM	310	AIM310	The new digital world presents great opportunity as workloads move to the cloud and containers and companies benefit from serverless computing and an agile application delivery chain. However, these opportunities come with significant challenges. Site reliability engineers have been tasked with knitting together disparate platforms to build an observable stack, which is imperative for early detection of service degradation issues. We demonstrate a novel alternative that combines metrics, logs, and alerts into a comprehensive AIOps approach. Learn how to deliver an AI-enabled service that provides instant observability of your cloud application stack and how to combine logs and metrics into a single pane of glass. This presentation is brought to you by Moogsoft, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to build high-performance ML solutions at low cost, ft. Siemens (AIM306-R1)	AIM	306	AIM306	Amazon SageMaker helps provide the best model performance for less cost. In this session, we walk through a TCO analysis of Amazon SageMaker, exploring its three modules—build, train, and deploy. Learn how Amazon SageMaker automatically configures and optimizes ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, MXNet, and PyTorch, and see how to use pre-built algorithms that are tuned for scale, speed, and accuracy. We explain how the automatic model tuning feature performs hyperparameter optimization by discovering interesting features in your data and learning how those features interact to affect accuracy. Learn how to deploy your model with one click and how to lower inference costs using Amazon Elastic Inference. We end by showing how Siemens uses Amazon SageMaker to manage costs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: End-to-end machine learning using Spark and Amazon SageMaker (ADM302-R1)	ADM	302	ADM302	Learn how AWS customers are developing production-ready machine learning models to optimize auction dynamics and bid pricing—all within the millisecond latency requirements of programmatic ad buying. Forget “hello world” ML tutorials; instead we dive deep into an example of how to train models for terabyte-scale advertising data cost-effectively. Find out how to create environments for machine learning engineers so they can prototype and explore with TensorFlow before executing it in distributed systems using Spark and Amazon SageMaker. We explain productionizing models and deployment, which we then back up with real-life examples.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Avoiding cloud security anti-patterns the right way (SEC220-S)	SEC	220	SEC220	Time and again, we see enterprises experience data breaches even with significant investments in cloud security tools and automation processes. Research has shown recurring patterns around enterprise cloud security practices that end up being ineffective and, in some cases, weakening the cloud security posture. In this session, we identify five cloud security anti-patterns that enterprises should avoid and suggest best practices to follow when implementing security around cloud environments. This presentation is brought to you by Palo Alto Networks, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five-step plan for securing your APIs (SEC211-S)	SEC	211	SEC211	Cloud applications come with lots of built-in security features, but software administrators and users also play an integral role in keeping your system secure. As a result, organizations that haven’t been focusing on API security could be vulnerable to data theft, corruption, or DDoS attacks. In this session, a representative from Akamai walks you through some common attack vectors to help you increase your awareness of potential threats. Then, you learn about a five-step plan that you can implement to help protect your APIs. This presentation is brought to you by Akamai Technologies, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 2] The fundamentals of AWS cloud security (SEC205-R2)	SEC	205	SEC205	The services that make up AWS are many and varied, but the set of concepts you need to secure your data and infrastructure is simple and straightforward. By the end of this session, you know the fundamental patterns that you can apply to secure any workload you run in AWS with confidence. We cover the basics of network security, the process of reading and writing access management policies, and data encryption.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Running tests in simulation with AWS RoboMaker (ROB301-R1)	ROB	301	ROB301	In this session, we dive deep into how AWS RoboMaker simulation works, and discuss customer use cases. We demonstrate how you can use AWS RoboMaker simulation to manage your continuous integration / continuous deployment pipeline to build your robotics applications. This is followed by a presentation and demo by iRobot.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Smart meters, data lakes, and serverless for Utilities (PNU301)				In this session, we review the business drivers, benefits, and technical architecture switching from a legacy meter data system to one based on AWS services. A major EU utility needed to ingest 12.5 billion raw data points from smart meters that generated 288 million messages per day. Learn how they switched from monolith applications based on application servers and relational databases to a reengineered, redesigned serverless application based on AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, and—in its newest version— AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass. We end the session by highlighting lessons learned and benefits gained.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Optum manages transient developer accounts at scale (OPN305)	OPN	305	OPN305	Disposable Cloud Environment (DCE) is an open-source account management product used to facilitate public cloud experimentation in isolated sandbox environments. It automatically provisions and recycles public cloud accounts while implementing duration and financial controls to manage usage and security risks. As a Fortune 500 enterprise, Optum uses DCE to empower its tens of thousands of engineers to explore public cloud services and resources while mitigating business risk. Learn more about Optum’s use of DCE in this session.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] BPF performance analysis at Netflix (OPN303-R1)	OPN	303	OPN303	Extended BPF (eBPF) is an open-source Linux technology that powers a whole new class of software: mini programs that run on events. Among its many uses, BPF can be used to create powerful performance-analysis tools capable of analyzing everything: CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, languages, applications, and more. In this session, Netflix's Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing capabilities, including many new open-source performance analysis tools he developed for his new book "BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability." The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Zalando runs Kubernetes clusters at scale on AWS (OPN211)	OPN	211	OPN211	Many clusters, many problems? Having many clusters has benefits: reduced blast radius, less vertical scaling of cluster components, and a natural trust boundary. In this session, Zalando shows its approach for running 140+ clusters on AWS, how it does continuous delivery for its cluster infrastructure, and how it created open-source tooling to manage cost efficiency and improve developer experience. The company openly shares its failures and the learnings collected during three years of Kubernetes in production.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using open source to re-architect monolithic applications (OPN210)	OPN	210	OPN210	Learn how the Verizon Operations Automation team was able to take a monolithic .NET, SSRS, and SQL Server application and re-deploy it in AWS utilizing only open source solutions. To comply with data governance and SOX compliance requirements, the application was re-architected to include only the reporting modules, optimized for AWS, and moved to CentOS EC2 and Amazon RDS MySQL. Required .NET code was kept in-tact, stored procedures updated, schemas converted with AWS Schema Conversion Tool, data was migrated, and 19 on-premise servers were migrated to single EC2 and RDS instances with Auto-scaling Groups.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Monitoring anomalous application behavior (NFX205)	NFX	205	NFX205	AWS CloudTrail provides a wealth of information on your AWS environment. In addition, teams can use it to perform basic anomaly detection by adding state. In this talk, Travis McPeak of Netflix and Will Bengtson introduce a system built strictly with off-the-shelf AWS components that tracks CloudTrail activity across multi-account environments and sends alerts when applications perform anomalous actions. By watching applications for anomalous actions, security and operations teams can monitor unusual and erroneous behavior. We share everything attendees need to implement CloudTrail in their own organizations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: More data science with less engineering: ML infrastructure at Netflix (NFX201)	NFX	201	NFX201	Netflix is known for its unique culture that gives an extraordinary amount of freedom to individual engineers and data scientists. Our data scientists are expected to develop and operate large machine learning workflows autonomously without the need to be deeply experienced with systems or data engineering. Instead, we provide them with delightfully usable ML infrastructure that they can use to manage a project's lifecycle. Our end-to-end ML infrastructure, Metaflow, was designed to leverage the strengths of AWS: elastic compute; high-throughput storage; and dynamic, scalable notebooks. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Innovation and operation of the AWS global network infrastructure (NET339)	NET	339	NET339	In this session, we take a look inside the cloud to share how we build, operate, and innovate around the underlying infrastructure of the AWS global backbone. We start with an Amazon EC2 instance and the host it runs on and move through its high-bandwidth connection to the datacenter infrastructure out to other Availability Zones, regions, and the internet. We also discuss the automatic encryption of all traffic on the AWS global and regional networks between AWS secured facilities along with how we extensively use our own services, such as Amazon CloudWatch, to monitor, alarm, and automatically remediate any issues found on the network.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Enabling automated astrophysics with AWS Ground Station (NET308-R1)	NET	308	NET308	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) IT Chief Technology Officer, Tom Soderstrom, presents a demonstration of automated scheduling with AWS Ground Station and a NASA JPL satellite. The satellite, ASTERIA, used for this demonstration was designed in collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA JPL. AWS Ground Station connects antenna systems to cloud technologies so that researchers and scientists can automate their projects in space.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What everyone should know about hybrid cloud networking (NET214-S)	NET	214	NET214	Shift your thinking about hybrid cloud networking. In this session, amplify your knowledge of simplifying network connectivity and segmentation through a policy-driven automation framework. Get answers for scalable architectures, which enable common use cases such as cloud migration, cloud bursting, business continuity, and disaster recovery. A live demo showcases Cisco’s flagship SDN solution, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. This session also includes details about enabling a consistent management model in hybrid cloud environments, including integration with third-party services like firewalls and load balancers. Finally, learn how to deploy, manage, and operate a hybrid cloud environment while meeting common governance and compliance mandates. This presentation is brought to you by Cisco Systems, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: True stories: Digital business innovations on AWS (NET213-S)	NET	213	NET213	In this session, Dave Shacochis, VP of hybrid IT product management at CenturyLink, leads a discussion with cross-industry technology leaders, focusing on success stories about AWS solutions that enable business innovation. You also get to learn from this panel of experts as they dive deep and discuss the AWS and network architecture that powers re:Invent. This presentation is brought to you by CenturyLink, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 2] AWS networking fundamentals (NET201-R2)	NET	201	NET201	In this session, we walk through the fundamentals of Amazon VPC. First, we cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPCs, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We then transition to different approaches and use cases for connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This mid-level architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks that AWS makes available with Amazon VPC. Learn how you can connect VPCs with your offices and current data center footprint.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Bring machine learning to mobile and progressive web apps (MOB403-R1)	MOB	403	MOB403	No machine-learning experience? No problem. The new Amplify Framework "Predictions" category lets you add AI/ML use cases to your mobile and progressive web apps with only a few lines of code. Learn how to add capabilities that keep your users engaged with exciting content by leveraging powerful services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Polly.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] How to ensure configuration compliance (MGT303-R1)	MGT	303	MGT303	In this session, we dig into how to govern and monitor your expanding AWS services and accounts using AWS management and governance features and services such as AWS Config rules, AWS CloudFormation drift detection, and AWS Systems Manager State Manager. We also describe how these features and services help you maintain compliance within your AWS stack at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cox Automotive uses PagerDuty to speed up DevOps & cloud innovation (MGT204-S)	MGT	204	MGT204	In 2018, Cox Automotive—parent company of brands like Autotrader, Dealer.com, and Kelley Blue Book—announced that it was all-in on AWS. But fully migrating to the cloud doesn’t only mean rearchitecting applications to take advantage of increased agility. It also signals a cultural shift: one that requires engineers to take responsibility for their code and be able to execute an effective, fast incident response across multiple teams. In this session, hear how Cox Automotive uses PagerDuty to accelerate incident response mobilization, improve communication in the moments that matter, and fundamentally drive culture change to reflect high-velocity innovation. This presentation is brought to you by PagerDuty, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Electronic design automation: Scaling EDA workflows (MFG304)	MFG	304	MFG304	Semiconductor product development is constantly pushing the boundaries of physics to meet power, performance, and area (PPA) requirements for silicon devices. Electronic design automation (EDA) workflows, from RTL to GDSII, require that scale-out architectures keep up with the constantly changing semiconductor design process. In this session, we discuss deployment tools and methods, and use cases, for running the entire EDA workflow on AWS. Using customer examples, we show how AWS can improve performance, meet tape-out windows, and effortlessly scale out to meet unforeseen demand.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building on AWS: The architecture of the Siemens MindSphere platform (MFG202)	MFG	202	MFG202	Siemens is one of the world’s largest industrial manufacturing companies. As part of its strategy of providing digital transformation solutions to realize value across the entire business and embrace Industry 4.0, Siemens built MindSphere, its open Internet of Things (IoT) operating platform hosted on AWS. Driven by automation, IoT, and cloud computing, Siemens can now solve business problems with the data that it collects, analyzes, and monitors. Learn how and why Siemens built MindSphere on AWS, for its own global factories and for its customers, in order to achieve world-class levels of manufacturing efficiency.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Hotstar: Live streaming at record scale (MDS313-R1)	MDS	313	MDS313	Learn how Hotstar has been powering its live sports channels to a world-record live streaming audience. Hotstar has architected its video pipeline that handles close to a thousand hours of live encoding using AWS services like AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and AWS Elemental MediaConnect. Hear about the challenges and solutions needed to manage backend and analytics systems to serve ads at scale to 15 million users, track live streaming usage in real time, and build broadcast-level resiliency into their architecture to handle world-record-level traffic.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Simplify the migration of IoT applications to AWS IoT (IOT341-R1)	IOT	341	IOT341	With the massive growth of connected devices across many verticals, including connected home and manufacturing, multi-tenant services are often used that cater to the needs of use cases such as asset tracking, predictive maintenance, and fleet management. As companies grow, they often find that they spend a disproportionate amount of time managing the increasing volume of device connections and message traffic rather than improving products. In this session, we discuss new capabilities of AWS IoT Core that allow you to easily offload the challenges of scaling connectivity and messaging infrastructure to AWS IoT Core without making substantial changes to your application architecture and with minimal impact to your customers’ devices.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to deliver customer-centric connected-home experiences (IOT313-R1)	IOT	313	IOT313	Connected-home-device manufacturers always seek to provide innovative, more personalized offerings to their customers that weren’t possible prior to IoT. This includes making products smarter over time with machine learning and adding functionality such as voice-enabled AI assistants, mobile apps, and automated reordering of items such as coffee beans or laundry detergent. Adding these capabilities starts with collecting and making sense of massive amounts of device data. In this session, learn how you can use AWS IoT Core with other AWS services to leverage data collected from connected-home products to deliver innovative, customer-centric experiences to your end consumers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Combining IoT and machine learning for predictive maintenance (IOT309-R1)	IOT	309	IOT309	Predictive maintenance captures the state of your devices to identify potential breakdowns before they impact operations, often resulting in an increase in equipment life span. In this session, learn how to progress your IoT journey and move from reactive to proactive with AWS IoT services and AWS machine-learning services. We also teach you how you can train ML models in the cloud and infer at the edge to predict problems faster.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] From testing to scaling (IOT307-R1)	IOT	307	IOT307	Companies create IoT proof of concepts (PoCs) or small tests to fine-tune IoT designs before deploying new technology across a plant or plants. Large-scale deployments present challenges that might not be uncovered during the PoC stage. In this session, we cover the most common challenges companies fall victim to when they move from testing to deployment and how AWS IoT services give customers flexible and scalable solutions that help them scale to meet their IoT needs regardless of the number of devices connected.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Post-launch planning for IoT deployments (IOT210-R1)	IOT	210	IOT210	Your IoT application is live! Now, the real power of IoT is integrating your devices; reasoning atop collected data; and acting—at scale—to realize operational efficiencies, improve customer experiences, and drive better business outcomes. In this session, discover how to manage and iterate upon your IoT deployment while moving from a single device to large-scale deployment, using a range of AWS IoT services from the edge to the cloud. Learn how to manage critical product components like over-the-air updates (OTAs); activate internal management and analytics dashboards; and establish a data-centric, outcomes-focused mindset for smarter architecture decisions as your dataset and fleet grow.
AWS re:Invent 2019: .NET from the ground to the cloud (GPSTEC348)	TEC	348	TEC348	Although this Global Partner Summit workshop is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential members of the AWS Partner Network. Do you have customers who are running a .NET workload in their data centers and thinking about moving it to the cloud but are not sure where to start? Then join this fully loaded session where we discuss different types of .NET applications and the best practices for migrating them to the AWS Cloud. We also cover the benefits of modernizing your applications with .NET Core and running them on Linux containers. In live demos, see how, with only a few clicks, you can migrate a .NET Framework application to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and port .NET Core to AWS Lambda.
AWS re:Invent 2019: HashiCorp Enterprise on AWS best practices (GPSTEC344-R1)	TEC	344	TEC344	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. As customers continue to leverage APN Partners to modernize their internal practices and move them to cloud-native ones, managing their infrastructure as code becomes imperative for long-term success and growth. However, this can be challenging without leveraging tools that can help them transition from on-premises to the cloud. In this session, we discuss best practices for managing infrastructure as code using HashiCorp Terraform and Vault Enterprise at scale on AWS. Learn how to design for re-use, provision modern infrastructure, and implement enterprise security practices—for yourself and your customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Insights into patient health with Amazon Comprehend Medical (GPSTEC341)	TEC	341	TEC341	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In Healthcare, the patient is our end customer. Yet building a holistic view of the patient is often manual, error-prone, and requires integrating siloed information. In this session, we show how patient centricity can be simplified using services like Amazon Comprehend Medical, including features such as protected health information (PHI), relationship extraction, negation, and diagnosis traits. We also show how to enforce data privacy using masking methods on AWS and discuss how you as an APN Partner can take on this challenge.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Get a consumer-based experience of software provisioning (GPSMKT201-R1)	MKT	201	MKT201	In this session, we discuss how you can use AWS Marketplace to help secure your cloud adoption and your new workloads using industry-leading third-party solutions. A representative from Frame.io, a popular video review and collaboration platform, describes how the company uses AWS WAF with Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF from AWS Marketplace to secure, enforce, automate security on AWS. Learn best practices for automating your security in the cloud with the shared responsibility model at AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrations: The opportunity for you and your customers (GPSBUS211)	BUS	211	BUS211	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Migrating to AWS provides strong business opportunity for you and your customers. This session uses customer examples to discuss the drivers exciting your customers to move to AWS, the business benefits to you in helping them make the move, the programs AWS has to support your migration projects, and migration sales and delivery best practices.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerate business innovation with serverless applications (GPSBUS210)				Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Serverless technology allows you to build modern applications with increased agility and lower total cost of ownership. You can focus on product innovation and shorten your time-to-market without worrying about provisioning, maintaining, and scaling servers for backend components such as compute, databases, storage, stream processing, and message queueing. In this session, learn how to start innovating with serverless services like AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Step Functions. We conclude the session with customer stories of accelerating innovation and driving business value with the help of our APN partners.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building the business case for your customers (GPSBUS208)	BUS	208	BUS208	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Transitioning from traditional IT to the cloud unlocks tremendous value for customers, beyond the total cost of ownership (TCO). As your customers consider their next IT investment, they will need help understanding the business value generated by the AWS Cloud. In this breakout session, we introduce the AWS Cloud Value Framework and explain how we can help you build the business case to justify your customers’ cloud investment. A real-world experience from an AWS partner is also featured in this session.
AWS re:Invent 2019: HSBC: Meeting requirements for open banking with serverless (FSI306)				To improve competition, regulators in regions including the UK, Mexico, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia have issued open banking requirements. HSBC has addressed the regulation’s requirements to share customer data with third-party service providers by building a serverless architecture on AWS. This session explores how HSBC embraced APIs and built an open banking solution using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and other AWS Managed Services, including Amazon RDS. Learn how HSBC is using AWS globally to meet open banking requirements and handle the thousands of API calls the bank receives every day.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Monitoring the Earth without costing the world (WPS323)	WPS	323	WPS323	The BlueDot Water Observatory is an Earth-observation-based solution that provides reliable and timely information about surface water levels across the globe. Cost-effective yet reliable solutions for monitoring water resources are needed, as ground-based monitoring networks are often too costly and, in some cases, also unreliable. Sinergise shows how using global satellite imagery available on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) through the AWS Public Dataset Program, combined with an efficient use of services including AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon CloudWatch, you can carry out a global-scale project cheaper than previously possible.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS Educate: Innovation in education (WPS203)	WPS	203	WPS203	Join us for four ten-minute powerful lightning talks from leading higher-education educators on topics related to AWS Educate, education, innovation, voice AI, ML, and deep learning.
AWS re:Invent 2019: A tale of two IT modernization strategies (WPS201)	WPS	201	WPS201	Join us to learn how government agencies are using AWS GovCloud (US) to achieve data center consolidation and optimization goals, and to support IT modernization. This session features the United States' Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Veterans Affairs Enterprise Cloud program. We examine these organizations' unique journeys through enterprise data center consolidation, and how these efforts are influencing application modernization and database management strategies. Topics include database re-platforming, refactoring legacy applications, compliance, technical strategies, implementation, and running operations in the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Infrastructure as .NET with the AWS CDK (WIN310)	WIN	310	WIN310	AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source framework that enables developers to harness the power of familiar programming languages to define reusable cloud components and provision applications with those components. In this session, we quickly cover the basic concepts of AWS CDK, then we live code an application with it in .NET. See how easy it is to configure your cloud resources, manage permissions, connect event sources for our serverless app, and even build and publish your own constructs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Personalizing customer experiences in Travel and Hospitality (TRH202)	TRH	202	TRH202	The Travel and Hospitality industry is extremely competitive, and customers expect a personalized experience at every touch point. From recommendations for the perfect meal to suggestions for the right hotel room, tailored experiences drive higher engagement and loyalty. In this session, you learn how companies, with the help of AWS, are transforming their businesses through personalization. We describe how machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other services can help you leverage data and insights to “wow” your consumers at every stage of their journeys. Walk away with tangible knowledge, whether you're looking to level-up your personalized offerings or you’re just getting started.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Travel and Hospitality (TRH201-L)	TRH	201	TRH201	In the Travel and Hospitality industry, competition and customer expectations are greater than ever. AWS is helping industry leaders stay relevant and gain a competitive edge by delivering guest experiences that delight customers. Hear how businesses in the industry are turning big data into actionable customer insights and are creating guest experiences that are both more connected and personal, all while saving time and money. No matter which part of the industry you touch, you walk away from this session with both inspiration and techniques to increase customer engagement and loyalty.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Zero to cloud: BT’s CCOE challenges, solutions, and patterns (TLC304)	TLC	304	TLC304	In December 2018, British Telecom selected AWS as its preferred provider of cloud services and has adopted AWS in many parts of its enterprise. In this session, we walk through the path that the British Telecom Cloud Center of Excellence has taken, from building a landing zone that incorporates BT’s security and governance requirements leveraging AWS to implementing design patterns and unique hybrid scenarios—and what BT’s considerations were along the way. BT also demonstrates how it’s using its internal communications to drive the platform as a product and enable its teams to move to the public cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Join T-Mobile in a rapid cloud-native journey (TLC205-L)	TLC	205	TLC205	Learn how T-Mobile embraced the AWS Cloud to improve business agility, enhance development approaches, transform a culture, and humanize the customer experience. Hear T-Mobile’s story around how they transformed a complete business ecosystem into a public and cloud-native reality.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Asynchronous-processing best practices with AWS Lambda (SVS406-R1)	SVS	406	SVS406	Waiting around for your workload to finish is expensive, and controlling the flow of traffic to protect your precious system is hard. AWS Lambda event invocations provide both an event-driven compute solution as well as an asynchronous traffic driver—but the "asynchronous at scale" part is its own particular beast. In this session, learn how Lambda does asynchronous processing and best practices around using it. We also dive into key features to help you better monitor and control that asynchronous traffic.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Networking best practices for serverless applications (SVS404-R1)				Serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda have removed the burden of server management, but what about networking? When should you put a Lambda in an Amazon VPC? How do you balance security vs. the flexibility offered by Lambda? What are the best practices for working with private endpoints, NATs, and peering? In this session, we go over the best practices of working with Lambda functions from a networking perspective. We talk about how networking impacts performance and cost and how to make sure that your network design allows for scale and meeting strict security concerns.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Best practices for AWS Lambda and Java (SVS403-R1)	SVS	403	SVS403	In this session, we follow a customer’s journey as they optimize an AWS Lambda function written in Java to meet their cold start time requirements. We start from a simple yet slow PoC and walk through all of the changes, tricks, and trade-offs we made to reduce the cold start time by over 70%. Finally, we explore new technologies such as Quarkus and GraalVM that can make Java even faster in Lambda.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Building microservices with AWS Lambda (SVS343-R1)	SVS	343	SVS343	Many developers have become familiar with building microservices on traditional compute offerings such as virtual machines and containers, but what about serverless? The "functions as a service" model behind AWS Lambda presents a number of unique differences while still providing many benefits that make it a strong fit for microservices-based architectures. In this session, we talk about mapping microservices-based architectures to Lambda's event model. You learn how to think about the bounds of functions and their alignment to the services represented. We then cover patterns that enable rapid development and easier testing. Walk away ready to build your next microservice with AWS Lambda.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Serverless at scale: Design patterns and optimizations (SVS335-R1)				You’ve built your first serverless application, and it works beautifully. As traffic increases, you might discover that small changes make a big difference in performance or cost. In this session, we explore the common challenges that customers encounter at scale with early serverless architectures and the approaches to optimize them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Storage for hybrid cloud and edge computing: Bring AWS to you (STG213)	STG	213	STG213	If you want to use cloud storage, but still have applications in a data center, or remote field operations that require computing and storage capabilities, this session is for you. In it, we explain the services that can make AWS storage a seamless extension of your existing on-premises infrastructure and application investments to support business operations almost anywhere in the world. Get educated on the continuum of capabilities that you can choose to bring to your site, including AWS Outposts storage options, AWS Storage Gateway, AWS Snowball Edge, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] An in-depth tour of AWS SAM (SVS341-R1)	SVS	341	SVS341	In this session, we take a tour of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and the AWS SAM CLI. We go beyond the surface of AWS SAM resources and AWS SAM CLI commands and show you how to use them to build quality applications. We cover customized application templates for sharing best practices in your organization, best practices for testing and deploying, IAM policy design, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] CI/CD for serverless applications (SVS336-R1)				As developers have migrated to building serverless applications, they often wonder what has to change about their CI/CD workflows. The answer, not much. In this session, we break down how to think about CI/CD when building with serverless technologies such AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. We cover using technologies like AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to build CI/CD pipelines for serverless applications. We also demonstrate how you can take advantage of technologies like canary deployments, pre-traffic hooks, post-traffic hooks, and alerts to perform safe deployments of your serverless applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] The serverless journey of shop.LEGO.com (SVS320-R1)				Connecting the LEGO play experience with millions of people requires an innovative platform. This has fueled the cloud migration of the legacy e-commerce application. In this session, we walk you through the principles, the approach, the learnings, and of course the serverless technologies that made the vision a reality. We cover multiple real-world use cases such as the integration of the e-commerce platform with the tax system, and the implementation of an event-streaming platform.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Serverless stream processing pipeline best practices (SVS317-R1)				Streaming data pipelines are increasingly used to replace batch processing with real-time decision-making for use cases including log processing, real-time monitoring, data lake analytics, and machine learning. Join this session to learn how to leverage Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda to solve real-time ingestion, processing, storage, and analytics challenges. We introduce design patterns and best practices as well as share a customer journey in building large-scale real-time serverless analytics capabilities.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Powering digital billboards with serverless (SVS209-S)				Digital billboards are everywhere from buildings to signs to transit stops. Place Exchange, a prominent auction platform for digital billboards, runs over 50,000 concurrent auctions 24/7 for placements on connected billboards in the world’s largest cities. In this talk, the Place Exchange team shares the challenges of managing, monitoring, and scaling a hybrid environment of edge devices all powered by a 100 percent serverless auction platform. This presentation is brought to you by Datadog, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using Amazon EMR to build a Spark ecosystem at Opendoor (STP302)	STP	302	STP302	In this session, you learn how Opendoor, an online home-buying and selling service, manages medium-sized real estate data using Spark. The session covers the journey from in-house data processing solutions using Kubernetes to benchmark against providers, such as Amazon EMR and Databricks, to migrating to Amazon EMR to achieve a balance of cost and performance. As a cost-conscious startup with heavy data processing needs, Opendoor had to balance cost, performance, availability, and developer experiences when designing its ETL and machine learning platform. This session focuses on how Opendoor optimized its data workflow by migrating Spark workloads from Kubernetes to Amazon EMR.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Personal Capital: Lessons from a year with Amazon EKS (STP301)	STP	301	STP301	Personal Capital is an online financial advisor and wealth management company. In this session, learn how the company went from one week of development and one week of testing to multiple releases per day, and along the way significantly increased its team's productivity using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Specifically, hear how managed Kubernetes let Personal Capital focus on its core financial business, how the company built a true engineering DevOps team, and how byproducts of Kubernetes on AWS helped.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Coinbase handles incident management by leveraging AWS (STP207)	STP	207	STP207	Coinbase strives to be the most trusted digital currency exchange, making reliability and security top priorities. However, this doesn't mean that Coinbase is incident-free. As the cryptocurrency space evolves, the company inevitably faces new engineering challenges. In this talk, Coinbase walks you through the way the infrastructure team uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon SES to build Misato, the incident bot that helps coordinate, monitor, and improve incident response in the organization. Learn how Coinbase made incident processing as user-friendly as possible—from creating an incident to reviewing a postmortem document.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Flexport: Using AI/ML to make global shipping easy (STP202)	STP	202	STP202	The global shipping market is valued at more than $1 trillion. Flexport is trying to disrupt this industry by using the latest technology to automate processes that haven’t changed in decades. In this session, learn how Flexport is using AI/ML (Amazon Textract and Amazon SageMaker) to process a wide range of documents that are required to move goods from one part of the world to another, and also how the company is building a knowledge graph around logistics to improve every shipment its customers make.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon S3 & FSx for Lustre: Dive on high-performance file storage (STG307-R1)	STG	307	STG307	A technical deep dive into the Amazon FSx for Lustre service that provides customers a fully managed high-performance file system optimized for workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). In this session, data scientists, researchers, and system administrators learn how to launch a file system that allows applications to access data at hundreds of gigabytes per second with sub-millisecond latencies, allowing them to rapidly process large data stored on long-term data stores like Amazon S3 or on-premises filers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Guidelines and design patterns for optimizing cost in Amazon S3 (STG240-R2)	STG	240	STG240	Effective cost optimization across Amazon S3 storage classes can require different approaches, depending on application latency and access patterns. In this session, we review key cost optimization guidelines for storing data in both synchronous and asynchronous storage classes. We also share design patterns for common Amazon S3 workloads to help you optimize for cost while meeting workload performance requirements.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using AWS KMS for data protection, access control, and audit (SEC340-R1)	SEC	340	SEC340	This session focuses on how customers are using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to raise the bar for security and compliance with their workloads. Along with a detailed explanation of how AWS KMS fits into the AWS suite of services, we walk you through popular and sophisticated examples of how AWS KMS can be deployed in the context of access control, separation of duties, data protection, and auditability. We also cover the latest developments in AWS KMS functionality that will further expand the range of use cases to include additional cryptographic capabilities and system integrations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Zoom scales security capabilities with Splunk and AWS (SEC329-S)	SEC	329	SEC329	Scaling in a predictable and cost-effective way is a priority for most organizations. This was the case for Zoom Video Communications, which needed a platform to ingest its security data in order to reduce blind spots in a cost-effective manner. In this session, learn how Zoom leveraged Splunk’s root cause investigation and predictive analytics capabilities to help secure its AWS environment, monitor its applications and infrastructure, and predict potential security risks before they happen. This presentation is brought to you by Splunk, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Threat management in the cloud: Amazon GuardDuty & AWS Security Hub (SEC206-R1)	SEC	206	SEC206	Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub in tandem provide continuous visibility, compliance, and detection of threats for AWS accounts and workloads. Amazon GuardDuty enables customers to achieve continuous security monitoring to detect threats in the cloud. AWS Security Hub enables customers to continuously monitor their environment using automated compliance checks based on AWS best practices and industry standards. In this session, we introduce you to Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub and walk you through the detection of an event; aggregation; prioritization of security findings; and the identification of possible remediation actions and other responses.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Embracing the next wave of digital transformation via smart robots (ROB202)	ROB	202	ROB202	For over a decade, cloud-enabled digital transformation has remade industries and powered innovation to greatly benefit enterprises and consumers. In this session, learn how AWS customers in industries as diverse of Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Oil & Gas are incorporating robots into their next-generation solutions. Come learn how AWS services such AWS RoboMaker, AWS IoT Core, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Rekognition are being used to fundamentally transform work and improve outcomes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Will your infrastructure support your ML initiatives? (OPN202-S)	OPN	202	OPN202	As a developer, do you want to ensure that your infrastructure sizing and constraints support using machine learning (ML) to build predictive and prescriptive applications? In this session, we explore how open-source Project Flogo and AWS Lambda can set you free! Further, we explore a brand new, open-source specification and implementation that tackles the dev-focused issues around real-time data transformation and feature engineering for the ML models that you are looking to embrace. This presentation is brought to you by TIBCO Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Building serverless micro frontends at the edge (NET310-R1)				Your users expect a fast and dynamic web experience, but this can be a challenge when you have thousands of users across the globe. How can you balance low-latency delivery and content personalization while scaling seamlessly to meet user demand? In this session, learn how to use Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge to personalize your website, harden its security, and do canary releases and agile deployments. Hear from DAZN, a global sports streaming platform, about how it built serverless micro frontends on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Advanced VPC design and new capabilities for Amazon VPC (NET305-R1)	NET	305	NET305	Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to have complete control over your AWS virtual networking environment. Given this control, have you ever wondered how new Amazon VPC features might affect the way you design your AWS networking infrastructure, or even change existing architectures that you use today? In this session, we explore the new design and capabilities of Amazon VPC and how you might use them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build data-driven mobile and web apps with AWS AppSync (MOB402)	MOB	402	MOB402	Great mobile and web apps deliver uncompromising user experiences both online and offline. Find out how to use AWS AppSync and other AWS services to build apps that leverage all of your data, regardless of user connectivity. Also, learn ways to use the delta sync pattern; we also discuss new AWS AppSync features.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Modernizing pharmaceutical manufacturing with IoT and AI/ML (MFG203)	MFG	203	MFG203	In this session, learn how to use AWS IoT, AI/ML, and data analytics services to build a connected, intelligent biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain environment. Hear from Moderna Therapeutics, a “born in the cloud” pharma company that constructed a 200,000-square-foot Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)–compliant manufacturing facility utilizing SAP S/4HANA and AWS services to facilitate a “batch of one”; it recently won the ISPE Facility of the Future Award. Learn how to incorporate AWS IoT and AWS AI/ML while maintaining the automated guardrails necessary for the creation and maintenance of regulated workloads following GMP and other industry standards and ISOs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Automate your security on AWS (MKT204)	MKT	204	MKT204	In this session, we discuss how you can deliver secure and compliant code within a high-performing DevOps environment. Additionally, a representative from Cimpress, a world leader in mass customization that is primarily powered by AWS, describes the company’s journey from long release cycles to rapid on-demand deployments of microservices with integrated security and compliance controls. Learn best practices for using third-party solutions to meet security and compliance requirements while maintaining agility.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Master your security in the cloud (MKT201-R1)	MKT	201	MKT201	In this session, we discuss how you can help secure each stage of your cloud adoption with third-party solutions. Learn best practices to automate your security in the cloud with the shared responsibility model at AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: WarnerMedia/HBO’s cloud-based linear playout system (MDS301)	MDS	301	MDS301	In this session, HBO presents its file-based broadcast-channel playout system. Due to high-profile content such as Game of Thrones, the system provides three paths of resiliency for broadcast, including affiliate delivery plus an emergency workflow that includes remote access. HBO has also designed its system to auto-failover between on-premises and cloud playout including dual AWS Direct Connect paths. The system leverages the broad library of HBO assets stored in Amazon S3, enabling playout on-demand.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cultures of belonging: Workplace diversity, equity, & inclusion (MDS203-S)	MDS	203	MDS203	Leaders today need to unite and engage a workforce across shifting demographics, including age, race, gender, sexual orientation, education level, and background. They must create inclusive spaces for women of color, veterans, people with disabilities, and more. This discussion explores how leading with authenticity and empathy is critical to creating inclusive workplaces for all. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: A brief overview of new launches for Korean customers (KOR201)	KOR	201	KOR201	In this session, we deliver a brief overview of the latest news about AWS products and services introduced during the re:Invent keynote sessions for our Korean customers who are interested in innovating their local businesses in the cloud. Join us to explore how to impact your business and technical roadmap in the Seoul Region. Note that this session is delivered only in Korean.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transforming automotive manufacturing with Volkswagen (IOT339)	IOT	339	IOT339	IoT is transforming and modernizing the industrial sector to improve performance, productivity, and efficiency. The digital production platform (DPP) is a cloud platform built using AWS IoT’s broad and deep catalog of services, including machine learning, analytics, and compute services. In this session, discover how Volkswagen and AWS use the DPP to accelerate connectivity and optimize production plants by providing a common set of shared services, including plant/device connectivity, data management and governance, and integration with existing industrial and enterprise systems. You also learn how this can be achieved through a comprehensive platform spanning public cloud and on-premises AWS IoT deployments.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Facebook deployed Amazon WorkSpaces globally (EUC404)	EUC	404	EUC404	Learn how enterprises like Facebook deploy and manage Amazon WorkSpaces at scale. Dive deep into Facebook’s technical deployment from start to finish, and walk through key Amazon WorkSpaces features that can benefit your enterprise’s global deployment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Modernize your contact center with machine learning (EUC214-R1)	EUC	214	EUC214	Your contact center drives customer retention, brand perception, and operating costs for your business. This breakout session shows you how you can modernize quality management and optimize your customer interactions with speech analytics powered by AWS machine learning. You will leave this session with next steps for achieving high-quality customer interactions and an understanding of the contact center solutions we offer.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating .NET frameworks to the cloud (DOP321)	DOP	321	DOP321	Learn how to migrate your .NET application to AWS with minimal steps. In this demo-heavy session, we share best practices for migrating a three-tiered application on ASP.NET and SQL Server to AWS. Throughout the process, you get to see how AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio can enable you to fully leverage AWS services such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, modernizing your application for more agile and flexible development.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)	DAT	403	DAT403	This technical session is for advanced users of Amazon DynamoDB. The patterns and data models discussed in this presentation summarize a collection of implementations and best practices used by large customers—including Amazon retail businesses—to deliver highly scalable solutions for a wide variety of business problems. We delve into strategies for global secondary index sharding and index overloading, scalable graph processing with materialized queries, relational modeling with composite keys, executing transactional workflows on DynamoDB, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Improving observability of your containers (CON328-R1)	CON	328	CON328	With CloudWatch Container Insights, FireLens, and AWS App Mesh working across Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Fargate, customers now have the tools to gain visibility into their deployments across environments. In this session, we dive deep into an architecture that enables the company to have a unified view across containers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deliver high performance ML inference with AWS Inferentia (CMP324-R1)	CMP	324	CMP324	Customers across diverse industries are defining entirely new categories of products and experiences by running intelligent applications that use ML at the core. These applications are becoming more expensive to run in production. AWS Inferentia is a custom-built machine learning inference chip designed to provide high throughput, low latency inference performance at an extremely low cost. Each chip provides hundreds of TOPS of inference throughput to allow complex models to make fast predictions. Join this session to see the latest developments using AWS Inferentia and how they can lower your inference costs in the future.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Dive deep on how to save with AWS Savings Plans (CMP210-R1)	CMP	210	CMP210	Savings Plans is a new flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72 percent on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate usage. Savings Plans offers significant savings over On Demand, just like Reserved Instances, but automatically reduces your bills on compute usage across any AWS Region, even as your usage changes. Savings Plans provides you the flexibility to use the compute option that best suits your needs and continues to save money, all without having to perform exchanges or modifications. Attend this session to learn how you can easily save money on your compute spend. We walk you through a demo of Savings Plans recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer and different considerations for signing up for Savings Plans.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build an in-place Amazon S3 data lake with MongoDB Atlas (ANT240-S)	ANT	240	ANT240	Companies are increasingly turning to Amazon S3 as a storage layer for building data lakes, since on-premises solutions struggle with schema management, custom development, and operations burdens. Amazon S3 is a cost-effective option for storing an enormous quantity of disparate, complex data, but querying requires further work. Leveraging the natural fit of the MongoDB Query Language, MongoDB Atlas Data Lake intelligently distributes query execution to analyze Amazon S3 documents in place without the need to transfer data or define schema. With a live demonstration and market examples, learn how to build your data lake where your data already lives. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Sophos: Build security solutions using Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ANT203)	ANT	203	ANT203	As a leader in building security solutions, Sophos knows that simple security is better security. In this talk, learn how the company has applied these same principles to developing a large-scale security monitoring and alerting system leveraging Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) and other AWS components. They also share why Amazon ES is well suited for security use cases, and cover best practices, lessons learned, and how to design for scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Powering global-scale predictive intelligence using HPC on AWS (AIM227-S)	AIM	227	AIM227	Learn how Maxar and Descartes Labs run complex, global-scale models on Amazon EC2 instances powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Maxar discusses its experience setting up an operational HPC cluster to run global numerical weather prediction models, obtaining performance that eclipses the speed of the NOAA bare-metal supercomputer. Descartes Labs shows how its platform enables hyper-scale object detection on satellite imagery accelerated by Intel AVX-512 instructions. It also shares its experience deploying tightly coupled HPC applications that use spot blocks at many-thousand processor scale, using HPC clusters built on AWS instances and powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Venerable accelerates its modernization journey with AWS (ENT234-S)	ENT	234	ENT234	Venerable, a newly created annuity company, manages $34B of assets for closed block variable annuity and $19B of fixed and fixed indexed annuity liabilities. As a young company, Venerable made a strategic decision to migrate two complex policy administration systems and its entire ecosystem to the cloud. In this session, learn how Venerable migrated 60+ business-critical applications and set up more than 72 interfaces on AWS in less than 18 months so that today, 100 percent of Venerable’s business systems and operations run on AWS. Also, learn how Cognizant helped Venerable modernize its core systems while accelerating its transformation journey. This presentation is brought to you by Cognizant, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Increase business value through modernization (ENT226)	ENT	226	ENT226	Many enterprises execute modernization initiatives to leverage modern technologies and create new customer experiences. However, many stall mid-journey because they lack a clear strategy and execution path, often replicating the challenges of their on-premises environment on the cloud. Attend this session to learn why an enterprise-wide modernization makes sense, what may be the anti-patterns, and how the five-point success strategy for modernization that AWS has devised helps hundreds of enterprises conduct successful modernizations and increases business value.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Executing a large-scale migration to AWS (ENT218-R1)	ENT	218	ENT218	AWS has partnered with hundreds of customers in their large-scale migration to the AWS Cloud. In this session, you will learn best practices from enterprises at different stages of their have faced during large-scale migrations and how they overcame them. You will also learn the patterns that make migrations successful and the mechanisms we created to help our customers migrate and transform faster.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Strategies for securing code in the cloud and on premises (DOP320-R1)	DOP	320	DOP320	Some people prefer to keep their code and tooling on premises, though this can create headaches and slow teams down. Others prefer keeping code off of laptops that can be misplaced. In this session, we walk through the alternatives and recommend best practices for securing your code in cloud and on-premises environments. We demonstrate how to use services such as Amazon WorkSpaces to keep code secure in the cloud. We also show how to connect tools such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and AWS CodeBuild with your on-premises environments so that your teams can go fast while keeping your data off of the public internet.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Network orchestration for your cloud environment (DEM49-S)	DEM	49	DEM49	As enterprises modernize applications on the cloud, the network plays an important part in determining a smooth transformation. Cloud solutions allow for increased virtualization and efficiency, and the network is no exception. Networks historically ensure connectivity from each site to multiple data centers. Now the application flow is to the cloud, not to data centers. Interconnectivity must be sized and dynamically created, enabling the power of the cloud to get to multiple destinations. The network must shift from a manual to a fully automated and orchestrated environment. Join us to learn how IBM Cloud Network Intelligent Control Center enables enterprises to attain an agile cloud hybrid network. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running SAP applications on AWS, managed and optimized by IBM (DEM47-S)	DEM	47	DEM47	If you are considering moving your SAP applications or S/4HANA to AWS, then this is the session for you. Come learn how AWS and IBM have collaborated to provide an end-to-end managed SAP applications solution. You see how the solution makes use of pre-packaged industry templates and automation that increase the speed of migration and go-lives. You also see the one-of-a-kind applications management portal that gives you real-time visibility into performance and capacity and allows for ticketing and historical as well as predictive reporting. Finally, learn how SAP data can be integrated with cloud-native applications to deliver exceptional customer experience. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Intuit's journey to the cloud: Protecting native AWS services (DEM20-S)	DEM	20	DEM20	Intuit has adopted a cloud-first strategy with the aim of driving IT simplicity, and it is all-in on native AWS services. In this session, Justin Stottlemyer, chief architect at Intuit, highlights the challenges and strategies of providing enterprise data protection for AWS workloads. Charles Goforth, cloud sales engineer at Clumio, walks through a live demonstration of how Clumio empowers enterprises to centrally manage the backup policies and compliance statuses for native AWS services. This presentation is brought to you by Clumio, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five data lake considerations w/ Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 & AWS Glue (DEM19-S)	DEM	19	DEM19	Building a data lake can be a headache. More often than not, they end up becoming data swamps—bottomless pits that suck up development resources and obscure data transparency. But when done correctly, data lakes can be valuable wells of knowledge that transform your business. Join Etleap and the Amazon Redshift team as we take a deep dive into the issues that plague data lake creators. We give you five refreshing pointers for keeping the development workload sustainable and ensuring data usability for the long term. This presentation is brought to you by Etleap, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS SAM toolkit: Build, test & debug your serverless applications (DEM158)				In this demo, we take a tour of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and the AWS SAM CLI. Learn how to use AWS SAM and the AWS SAM CLI to declaratively express, build, and deploy your serverless applications. We also share best practices for using the AWS SAM CLI for local testing and debugging AWS Lambda functions and Amazon API Gateway, right from your favorite IDE and preferred development workflow.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Upgrading AWS Glue to use AWS Lake Formation permissions (DEM149)	DEM	149	DEM149	In this demo, learn how to upgrade to use AWS Lake Formation permissions. We start with a simple data lake that has fine-grained access control on the AWS Glue Data Catalog using AWS Identity and Access Management policies. We then upgrade to using Lake Formation permissions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility (DAT321-R1)	DAT	321	DAT321	Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. With Aurora, we've completely reimagined how databases are built for the cloud, providing higher performance, availability, and durability than previously possible. In this session, we dive deep into the architectural details of Aurora with MySQL compatibility and review recent innovations, such as parallel query, backtrack, serverless, and multi-master. You also hear from Nintendo and DeNA about how they built the popular mobile game Mario Kart Tour with Aurora MySQL.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running Kubernetes clusters at scale: Bird (CON330)	CON	330	CON330	Launched in fall 2017, Bird is a micromobility company that enables access to shared e-scooters and lightweight electric vehicles in 100+ locations worldwide. Join us to hear how building a modern stack on top of Amazon EKS has enabled Bird to quickly ramp up its development in order to provide business value in a stable and secure manner. Further, learn how Bird’s backend utilizes native AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon SQS, open-source streaming systems like Kafka and Flink, and a modern microservices architecture to turn terabytes of geospatial data into the mobility revolution of the future.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Ticketmaster runs Kubernetes for 80% less without managing VMs (CON308-S)	CON	308	CON308	Serverless containers are the future of containers infrastructure. Matching and scaling the right infrastructure resource to ever-changing microservices deployments is a challenge. In this talk, the Ticketmaster engineering team reviews the evolution of containers deployments and the automatic scaling of infrastructure in Kubernetes. They discuss the tradeoffs and introduce a new approach to deploying serverless containers using Spotinst Ocean. Join this session to learn how Ticketmaster was able to run 100 percent of its Amazon EC2 on Spot Instances with programmatic fallback to On-Demand Instances or Reserved Instances across multiple AWS accounts. This presentation is brought to you by Spotinst, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Running Kubernetes at Amazon scale using Amazon EKS (CON212-R1)	CON	212	CON212	Amazon.com has built a hosted infrastructure on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to power part of the shopping experience that delights tens of millions of shoppers. During this session, we dive into the details of how Amazon EKS empowers a small team to own this highly available, multi-tenant solution. We explore how using Amazon EKS helped move the needle on agility for developers and innovation for shoppers. Finally, we dive into how this hosted platform enables Amazon.com developers to focus on building great shopping experiences and remain blissfully ignorant of changes happening at the infrastructure level.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Beyond five 9s: Lessons from our highest available data planes (ARC349-R1)	ARC	349	ARC349	Every AWS service is designed to be highly available, but a small number of what we call Tier 0 services get extra-special attention. Come hear lessons from how AWS has built and architected Amazon Route 53 and the AWS authentication system, designed to survive cataclysmic failures, enormous load increases, and more. We cover our approach to redundancy and resilience at the infrastructure, software, and team levels, and we get into how the teams tasked with keeping the internet running manage themselves and still keep up with the pace of change that AWS customers demand.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] How Goldman Sachs minimizes the impact of managing events (ARC338-R1)	ARC	338	ARC338	The operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes guidance and best practices on operating in the cloud. Join our talk as representatives from Goldman Sachs share how the company applied these best practices to reduce the impact of events and the level of effort they extended to manage them. They also discuss how they enabled their operations teams to safely do more by establishing the standards for operations that enable them to scale as new projects enter the cloud. Learn how AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter can support your situational awareness and event response, enabling you to view, investigate, and remediate operational issues presented with contextually relevant data.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Teradata uses AWS to power enterprise analytics (ANT241-S)	ANT	241	ANT241	Teradata is cloud-first in all development for enterprise analytics and is an early adopter of native services, such as AWS PrivateLink, Amazon EKS, and AWS KMS. With Vantage on AWS, each customer gets a dedicated VPC managed by Teradata in which SQL, machine learning, and graph analytics operate across a common high-speed data fabric with Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Hadoop, Oracle, and more. In this session, learn how Teradata works with AWS and simplifies how customers can get a secure, scalable solution for finding answers to complex problems using any tool, any language, and all their data at scale. This presentation is brought to you by Teradata, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon.com: Enterprise database migration at scale (AMZ301)	AMZ	301	AMZ301	Amazon.com has a long history in data. To reduce scaling risks and third-party dependencies it chose AWS database services like Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). In this session, you learn how it focused on critical, customer-facing services that include the Amazon consumer and digital businesses’ largest database workloads. Learn how Amazon.com achieved database freedom with AWS. Additional topics include lessons learned, benefits realized, and how Amazon.com delivers the biggest peak retail events such as Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Choice and innovation for SAP customers (GPSBUS209)	BUS	209	BUS209	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Join us in this session to learn how thousands of customers have benefited from choice and innovation by running their SAP solutions on AWS. Discover the benefits that your customers can achieve with SAP on AWS, including TCO reduction, increased efficiencies, agility and flexibility, and the ability to explore and transform SAP S/HANA at their own pace. Also learn how your customers can accelerate innovation with AWS native services, including IoT, AI/ML, and data lake solutions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Nasdaq: From data warehouse to data lake (FSI304)	FSI	304	FSI304	Earlier this year, Nasdaq embarked on a strategy to migrate its growing 68-node Amazon Redshift data warehouse to a more modern data lake architecture with the goal of better managing expenses and taking advantage of additional analytical services. In this session, we share the path Nasdaq took, what worked well, what challenges we encountered, and how and why we had to rewrite queries and rethink our initial strategy. In completing this migration, Nasdaq reduced the cost of its existing data warehouse environment while providing a more cost-effective, scalable, and elastic platform to its business.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Carnival Cruise Line moved from on-premises VDI to Amazon WorkSpaces (EUC338)	EUC	338	EUC338	Learn why enterprises like Carnival Cruise Line are leaving the complexity and costs of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for Amazon WorkSpaces. We dive into the business value that Amazon WorkSpaces provides Carnival, and how Carnival quickly and easily deployed solutions for multiple use cases.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: The enterprise transformation journey with AWS (ENT229-L)	ENT	229	ENT229	AWS has partnered with hundreds of enterprises undergoing digital transformations. In this session, hear from one of our leaders who works with enterprises to leverage AWS services and learn how they create new revenue streams, improve operational efficiency, and reduce business risks.
AWS re:Invent 2019: DXC Technology and AWS accelerating digital transformation globally (ENT227-S)	ENT	227	ENT227	DXC Technology has made a multi-billion dollar investment in digital innovation with AWS. Through digital transformation centers, worldwide talent development, and cloud-ready products, DXC is changing the way that large-scale companies journey to the cloud. Discussion topics for this session include DXC’s unique approach to delivering scale, value, and speed in the cloud; DXC’s AWS investment and commitment; and a customer spotlight on business and technical challenges and the solution delivered to address them. Learn how DXC and AWS are working together to transform the digital strategy and how DXC’s legacy clients represent a major enterprise opportunity. This presentation is brought to you by DXC Technology, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Go event-driven with AWS Lambda & Event Mesh (DEM42-S)	DEM	42	DEM42	We live in an event-driven world. Events are becoming a core component of new business architectures, and they allow organizations to react in real time to an ever-changing environment. But shifting to an event-driven architecture is daunting—how do you move events from on-premises data centers to the cloud? How do you transmit events across AWS Regions? How do you enable legacy applications to communicate with modern, cloud-native applications built on services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis? In this talk, we discuss how an Event Mesh enables organizations to meet these challenges. This presentation is brought to you by Solace Corporation, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: VMware Cloud on AWS: Automation and integration, the real power of API (DEM41-S)	DEM	41	DEM41	VMware Cloud on AWS brings the power of vSphere to the scale and innovation of AWS. What possibilities arise when you no longer spend time managing or running operations? Come listen to a representative from RoundTower talk about the power of leveraging automation within the software-defined data center (SDDC) and show some of the features built between VMware Cloud on AWS and many popular IT platforms. “Hey Alexa, how many VMs are in my SDDC?” This presentation is brought to you by RoundTower, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building a Kubernetes Operator in Quarkus (DEM35-S)	DEM	35	DEM35	Kubernetes is much more than a runtime platform for Docker containers. Its API can be extended with application-specific custom resource definitions (CRDs), and you can implement your own custom controllers or “operators” that adapt to dynamic changes in the cluster. With Quarkus and the fabric8 Kubernetes client, there’s a strong basis for implementing operators in Java, allowing the integration of an existing code base with the power of Kubernetes API extensions. In this session, Fabian Lange, VP of Engineering at Instana, provides insights and lessons learned from building Instana’s own instana-agent-operator using these technologies. You leave this session armed with the understanding of how to build an operator. This presentation is brought to you by Instana, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building a high-performance analytics ecosystem on Amazon EKS (DEM08-S)	DEM	08	DEM08	Analytics software applications have dramatically varied compute patterns, from single containers for experimentation to massively parallel, multi-container architectures for production or model development. So how do you build a cloud-native platform using Amazon EKS that exceeds the performance expectations of thousands of open-source and commercial analytics users? Join Jason Tucker, senior cloud services development manager at SAS, as he reveals technology and operations best practices for building a global cloud-native platform. This presentation is brought to you by SAS, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating your databases to Amazon DocumentDB (DAT372)	DAT	372	DAT372	Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, reliable, fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service. What are the best practices to move your workloads to Amazon DocumentDB? What do you need to think about before, during, and after migration? Which tools and approaches should you use to ensure a successful migration? Join us to learn how to migrate database workloads to Amazon DocumentDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: PostgreSQL options on AWS: Self-managed, managed, and serverless (DAT317-R1)				In this session, we provide an overview of the PostgreSQL options available on AWS. We also 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 three times the performance of standard PostgreSQL. Learn about the features, functionality, and many innovations in these two services. In doing so, you also gain 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.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Extreme infrastructure automation with Wavefront by VMware (CON332-S)	CON	332	CON332	In this session, learn from Wavefront by VMware how to scale containerized infrastructure while increasing efficiency. Join this session to learn about intelligent Amazon EC2 instance size selection, pod placement, cost-optimization automation using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, and next-generation reserved instance management. This presentation is brought to you by Spotinst, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] All in on AWS Fargate for high-security workloads (CON322-R1)	CON	322	CON322	AWS Fargate enables a serverless operational model for containers and offers a rich set of capabilities that support high-security workloads. In this session, you learn the security features and choices Fargate offers. You also learn how Vanguard chose to go all in on Fargate by running mission-critical applications that require enhanced security controls.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Better, faster, cheaper compute: Cost-optimizing Amazon EC2 (CMP202-R1)	CMP	202	CMP202	It’s easier than ever to grow your compute capacity and enable new types of cloud computing applications while maintaining the lowest TCO by blending Amazon EC2 Spot, On-Demand, and Reserved Instance purchase models. In this session, learn how to use the power of Amazon EC2 with other AWS services and features such as Auto Scaling, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon EMR, and AWS Batch to programmatically optimize costs while maintaining high performance and availability‚ all without breaking a sweat.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Navigating the winding road toward driverless mobility (AUT307)	AUT	307	AUT307	Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are becoming a reality, as evidenced by the variety of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and growing number of AV test programs on the road. Mobileye, a global leader in the development of technologies for ADAS and autonomous driving solutions, has been an integral part of this technology revolution. In this session, Mobileye discusses some of its technological innovations and how it leverages AWS to accelerate development across sensing, mapping, and planning. We also discuss the AWS AV reference architecture and key services used to enable ADAS and AV development at the cloud and edge.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Create 3D web apps with AWS (ARV201-R1)	ARV	201	ARV201	3D immersive experiences are breathing new life into web applications, increasing customer engagement with brands, and improving productivity in the workplace. In this session, A1Control, a healthcare startup, shares how it leveraged Amazon Sumerian to easily create an engaging 3D simulation education application for patients with diabetes. You learn how to use Sumerian to compose a scene, add interactive elements using drag-and-drop tools or your own custom scripts, and integrate with AWS services such as AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Core, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Polly. You also see how completed scenes are distributed globally within minutes and are easily accessible via a browser.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Tableau Server on AWS enables analytics agility for Capital One (ANT345-S)	ANT	345	ANT345	As a financial institution, Capital One must be compliant with internal and external policies and regulations. One of these is to regularly replace its Tableau infrastructure, which enables the company to always have the latest security updates and patches in place. To meet this requirement, Capital One chose Tableau Server on AWS and devised a one-click deployment pattern that reduced time and errors while increasing flexibility. In this session, representatives from Capital One discuss some key principles to be aware of as you start or grow your own Tableau deployment. This presentation is brought to you by Tableau, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: EA built self-service tool Slackbot to provide better user insights (ANT328-S)	ANT	328	ANT328	In this session, learn from the Electronic Arts (EA) chief business intelligence (BI) architect and director of BI about how EA improved data democratization across the business through a combination of AWS tools, Snowflake, and Slack as a backend system for analytics queries. Come hear about how EA’s BI team rolled out a Slackbot solution to the entire business to provide better and faster insights, resulting in a 360-degree view of data. This presentation is brought to you by Snowflake, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: State-of-the-art cloud data warehousing, featuring Asurion (ANT213-R1)	ANT	213	ANT213	The state-of-the-art cloud data warehouse needs to enable thousands of concurrent users while providing the best performance at the cheapest, most predictable cost. It also needs to seamlessly integrate into your data lake and be the first class citizen in your analytical stack to achieve the agility needed for tomorrow's analytics workloads. Amazon Redshift does this today. In this session, we discuss how Amazon Redshift scales storage and compute with a 10x better price performance ratio. Learn how Asurion improved performance by scaling with Amazon Redshift and how data warehousing with Amazon Redshift can help you analyze all your data to give you deeper insights and better outcomes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon SageMaker deep dive: A modular solution for machine learning (AIM307)	AIM	307	AIM307	Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that offers developers and data scientists the flexibility to build, train, and deploy machine learning models through modular capabilities. In this session, we dive deep into the technical details of each module so you understand how to label and prepare your data, choose an algorithm, train and optimize the model, and make predictions. We also discuss practical deployments of Amazon SageMaker through real-world customer examples.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enabling AI at enterprise scale (DEM125)	DEM	125	DEM125	Doing machine learning and data analysis at scale requires access to high-quality datasets. AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. See how Databricks is powering data science using AWS Data Exchange to help businesses make better decisions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Verizon moves critical databases to Amazon RDS with zero downtime (DAT381)	DAT	381	DAT381	Learn how Verizon is moving mission-critical databases from on premises to Amazon RDS. Verizon’s workloads, including VZW.com, demand high availability, data consistency, and low latency at all times to service millions of customers every day. In this session, Verizon engineers share how they achieved a zero-downtime migration to AWS by setting up a multi-region active-active architecture and ensuring data synchronization across on-premises and cloud environments during the transition phase. They dive deep into the specific features and tools used and share the challenges and lessons learned during the migration process.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon QLDB: An engineer’s deep dive on why this is a game changer (DAT380)	DAT	380	DAT380	Why did we build Amazon QLDB to be a first-of-its-kind immutable and verifiable ledger database? In this session, join Andrew Certain, AWS senior principal engineer, as he discusses Amazon QLDB’s unique journal-first architecture along with its various innovations. Topics include cryptographic hashing, Merkle trees, Multi-AZ availability, PartiQL support, and much more. Also included is a special focus on how we brought the data integrity benefits of blockchain into a SQL-compatible database.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Amazon.com migrated its applications from Oracle to AWS databases (DAT359)	DAT	359	DAT359	Amazon.com recently completed its enterprise database migration to AWS. In this session, Amazon.com leaders relay how they achieved database freedom with AWS. They discuss the enterprise program they built, and they share the lessons they learned and the benefits they realized. They also share how they reduced third-party and scaling risks to deliver peak retail events, such as Amazon Prime Day, Amazon Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Uber stores financial transactions in ledgers using Amazon DynamoDB (DAT319)	DAT	319	DAT319	Each day, millions of people move around the world with Uber. The associated financial transactions are stored in Uber's Ledger Store with provable completeness backed by Amazon DynamoDB. In this session, we discuss why provable completeness is key for compliant storage of financial and other ledger-like use cases, and we explain how this can be implemented at global scale by using DynamoDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices for IoT architecture using AWS smart product solution (ARC339-R1)	ARC	339	ARC339	As more consumer products are embedded with sensors that allow communication and data transfer between the product and the manufacturer, customers need architecture to onboard, protect, and monitor device fleets. In this session, we cover best practices for creating this architecture and use the decisions that were made when creating the AWS smart product solution as a guide. The architecture incorporates AWS IoT Core, as well as AWS Lambda for backend microservices, AWS IoT Analytics with Amazon QuickSight to analyze telemetry data, and AWS IoT Device Defender to audit device configurations. We also show you how to use AWS CDK to create customized deployments.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive and best practices for Amazon Redshift (ANT418)	ANT	418	ANT418	In this session, we take an in-depth look at best practices for data warehousing with Amazon Redshift. We show you the best way to analyze all your data, inside and outside your data warehouse, without moving the data, which helps you gain deeper insights for running your business. We also cover best practices for how to design optimal schemas, load data efficiently, and optimize your queries to deliver high throughput and performance.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Farmers Insurance elevating customer experience w/ conversational AI (AIM220-S)	AIM	220	AIM220	As part of its digital transformation journey, Farmers, one of America’s largest insurers, envisioned digitizing its customer and agent service experience. Join Farmers for this insightful session, and learn how it leveraged conversational artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and other next-generation AWS technologies to offer a seamless, personalized, and contextualized experience for agents and customers. Learn how Farmers improved customer experience and optimized resources while encouraging self-service with cloud-based services, automation, and AI. Also, gain insights on how to design, architect, and build a scalable conversational AI solution that caters to growing business demands. This presentation is brought to you by Cognizant, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building highly available applications using Global Accelerator (NET318-R1)	NET	318	NET318	In this session, you learn how to build highly available and performant architectures for your applications with AWS Global Accelerator, a service that enables you to manage multi-regional endpoints using global static IP addresses anycast from the AWS edge network. We dive into the Global Accelerator architecture and explain how the service provides global resiliency by isolating cross-customer impact and mitigating different failure modes, such as host-level failures, site-level failures, software defects, and anycast shifts.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Connectivity to AWS and hybrid AWS network architectures (NET317-R1)	NET	317	NET317	Amazon offers multiple options to achieve your connectivity requirements to access your resources in AWS. Whether you are connecting your corporate office or on-premises data center into AWS for hybrid connectivity or your personal device for end-user connectivity, AWS has many options for you to pick and choose. This session is intended for anyone wanting to get an overview of the AWS connectivity options available to you and learn about the best practices for architecting your connectivity to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Speed up native mobile development with AWS Amplify (MOB317)	MOB	317	MOB317	In this session, we explore iOS and Android app development with AWS Amplify. We present how to use the AWS Amplify CLI to set up your backend with just a few lines of code. We go over the coding patterns of Amplify libraries and also show you how to tackle specific uses cases such as auth, storage, API, analytics, and AI/ML.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Simple path to AWS Managed Services (AMS) (MGT203-S)	MGT	203	MGT203	With AWS Managed Services (AMS), you can offload the critical task of infrastructure operations, freeing yourself to focus on application modernization. In this session, learn how to accelerate your journey to the cloud with AMS. We cover the process of assessing your infrastructure, migrating it from your on-premises data center or existing cloud environment to AMS, and operationalizing it. You learn key steps to streamline this process using automation and infrastructure as code to set up network connectivity, access management, logging, monitoring, backups, and configuration. You also discover integration points for an existing managed service provider to seamlessly work with AMS. This presentation is brought to you by 2nd Watch, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Optimizing Aerospace manufacturing operations & supply chain with AWS (MFG201)	MFG	201	MFG201	Aerospace manufacturers, component manufacturers, and maintenance suppliers remain competitive by innovating and reducing time to market. In this session, hear the unique AWS perspective on how our customers are meeting these challenges. Learn how to achieve the maximum possible performance from design and engineering workloads and how to monitor and optimize your manufacturing process. Review optimization techniques and architectures to accelerate workloads for engineering design. Lockheed Martin discusses its Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing solution for IoT data capture, transformation, analytics, and visualization for real-time monitoring of manufacturing machines.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Combining camera feeds, edge computing, and ML for remote monitoring (IOT311-R1)	IOT	311	IOT311	Remote monitoring of assets and equipment enables businesses to repurpose labor away from manual monitoring, increase equipment life span, and derive value from existing investments into assets. In harsh physical environments, remote monitoring can enable equipment to operate offline while reducing high-risk, manual operations. In this session, you learn how to train machine-learning models in the cloud and use AWS IoT Core to deploy these models onto connected surveillance cameras to drive ROI for your business.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The circular supply chain, and the drive for sustainability (IOT216-S)	IOT	216	IOT216	The circular supply chain leverages technologies like blockchain, digital identity, and biometrically enabled payments to enable a closed-loop, transparent supply chain. A new solution created with Accenture addresses the challenges of provenance, traceability, and authenticity in the supply chain. In this session, we share the solution’s benefits, including giving consumers a way to reliably identify products and prove authenticity, and enabling companies to drive greater impact and increase their green credentials. We also discuss how this solution enables producers to engage in the global economy and produce sustainably. Finally, we show you how it incentivizes the IT industry to drive sustainability. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new with AWS IoT Device Software? (IOT214)	IOT	214	IOT214	AWS IoT device software enables you to connect your IoT devices and operate them at the edge. In this session, you’ll learn what’s new with AWS IoT device software including Amazon FreeRTOS, AWS IoT Greengrass, and AWS IoT Device Tester. You will leave this session ready to connect, manage, and update your IoT devices with AWS IoT.
AWS re:Invent 2019: More than rubber on the road: Tires in an IoT world (IOT204-S)	IOT	204	IOT204	Pirelli is known for creating cutting-edge, high-quality tires with a focus on the performance needs of both high-end consumer drivers and professional drivers. But today, Pirelli tires are much more than rubber on the road—they are connected IoT devices reporting telemetry data to help drivers achieve their safety and performance goals. Between this telemetry function and Pirelli’s other applications, a huge amount of data flows into Pirelli’s systems. Ensuring that these platforms are scalable and reliable is Pirelli’s biggest challenge. In this session, Pirelli shares how these systems are built using AWS and are made possible by modern observability tooling. This presentation is brought to you by Datadog, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Achieve your identity, security, and compliance goals on AWS (GPSTEC415)	TEC	415	TEC415	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. One of the key reasons that customers choose AWS for their workloads is what they are able to achieve when it comes to meeting and exceeding their identity, security, and compliance goals. There are lots of services within AWS that help customers meet these goals. At the same time, customers often look to partners to help in meeting these goals. In this session, we dive into how AWS services combined with APN Partner solutions enable customers to move ahead with confidence in running their workloads on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Managed Blockchain & Amazon QLDB in your solutions portfolio (GPSTEC339)	TEC	339	TEC339	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly. In this session, learn the differences between blockchain and ledger technologies and get introduced to Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB). Along the way, we show how to easily build and manage scalable blockchain networks with Managed Blockchain on AWS and create new ledgers with Amazon QLDB. Our goal is for Consulting and Technology APN Partner attendees to walk away from this session with a working knowledge of how to leverage blockchain and ledger technologies to bring efficiency, security, and auditability to their digital transformation projects.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Use AWS Marketplace to reach over 230,000 customers (GPSMKT202)	MKT	202	MKT202	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Learn about new seller-specific AWS Marketplace features that make it easy for sellers to close transactions with over 230,000 active customers. We show you how to publish and update products as part of your feature release process with self-service listings, and review how you can target specific customers with special/customized pricing using Seller Private Offers. Lastly, we discuss how to combine these and other AWS Marketplace features to grow your business by reaching new buyers and converting perpetual-license customers to a subscription model.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Delivering customer value through next-gen managed services (GPSBUS202)	BUS	202	BUS202	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. In this session, learn about how AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partners are helping their customers achieve their business initiatives. We will share APN Partner and AWS customer examples and hear from AWS MSP Partner Cloudticity about best practices that enabled them to build a successful AWS MSP practice, offering proactive monitoring, automation, and management of their customers’ environment. In this session, APN Partners gain a clear view of the opportunity they have to serve their AWS customers and the resources available to support them on their APN Partner journey.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Tale of two cities: Goldman Sachs’s hybrid migration approach (FSI303)	FSI	303	FSI303	Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research division provides investment insights and ideas to clients around the world on a 24/7 basis, which requires a highly secure, scalable, and resilient environment. To re-architect its critical research platform to become a cloud-native application, the team developed a hybrid, container-based migration approach using AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon MSK, and AWS Lambda that is underpinned by a secure sandboxed environment called SkyLab. In this session, learn how Goldman Sachs rapidly scaled its use of containers, changed its culture to embrace experimentation and fast failure, and adopted DevOps capabilities, including infrastructure as code, canary deployment, and zero-production access.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accolade speeds health answers to customers with Amazon Connect (EUC337)	EUC	337	EUC337	Accolade, a personalized health and benefits solution, migrated a contact center to a global deployment of Amazon Connect in just four months, supporting over 700 agents taking more than 14,000 calls a day on a global scale. Learn how the company did this completely self-service through staggered global deployment. They also discuss where the key transition points were, how they mapped data from one solution to the next, their core development investments, and how they kept business running during the migration. Hear how a small team deploying Amazon Connect quickly and successfully can have a big business impact.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Salesforce and AWS accelerate the contact center (ENT235-S)	ENT	235	ENT235	Eighty percent of customer service interactions still take place over the phone. With the growing presence of cloud telephony in contact centers, companies now have an opportunity to weave intelligence into these phone interactions. In this session, learn how telephony can be integrated with Service Cloud to boost agent productivity, enhance reporting and training for supervisors, and deliver business insights based on call content and analytics. This presentation is brought to you by Salesforce, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The future of cloud management (ENT210-S)	ENT	210	ENT210	There were over a dozen acquisitions of cloud management companies in 2018 and more in 2019 as technology vendors responded to their customers’ adoption of the cloud and multiple tools and services for containers, microservices, and serverless computing deployments. IT departments are creating cloud centers of excellence and evolving to everything as a service (XaaS) IT delivery models to be more agile. Join this session to learn about emerging cloud management trends. We discuss how to optimize your cloud infrastructure and services for performance, cost, security, and compliance while allowing teams to use the cloud services and tools that they prefer. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Get started on your migration business case (ENT205-R1)	ENT	205	ENT205	When planning cloud migrations to AWS, knowledge is power. A clear baseline of what you have on premises is essential to evaluate your migration options. In this breakout session, we share different migration scenarios and how the AWS business case methodology can help you understand utilization of your on-premises resources, and how you can save cost and realize business value through AWS. TSO Logic, an AWS company, shares experiences that demonstrate how to simplify migration planning and their research on achieving cost savings by factoring in real-time utilization and Microsoft licenses.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Roadmaps for containers, application networking & Amazon Linux at AWS (CON217)	CON	217	CON217	In this session, we cover recent announcements for containers, Amazon Linux, and application networking at AWS, and how they fit into the bigger picture for users. We also cover how we’re thinking about what’s next and discuss different ways you can help drive our product direction—such as developer previews, publicly available roadmaps, and more!
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS China Gateway: Power your business in China by working with AWS (CHN202)	CHN	202	CHN202	The AWS China Gateway provides information that helps customers of all sizes get started in using AWS to grow their businesses in China. The AWS China (Beijing) Region and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region are located within mainland China. To provide the best experience for customers in China, as well as to comply with China’s legal and regulatory requirements, AWS works with Chinese partners that possess telecom licenses required for delivering cloud services in China. Join this session to learn more about using the AWS China Region.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Best practices for authoring AWS CloudFormation (DOP302-R1)	DOP	302	DOP302	Incorporating infrastructure as code into software development practices can help teams and organizations improve automation and throughput without sacrificing quality and uptime. In this session, we cover multiple best practices for writing, testing, and maintaining AWS CloudFormation template code. You learn about IDE plug-ins, reusability, testing tools, modularizing stacks, and more. During the session, we also review sample code that showcases some of the best practices in a way that lends more context and clarity.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Security foundations for containers on AWS (DEM54-S)	DEM	54	DEM54	Applying good security practices to the existing security of AWS infrastructure, platform, and container services allows your delivery teams to focus on innovation. This saves time and shortens your time to market without you having to worry about gaps in your security posture. A strong DevSecOps model says that security should come first and that the approach should inform and strengthen security in the delivery pipeline. In this session, hear from Alert Logic security experts as they discuss the benefits and how-tos of a security-first approach on AWS and with AWS-hosted containers. This presentation is brought to you by Alert Logic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: App modernization on AWS, described by engineers who have done it (DEM36-S)	DEM	36	DEM36	Join the IBM Garage solutions engineers in this interactive session to study the IBM point of view on successfully delivering application modernization workloads on AWS. Workload solutions include cloud native and microservice-based applications, migration of enterprise Java workloads, cloud integration solutions, and cognitive and data analytics. The session starts with the solutions engineers presenting prescriptive guidance, reference architectures, and best practices for deploying IBM workloads on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Continuous deployment for ML: The new software development lifecycle (DEM30-S)	DEM	30	DEM30	Machine learning (ML) will fundamentally change the way we build and maintain applications. How can we adapt our infrastructure, operations, staffing, and training to meet the challenges of the new software development lifecycle (SDLC) without throwing away everything that already works? ML is the future of application development, but presently, many ML teams are flailing without a process or trying to shoehorn their ML workflow into tools that don’t fit the requirements. This session helps you understand the differences between the traditional and ML-driven SDLCs. You also learn to build a process and stack to bring efficiency to emerging development. This presentation is brought to you by Algorithmia, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Create your first application in the cloud with Amazon Lightsail (DEM152)	DEM	152	DEM152	In this demo, we show you how easy it is to deploy and scale your first cloud application. We start by deploying a LAMP stack application into a single server. We then evolve it into a highly available, two tier application using an Amazon Lightsail load balancer and database instance.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Release with confidence: Observability for microservices (DEM14-S)	DEM	14	DEM14	In modern microservices environments, it’s no longer enough to just collect telemetry data; we must derive and compile actionable insights from this data in real time. In this session, Kevin Crawley of Instana demonstrates how modern organizations are capable of understanding the complexity of large microservices environments using a combination of distributed tracing, metrics, and logging. He demonstrates application deployment in Kubernetes and explains how Instana combines and analyzes the data collected using all three pillars of observability, which empowers developers and site reliability engineers to understand the performance impacts of those deployments. This presentation is brought to you by Instana, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using AWS to architect your business for change (DEM03-S)	DEM	03	DEM03	Organizations are leveraging the cloud to accelerate digital transformation and gain a competitive advantage while identifying new ways to use data, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies. Learn how you can execute your AWS initiatives faster and help modernize your enterprise business and technology platforms regardless of your industry, size, or stage in your cloud journey. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: CCPA: State privacy law effects on cloud development (DEM02-S)	DEM	02	DEM02	Several states followed the lead of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by enacting their own consumer privacy laws. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective January 2020, goes even further in defining what constitutes private data. What does that mean for your cloud journey and the development of cloud-native applications? How will you secure private data and adhere to each state’s regulations while building a foundation for future law changes without straining cloud infrastructure and digital application teams? This session highlights the obligations to be aware of, policies and procedures to pursue, cloud architectural considerations, and KPIs for determining successful implementation. This presentation is brought to you by 2nd Watch, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Norton Storage Platform’s journey from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB (DAT371)	DAT	371	DAT371	Symantec’s Norton Storage Platform offers online backup as a service to protect data from accidental deletion and malware. In this session, hear from Norton about the challenges it had managing Cassandra clusters at scale and why it migrated its metadata database from Cassandra to DynamoDB. Norton then dives into an innovative method it used to migrate its data using AWS Step Functions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Oversubscription at scale: Running tons of containers w/ Kubernetes (CON327-R1)	CON	327	CON327	How do you build a best-in-class application that can scale to millions of users while also being efficient and easy to operate? In this session, you learn how GoDaddy is using Amazon EKS to drive massive scalability with optimal cost structure on AWS. You also hear how GoDaddy’s pod-packing strategy for oversubscription on Kubernetes is a key element in the plan to drive down cost while supporting very large cluster sizes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Create digital twins using AWS IoT Core and Amazon Sumerian (ARV203)	ARV	203	ARV203	Smart manufacturing is just the beginning. The increase in IoT devices, combined with the rise in AR/VR technology, is increasing the use of digital twins. This enables real-time data visualization through virtual representations of machines and equipment to more effectively and expertly solve real-time problems or support training applications. In this session, learn how to create a digital twin that can be deployed over the web to desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and head-mounted devices.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cox Automotive: AWS Well-Architected Results on 200+ platforms (ARC212-R1)	ARC	212	ARC212	How do you know if you and your team are following cloud architecture best practices? How do you assess your potential risks? This session shows how the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive architectural advice, and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool allows you to improve your technology portfolio. Hear executives from Cox Automotive explain how the company uses AWS Well-Architected as part of a scorecard across more than 200 platforms to health-check the Cox Automotive products. Learn how the scorecard works to drive resource and investment decisions, and how it helps measure profitability, technology risk, and engineering maturity.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating applications to serverless Apache Kafka + KSQL (ARC207-S)				You were using Apache Kafka on premises a few years ago and have been happily building applications with it since then. But now it’s well past time to move to the cloud, and you'd like to refactor your first application to something that feels more native to the cloud. In this talk, we demonstrate doing this with a fictional application, migrating the data from on premises to Confluent Cloud and converting the previous on-premises monolith to a set of stateless microservices fed by real-time, continuous KSQL queries. Leave this session with a clear understanding of how to do the same in your own stack. This presentation is brought to you by Confluent, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Woot.com built a serverless data lake with AWS analytics (ANT333)				Woot.com designed and developed a data lake as a replacement for their legacy data warehouse to deliver powerful analytics capabilities across multiple business areas. In this session, learn how it used Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon QuickSight to build an automated process to ingest and centralize data from external and internal sources for immediate analysis.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive into Amazon Athena (ANT307-R1)	ANT	307	ANT307	Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Learn how customers are using Athena to query their data lakes, enable self-service for analysts and developers, and build applications. We dive deep into the latest improvements and show demos. New Athena users gain an understanding of service capabilities and customer architecture patterns. Existing Athena users gain understanding of recent improvements, including concurrency, performance, and security.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Insert, upsert, and delete data in Amazon S3 using Amazon EMR (ANT239)	ANT	239	ANT239	Building data lakes in Amazon S3 offers scale and reliability for open-source data formats and a common data store for both reporting and BI as well as big data analytics and ML/AI. However, most commonly used big data frameworks make customers reinstate large volumes of data for handling incremental changes in individual records. Apache Hudi provides the ability to create, upsert, and delete records and simplifies the handling of change data capture and the ingestion of real-time streams. In this session, we dive deep into using Apache Hudi with Amazon EMR, exploring fundamental concepts, common scenarios, and how to use Hudi to optimize workflows.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Changing the game with ML: How AI, ML, and IoT are transforming sports (AIM369)	AIM	369	AIM369	If you are a sports fan interested in machine learning, regardless of industry, this talk is for you. See how some of the world’s top sports organizations are innovating with machine learning on AWS and how some of them got started on their journey working with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab. From Formula 1’s 1M data points per second to the NFL’s 3TB of data per game week to the use of Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy predictive real-time models, leave this session with a better understanding of what’s behind the curtain and how you can get started.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] AI document processing for business automation (AIM211-R1)	AIM	211	AIM211	Millions of times per day, customers from the Finance, Healthcare, public, and other sectors rely on information that is locked in documents. Amazon Textract uses artificial intelligence to "read" such documents as a person would, to extract not only text but also tables, forms, and other structured data without configuration, training, or custom code. In this session, we demonstrate how you can use Amazon Textract to automate business processes with AI. You also hear directly from our customers about how they accelerated their own business processes with Amazon Textract.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Artificial intelligence in Healthcare (AIM202-S)	AIM	202	AIM202	SENTRI is an intelligent automation application platform built leveraging native AWS components to facilitate case processing in the Healthcare industry. PwC built an engine that can take in an adverse healthcare/level of service (HC/LS) event case, extract key information, provide an initial interpretation of severity, and triage the case for review. PwC performed analysis using a user-centric experience, which allowed the case processor to easily verify outputs and helped build trust and confidence in the machine’s interpretation. In this session, learn how a PwC customer has been successfully using this system for over nine months. It used to take two hours to process a case. Now, it takes three seconds. This presentation is brought to you by PwC, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Reimagining advertising analytics & identity resolution at scale (ADM203)	ADM	203	ADM203	Most companies in Advertising & Marketing run some kind of big data workload. But are they taking advantage of the latest cloud technology? In this session, learn how AWS customers can optimize data collection, analytics, and identity resolution using containers, serverless computing, and graph databases. Customers share detailed technical best practices for big data and advertising analytics at massive scale and low cost. Then we dive deep into an example of how to improve identity matching and audience targeting using Amazon Neptune and other AWS tools.
AWS re:Invent 2019: NAB: Transforming customer experience with data and machine learning (FSI203)	FSI	203	FSI203	National Australia Bank (NAB) has more than 160 years of customer and banking data at its disposal. But the bank faced the challenge of harnessing this asset to enable its contact-center team to provide rapid and engaging experiences to its customers while maintaining their privacy and security. Come learn how NAB lowered operational costs and transformed customer experience by transitioning hundreds of retail, corporate, and institutional contact-center professionals to Amazon Connect. This session also shares NAB’s approach to building a centralized enterprise data lake and applying machine learning to further engage customers and drive the bank’s multichannel strategy.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Why GE Renewable Energy and Multiview stream their desktop applications (EUC341)	EUC	341	EUC341	Learn how to provide instant access to desktop applications through a browser on any computer. In this session, we present an overview of Amazon AppStream 2.0, a managed application streaming service, and walk through common application streaming use cases for enterprises, ISVs, and educational institutions. Hear from GE Renewable Energy and from Multiview Corporation, a financial software provider, on their journeys to stream applications with AppStream 2.0.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Overview of Amazon digital user engagement & messaging solutions (EUC206)	EUC	206	EUC206	In this session, we describe how AWS shares the Amazon customer-centric culture of innovation, key technology building blocks, and a user engagement and messaging platform to help companies better understand their users. You also learn how Coinbase is utilizing the Amazon approach to engage its own users. The intended audience: Developers and business professionals who are responsible for digitally transforming their company.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How ENGIE, HP & SAP itself are transforming their SAP solutions (ENT241)	ENT	241	ENT241	Thousands of customers run SAP on AWS, and many more are evaluating their SAP migration and innovation strategies. In this session, hear from two SAP on AWS customers, and from SAP itself, about the role AWS has played in their SAP transformation journeys. ENGIE, an energy services provider, shares how it achieved its SAP innovation goals, from migrating its mission-critical SAP environment through accelerating innovation with Amazon Machine Learning and other solutions. HP, which develops PCs, 3D printing solutions, printers, and related supplies, discusses its transformation effort to consolidate legacy SAP ERP systems into an S/4HANA landscape. Juergen Mueller, the CTO of SAP, which provides enterprise software, joins us to discuss SAP customers, tech landscapes, and AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transform your enterprise using AWS experience-based accelerators (ENT237)	ENT	237	ENT237	From the C-suite to individual teams, can you break down siloes, migrate faster, and simplify processes along the way? Experience-based acceleration (EBA) is a mechanism that addresses cloud-adoption blockers using a large-scale, prescriptive, migration “party” approach. Learn from SAP Concur how hundreds of customers have used EBAs to change how they work to deliver faster, more impactful migrations, and how the leadership is using cloud adoption to modernize their organization.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices to become data-driven with AWS (ENT236)	ENT	236	ENT236	AWS provides data analytics and ML services to allow companies of every size to transform their business by unlocking value from their data. In this session, Brad Burke, the chief data officer of American Family Insurance, joins us to share American Family’s journey from being data-rich to becoming data-driven with a focus on platform, people, and mission. Brad discusses how solutions are a network of architectures that bring applications, data, and data science together; how the new currency in data is the data engineer; and how having the data connected to the right part of the business value chain is the real trick.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon culture of innovation (ENT224-R1)	ENT	224	ENT224	Organizations of all sizes often ask how they can innovate like Amazon. Since its humble beginnings as the "world's largest bookstore," Amazon has not only innovated across ecommerce and other adjacent segments, it has also introduced entirely new and unrelated businesses to the organization. Over the years, Amazon has gotten good at taking problems that are hard to solve and making them easy for customers. In this session, we discuss how Amazon views and leverages technology as a utility to increase the pace of innovation across the organization.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Differentiation through innovation (ENT216)	ENT	216	ENT216	The acceleration of technology change is disrupting all industries and provides an opportunity for organizations of any size to truly differentiate their business through innovation. In this session, we share a number of examples of how customers are innovating on AWS to differentiate their business by improving pace of innovation, getting to market faster, creating new products, and scaling innovative ideas globally to stay ahead of changing business needs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive into AWS Cloud Development Kit (DOP402-R1)	DOP	402	DOP402	The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a multi-language, open-source framework that enables developers to harness the full power of familiar programming languages to define reusable cloud components and provision applications built from those components using AWS CloudFormation. In this session, you develop an AWS CDK application and learn how to quickly assemble AWS infrastructure. We explore the AWS Construct Library and show you how easy it is to configure your cloud resources, manage permissions, connect event sources, and build and publish your own constructs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon's approach to building resilient services (DOP342-R1)	DOP	342	DOP342	One of the biggest challenges of building services and systems is predicting the future. Changing load, business requirements, and customer behavior can all change in unexpected ways. In this talk, we look at how AWS builds, monitors, and operates services that handle the unexpected. Learn how to make your own services handle a changing world, from basic design principles to patterns you can apply today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Omnichannel cloud contact center with Amazon Connect (DEM155)	DEM	155	DEM155	Amazon Connect now gives businesses a single unified contact center for voice and chat. Come see how you can create an Amazon Connect contact center instance, and learn how to use a single contact flow to design a natural language chatbot experience using Amazon Lex that escalates to a human agent on voice and chat. We demo unified routing, queueing, chatbot design, agent experience, and concurrency for voice and chat.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerate application development with Amazon Aurora (DEM154)	DEM	154	DEM154	In this demo, learn how to leverage the unique features of Amazon Aurora to build faster, more scalable database applications optimized for the cloud. We cover features designed to help increase agility so you can develop applications faster to reach the widest possible audience. Such features include Amazon Aurora Serverless, read-replica auto-scaling, cross-region replicas, backtracking, fast database cloning, and performance insights.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Life hacks for automating DevSecOps security tasks (DEM07-S)	DEM	07	DEM07	Tired of performing many different jobs? Automate the InfoSec tasks being thrown onto your engineering and DevOps teams so that you can get your life back. Not sure if a security control has been implemented in your AWS environment? Are you getting pulled in by the sales team to answer security questionnaires? Have you been given the glorious task of collecting evidence for security audits for every single release of code? Learn how you can stop the madness by automating these activities with technology. This presentation is brought to you by Tugboat Logic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices: migrating Redis clusters from Amazon EC2 to ElastiCache (DAT358)	DAT	358	DAT358	Managing Redis clusters on your own can be hard. You have to provision hardware, patch software, back up data, and monitor workloads constantly. With the newly released Online Migration feature for Amazon ElastiCache, you can now easily move your data from self-hosted Redis on Amazon EC2 to fully managed Amazon ElastiCache, with cluster mode disabled. In this session, you learn about the new Online Migration tool, see a demo, and, more importantly, learn hands-on best practices for a smooth migration to Amazon ElastiCache.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Tech deep dive: Backup & on-demand disaster recovery w/ Veeam and AWS (STG330-S)	STG	330	STG330	Are you thinking about backing up AWS workloads or using AWS to enhance the availability of workloads? Come learn how leveraging Veeam Cloud Tier backed by Amazon S3 to back up Amazon EC2 instances or other virtual machines can beat ransomware and avoid downtime. In this session, we demonstrate new advanced Veeam capabilities for AWS and how you can leverage disaster recovery on AWS with Veeam. This presentation is brought to you by Veeam, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build hybrid storage architectures with AWS Storage Gateway (STG305-R1)	STG	305	STG305	Do you have applications on-premises, need more storage capacity, or require low-latency access to data in Amazon S3? This session explains how to use AWS Storage Gateway in a hybrid architecture for workloads such as backup and archival, file shares for applications, accessing content in AWS, or distributed data processing and analytics. We describe representative customer implementations and dive deep into the technical capabilities and best practices for gateway deployments. Learn how you can get virtually unlimited cloud storage for your on-premises needs, reduce costs, speed up your cloud journey, and build the infrastructure for faster innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive on Amazon EBS (STG303-R1)	STG	303	STG303	In this popular session, discover how Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) can optimize performance and costs for workloads on Amazon EC2, such as relational and nonrelational databases, enterprise applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows. Learn about new capabilities with Amazon EBS, features and benefits, security techniques, and details about performance and volume types. The target audience includes security administrators, application developers, application owners, and operations personnel who build or manage application infrastructure or storage area networks (SANs).
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data migration and edge computing with the AWS Snow family (STG214)	STG	214	STG214	Many organizations still have data they want to move to AWS, and have disconnected, remote field operations that require local computing capabilities. The AWS Snow family—AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, and AWS Snowmobile—helps you move large quantities of data offline and enables data processing and storage at edge locations when network capacity is constrained or nonexistent. This session provides an update on the Snow family and dives into the operational details of migrating data and how to build edge computing architectures with Snowball Edge. Learn when and how to use the service for your migration and computing needs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Get your data to AWS: How to choose and use data migration services (STG204-R1)	STG	204	STG204	You have data you need to move to the cloud—either once for a migration, or repeatedly for ongoing workflows. AWS data migration and transfer services move data securely and efficiently into and out of AWS. In this session, learn how to choose and combine services—including AWS DataSync, the AWS Snow family, CloudEndure, and AWS Transfer for SFTP—for your different use cases. Learn from the real-world experiences of enterprise customers and gain practical advice to help you get started.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new in AWS file storage (STG202)	STG	202	STG202	In this session, we focus on innovations in the fast-growing AWS file-storage portfolio, including Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for Lustre.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Security benefits of the Nitro architecture (SEC408-R1)	SEC	408	SEC408	The AWS Nitro architecture is fundamental to the Amazon EC2 service. With Nitro, each host in the core compute platform is built with trusted computers that simulate the outside world and surround an untrusted CPU and memory computer that runs workloads. Those trusted Nitro computers appear to the customer workload computer as I/O devices that are accessible across the PCIe bus. Most traditional virtualization work is done via hardware emulation. The Nitro computers carefully control the workload computer access, providing a layer of protection. Learn about the security properties of this powerful architecture, which significantly increases cloud reliability and performance.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Access management in 4D (SEC405-R1)	SEC	405	SEC405	In this session, we take "who can access what under which conditions" and deeply explore "under which conditions." We demonstrate patterns that allow you to implement advanced access-management workflows such as two-person rule, just-in-time privilege elevation, real-time adaptive permissions, and more using advanced combinations of AWS identity services, a range of environmental and contextual information sources, and automated and human-based approval workflows. We keep things fun, engaging, and practical using a lively mix of demos and code that you can take home and implement in your own environment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: nib Health Funds: Running critical regulated workloads in the cloud (SEC214)	SEC	214	SEC214	This session focuses on the strategy, technology, and review process that customers can use to move their most critical workloads into the cloud. nib Health Funds, a regulated health insurance provider, dives deep into how it moved a regulated core system (which the regulator calls a “system of record”) into AWS. The session examines the regulatory context and provides specific technical examples of the cloud-based platform nib built to meet its security, risk, and resiliency requirements. Come see what it did and learn how you can do the same.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Vulnerability disclosure and response with AWS security (SEC212-R1)	SEC	212	SEC212	A vulnerability disclosure program should be part of any company's promise to its customers. The owner of a product must have a strategy to accept input from the security community regarding that product. In May 2019, the AWS Security team received a report regarding the AmazonSageMakerFullAccess managed security policy. This session covers the vulnerability disclosure process and includes a discussion of how AWS processed that report.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Strong security made simple: Putting all the pieces together (SEC204-S)	SEC	204	SEC204	Organizations struggle with extending their security practices to the cloud. Traditional approaches don’t work, and new cloud-only practices duplicate work for an already overtaxed team. The goal of cybersecurity is simple: to ensure that what you build works as intended and only as intended. This session teaches you how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework can help you create a cloud security strategy. For tactics, learn how to integrate key AWS security services, open-source tools, and AWS Lambda automations into the workflow of your organization. Strong security doesn’t have to be complicated; this session shows you how. This presentation is brought to you by Trend Micro, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Innovation in robotics: Insights from NASA JPL and AWS (ROB302)	ROB	302	ROB302	We are in the midst of an age of innovation in the world of robotics. From autonomous ground robots to drones to robotic arms, robots are being used across industries in new and innovative ways. In this session, learn about leading use cases and forthcoming applications in robotics from experts from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How rue21 & Kimberly-Clark use analytics to lead customer journeys (RET205)	RET	205	RET205	Both retail and CPG brands need to proactively identify out-of-stock issues and sales opportunities across the entire retail value chain. This means having the right data and analytical models that generate real-time alerts and insights to lead, not follow, the customer journey. This session showcases different perspectives in producing and executing on these insights through the lens of two brands, rue21 and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, via their partnerships with Manthan and LLamasoft, respectively.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deckers Brands & Kmart Australia's approaches to retail transformation (RET204)	RET	204	RET204	In this session, hear from two retailers thriving through innovation. Both discuss moving from monolithic OMS solutions into microservices--creating flexible integration and new value. For Kmart Australia, it made perfect sense to adopt a cloud-first strategy, but the company needed to overcome a skills gap from traditional IT to a cloud-first approach. CTO Michael Fagan speaks about why he certified 100 percent of his technical staff on cloud, and creating a self-service culture of learning. Jesse Carstens from Deckers speaks about how Deckers's iconic brands and customer-first approach are now being matched by cloud-first speed and innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: It’s always day zero: Working on open source and security (OPN219)	OPN	219	OPN219	At AWS, security is our number one priority, and that applies to our open-source work too. Come hear about the techniques, tools, and protocols we’ve developed for auditing open-source software for security risks, how to mitigate these risks, and how we manage the tricky balance between openness and collaboration and handling embargoed security issues and critical fixes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 2] Building modern APIs with GraphQL (OPN208-R2)	OPN	208	OPN208	With the rise of microservice architectures and rich mobile and web applications, APIs are more important than ever. Learn how to tackle modern API design challenges with GraphQL, an open-source API query language used by Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, Virgin Trains, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From pitch to play: The technology behind going from ideas to streaming (NFX203)	NFX	203	NFX203	It takes a lot of different technologies and teams to get entertainment from the idea stage through being available for streaming on the service. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How CAPCOM builds fun games fast with containers, data, and ML (GAM302)	GAM	302	GAM302	Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter are just some of CAPCOM’s many globally successful game franchises. Join the CAPCOM team for the world premiere of a new mobile game in development that uses AWS managed database services and machine learning to speed the development process and innovate on their players’ behalf. In this session, Shinichi Inoue (VPoE), Jumpei Nakajima, and Kazuki Nakamura (senior engineers of system development) share details on how CAPCOM uses services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon DynamoDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cloud customer trends in 2020 (ENT240-S)	ENT	240	ENT240	In this customer panel hosted by the Cloudbusting podcast team, learn about some of the major upcoming trends in the market with representatives from BP and Global Payments. The panel discusses what organizations must do, both technically and culturally, to be more adaptable to their changing markets, evidenced by real customer stories. Leave this session with insights on what other businesses have done to prepare their organizations for digital change and with ideas that you can implement in your own transformation programs. This presentation is brought to you by Cloudreach, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building machine-learning infrastructure on Amazon EKS with Kubeflow (CON306-R1)	CON	306	CON306	Data science, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence have exploded in popularity in the last few years, with companies building out dedicated ML teams. Kubeflow is the ML toolkit for Kubernetes and provides useful components resolving problems in multiple areas. For enterprise users, it still cannot fulfill all the requirements for out-of-the-box deployment. Some customizations need to be made, like authentication, training job monitoring, user profile, and resource quota management. In this session, we show you a real use case of how to build ML using Kubeflow, along with challenges and solutions to address them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Get the most from Elastic Load Balancing for different workloads (NET407-R2)	NET	407	NET407	Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple application targets for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, we do a deep-dive and cover everything you ever wanted to know about using Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. We go over some interesting use cases and cover topics such as picking the right load balancer, architectural best practices, and load balancing principles. We also go into detail about configuration and day-to-day management and discuss how you can analyze your applications using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and ELB access logs and their integration with the broader AWS ecosystem.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Optimizing for performance in CloudFront: Every millisecond counts! (NET309-R1)	NET	309	NET309	In content delivery, every millisecond counts for your customers because it translates to a better user experience. In this session, the Amazon CloudFront engineers provide a deep-dive into optimization and measurement techniques used to continually improve the delivery of your content. Learn about how we optimize for both dynamic and static content delivery. We also share insights from Tinder on how these optimizations benefited the performance of their applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Networking (NET203-L)	NET	203	NET203	Join Dave Brown, VP of Amazon EC2 Networking at AWS, to learn about the new services and features we launched this year. Dave covers the entire suite of networking services, including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, AWS PrivateLink, VPN, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Direct Connect. In addition, Dave reviews some real-world customer scenarios and how AWS networking solves those in a secure, reliable, flexible, and highly performant way.
AWS re:Invent 2019: New solutions leveraging Verizon’s 5G network (MOB407-S)	MOB	407	MOB407	In this session, learn about the eight new currencies enabled by the 5G Ultra Wideband (UWB) network. Additionally, hear how these currencies can be used for the creation of products and services, such as immersive reality, computer vision, and massive connectivity, to help realize the fourth industrial revolution. This presentation is brought to you by Verizon, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Evolution of personalization/recommendation for video workflows (MDS303-R1)	MDS	303	MDS303	Personalizing the user experience is proven to increase discoverability, user engagement and satisfaction, and revenue; however, many AWS customers find personalization hard to get right. Effective recommender systems require solving multiple hard problems, including constantly changing user behavior, new catalog items (cold start), etc. In this session, we cover some of the most common methods of personalization/recommendation. Also, Amazon Prime Video shares the evolution of its recommendation system and the real-world challenges it faced when building recommendation systems at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Optimizing live video feeds to the cloud and the consumer (MDS202-R1)	MDS	202	MDS202	Viewers want more content on more devices, with top quality and low, broadcast-like latency allowing them to enjoy the action without delay. They also demand features such as enhanced graphics and real-time stats that go beyond traditional TV offerings. Learn how Discovery delivers live cooking classes with America’s favorite chefs on its Food Network Kitchen platform, and multi-language/multi-market sports on its Eurosport platform. This talk explores how today’s top content providers like Discovery are serving audiences with media solutions, machine learning, and core services from AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Harness the full potential of your IoT data (IOT215-S)	IOT	215	IOT215	Turn the data created by hard-working IoT devices into timely, meaningful insights that give your business an advantage. Join this session, and learn how Domo customers gain real-time insights from their IoT data around the world that help them improve product innovation and customer experiences, while also stopping potential problems using Domo’s IoT Cloud and AWS. Come see how you can leverage IoT data to support product innovation and customer satisfaction, save time and money by spotting performance issues, receive real-time alerts about changes in device activity, and turn real-time access to IoT data into a company asset. This presentation is brought to you by Domo Inc., an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Building smarter devices for a better life (IOT209-R1)	IOT	209	IOT209	A connected home unites devices and services for an integrated, autonomous experience that improves a consumer’s life. In this session, discover how everyday devices in your home can be transformed into intelligent things. Embedded with digital smarts and connected to the internet, these devices can create real-time, contextual, and smart experiences. Learn how these devices can be remotely monitored, controlled, and secured at scale using the rich set of AWS IoT services. We also describe how to use AWS IoT to analyze the data unlocked from these smart devices to make good business decisions, build better products, and enhance the consumer experience.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Partner with APN to build and deliver SaaS solutions (GPSBUS204)	BUS	204	BUS204	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. AWS provides a low-cost, reliable, and secure foundation for you to build and deliver software as a service (SaaS) solutions to customers. The AWS Partner Network (APN) helps companies build a successful AWS-based business by providing valuable business, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM) support via AWS SaaS Factory. In this session, uncover the benefits of building SaaS on AWS, unlock APN resources to guide you through the business transformation process, and understand key tactics you can incorporate into your SaaS business strategy today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating the live Pokémon database to Aurora PostgreSQL (GAM304)	GAM	304	GAM304	Learn how the Pokémon Company International stores and supports data for more than 300 million players with the help of AWS. In this session, Jeff Webb (development manager) and David Williams (senior DevOps engineer) discuss how they migrated to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB, resulting in zero downtime for operations. Hear about best practices for migration and get a glimpse into the services supporting Pokémon Go, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Cloud operations engineer: A day in the life (ENT320-R1)	ENT	320	ENT320	Are you an expert data center operations engineer looking to sharpen your AWS skills? Are you an IT operations manager looking to speed up your team's cloud learning curve for operating in a hybrid cloud environment? Are you a DevOps engineer looking to grow your operations experience? This session follows two AWS operations experts throughout their day as they solve real problems in complex, hybrid enterprise environments that include the AWS Cloud. Expect to learn actionable hacks and tricks that you would not learn in standard training classes. Receive practical advice for solving common and uncommon issues, and learn the top things our experts wish they knew when they were getting started with AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How you can scale up with Amazon EC2 for up to 90% less (DEM58-S)	DEM	58	DEM58	Join this session to hear how organizations are consuming more Amazon EC2 compute for less, with intelligent workload automation and continuous cost optimization that leverages Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and Reserved Instance management. This presentation is brought to you by Spotinst, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrate your data to Amazon S3, and access it anywhere (DEM159)	DEM	159	DEM159	Are you running out of on-premises storage capacity? Do you want to move your data to the cloud for advanced processing? Do you need to archive your data to highly durable, low-cost cloud storage? AWS Storage Gateway and AWS DataSync are purpose-built to help customers address these types of storage challenges. In this demo, we show you how to use DataSync to migrate your data to Amazon S3 and then use AWS Storage Gateway to access that data on premises.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Do more with less: Unit and integration testing is broken (DEM11-S)	DEM	11	DEM11	Unit testing and integration testing fall short in helping engineers understand how their applications run in production and avoid testing bits of code that should never be tested. In this session, Kevin Crawley of Instana shows real-world examples of modern observability tools that enable organizations to operate on as little as 15 percent code coverage and focus on what actually matters: the health of their production applications. With these examples, Kevin demonstrates how sufficiently advanced monitoring is indistinguishable from testing and ultimately helps organizations recover from test coverage fatigue. This presentation is brought to you by Instana, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Verizon Media implemented push notification using Amazon DynamoDB (DAT205)	DAT	205	DAT205	Verizon Media had to create a better, stronger, and faster push notification system to serve the requirements of iconic Verizon brands, fulfill push notification completion time of 27 million devices in under three minutes, and consistently show the push "toast" on all users’ lock screens. Verizon decided to use Amazon DynamoDB and other AWS services such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon SQS in conjunction with its own Vespa search engine to power all the use cases of its brands. It also uses Kubernetes to orchestrate microservices across many Amazon EC2 instances. Join this session to learn how Verizon has been able to accomplish all of this.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Why you need a ledger database: BMW, DVLA, & Sage discuss use cases (BLC203)	BLC	203	BLC203	Why do you need an immutable ledger database? In this session, we dive into the problems that Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) can solve, and we answer your questions about when and why you would use a ledger database. Customers BMW, the UK government organization Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, and Sage share their use cases for maintaining data integrity with Amazon QLDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Scalable serverless event-driven applications using Amazon SQS & Lambda (API304)				Event-driven integration patterns emerged to enable integration between serverless applications at scale. Join this session to learn best practices for integrating serverless applications using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) triggers. We dive deep into the architecture of Amazon SQS triggers to AWS Lambda and how it was engineered to autoscale your Lambda functions. Explore how to tune Lambda and Amazon SQS to scale your existing applications without having to worry about provisioning capacity.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Petco transformed its legacy business for the next generation (ANT228-S)	ANT	228	ANT228	In this session, Rebecca Maffei, VP of IT Data & Analytics, and Petco's wellness team discuss how Petco re-imagined its business to have a data-driven architecture centered on a data warehouse built for the cloud. Petco needed to implement a data warehouse that was scalable to multiple teams within the business while also removing any obstacles that could arise during a migration. After a successful migration to Snowflake on AWS, Petco increased its ability to scale and have concurrent users while being cost-effective, reliable, and secure. With these new business benefits, Petco can deliver a better experience for its end customers, both online and in store. This presentation is brought to you by Snowflake, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Supercharge your real-time apps with Amazon ElastiCache (DAT208)	DAT	208	DAT208	With the rapid growth in cloud adoption and the new scenarios that it empowers, applications need microsecond latency and high throughput to support millions of requests per second. Developers have traditionally relied on specialized hardware and workarounds, such as disk-based databases combined with data reduction techniques, to manage data for real-time applications. These approaches can be expensive and not scalable. Learn how you can boost the performance of real-time applications by using the fully managed, in-memory Amazon ElastiCache for extreme performance, high scalability, availability, and security.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using containers & serverless to accelerate application development (CON213-L)				In this session, learn how AWS can help you innovate faster with containers and serverless. Join us for a rare and intimate discussion with AWS senior leaders David Richardson, VP, Serverless, and Deepak Singh, VP, Compute Services, Containers, and Linux. Hear them share development best practices and discuss key lessons from building modern applications. Also, learn how developers can leverage containers and AWS Lambda to build and run production applications in the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on AWS Nitro security for apps running on Amazon EC2 (CMP338-R1)	CMP	338	CMP338	The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for our next generation of EC2 instances that enables AWS to innovate faster, further reduce cost for our customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types. In this session, we perform a deep dive on the security aspects of the Nitro System and discuss how you can leverage them to build secure applications using EC2 instances.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Simplifying Microsoft architectures with AWS services (CMP332)	CMP	332	CMP332	In this session, learn how to architect Microsoft solutions on AWS to be both highly available and scalable. Find out how Microsoft solutions can leverage AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, and provide scalability. We explore hybrid architecture scenarios and common architecture patterns for Active Directory and productivity solutions like SharePoint. We also cover common design patterns for .NET applications, including approaches to CI/CD, DevOps, and containerizing .NET applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Save up to 90% and run production workloads on Spot Instances (CMP331-R1)	CMP	331	CMP331	In this session, learn how to effectively harness Spot Instances for production workloads. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances allow you to use spare EC2 computing capacity, which is often 90 percent less expensive than On-Demand prices. We explore application requirements to use Spot Instances, best practices learned from thousands of customers, and the services that make it easy. Finally, we run through practical examples of how to use Spot for the most common production workloads, the common pitfalls customers run into, and how to avoid them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Uber builds scalable autonomous vehicle simulations w/ AWS Batch (CMP328-R1)	CMP	328	CMP328	Learn how Uber uses AWS Batch to run hundreds of thousands of autonomous vehicle simulations across as many vCPUs every day. Hear the story of how the company built a highly performant and scalable simulation pipeline on native AWS services.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Optimize performance and cost for your AWS compute (CMP323-R1)	CMP	323	CMP323	AWS offers a broad range of compute platforms. In this session, we talk about how to identify optimal EC2 instances for your workloads using AWS tools and services. We show you techniques and best practices to help you reduce cost and increase performance of your AWS workload.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on Arm-based EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton (CMP322-R1)	CMP	322	CMP322	AWS Graviton processors feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS, delivering optimized performance and cost. AWS Graviton processors are built exclusively for the cloud, utilizing AWS and Annapurna Labs’ expertise in running hyperscale cloud platforms and cloud applications. Amazon EC2 A1 instances are the first instances powered by the AWS Graviton processor. In this session, learn how you can optimize cost and performance for your scale-out and Arm-based workloads using EC2 instances based on AWS Graviton processors. We present use cases, software ecosystem, and customer adoption stories for EC2 A1 instances.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Dropbox leverages hybrid cloud for scale and innovation (CMP320)	CMP	320	CMP320	Dropbox operates a hybrid cloud architecture leveraging AWS to integrate on-premises and cloud environments. In this session, AWS describes hybrid cloud use cases, ranging from extending data centers to building and managing applications across on-premises and cloud environments, and it discusses a framework for designing, deploying, and operating a hybrid cloud. Dropbox dives deep into its use of AWS to optimize solutions including analytics, high-performance compute, and document processing in the hybrid cloud. The session ends with a description of how Dropbox uses AWS to power international expansion for local hosting environments in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, supporting the needs of more than 400,000 business teams globally.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Creating a data-driven, cloud-native ecosystem at BMW Group (AUT306)	AUT	306	AUT306	Data is the lifeblood fueling BMW Group’s digital transformation. It drives BMW’s personalized customer experiences, connected mobility solutions, and analytical insights. This session starts by outlining different archetypes of data platforms and then walking through the journey of building BMW Group’s cloud data hub. Learn about the architectural fundamentals and how to unlock and harness the potential of various data sources, including vehicle sensory and relational data. We also present use cases that help shape the overall strategy and conclude with a combination of lessons learned and design decisions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running lean architectures: How to be cost-effective on AWS (ARC209-R1)	ARC	209	ARC209	Everybody can save money on AWS by optimizing your architecture! This session reviews a wide range of cost-optimization strategies, featuring real-world examples. In addition to Reserved Instances, we have a special focus on Spot Instances to get a discount of up to 90 percent. We also talk about leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, caching and offloading content to Amazon CloudFront to reduce backend load, and much more. Running serverless? Learn how to cut costs on serverless through minimizing AWS Lambda execution time and maximizing networking throughput. Additionally, we cover optimizing training and inference costs for machine learning on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Simplifying and modernizing home search at Compass with Amazon ES (ANT207-R1)	ANT	207	ANT207	Compass is changing Real Estate by leveraging its industry-leading software to build search and analytical tools that help Real Estate professionals find, market, and sell homes. In this session, Compass engineers discuss how they make every home (listing) in the company's catalog discoverable to consumers and Compass Real Estate professionals. They also discuss how they've scaled their search infrastructure and how they leverage other AWS components, including Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) to deliver a complete, scalable home-search solution.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Trends with data lakes and analytics (ANT206-L)	ANT	206	ANT206	AWS delivers an integrated suite of services that provides everything needed to quickly and easily build a well-governed data lake with self-serve access to data. In this talk, Rahul Pathak, general manager for Amazon Athena and Amazon EMR, talks about some of the key trends we’re seeing and describes how they shape the services AWS offers. Specific trends include the rise of machine-generated data and semi-structured/unstructured data as dominant sources of new data, the move toward serverless, SPI-centric computing, and the growing need for local access to data from users around the world.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Alexa, what can I do now? (ALX202-R1)	ALX	202	ALX202	Every year, the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) grows in capabilities and features. With more than 100,000 published skills, ASK continues to push forward, making new opportunities for developers who want to build engaging voice experiences with Amazon Alexa. In this session, we discuss the latest trends in conversational artificial intelligence, highlight some of the most innovative skills, and provide an overview of everything that has been released in the past year for the ASK, including expansion to Hindi, natural language evaluation, and leaderboards.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep learning applications with Apache MXNet, featuring the BBC (AIM411-R1)	AIM	411	AIM411	The Apache MXNet deep learning framework is used for developing, training, and deploying diverse artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP). In this session, learn how to develop deep learning models with MXNet on Amazon SageMaker. Hear from the BBC about how it built a BERT-based NLP application to allow its website users to find relevant clips from recorded shows. We use the BBC’s NLP application to demonstrate how to leverage MXNet’s GluonNLP library to quickly build, train, and deploy deep learning models.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Security for ML environments w/ Amazon SageMaker, featuring Vanguard (AIM327-R1)	AIM	327	AIM327	Amazon SageMaker is a modular, fully managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. In this session, we dive deep into the security configurations of Amazon SageMaker components, including notebooks, training, and hosting endpoints. A representative from Vanguard joins us to discuss the company’s use of Amazon SageMaker and its implementation of key controls in a highly regulated environment, including fine-grained access control, end-to-end encryption in transit, encryption at rest with customer master keys (CMKs), private connectivity to all Amazon SageMaker API operations, and comprehensive audit trails for resource and data access. If you want to build secure ML environments, this session is for you.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build accurate training datasets with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth (AIM308)	AIM	308	AIM308	Successful machine learning models are built on high-quality training datasets. Typically, the task of data labeling is distributed across a large number of humans, adding significant overhead and cost. This session explains how Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth reduces cost and complexity using techniques designed to improve labeling accuracy and reduce human effort. We walk through best practices for building highly accurate training datasets and discuss how you can use Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to implement them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Starting the enterprise ML journey, ft. ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (AIM205-R1)	AIM	205	AIM205	Amazon has been investing in machine learning for more than 20 years, innovating in areas such as fulfillment and logistics, personalization and recommendations, forecasting, fraud prevention, and supply chain optimization. During this session, we take this expertise and show you how to identify business problems that can be solved with machine learning. We discuss considerations including selecting the right use case for a machine learning pilot, nurturing skills, and measuring the success of such pilots. We dive into success stories from the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, and you can hear from ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE about how it moved from idea to production with machine learning.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Digital marketing and ad technology (ADM201-L)	ADM	201	ADM201	In this session meant for executive leaders, you get to see the AWS vision for how companies stand out in the crowded, massively scaled advertising and marketing ecosystem. Industry leaders share stories about how they used AWS to enable breakthroughs in areas such as customer data collection, identity resolution, audience targeting, programmatic advertising, personalization, and measurement. Then we turn to the future and share our playbook for artificial intelligence and real-time solutions for transforming big data into marketing outcomes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Machine Learning Summit (MLS201)	MLS	201	MLS201	From breakthroughs happening now to future possibilities to the biggest questions facing the industry, the Machine Learning Summit gives you the opportunity to hear from researchers, academics, and entrepreneurs on some of the hottest topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The half-day of 30-minute lightning talks covers topics ranging from bias and ethics in AI to how machine learning can be applied to solve some of our toughest societal challenges, including medical and environmental breakthroughs. The Machine Learning Summit is designed for everyone from data scientists to business professionals. Speaker roster available at reinvent.awsevents.com/learn/mlsummit/.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Production-grade full-stack apps with AWS Amplify (MOB308-R1)	MOB	308	MOB308	Discover how AWS Amplify simplifies and speeds up full-lifecycle development of mobile and web apps. You learn how to build a serverless CI/CD pipeline that leverages various AWS services using preconfigured and custom workflows, and also how to integrate your favorite tools with the AWS platform. In this session, we cover development, build, testing, and deployment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Radically simple data protection with AWS and Druva (DEM23-S)	DEM	23	DEM23	Technology proliferation has resulted in more data fragmented across offices, laptops, IoT devices, and data centers. AWS and Druva are modernizing data resiliency with a cloud-native solution that secures and protects data anywhere. In this session, hear how Druva unifies multiple data sources into a single pool that is globally deduped with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon RDS and stored on Amazon S3. Learn how to deliver business continuity for on-premises and cloud workloads using Amazon EC2 to provide infinite scalability, global accessibility, and self-service data resiliency. Finally, learn how to reduce backup times for large backups with Druva, AWS Snowball, and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. This presentation is brought to you by Druva, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deploying Kubernetes at scale on AWS (DEM16-S)	DEM	16	DEM16	Enterprises are architecting applications for speed, scale, and elasticity as part of a journey to a platform-first approach. Kubernetes is the platform of choice, but with highly distributed applications and the dynamic, ephemeral nature of containers, are you prepared to manage Kubernetes at scale? Join us to learn how industry leaders deploy production Kubernetes environments on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by Turbonomic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerate your digital transformation and journey to cloud (DEM12-S)	DEM	12	DEM12	Today’s enterprises need a single cloud management platform to streamline the purchase, provisioning, and management of cloud resources while providing the necessary resiliency, disaster recovery, and added layers of security to ensure continuous business operations. Join us to hear how IBM Services leverages its cloud management platform and resiliency orchestration software to deploy role-based access in order to manage critical AWS Cloud resources. In this session, you learn how to gain a consistent view of your AWS Cloud costs and how to apply additional protection for your diverse business workloads on AWS, all while minimizing risk and drastically reducing recovery cost and time. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Hybrid cloud dos and don'ts (DEM06-S)	DEM	06	DEM06	Has your hybrid cloud strategy been implemented yet? Or are you stuck trying to juggle the cloud governance complexities? What should you do in order to effectively operate both AWS and on-premises environments to meet your business’s digital transformation needs? In this session, we talk about several dos and don'ts that will help you seamlessly manage the application automation and governance policies across your AWS and on-premises environments so that you can benefit from the agility and flexibility of hybrid cloud architectures. This presentation is brought to you by Nutanix, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on Amazon Neptune (DAT361)	DAT	361	DAT361	Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. In this session, we review how Neptune is optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. You also get a deep dive into the capabilities of the service and a review of the latest available features. Finally, we walk you through the techniques that you can use to migrate to Neptune.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Scale fearlessly with Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity (DAT304)	DAT	304	DAT304	Planning to run spiky or unpredictable workloads? Worried that your traffic isn't evenly distributed? In this session, learn how Amazon DynamoDB accommodates imbalanced workloads without throttling and how you can ensure optimal performance at any scale. First, we briefly cover DynamoDB fundamentals and recent innovations. Then, we dive deep into how DynamoDB shards your data, what is new with adaptive capacity, and the latest workload monitoring tools.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Database and analytics (DAT212-L)	DAT	212	DAT212	We’re witnessing an unprecedented growth in the amount of data collected and stored in the cloud. Generating insights from this data requires database and analytics services that scale and perform in ways not possible before. AWS offers a broad set of database and analytics services for processing, storing, managing, and analyzing all your data. In this session, we provide an overview of the database and analytics services at AWS, new services and features that we launched this year, how customers are using these services, and our vision for continued innovation in this space.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] AWS App Mesh under the hood (CON323-R1)	CON	323	CON323	In this session, senior AWS engineers give you a behind-the-scenes look at the building of AWS App Mesh. We discuss the nuts and bolts of this service, including why we built a managed control plane and how AWS monitors, tests, and deploys the control plane. You also learn how we do scaling, debugging, and logging.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to run like a startup with enterprise Kubernetes on AWS (CON210-S)	CON	210	CON210	Scholastic Corporation reinvented itself with the adoption of a startup mindset and a move to microservices on AWS running in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, an enterprise Kubernetes distribution. In this session, you hear about the journey that this large publishing enterprise went on during its transformation. From our discussion of breaking up monolithic applications into microservices, you learn about some of the pitfalls along the road to Kubernetes, containers, and microservices adoption. You also hear about the resulting demonstrable benefits—faster time to market, lower infrastructure costs, happier developers, and improved business performance. This presentation is brought to you by Red Hat, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Capacity management made easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (CMP326-R1)	CMP	326	CMP326	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs. In this session, we deep-dive into how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling works to simplify continuous fleet management and automatic scaling with changing load. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enterprise solutions with blockchain: Nestlé, Sony Music, & Workday (BLC204)	BLC	204	BLC204	Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly. Are you ready to take advantage of blockchain for enterprise? In this session, learn about the benefits of blockchain and its use cases for enterprise. You also get to hear directly from Jonathan Fritz, head of Amazon Managed Blockchain, and from such customers as Nestlé, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and Workday.
AWS re:Invent 2019: CLP Innovation: Increasing agility with cloud-native architectures (ARC336-R1)	ARC	336	ARC336	In today’s tech-driven world, an organization’s architecture is a competitive differentiator. A key piece of this advantage lies in the ability to move fast. In this session, we dive into how cloud-native architecture patterns are changing the way businesses think about speed and cost of innovation. We hear from CLP Innovation Enterprises Ltd. on why it made the decision to reinvent with cloud-native services, what it learned, and benefits it has gained along its journey to modern application development.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Designing for failure: Architecting resilient systems on AWS (ARC335-R1)	ARC	335	ARC335	Customers moving mission-critical applications to the cloud are seeking guidance to replicate and improve the resiliency of their Tier 1 systems while simultaneously meeting compliance and regulatory requirements. Natural disasters, internet disruptions, or hardware or software failure can lead to events requiring customers to invoke disaster recovery (DR) plans. Join us in this session to learn how to design for failure and remain resilient in the event of disaster by designing applications using highly resilient components and service features.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Chesapeake Energy: Transforming oil and gas production with AWS (ARC222-S)	ARC	222	ARC222	Using IoT data and machine learning-based predictive maintenance models, Chesapeake is maximizing the uptime of oil and gas wells. Join this session to learn about the architecture behind this effort, which uses AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Batch, and AWS Lambda as the data warehouse, while Control-M serves as the orchestration engine. This presentation is brought to you by BMC Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Building a streaming data platform with Amazon Kinesis (ANT326-R1)	ANT	326	ANT326	Today's businesses need to react to customer opportunities and problems as quickly as possible. In this session, we walk through how to build analytics pipelines for business operational reporting that speed up time to information from hours to seconds. We discuss how streaming-data services like Amazon Kinesis are used to capture and analyze data in real time, prior to delivering it to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and Amazon Aurora reporting databases. Our customer GoDaddy shares how they use this architectural pattern to provide the best experience to the millions of customers that host websites on their platform.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Responding to customer needs in real time with Amazon MSK (ANT309-R1)	ANT	309	ANT309	Businesses leverage data-streaming architectures to respond to customers’ needs in real time. In this session, we discuss how you can accelerate the development of real-time applications using Amazon MSK. Adobe joins us and shares how it processes over 60 billion messages a day for hundreds of services using Apache Kafka. You learn about the challenges Adobe faces and why it is moving away from managing dozens of Kafka clusters to deploying fully managed Amazon MSK clusters with one click. Hear how this approach integrates multiple solutions built on open-source frameworks like Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and Terraform while handling message routing, advanced QoS, and HTTP clients.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data is out, knowing is in: Applying AI to automate cloud operations (AIM367-S)	AIM	367	AIM367	With firefighting, manual operations, and troubleshooting, it is an exciting time to monitor applications in the cloud. In this session, renowned DevOps and digital evangelists Andi Grabner and Dave Anderson provide practical advice on how to save time monitoring your cloud applications. Learn how to automate your operations, use AI for assisted intelligence, and enable complete automation. In addition, learn about auto-remediation and how to always know the status of your applications, no matter how complex your hybrid cloud. Also hear from one customer about how a vision can become a reality. This presentation is brought to you by Dynatrace, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Predict future business outcomes using Amazon Forecast (AIM312)	AIM	312	AIM312	Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, Amazon Forecast uses machine learning and time-series data to build accurate business forecasts. In this session, learn how machine learning can improve accuracy in demand forecasting, financial planning, and resource allocation while reducing your forecasting time from months to hours.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Detect network and security anomalies with Traffic Mirroring (MKT203-R1)	MKT	203	MKT203	Traffic Mirroring is a new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) feature that allows customers to gain insight into the network traffic across their VPC infrastructure for content inspection and threat monitoring. In this session, we discuss how to integrate third-party solutions from AWS Marketplace to simplify and optimize Traffic Mirroring for your network security and monitoring appliances. Additionally, a representative from Salesforce, a cloud-based software company and a leading CRM platform, talks about how the company uses solutions from AWS Marketplace to implement compliance and security controls, analyze traffic patterns, and meet compliance requirements.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Volkswagen takes production to the cloud (MFG204)	MFG	204	MFG204	Learn how Volkswagen and AWS are implementing the digital production platform (DPP) within the VW Industrial Cloud, a cloud-based industrial digital production platform that is transforming the company’s manufacturing and logistics processes to increase plant efficiency and uptime, improve production flexibility, and improve vehicle quality. The DPP brings together real-time data from all of the Volkswagen Group’s 120+ manufacturing plants to manage the overall effectiveness of assembly equipment, as well as tracking parts and vehicles. Learn more about the use cases to analyze critical production data to glean insights, pinpoint operational trends, improve forecasting, and streamline operations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Bringing intelligence to the edge for connected-home use cases (IOT310-R1)	IOT	310	IOT310	Device manufacturers are always looking for ways to make everyday products smarter for consumers. Sometimes, relying exclusively on the cloud isn’t optimal due to latency requirements or intermittent connectivity, so IoT devices must be able to perform some tasks locally. In this session, learn how to use AWS IoT Greengrass, a service that lets your devices act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage, and Amazon FreeRTOS, an open source operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage, to bring intelligence to the edge of the connected home.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transform industries with AWS IoT (IOT305-L)	IOT	305	IOT305	IoT accelerates digital transformation and is the springboard for smarter homes, workplaces, and industrial processes. It is a critical enabler for emerging technologies like AI/ML, robotics, and video analytics, as access to device data is crucial to training machine learning models, delivering intelligence, and driving business efficiency. With AWS IoT, organizations can securely connect, manage, and analyze device data with unmatched scalability, end-to-end security, and tight integration with other AWS services. In this session, the VP of AWS IoT shares what’s new from AWS IoT and how our customers are unlocking today’s insights to transform tomorrow’s industries.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new with AWS IoT connectivity and control services? (IOT213)	IOT	213	IOT213	AWS IoT connectivity & control services allow you to securely connect, control, and manage your devices from the cloud. In this session, you'll learn what's new across AWS IoT connectivity & control services including AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender. You'll walk away understanding how you can use AWS IoT services to securely connect, control, and manage your devices at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new with AWS IoT analytics services? (IOT208)	IOT	208	IOT208	AWS IoT analytics services help you get extra value from your IoT data. In this session, find out what's new across the analytics services, including AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT Events,  AWS IoT SiteWise, and AWS IoT Things Graph. You leave the session ready to tackle your latest analytics challenges from the factory floor, run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data to visualize on operational dashboards, and detect and respond to events from IoT sensors and applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Healthcare data interoperability on AWS (HLC308)	HLC	308	HLC308	Healthcare organizations are enabling the exchange of healthcare data through interoperability frameworks like Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). From foundational architectures for information exchange to standardization of data formats and semantic interpretation, this session shares how AWS customers and partners are transforming the Healthcare industry. Learn how organizations are using services like Amazon Aurora to run Fhirbase in order to store and transmit healthcare data.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Creating a personalized digital front door for Healthcare patients (HLC307)	HLC	307	HLC307	Healthcare organizations are developing new strategies to redesign their customer experiences and build personalized relationships in order to improve patient satisfaction and support outcome-based care. Whether your organization is looking to create a single, seamless experience across web and mobile applications or is creating a new digital user engagement platform to empower patients to take ownership of their health, this session is right for you. We share how companies are leveraging tools like Amazon Personalize and Amazon Pinpoint to create a new digital front door so that they can educate, engage, and empower their customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon Connect: Omnichannel cloud contact centers w Intuit & Salesforce (EUC209)	EUC	209	EUC209	In this session, hear about recently launched web and mobile chat for Amazon Connect. Learn how Intuit is deploying voice and chat at scale with Amazon Connect to improve customer engagement and how it implemented the solution across its global contact centers, what it learned along the way, and next steps in its contact center evolution. Specifically, Intuit shares its experiences with multi-session agents, best practices for using voice and chat simultaneously, and its approach to dynamic customer experiences. Also learn from Salesforce why it is using Amazon Connect to provide contact center solutions to its own customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Ensuring data protection readiness across hybrid environments (ENT323-S)	ENT	323	ENT323	Achieving SLAs across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments can be difficult, especially when using standalone tools for backup and disaster recovery. It's highly inefficient and makes it difficult to meet recovery SLAs. The shift to the cloud and software-defined storage can present new challenges for workload portability and data protection. In this session, learn how Commvault support for AWS provides a comprehensive data management platform for moving, managing, and using data across files, applications, databases, hypervisors, and the cloud. Learn how a single platform provides you access to extensive capabilities for data protection, backup, recovery, management, and e-discovery, all designed to run seamlessly on the AWS Cloud. This session is brought to you by Commvault, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Help protect your cloud journey with Druva on AWS (ENT322-S)	ENT	322	ENT322	For most enterprises, the top two catalysts driving innovation and transformation are ever-increasing data volumes and migration to the cloud as a scalable and cost-effective platform. The critical underpinnings of this journey are data protection across all on-premises and cloud workloads, workload mobility, data governance, analytics, and ransomware. In this technical session, solutions architects from Druva discuss how customers can make use of powerful solutions from Druva and AWS to protect and manage data, applications, and workloads across the cloud and on-premises environments. Hear about unified protection of hybrid cloud data and workloads, disaster recovery, long-term data retention and data governance, and ransomware. This presentation is brought to you by Druva, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Protect and migrate your compute instances with Zerto (ENT239-S)	ENT	239	ENT239	Having a cloud strategy is critical for a successful digital transformation, and this strategy should include application and data mobility for on-premises and cloud environments. In this session, you learn how to move workloads to AWS, reduce your disaster recovery and data protection costs by using AWS as a target, and enable your workloads to be moved to any location based on business requirements. Michael Masters from Maritz, an AWS and Zerto customer, explains how they’re using Zerto to reduce IT costs by 40 percent and achieve market-leading RTOs with no production impact, enabling an IT resilience strategy with data protection and mobility. This presentation is brought to you by Zerto, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Merck drives innovation with a “real-world data exchange” on AWS (ENT232-S)	ENT	232	ENT232	In this session, learn how Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, deployed an enterprise-wide cloud-based data and analytics platform to advance product development and commercialization. We discuss how the platform, named the Real World Data Exchange (RWDEx), was built on AWS and leverages Amazon Redshift and the Deloitte ConvergeHEALTH Miner suite as its foundation. The RWDEx is an open, API-first platform and serves a broad set of stakeholders, from data scientists to business users. Join us, and discover how RWDEx decreases the time to insight-generation and fosters collaboration to positively impact all aspects of the product lifecycle. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to go from zero to hundreds of certified AWS engineers (ENT231)	ENT	231	ENT231	For many organizations, a perceived or real lack of cloud skills in their staff can limit their move to the cloud. Proper re-skilling of your engineers and developers can speed the pace of adoption, cloud migration, and delivery of business benefits by helping your organization effectively operate the AWS Cloud. Learn about the 12 prescriptive steps that have been proven to work with many customers around the world to help accelerate their journeys. Additionally, hear from National Australia Bank about their re-skilling journey, which allowed them to go from zero to hundreds of AWS certified engineers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Operating as a high-frequency enterprise (ENT203-R1)	ENT	203	ENT203	High-frequency enterprises embrace cloud computing as a flywheel for frequent value delivery. This requires tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increase agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption and discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform and quickly deliver business value outcomes. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to become a high-frequency enterprise.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Optimize cloud migration and operations with AWS and ServiceNow (DEM39-S)	DEM	39	DEM39	IT operations and DevOps teams can use solutions from ServiceNow and AWS to create new applications and migrate legacy workloads to the AWS Cloud in order to meet the needs of their internal and external customers. In this session, we explain how AWS and ServiceNow have developed a range of connectors to manage the migration process to the AWS Cloud, improve security with AWS Security Hub, and provide improved governance of AWS CloudFormation via the AWS Service Catalog's connector with ServiceNow. Additionally, we discuss how you can improve your customer contact center with a solution using ServiceNow and Amazon Connect. This presentation is brought to you by ServiceNow, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deploying IBM storage infrastructure software on the AWS Cloud (DEM31-S)	DEM	31	DEM31	World-class storage infrastructure software is now extremely accessible. From artificial intelligence using high-capacity parallel file systems to disaster recovery and database backup to storage virtualization for cost reduction and efficient data archiving, companies can now leverage AWS to optimize their enterprise storage environments. Attend this session, and learn how IBM Spectrum Storage can help you improve scalability, increase agility, and lower costs with AWS. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Drive transformation through machine learning with Amazon SageMaker (DEM27-S)	DEM	27	DEM27	An organization’s machine learning-driven business transformation depends on how well that organization can manage change. Its people will have new roles, responsibilities, and skill sets, and it will need to implement new processes, such as efficiently migrating its data and existing models. In this session, explore a comprehensive approach to migrating analytics workloads to Amazon SageMaker. Join us and learn how to train, communicate, and succeed at change management; operationalize and automate machine learning; and migrate data, workflows, and models using AWS-powered solutions. See how one Slalom customer gained valuable insights and vision, enabling it to build a modern strategy. This presentation is brought to you by Slalom, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Managing decisions with Amazon Kinesis for better outcomes (DEM25-S)	DEM	25	DEM25	Systems like Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon MSK are great for the ingestion, delivery, and real-time analysis of streaming data. Adding a rules engine that detects patterns of events occurring in many systems enables organizations to support a much wider set of use cases. Rules engines also abstract the complexity of defining rules, empowering business users to leverage context alongside their expertise to define the next best action. In this session, learn how to combine the power of Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon MSK with business rules engines to automate sophisticated decision-making and actions. This presentation is brought to you by TIBCO Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Increase OEE using AWS Solutions: Amazon Virtual Andon (DEM150)	DEM	150	DEM150	In this demo, you learn how Amazon fulfillment centers reduced station downtime by deploying a scalable Andon system to help optimize their processes, support the transition to predictive maintenance, and prevent issues by monitoring manufacturing workstations and industrial equipment. Learn how we built two AWS Solutions—vetted reference implementation from AWS—that use the Machine to Cloud Connectivity (M2C2) framework to monitor sensors connected to a raspberry PI. See how they push that data to the AWS Cloud using AWS IoT and Amazon Virtual Andon to monitor the status of the manufacturing workstations and sensors and notify engineers when an event occurs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: We Power Tech: Women shifting to an abundance mindset (WPT204)	WPT	204	WPT204	A scarcity mindset sees the world like a pie and thinks, “One slice for me means one less slice for you.” This way of thinking leads us to simply compare ourselves with and compete with one another. Instead, we should switch to an abundance mindset: “If I succeed, you succeed." Join women in leadership to discuss shifting to an abundance mindset.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build for a better today: Harnessing AI/ML to transform your mission (WPS204)	WPS	204	WPS204	Learn how AWS AI and ML have the power to transform your mission and solve your biggest challenges by saving lives, curing diseases, eradicating crime such as human-trafficking child abductions, and ending future famines.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Start using AI/ML/DL in your .NET applications today (WIN311)	WIN	311	WIN311	Are you looking for ways to add new AI/ML/DL technologies to your .NET applications but don't know where to start? In this session, learn how to leverage AWS machine-learning services for your .NET applications to do things like text translation, text to speech, transcription, sentiment analysis, and image analysis.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Containerize .NET Apps with Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate (WIN309)	WIN	309	WIN309	Packaging software into containers gives your code everything needed to run with consistency from your laptop into production. But how do you run containers at scale in the cloud? In this session, learn how to run containerized Windows and .NET applications in production on AWS. We show you how to run Windows containers on Kubernetes with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We also demonstrate the benefits of running .NET Core Linux containers serverlessly with AWS Fargate. We cover core concepts and use demos to help you feel comfortable getting started with building and deploying .NET containerized applications on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five new features of Microsoft and .NET on AWS that you want to learn (WIN201-L)	WIN	201	WIN201	Still running Microsoft on premises? Not using SQL Server data in your ML/AI strategy? Join this leadership session to learn about AWS’s strategy for migration and modernization, latest features, and best practices on how to better run Microsoft workloads like Windows, SQL Server, Active Directory, and .NET applications on AWS. Hear from customers leveraging Windows on AWS workloads as their secret sauce. From lowering TCO to maximizing the 5-year ROI to building new innovative solutions to drive growth in areas such as machine learning, containers, and serverless, come learn how many organizations are leveraging their legacy in the new world.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Securing enterprise-grade serverless apps (SVS310-R1)				In this session, we discuss the development practices and architectural principles that the most innovative builders are implementing to secure their serverless applications in the cloud. Join us as we cover security considerations for serverless applications and discuss strategies to minimize risks and protect against threats.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Automatically scale a serverless app with Amazon Textract & MongoDB (SVS210-S)				Working with disorganized data is expensive and wasteful. One area in which this is readily apparent is the legal field, especially during the data discovery phase. In this session, we use Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, and MongoDB Atlas to build a serverless product that seamlessly ingests documents and intelligently organizes their data, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. We show you how to easily interconnect these services using AWS Lambda as a backend and how to quickly create web and mobile user interfaces using MongoDB Realm. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to build a company founded on engineering principles (STP208)	STP	208	STP208	Intercom is “all in” on AWS—a strategy that’s aligned with the engineering principles used to build the company. This talk covers how the company uses those principles to make engineering decisions. Learn about the evolution of Intercom’s architecture, from handful of Amazon EC2 hosts to thousands of instances. Also learn how Intercom uses Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and more. Finally, learn why Intercom decided against leveraging microservices, and why this has increased its ability to move fast and ship great products.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The modern startup: A look at today’s most successful architectures (STP203)	STP	203	STP203	The approach among the most successful startups is almost unfailingly to adopt early, iterate quickly, and disrupt, disrupt, disrupt. Under the technical hood of all that velocity and change are modern cloud architectures. We’ve collected a handful of the best architectures from top startups around the world. In this session, we dive into their design decisions to understand what makes these architectures modern and why you should consider adopting them. We dig into deployments, orchestration, data analysis, and security to give you a complete view of what newest and most successful cloud trends are emerging from the world of startups.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Securing Amazon EFS for container and data science applications (STG364)	STG	364	STG364	In this session, we explore how you can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a scalable, elastic, cloud-native NFS file system to modernize your applications and data science environments. We cover considerations and best practices when connecting Amazon EFS file systems to applications running in containers in multiple frameworks. We also show you how to make the most use of Amazon EFS for data science environments as a repository for notebook files and a place where data scientists can rapidly iterate on training data.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Implementing a data lake on Amazon S3 ft. AppsFlyer (STG359-R1)	STG	359	STG359	Flexibility is key when building and scaling a data lake, and by choosing the right storage architecture you will have agility to quickly experiment and migrate with the latest analytics solutions. In this session, we explore the best practices for building a data lake on Amazon S3 that allows you to leverage an entire array of AWS, open-source, and third-party analytics tools, helping you remain at the cutting edge. We explore use cases for analytics tools, including Amazon EMR and AWS Glue, and query-in-place tools like Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Amazon S3 Select, and Amazon Glacier Select.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrate and modernize SFTP file transfer workflows with AWS (STG333)	STG	333	STG333	File transfers via SFTP and other protocols are still critical to business processes across industries worldwide. In this session, we dive into AWS Transfer for SFTP, a service that helps migrate file-transfer workflows to AWS while maintaining integration with your existing authentication, security, and network configurations. Hear how AWS customers moved their file-transfer workloads to AWS and modernized downstream processes for populating data lakes and for business-critical systems such as CRM. This session also features demonstrations of the service’s newer key capabilities.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices for Amazon S3, ft. Instructure (STG302-R1)	STG	302	STG302	Learn best practices for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) security, data protection, storage management, cost optimization, and more. In this session, we look at common Amazon S3 use cases and ways to manage large volumes of data within Amazon S3. Learn more about our latest feature enhancements and how you can get started with each of them. We also talk about ways to monitor and visualize your storage environment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Shift your tape backups to AWS to save time and money (STG217)	STG	217	STG217	IT operations teams are asked by business stakeholders to store more data for backup, archiving, and compliance reasons, often with less budget and fewer people. If you face this challenge, see how AWS Storage Gateway's tape-gateway configuration shifts tape backups and archives to AWS. This enables you to use the lowest-cost storage in the cloud for backups—without changing workflows or applications. Learn how tape gateways work, hear from an AWS customer how and why they are using one, and see a demonstration. Gain understanding of the business-case and deployment steps to move your tape backups to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to use AWS storage for on-premises file-based applications (STG211)	STG	211	STG211	Many organizations have on-premises file storage supporting local users and applications, yet they want to leverage cloud storage to reduce their infrastructure-management burden and costs. AWS offers storage options that you can use in hybrid cloud architectures, including File Gateway and Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. In this session, learn how you can use AWS storage for on-premises use cases, including user home directories, cloud-backed file shares for applications, content repositories, analytics workloads, and enterprise business applications. Gain an understanding of what service to use in different scenarios, hear customer examples, and see a demonstration.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Real-world Veeam backup & disaster recovery with AWS: A customer view (STG210-S)	STG	210	STG210	Join AWS customers and experts as they talk about Veeam Availability Suite backup and recovery with AWS. No matter where you are in your journey with AWS—from planning to workload migration to production—this session offers you valuable tips and lessons from AWS customers. This is an interactive session with opportunities to engage with Veeam and AWS experts who share best practices and strategies for cloud data management. This presentation is brought to you by Veeam, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Pacific Dental shifts left with McAfee for cloud security automation (SEC336-S)	SEC	336	SEC336	Cloud-native architecture moves faster than traditional security best practices are intended for. During Pacific Dental’s move to AWS, it enhanced and operationalized its security to match the speed and scale of the cloud, using a cloud access security broker (CASB) to proactively address the shared responsibility model and risks to their data. As the speed of the DevOps process increases, security models need to “shift left” along with them, ensuring that resources, containers, and code comply with best practices to produce secure systems. Join this session to learn how Pacific Dental leverages McAfee’s MVISION Cloud to address these challenges and fulfill its security responsibility on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by McAfee, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running MongoDB securely on AWS using field-level encryption (SEC208-S)	SEC	208	SEC208	To help prevent unauthorized access to your data, especially in the cloud, it is critical to deploy and maintain strong encryption. In this session, learn how to use client-side field-level encryption to keep your data secure. We start by explaining how to best deploy and configure a MongoDB cloud service. We then show you how to write applications that encrypt data using safe key management practices without sacrificing the ability to query. Finally, we demonstrate how MongoDB customers already write code so that service providers never see anything but ciphertext. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS security (SEC201-L)	SEC	201	SEC201	Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer for AWS, addresses the current state of security in the cloud, with a focus on feature updates, the AWS internal “secret sauce,” and what’s to come in terms of security, identity, and compliance tooling.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] The right AWS network architecture for the right reason (NET320-R1)	NET	320	NET320	The unlimited choices that technology provides can be empowering to builders who understand what they want to build and how to build it. But some get overwhelmed when trying to decide on architectural constructs that appear to solve the same problem. Should I use VPC peering or AWS Transit Gateway? Is Shared VPC a better fit for my Amazon EKS deployment? In this talk, two solutions architects discuss how to identify the right solutions for the right reasons, how architectural decisions might change based on the scale of a workload, and how one size does not fit all design patterns.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Maintaining security and availability on the unpredictable internet (NET313)	NET	313	NET313	With billions of internet users worldwide, maintaining up-time and a strong security posture is critical to earning your customers’ trust. Unexpected fiber cuts, malicious hackers, and the latest viral sensations create internet inconsistencies that can bring down any web application. For many, the first line of defense is Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) designed for availability, security, and performance. In this session, learn how CloudFront engineering teams provide the highest levels of availability and security. We look at what happens behind the scenes when our operators are paged into action to resolve common issues across the internet.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Develop serverless GraphQL architectures using AWS AppSync (MOB309-R1)				AWS AppSync is the managed GraphQL service of AWS. In addition to queries, mutations, and subscriptions, AWS AppSync integrates seamlessly with many AWS data sources, VPC resources, and external sources, including microservices and other GraphQL endpoints. Learn how to rapidly develop a GraphQL data layer in your architecture, assisted by generated resolvers, declarative security, and client libraries. BMW joins us to share how it used AWS AppSync to build a holistic, data-centric GraphQL API for vehicle signals.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The why, what & how of transforming and innovating with SAP solutions (ENT225)	ENT	225	ENT225	Thousands of customers currently run SAP on AWS, and many more are evaluating their SAP migration and innovation strategies. In this session, discover how 11 years of joint innovation with SAP and AWS have helped create a path of choice for customers on their SAP transformation journey. Learn how companies evaluated moving their SAP landscapes to the cloud, why they’ve chosen AWS on which to run SAP, and how they are now innovating on behalf of their customers faster.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transform your business with the VMware & AWS hybrid cloud (ENT212-S)	ENT	212	ENT212	VMware and AWS are making hybrid cloud architecture a reality. Learn about the latest innovations in our jointly architected hybrid cloud services and how these services can benefit your workloads and applications. VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a highly scalable and secure service, enabling you to seamlessly migrate, run, and protect workloads in industry-leading vSphere-based environments running natively on the AWS Cloud. VMware solutions for AWS Outposts bring these innovations on premises and deliver the data center as a service experience. In this session, experts provide a technical overview of the services, discuss what’s new, and talk about customer use cases. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Introduction to DevOps on AWS (DOP209-R1)	DOP	209	DOP209	How can you accelerate the delivery of new, high-quality services? Are you able to experiment and get feedback quickly from your customers? How do you scale your development team from 1 to 1,000? To answer these questions, it is essential to leverage some key DevOps principles and use CI/CD pipelines so you can iterate on and quickly release features. In this talk, we walk you through the journey of a single developer building a successful product and scaling their team and processes to hundreds or thousands of deployments per day. We also walk you through best practices and using AWS tools to achieve your DevOps goals.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transforming IT pros to DevOps gurus: Ssecure your new tech stacks (DOP204-S)	DOP	204	DOP204	Large enterprises are limited by legacy systems. With existing tools, traditional platforms, outdated requirements, and more, IT and engineering teams have difficulty building in a modern way. Hear how Pivvot, a US enterprise, used tools in the AWS Cloud to escape this traditional trap. The Pivvot team learned to scale by adopting a DevOps philosophy to support hundreds of organizations and thousands of customers inside a commercial software company. Learn how building a pipeline-driven cloud-native process with built-in security helps modernize an organization. Culture change is challenging, but with the right approach and a strong tech stack, you can build securely and ship quickly in the AWS Cloud. This presentation is brought to you by Trend Micro, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: It’s a cloud world: Define your own path with Citrix and AWS (DEM56-S)	DEM	56	DEM56	In this session, learn how Citrix and AWS deliver on speed, intelligence, stability, and global reach. Hear how you can accelerate the delivery of high-performance compliant applications, desktops, and data to users and capitalize on Citrix Workspace intelligence to organize, guide, and automate work. Learn how microapps enable employees to concentrate on tasks that deliver true business value. We explain how the Citrix networking solution stack and AWS are always ready, reliable, secure, and compliant with policy requirements to meet your needs. Finally, hear how AWS, Citrix Workspace, and Citrix networking solutions enable you to deliver a consistently great employee experience to workers regardless of their locations. This presentation is brought to you by Citrix Systems, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Time to awesome: InfluxDB and the AWS environment (DEM50-S)	DEM	50	DEM50	InfluxDB, an open-source time series database, is available on AWS in a variety of forms, from an AWS Marketplace offering to a managed service and now a serverless database platform. In this session, hear how InfluxData is enabling developers to integrate time series data with non–time series data resident in other AWS sources, such as MySQL, Postgres, and MariaDB. The goal is to improve the amount of time it takes to solve problems, or “time to awesome,” while reducing the amount of code you have to write. This presentation is brought to you by InfluxData, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to create a location-aware chatbot, and why (DEM26-S)	DEM	26	DEM26	In this session, Michael Palermo of HERE Technologies provides guidance for using location terms when designing for Amazon Lex or Alexa. Learn tips on how to design intents, sample utterances, and slots, and learn how to call location services from a serverless architecture. This presentation is brought to you by HERE Technologies, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Stream from multiple on-premises sources onto AWS (DEM10-S)	DEM	10	DEM10	Join data integration experts Mark Van de Wiel, HVR CTO, and Sreevani Abbaraju, HVR director of product management, for a discussion and demonstration about streaming data. They show you how easy it can be to stream data from multiple on-premises sources onto AWS in real time. Learn how log-based change data capture is a non-intrusive and low-impact way to replicate data and why a distributed architecture optimizes delivery of data for speed and efficiency. They end the session with security best practices for data replication to AWS. This presentation is brought to you by HVR, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on DNS in the hybrid cloud (NET410)	NET	410	NET410	The launch of Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints and forwarding rules has opened up a variety of exciting new options for managing DNS resolution, especially in hybrid cloud environments. This session gives a quick overview of the product before taking a deep dive into the design of Route 53 Resolver, including how it complements Route 53 private DNS and best practices to achieve availability and performance. We also dive into some new patterns that are emerging with services such as AWS Transit Gateway, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] AWS Transit Gateway reference architectures for many VPCs (NET406-R1)	NET	406	NET406	In this advanced session, we review common architectural patterns for designing networks with many VPCs. Segmentation, security, scalability, cross-region connectivity, and flexibility become more important as you scale on AWS. We review designs that include AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect, VPN, AWS PrivateLink, VPC peering, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Service mesh across hybrid infrastructure (NET211-S)	NET	211	NET211	Having visibility of services and traffic between an on-premises data center and AWS can help you understand costs, troubleshoot requests, secure connections, and maintain application resiliency. In this session, we walk through how to configure AWS Cloud Map and HashiCorp Consul so that you can observe services and manage traffic between the cloud and your data center. We also show you how to trace a request from an AWS application to a data center database in order to troubleshoot an issue. This presentation is brought to you HashiCorp, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Innovations in mobile & web app development (MOB306-L)	MOB	306	MOB306	Get all the details on the most recent services and features released by the AWS mobile team. Learn about our innovations in mobile and web app development with AWS Amplify libraries, toolchain, and AWS Amplify Console. Learn how AWS AppSync’s new customer-driven features make it an ideal GraphQL API layer for your apps. Two AWS customers join us to share their stories. HyperTrack presents its use of AWS services for processing millions of real-time data points for live location tracking. Dow Jones discusses how AWS services helped it create a mobile tracking and collaboration tool for the WSJ newsroom.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS management and governance services (MGT201-L)	MGT	201	MGT201	AWS management and governance services can help your organization become and remain agile while enabling you to maintain control over costs, compliance, and security. Join us to hear AWS service leaders discuss their vision and the latest launches from the AWS management and governance teams, including innovations you can leverage now from Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, AWS Organizations, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Control Tower, AWS Systems Manager, and much more. We are joined onstage by current AWS customers who discuss how they use management and governance services today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data lakes reimagined: Efficiency & innovation at Bristol-Myers Squibb (LFS204)	LFS	204	LFS204	The increasing amount of data available to pharmaceutical companies creates pressure on R&D teams to orchestrate and analyze that data and generate insights that will help patients prevail over serious diseases. In this session, learn how Bristol-Myers Squibb used AWS services to create a platform-based approach for ingesting, preparing, curating, and persisting business-critical data for digital integration, analytics, and insights generation. Hear how this approach has improved the company’s efficiency, enhanced cost savings, and decreased the time-to-service for its data customers. Additionally, gain an understanding of the lessons learned from this process, and learn best practices for other organizations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Driving operational performance across industrial facilities w/ AWS (IOT221-R1)	IOT	221	IOT221	AWS IoT Core helps you easily monitor equipment across your industrial facilities to identify waste, such as breakdown of equipment and processes, production inefficiencies, and defects in products; identify equipment inefficiencies; and take action if issues are detected. In this session, we walk you through how to unlock OT data. We also discuss common industrial performance pitfalls and ways to better analyze industrial equipment data and detect complex events, resulting in increased overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
AWS re:Invent 2019: Making the CASE: Cloud-based innovation in the automotive industry (IOT217-S)	IOT	217	IOT217	CASE (connected, autonomous, shared, electric) technologies are reshaping the automotive industry, and that’s both an opportunity and a threat. Automakers must rethink their relations with consumers and the entire mobility ecosystem. In this session, Accenture and AWS discuss how cloud-based innovation is accelerating the development of mobility use cases at scale, such as in-vehicle biometrics for managing driver/owner identity, blockchain for establishing smart contracts with charging service vendors, and new payment capabilities built into the vehicle. We also talk about getting your company organized to adopt these innovations and deliver them in a lean way, quickly, and at scale. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Digital transformation and IoT monetization (IOT207-R1)	IOT	207	IOT207	AWS IoT is deployed at scale across industries around the globe—but what's the business outcome behind the buzz? In this session, we dive deep into how some customers are monetizing their IoT solutions built on AWS. We also explore examples of bottom-line impact resulting from digital transformation of manufacturing across a variety of use cases, including: predictive maintenance, asset performance management, self-optimizing product, and automated inventory management.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five steps AMS leverages to accelerate cloud adoption (ENT215)	ENT	215	ENT215	Lift and shift? Replatform? Or refactor as you shift? This question comes up when enterprises are deciding how to balance the amount of change to legacy applications versus speed as they move to the cloud. Join us and learn the five steps AWS Managed Services (AMS) takes as part of its recommended minimum viable refactoring. Hear from Sallie Mae about its journey in working with AMS. A representative shares the technical, operations, licensing, compatibility, and even cultural trade-offs that were made as Sallie Mae prepared its systems to be well-operated in the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Meredith delivers media content to all with AWS and Rubrik (ARC206-S)	ARC	206	ARC206	Meredith Corporation is America’s largest media company of iconic magazine brands, television stations, and radio stations, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, InStyle, and Allrecipes. Delivering that content online and in print requires Meredith’s IT department to maintain a robust and highly available hybrid infrastructure on premises and on AWS. Join Meredith and its cloud data management partner, Rubrik, to learn how Meredith keeps up with the growing demand for more media by leveraging different AWS services to run its production workloads. Additionally, you’ll learn how Rubrik protects Meredith’s media assets on premises and in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by Rubrik, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Think Forward Initiative: People making better financial decisions (AIM231-S)	AIM	231	AIM231	Want to learn more about using technology to impact society? Join this session! Currently, 42 percent of Europeans face financial difficulties. As lead partners of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI), Deloitte, AWS, and ING aim to empower 100 million Europeans to make better financial decisions by translating the latest consumer behavior insights into easy applicable tools. In this session, you learn how TFI supports early stage scale-ups by using Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud9, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Personalize in an accelerator program. You also learn about the AWS Well-Architected Review and AWS Activate programs. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Operational excellence with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (GPSTEC345)	TEC	345	TEC345	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. While database migrations are a hot topic, a common inhibitor for adoption is operational excellence. Common customer feedback is that they want their staff to be operationally ready before they take the solution to market. This means that the customers don’t just want to choose the best technology based on features and cost, they want to also be operationally successful with that technology to provide a continuous value to their business. In this session, we discuss the top questions of operations teams as well as the top mistakes to avoid when running Amazon Aurora in production.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Rovio teaches Angry Birds to fly in the cloud using ML (GAM301)	GAM	301	GAM301	On Angry Birds’s tenth birthday, join Rovio Entertainment to learn how one of the world’s most recognizable game franchises came to life with the help of AWS Cloud services and continues to entertain millions of gamers using machine learning. In this session, David Mason (SVP of technology) and Asko Relas (senior data engineer) show how Rovio supports millions of players worldwide and serves thousands of requests per second. Discover how, with four billion analytic events captured per day, Rovio uses machine learning to predict and deliver the perfect level of fun for players.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AXA: Scaling adoption with a global landing zone (FSI202)	FSI	202	FSI202	Like many global financial institutions, AXA faces the challenge of globally scaling its cloud adoption. The company needed to deploy a landing zone across 80+ entities operating in 60+ countries. In this session, learn how AXA took a unique and agile approach that enables local teams to autonomously test, validate, and propose changes to landing zone templates while centrally monitoring adherence to detective and preventative controls. We explore how AXA accelerated the secure migration of hundreds of applications to AWS by embedding its landing zone within an organizational transformation program that includes robust cloud onboarding and change management processes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Managing your cloud financials as you scale on AWS (ENT204-R1)	ENT	204	ENT204	Cloud financial management is a set of capabilities that allows customers to successfully manage, optimize, and predict cloud costs. In this session, you learn fundamentals of cloud financial management with AWS and how to build a cost-conscious culture in your organization without slowing down innovation. Guest speakers from Lyft will join us and share how they’ve accelerated cost optimization and improved cost visibility while growing their business with AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Dynamic edge protection (DEM57-S)	DEM	57	DEM57	AWS is the perfect company for Forcepoint to work with to create the future of security for the modern highly distributed enterprise. Learn how Forcepoint is using AWS to architect its new cloud-based, modular, extensible security platform for organizations that are transitioning to cloud-based applications (both their own and third-party applications). This session focuses on how AWS helps with the challenges of delivering a security SaaS solution, creating behavior-informed risk-adaptive security, and combining security and application-based networking to address the changing needs of compliance-focused industries. This is security at the speed of innovation. This presentation is brought to you by Forcepoint, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Asset tracking: IoT data from device to business outcomes (DEM51-S)	DEM	51	DEM51	In this session, we discuss the challenge that most organizations face when embracing digital transformation—optimizing their operations. For companies in asset-intensive industries to track their assets, they need to ingest and store massive amounts of IoT data, combine it with data from other parts of the business, analyze it, add data science to it, set alerts on it, and make it actionable by quickly putting it into the hands of business decision makers. Learn how your organization can more rapidly leverage the value of IoT asset tracking data using the Domo Asset Tracking application, an integrated solution created by Verizon, AWS, and Domo. This presentation is brought to you by Domo, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Seamless networking across the edge, the private cloud, and AWS (DEM33-S)	DEM	33	DEM33	Many organizations are migrating applications to the cloud to realize advantages such as elasticity, global scale, and lower cost. With this migration, the network becomes the critical element connecting users to edge, private cloud, and AWS applications. Join this session, and learn how the 128 Technology Session Smart Router, in combination with the 128 Technology Conductor, removes the networking barriers that can slow deployment of new cloud applications. We discuss these benefits in the context of a customer case study from an analytics SaaS provider. This presentation is brought to you by 128 Technology, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How IBM enhances security on AWS and your hybrid cloud (DEM32-S)	DEM	32	DEM32	As your business innovates on AWS, it’s critical to protect data, users, and workloads, align threat management, and prepare for incident response aligned to the NIST lifecycle. Learn how IBM Security delivers a unique combination of technology and expertise. Hear about the new IBM Cloud Pak for Security, which allows you to quickly integrate existing security tools and generate deeper insights into threats across AWS and hybrid cloud environments using an infrastructure-independent common operating environment that runs anywhere. You can search for threats, orchestrate actions, and automate responses—all while leaving your data where it is. IBM Security solutions work with Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub, and more. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Capitalize on data and AI with IBM Cloud Pak for Data on AWS (DEM21-S)	DEM	21	DEM21	Organizations are leveraging the cloud, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate digital transformation and gain a competitive advantage, but 81 percent of organizations do not understand the data needed for AI. In this session, learn how IBM can help with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, a cloud-native data and AI architecture that supports AWS. You learn how this open, extensible data and AI platform enables you to collect, organize, and analyze all types of data and operationalize AI into your business with trust and transparency. Finally, you learn how to apply Cloud Pak for Data on AWS to accelerate your journey to AI. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Armor cloud security: Security & compliance in the public cloud (DEM01-S)	DEM	01	DEM01	This session explores how companies can achieve continuous security and compliance for their cloud workloads. We explore how infrastructure as code and cloud security posture management tools can achieve continuous security, compliance monitoring, and threat intelligence in the context of hybrid cloud environments. One policy, in the cloud, continuous security achieved. This presentation is brought to you by Armor Defense, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS purpose-built databases (DAT209-L)	DAT	209	DAT209	In this session, Shawn Bice, VP of databases, discusses the AWS purpose-built database strategy and explains why your application should drive the requirements for which database(s) to use, not the other way around. Learn about the purpose of each AWS database service and how AWS customers are using purpose-built databases to build some of the most scalable applications on the planet. If you are a technology or engineering leader and you’re trying to understand how to modernize your data strategy, this session is for you. We discuss using various approaches for new application development, lifting-and-shifting to managed services, and refactoring monolithic database architectures to use purpose-built databases.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Policy-based management of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters (CON214-S)	CON	214	CON214	As your organization embraces Kubernetes, the number of clusters will explode, and it will become difficult to manage a consistent set of access, application security, configuration, and resource quota policies. In this session, you learn how to use a Kubernetes control plane to manage policies across hundreds of disparate clusters and align thousands of users with resources to maximize security and self-service. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Healthfirst driving digital transformation through data & analytics (ANT243-S)	ANT	243	ANT243	In this session, Accenture and Healthfirst, a New York City health plan provider, share key insights and lessons learned about how they used data and analytics modernization to drive digital enablement. The overall program was initiated to improve the Heathfirst member experience, including driving better care, service, and overall engagement strategies. This session outlines the key innovations within the Healthfirst data program, including how it increased member retention, quality scores, and member satisfaction by developing a strong data foundation for the enterprise. Additionally, learn how the team used AWS solutions to support the program, including AWS Glue, Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend Medical. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to sell in AWS Marketplace (GPSMKT203)	MKT	203	MKT203	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. In this session, we show you the steps of how to list your product in AWS Marketplace. Learn how leading independent software vendors (ISVs) are reaching new customers and decreasing the time it takes to close transactions using AWS Marketplace.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Co-selling with the AWS Sales Organization (GPSBUS206)	BUS	206	BUS206	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Do you want to build a stronger co-selling relationship with AWS Sales? Come hear from AWS account managers from around the globe on their tips, tricks, and experience when working with APN Partners to solve customer business needs. You will leave with an understanding of topics such as what a successful co-selling engagement looks like, do’s and don’ts for joint meetings, best ways to differentiate from the tens of thousands of APN Partners, and how to leverage the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Pipeline Manager.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: End-user computing (EUC210-L)	EUC	210	EUC210	In this session, Nathan Thomas, GM of Amazon WorkSpaces, and Muneer Mirza, GM of Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkLink, share our vision for end-user computing at AWS. We show how the world's largest companies are deploying global solutions for their users, and dive into recent feature updates.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Designing an open-source observability stack for Kubernetes (DOP218-S)	DOP	218	DOP218	Observability teams today need to achieve complete visibility into the systems that they monitor, but Kubernetes deployments can add significant complexity to achieving this goal. Open-source tools provide powerful options and come with serious advantages in cost, agility, and speed. Join Logz.io co-founder Asaf Yigal to learn how you can gain observability for Kubernetes projects with open-source tools. He reviews OSS telemetry tools for Kubernetes and how to deploy them for monitoring, logging, and tracing on AWS. He also covers the importance of security and how to add it to your observability stack. This session is brought to you by Logz.io, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Breaking the monolith with style and speed (DOP206-S)	DOP	206	DOP206	Microservices are here to stay, but nearly all of the most successful architectures originate from the classic monolith. The promised land of microservices is filled with treasures like decoupled deploys, scalability, resilience, development velocity, and more. However, the journey there can involve prolonged seasons of pain, suffering, and even regret. This talk is the story of how Stitch Fix used all three pillars of observability to build confidence, accelerate its migration, and collaborate with other teams. Learn about the strategies that Stitch Fix used and how it incorporated logs, metrics, and traces into these strategies. This presentation is brought to you by Datadog, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Sercomm presents a total solution for future smart homes and buildings (DEM59-S)	DEM	59	DEM59	Sercomm is dedicated to helping customers innovate in the connected home and building sectors and to go from nothing to product launch within a mere six months. In this session, Andy Lin, director of platform business development at Sercomm, shares how the company built a secure and scalable solution to help service providers and system integrators quickly provision IoT devices and create new revenue streams from VSaaS businesses. You also learn about why Sercomm’s solution based on Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and AWS IoT Core can save video recording and data storage costs for operators with more than 3.1 million subscribers. This presentation is brought to you by Sercomm, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Battle-tested tactics to accelerate data science and ML R&D with AWS (DEM52-S)	DEM	52	DEM52	While software engineers benefit from a mature tooling ecosystem, data scientists often aren’t as lucky. To add to this challenge, data science typically requires tight integration with infrastructure to handle large amounts of data and computation, even during early research and development (R&D) stages. In this session, Gabriel Bianconi from Toptal draws from his experience as a machine learning (ML) consultant and walks you through the behind-the-scenes aspects of successful case studies as well as lessons learned from failed experiments. Solutions that enable practitioners to prototype and iterate more quickly while taking on less technical debt are of particular focus. This presentation is brought to you by Toptal, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How blockchain for business is already changing your everyday life (DEM48-S)	DEM	48	DEM48	You can now run state-of-the-art blockchain solutions for the enterprise on AWS. The IBM Blockchain Platform builds upon Hyperledger Fabric open-source software and leverages Kubernetes to run on the AWS Cloud. In this session, hear from Vinny Mullineaux, CEO of Vertrax, and Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, as they explain how blockchain is helping change your everyday life behind the scenes, from optimizing supply chain planning in the Oil and Gas industry to enabling identity management and optimizing the food supply chain. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From discovery to optimization: Four steps to cloud adoption (DEM44-S)	DEM	44	DEM44	You’re the one charged with planning a cloud strategy and migrating your company’s IT workloads to the cloud. But making the wrong decision can be costly to your company and career. In this session, learn how to get the actionable intelligence needed to optimize your cloud journey from start to finish with RISC Networks/Flexera. Learn how RISC Networks can help your organization take complete control of your IT, from on premises to the cloud, giving you the right insight so that you don’t take the wrong step. Come learn what successful companies deploying cloud solutions do at every critical step in their journeys. This presentation is brought to you by Flexera, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How data prep on AWS empowers Autodesk customer analytics (DEM29-S)	DEM	29	DEM29	Developing a 360-degree view of customer financial metrics can give organizations the ability to make proactive decisions instead of being reactive with account team strategies. However, customer data is usually housed in various sources and requires a lot of effort to join metrics by mapping IDs, account names, and other fields. This data can be presented in conflicting formats, and the number of records can exceed what common data tools can handle. In this session, learn how Autodesk is leveraging Trifacta on AWS to create a streamlined data pipeline process to automate the delivery of holistic customer analytics. This presentation is brought to you by Trifacta, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: APIs: ROI from artificial intelligence (DEM18-S)	DEM	18	DEM18	Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are top priorities for many companies. Despite this, productionalizing ML processes is an underrated problem, and as a result, businesses often find themselves failing to maximize ROI from their data initiatives. In this session, Will Nowak identifies best practices and common pitfalls in bringing ML and AI models to production. He also details what the steps to get there look like. This presentation is brought to you by Dataiku, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building a culture of curiosity at your company (DEM17-S)	DEM	17	DEM17	We’re all curious and have questions that can be answered with company data. There’s just one problem: most of us don’t have the coding skills to query data warehouses. In this session, we discuss how Volta Charging has built an internal culture of curiosity with the help of the right analytics stack. Today, teams across the company leverage cloud-based analytics to combine data streams and build live models, reports, and dashboards using advanced SQL queries—and they do it all without writing code. Join this session to learn how Volta unlocks insight-driven decisions company-wide and how your company can do the same. This presentation is brought to you by Sigma Computing, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Kubernetes clusters & on AWS with Cisco Container Platform (CON211-S)	CON	211	CON211	In this session, you learn how to use Cisco Container Platform (part of the Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS) to set up and configure Kubernetes clusters in your data center and on AWS. We demonstrate installing and configuring Cisco Container Platform, setting up clusters on top of VMware infrastructure, and leveraging AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to set up clusters in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This presentation is brought to you by Cisco, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: What’s new in compute? (CMP201-L)	CMP	201	CMP201	In this session, Dave Brown, vice president, Amazon EC2, introduces the latest innovations in the compute space, announcing new compute capabilities as well as walking you through a few key services and features, including Amazon EC2 instances, EC2 networking, EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon Lightsail, and AWS Outposts. Dave is joined by Matt Garman, vice president of AWS compute services, to share some of the history of AWS as well as insights into the underlying thinking that makes the AWS compute business unique.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Alexa, where's my car? Test driving AWS connected vehicle solution 2.0 (AUT305)	AUT	305	AUT305	Connected vehicles are driving digital transformation in the automotive industry, providing immersive customer experiences, new revenue, and insights to the business. In this session, we introduce new features and use cases of the open-source AWS connected vehicle solution, which leverages AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon DynamoDB, and a new software over-the-air update capability. Then, MOIA, a standalone company under the Volkswagen Group with a focus on developing mobility solutions, reviews how it uses AWS IoT in its architecture and gives a demo of its all-electric vehicle fleet management and ride-sharing solution.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerated analytics: Building the next-gen data platform for Hertz (ARC414-S)	ARC	414	ARC414	Hertz is undertaking a massive digital transformation to evolve its technology landscape. This move provides an opportunity to extract valuable insights from a large amount of data produced by the new systems. In this session, learn how Deloitte collaborated with Hertz to build a next-generation data platform, which includes an integration hub, a unified reporting layer, and an ecosystem of tools used to build advanced analytics models. Discover how the solution leveraged all native AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EMR, and AWS Lambda, to enable cross-functional insights and accelerate the cloud journey in under 12 months. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Reimagine SME banking: OpenDATA-enabled innovation at Rabobank (ARC223-S)	ARC	223	ARC223	Banks face unprecedented challenges as customer needs evolve, regulations change, and fintech disrupts the market. Come learn how Rabobank, enabled by Deloitte’s OpenDATA platform, launched an SME lending solution in just 13 weeks, allowing customers to receive loan offers in less than 15 minutes based on machine learning and artificial intelligence models. Hear how this end-to-end platform powered by AWS acts as a toolkit to kick-start rapid innovation and delivery through an integrated set of cloud services and accelerators. This session details Rabobank’s journey, including how the OpenDATA platform can enable incumbent financial services players to build and launch winning products in an open banking world. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build reliable data lakes with Delta Lake & Databricks (ANT347-S)	ANT	347	ANT347	Enterprises need secure and reliable data storage to drive successful analytics programs. Data lakes are a key architectural element of modern data platforms, yet they can suffer from reliability challenges. In this session, you learn about the key data reliability challenges that data lakes face and how you can use open-source Delta Lake to apply schema enforcement, ACID transactions, and versioning to your data lake, making it usable for analytics. This presentation is brought to you by Databricks, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to scale data analytics w/ Amazon Redshift, ft. Warner Bros. (ANT335-R1)	ANT	335	ANT335	Modern cloud data warehouses must be able to scale up and out to handle variable analytics workloads. In this session, we discuss Amazon Redshift's ability to deliver top performance at the lowest and most predictable cost for any use case or workload. Learn how Amazon Redshift handles small datasets with large bursts of query activity, large datasets with complex queries, a mix of frequently queried data and infrequently accessed historical data, a mix of open file formats in an Amazon S3 data lake and structured data in Amazon Redshift, and more. Additionally, Warner Brothers discusses how it has seen improvements to its analytics performance with Amazon Redshift.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Amazon leverages AWS to deliver analytics at enterprise scale (ANT204-R1)	ANT	204	ANT204	Amazon.com migrated its enterprise data warehouse—hundreds of thousands of daily jobs running in one of the world's largest Oracle data warehouses—to a scalable, AWS-based data lake in less than two years. In this session, we dive into the architecture of Amazon.com's data lake and how it leveraged Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR. We also review the key strategies used to migrate all of the legacy jobs to the new system, and we include lessons learned from the first year of running the system at scale after the migration.
AWS re:Invent 2019: We Power Tech: Promoting fairness in AI/ML (WPT202)	WPT	202	WPT202	AI/ML includes innovative technologies that have incredible potential to improve people’s lives by helping to solve challenging, real-world problems. Join us as we discuss why it’s imperative that the teams working on these problems represent diverse perspectives with respect to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and orientation to foster ideas that best serve our customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Ginkgo Bioworks uses AWS to make organisms (STP201)	STP	201	STP201	Ginkgo Bioworks makes custom microbes for a wide range of industries. Each year, the company makes three times as many microbes as the year before. For each project, it must design microbes' metabolism, genetic sequences, and potentially new laboratory protocols. It also must keep track of millions of laboratory operations and measurements. To do this, Ginkgo Bioworks leverages AWS to create its microbe designs, run workflows, aggregate data, and run analytics—all at an exponentially accelerating speed. In this session, learn about the company's migration process to AWS and how it is being used to scale Ginkgo Bioworks' operations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Self-service disaster recovery for AWS with Druva (STG365-S)	STG	365	STG365	In this session, learn how Druva’s SaaS solution enables you to take a self-service approach to backup and disaster recovery (DR) readiness. By making DR plans simple to set up, you can keep them current, tested, and cost-optimized for critical applications in your AWS environments. We discuss how to automatically create an AWS cross-account DR site based on a production site with Amazon VPC cloning and seamlessly backing up Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora instances across AWS accounts and Regions. We also cover how to schedule regular testing of DR plans and automatically generate DR test reports for compliance. This presentation is brought to you by Druva, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Intuit delivers cloud services to drive customer satisfaction (STG239-S)	STG	239	STG239	In this session, learn about Intuit’s best practices for moving financial data securely and streamlining data management. Hear from Justin Stottlemyer, director and distinguished engineer at Intuit, about his experience moving critical data quickly using NetApp Cloud Sync. Discover how Intuit uses NetApp Cloud Volumes Service to run its file ingestion service with fast performance and with the required SLA delivered. Plus, learn how Intuit architected and used Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and AWS Transit Gateway with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to provide multiprotocol storage services with multiple Availability Zones, high availability, and multi-regional disaster recovery for over 3,400 AWS accounts. This presentation is brought to you by NetApp, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Learn how GMI achieves high performance for its databases (STG237-S)	STG	237	STG237	The cloud has made it possible to process massive amounts of data at scale. When it comes to big data sets, human genomic projects are considered to be some of the largest in the world. In this session, we explore how GMI, a leading genomics research company, is running multiple studies to advance development for disease treatment. You learn how the company used fast, reliable on-premises connectivity to cloud storage for quick upload of large data sets to shorten the time required to process each sequence. Additionally, you discover how GMI used NetApp persistent shared storage and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to achieve cost savings of up to 90 percent. This presentation is brought to you by NetApp, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Ensure AWS data recoverability, ft. MassMutual & Boston Scientific (STG236-S)	STG	236	STG236	According to recent studies, 84 percent of cloud administrators assume that the cloud provider is responsible for backing up cloud data. But the truth is that data protection is a matter of administration. In this session, we show you how MassMutual and Boston Scientific optimized their data protection by recovery SLA, retention period, and granular and at-scale recovery. We also show you how they protected against ransomware and other threats. Finally, we discuss opportunities and options in regulatory compliance, and we share best practices for exploring the variety of data protection options that Veritas makes available to AWS customers like these. This presentation is brought to you by Veritas Technologies, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Move workloads to AWS faster with Dell Technologies Cloud (STG233-S)	STG	233	STG233	Dell Technologies Cloud helps accelerate application migration to your AWS production environment without the need to re-platform. Join us in this session to learn how you can modernize your data center and create a consistent experience in your on-premises and AWS environment through VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail. We explore how the VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) enables you to easily move workloads to AWS, quickly onboard your essential applications, and effortlessly create a consistent operations model across your AWS and on-premises infrastructure. This presentation is brought to you by Dell, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Prepare for & respond to security incidents in your AWS environment (SEC356)	SEC	356	SEC356	In this session, we walk through what you need to do to be prepared to respond to security incidents in your AWS environments. We start off with planning best practices, move through the configurations that will help deliver protective and detective controls, then finally show you how you can improve your response capability. Learn how AWS Organizations, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Lambda, AWS WAF, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) can help take you from protect and detect to respond and recover.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Speculation & leakage: Timing side channels & multi-tenant computing (SEC355)	SEC	355	SEC355	In January 2018, the world learned about Spectre and Meltdown, a new class of issues that affects virtually all modern CPUs via nearly imperceptible changes to their micro-architectural states and can result in full access to physical RAM or leaking of state between threads, processes, or guests. In this session, we examine one of these side-channel attacks in detail and explore the implications for multi-tenant computing. We discuss AWS design decisions and what AWS does to protect your instances, containers, and function invocations. Finally, we discuss what the future looks like in the presence of this new class of issue.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Protecting you from you: Misconfiguration-caused breaches (SEC222-S)	SEC	222	SEC222	According to Gartner, “through 2022, at least 95 percent of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.” In this session, Roy Feintuch, cloud chief technologist at Check Point Software, outlines the problem statement while providing surprising examples of publicly known security breaches. He then provides best practices and methodologies to mitigate these breaches using detective, reactive, and preventative measures, as well as compliance and configuration monitoring. As part of the session, Feintuch also discusses alternative proprietary techniques that augment AWS native services and capabilities, like AWS Control Tower and AWS Lambda. This session is brought to you by Check Point Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Securing the Super Bowl at CBS Interactive (SEC221-S)	SEC	221	SEC221	CBS Interactive leverages the flexibility of the cloud to support its extensive online content network. In this session, learn how CBS Interactive streams major events from March Madness to the Super Bowl at speed and scale while deploying self-learning artificial intelligence security systems that create a self-defending cloud that is secure by default. This presentation is brought to you by Darktrace, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Why IAM is the new perimeter, and how to govern it (SEC210-S)	SEC	210	SEC210	Everything has an identity on AWS: users, applications, services, and systems. This provides enormous flexibility, but it also requires careful and specialized governance. In this session, hear from a panel of technology leaders on why this security layer requires a modern approach on AWS, and learn their best practices for addressing perimeter fluidity while running AWS at scale. This presentation is brought to you by DivvyCloud, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS identity (SEC207-L)	SEC	207	SEC207	Digital identity is one of the fastest growing and fastest changing parts of the cloud. Zero-trust networks, GDPR concerns, and new IoT opportunities have been dominating cloud news coverage. In this session, learn about significant industry changes that will affect the way AWS approaches identity for both workforce and consumer customers. We announce new features, discuss our participation in open standards and industry groups, and explain how we're making identity, access control, and resource management easier for you every day.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Welcome to the era of smart robots (ROB201-L)	ROB	201	ROB201	Robots are becoming more prevalent and integrated into our everyday lives. Robots help us complete housework, fight fires, manage warehouse inventory, automate manufacturing, and simulate lunar landscapes, as well as providing companionship. While the diversity of robot applications is greatly expanding, these breakthroughs demand a high level of intelligence and autonomy. Learn how AWS customers are driving innovation and bringing the future of smart robots to us today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Born from retail, built for retailers (RET203-L)	RET	203	RET203	AWS offers the only cloud born from retail and built for retailers. In this session, we discuss Amazon’s tested, proven innovation that has helped partners and retailers reinvent their legacy applications for new value, complete their view of customers for relevant insight, and transform their engagement for increased sales velocity. Learn about new product launches and messaging, and hear from the CIOs of Neiman Marcus and 7-Eleven as well as the CTO of Zalando—who are each pioneering transformation of their own businesses and retail for everything from personalized recommendations to seasonal demand, accurate delivery times, fraud detection, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AI/ML drives CPG transformation & customer engagement (RET202-L)	RET	202	RET202	CPG companies are exploring new business models to transform and connect with consumers in new ways. Join leaders from Amazon.com Packaging and Nu Skin in this session to learn how these two organizations are leveraging AI/ML for transformation. Every organization is eager to win the hearts and minds of consumers by offering relevant products and services. Hear from Nu Skin’s CTO about how the AWS Cloud is empowering the company to modernize engagement and bring relevant products to customers. Then the head of Amazon.com Packaging shares how leveraging the power of data and AI/ML is reinventing package design and smart products for the digital age.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Firecracker open-source innovation (OPN402)	OPN	402	OPN402	Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed. In this session, we start by discussing Weave Ignite from Weaveworks, which unifies containers and VMs using Firecracker microVMs with OCI images, containerd, and CNI. Leigh Capili (DevAdv) demos how to launch apps from Git using Kubernetes orchestration, Ignite virtualization, and GitOps management. In the second part, Alexandra Iordache (Firecracker maintainer) showcases Firecracker’s new snapshotting capability in which resuming execution from a microVM image takes milliseconds, and demos using snapshots to burst-start live microVMs on a single host.
AWS re:Invent 2019: A day in the life of a Netflix engineer (NFX202)	NFX	202	NFX202	Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In this session, we discuss the technologies used to run a global streaming company, growing at scale, billions of metrics, benefits of chaos in production, and how culture affects your velocity and uptime.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Finding the signal in the noise when running cloud-native apps (MGT205-S)	MGT	205	MGT205	Moving applications to the cloud provides many benefits, but the process of doing so can also create a lot of noise. More components to manage and the process of refactoring applications can result in new performance bottlenecks that weren’t present in the data center. This makes it possible to experience increased problem resolution times and unnecessary spending that could impact your company's reputation or lead to increased customer abandonment rates. In this session, Aaron Newcomb from AppDynamics and Marius Dornean from Mitchell show you how to simplify your cloud application environment by providing visibility and insight into your infrastructure, applications, end-user behavior, and business impact. This presentation is brought to you by AppDynamics, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS for the Semiconductor industry (MFG206-L)	MFG	206	MFG206	Semiconductor companies, electronic design automation (EDA) vendors, and semiconductor manufacturing companies must remain competitive by innovating and reducing time to market for increasingly complex electronic products. In this session, learn how AWS helps achieve the maximum possible performance and throughput for design and verification workloads and enhances electronic product manufacturing through advanced analytics and machine learning. See optimization techniques and architectures for accelerating batch and interactive workloads. Learn to extend and migrate on-premises EDA workloads with AWS and to use a combination of instances to minimize costs. Finally, learn how semiconductor companies collaborate across the supply chain to increase yields and reduce defects.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The New York Times: Improving customer care with Amazon Connect (EUC213)	EUC	213	EUC213	The New York Times was looking to radically transform its computer telephony integration (CTI) system supporting its customer-care operations. After evaluating other solutions, the company chose Amazon Connect because of its ease of migration, flexibility, and customer-centric capabilities. Learn how The New York Times successfully rewrote its IVR and call workflows using Amazon Lex for natural language detection, and how it is using Amazon Transcribe to stream call data to a datastore and is writing Amazon Lex bots. Hear how the company was able to leverage cutting-edge technology, at scale, while reducing operational costs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Unlock excellent end user experience with hybrid cloud DaaS (DEM43-S)	DEM	43	DEM43	The lines between IT, the business, and the mobile workforce are blurring. The end user is the key to unlocking the innovative potential of an organization as well as turning the traditional IT cost centers into effective and efficient revenue-generating centers. Join this session to learn about current end user computing (EUC) trends, hybrid cloud desktop as a service (DaaS) across on-premises environments and the AWS Cloud, and how businesses are delighting their end users and customers with Xi Frame. This presentation is brought to you by Nutanix, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Delivering the enterprise data cloud (DEM37-S)	DEM	37	DEM37	An enterprise data cloud can unlock the value of any data anywhere at cloud speed and cloud scale. It has the power to transform businesses and even the way people live. In this session, we introduce you to the new 100-percent open-source Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Join us, and learn how CDP delivers the speed, agility, scale, and governance needed to power data-driven applications anywhere from the edge to artificial intelligence. This presentation is brought to you by Cloudera, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The quandary of containerized machine learning (DEM28-S)	DEM	28	DEM28	Building containerized machine learning that is both scalable and reproducible is hard, but it doesn’t have to feel insurmountable. Join this session, and learn how BCG GAMMA has engaged with some of the largest global enterprises to develop capabilities and assets that scale artificial intelligence with containers. Hear about the lessons that the BCG GAMMA team has learned along the way, which address challenges in the areas of model training, deployment, and versioning. This presentation is brought to you by Boston Consulting Group, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Secondary sensing in industrial IoT apps (DEM156)	DEM	156	DEM156	Many manufacturers want to add secondary sensors, such as those for temperature, vibration, pressure, and flow, to enable more data collection that can be used to improve operational efficiencies and productivity. How can they do so in a noninvasive way and without impacting production? Come and learn how to use secondary sensing to bring efficiencies to discrete manufacturing and process industries on AWS in a cost-effective way. Also, learn how to implement common IoT use cases, such as asset condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and predictive quality, on AWS in weeks rather than months or years without breaking the bank.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using Amazon Textract for automated document processing (DEM147)	DEM	147	DEM147	Amazon Textract helps document-driven businesses in Financial Services, Healthcare, the Public Sector, and other industries. Through machine learning, Amazon Textract instantly “reads” and processes any type of document, accurately extracting text, forms, tables, and other data, without the need for manual effort or custom code. In this demo, we use Amazon Textract for three use cases that depend on data extraction: search and discovery, control and compliance, and workflow automation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Unlock the power of Amazon VPC traffic mirroring (DEM13-S)	DEM	13	DEM13	Amazon VPC traffic mirroring is here! What does this mean for you? In this session, learn how traffic mirroring enables you to access application-layer network data without deploying agents or sensors. This allows network detection and response (NDR) platforms like ExtraHop Reveal(x) Cloud to deploy instantly, passively analyze network traffic, and deliver immediate asset discovery, real-time threat detection, and machine learning-powered responses. Cloud-first NDR is the missing piece that allows SecOps to complete the SOC visibility triad. Come learn how combining NDR, SIEM, and EDR makes it possible for SecOps to achieve a holistic detection approach and eliminate the risks of misconfiguration, undetected attacks, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. This presentation is brought to you by ExtraHop Networks, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building secure AWS app workloads using automated best practices (DEM09-S)	DEM	09	DEM09	Having a hard time keeping up with all the changes in the cloud? The Unisys Cloud Architecture Navigator is a tool and framework that helps cloud architects use a milestone-based approach to review cloud architectures and leverage automated best practices to design and maintain application workloads. In this session, learn how to review cloud architectures for application workloads using an automated and data-driven approach and how to leverage best practices across key pillars of the cloud, such as cost, security, performance, governance, operations, and availability. Additionally, learn to guide the improvement and remediation that is needed to optimize cloud architectures. This presentation is brought to you by Unisys, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Jenkins on AWS for both small teams and enterprises (DEM04-S)	DEM	04	DEM04	In this session, we show you how Jenkins on AWS can help you deliver software faster, cheaper, and easier for small teams and enterprise organizations. For small teams, we discuss how you can quickly get started with Jenkins on AWS. For enterprise organizations, we show you a highly available Jenkins environment with masters and agents across multiple Availability Zones, using Amazon EKS for deploying masters and dynamic agents and reducing costs with Amazon EC2 Spot nodes. This presentation is brought to you by CloudBees, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Aurora Serverless: Scalable, cost-effective application deployment (DAT382)				Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, automatic scaling configuration for Aurora where the database automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on your application’s needs. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database instances. Aurora Serverless is a simple, cost-effective option for infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable workloads. In this session, we explore these use cases, take a look under the hood, and delve into the future of serverless databases.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running Kubernetes clusters at scale: Square (CON329)	CON	329	CON329	Cash App, part of the Square ecosystem, has amassed over 15 million monthly active users and continues to grow. Building its next-gen stack on top of AWS-managed open-source technologies has allowed Cash App platform teams to focus on security and increase developer velocity and permitted the app’s product engineering teams to focus on business value. Come and learn how Cash App built its stack on top of Amazon EKS while leveraging AWS’s first-rate managed services. If you are running at scale any application that requires operational excellence and fine-grained security policies, this session is for you.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Amazon Lex uses Amazon ECS to process batches at scale (CON218)	CON	218	CON218	Amazon Lex creates conversational interfaces powered by the same deep learning technologies used in Alexa. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. In this chalk talk, learn how Amazon Lex uses Amazon ECS to dynamically run these batch jobs to create conversational bots.
AWS re:Invent 2019: IoT big data pipeline for serverless analytics and anomaly detection (CMY305)				In this talk, we walk through the process of building an end-to-end big data pipeline using AWS managed services. Follow along and learn how to detect anomalous trajectories across different transportation industries ingesting IoT geo-referenced data and receiving real-time insights with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics and AWS Glue. At the end of this session, you’ll understand how to customize and deploy this solution at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Dell Technologies cloud-enabled infrastructure (ARC220-S)	ARC	220	ARC220	For customers with data stores on-premises, Dell Technologies cloud-enabled infrastructure makes it possible to access AWS compute and analytics services. Additionally, it supports moving VMware workloads between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. Join us in this session to learn more about how Dell Technologies cloud-enabled infrastructure can connect your on-premises data and workloads with your AWS environment for compute purposes, analytics services, disaster recovery scenarios, and regular access to your remote and branch offices. This presentation is brought to you by Dell, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Prime Video processes 8 percent of all US internet traffic on AWS (ANT348)	ANT	348	ANT348	Amazon Prime Video is one of the largest streaming services in the world, serving over 8 percent of all internet traffic in the US on any day. With millions of devices in over 200 countries around the world, collecting and analyzing telemetry data in real time is a major scaling challenge. In this session, learn how the team used AWS technologies such as Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to build a next-generation telemetry platform that handles millions of transactions per second (TPS) and hundreds of petabytes of data.
AWS re:Invent 2019: ML in retail: Solutions that add intelligence to your business (AIM212)	AIM	212	AIM212	Machine learning is ranked the number-one “game changer” for the retail market segment by chief experience officers (CXOs), yet it’s only number eight on top spending priorities. So which scenarios are real? In this session, we dive into how AWS puts machine learning in the hands of every developer, without the need for deep machine learning experience. Learn about personalized product recommendations, inventory forecasting, new in-store experiences, and more. Learn from our experience at Amazon.com and hear from our customers today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Labs of the future in Life Sciences (LFS302)	LFS	302	LFS302	Research labs can be challenged by the large volume of data acquired by legacy research equipment that is locally stored and limits capabilities for that data to be securely archived, processed, and shared with collaborators globally. In this session, learn how AWS services like AWS DataSync and AWS Storage Gateway provide a way for researchers to transfer instrument data into the cloud, ensuring important experimental data is securely stored and archived, and available to be accessed by other permissioned collaborators. Additionally, learn how pharma companies are utilizing Amazon AI/ML services to inform and streamline research analyses to support data-driven laboratories.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerating your IoT journey w/ the AWS IoT and APN Partner community (IOT218)	IOT	218	IOT218	The AWS IoT and APN Partner community provides deep IoT expertise to accelerate your IoT adoption journey. In this session, we cover how APN Partners spanning silicon and connectivity and including OEMs, ISVs, and systems integrators can help you get started with IoT projects quicker while benefiting from AWS IoT software and services from the edge to the cloud. You also learn how this community is addressing use cases across connected home, industrial, and commercial applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Legacy non-x86 modernization with AWS (GPSTEC346)	TEC	346	TEC346	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Most enterprises or public institutions have some non-x86 legacy systems in their data centers. These may be UNIX proprietary platforms, midrange systems, or even mainframes. As more and more enterprises move to the cloud, questions start to arise about what can be done with these legacy systems. Can they even be migrated to and modernized on AWS? In this session, we show you that the answer is a resounding yes and present our preferred options, best practices, and the bar for AWS quality of service.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Architecting multi-tenant PaaS offerings with Amazon EKS (GPSTEC337)	TEC	337	TEC337	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In it, we describe the value proposition of architecting a multi-tenant platform as a service (PaaS) offering on Amazon Web Services, and the technical considerations for securing, scaling, and automating the provisioning of your customer instances within Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Learn a number of the strategies for isolating customers (tenants), workloads, and data in an EKS cluster, and learn a number of the open-source and APN Partner technologies that can enable an automated delivery for the typical PaaS use cases customers are looking for.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Win the market opportunity for Microsoft workloads on AWS (GPSBUS201)	BUS	201	BUS201	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. In this session, we review the fast-growing market opportunity to migrate and modernize Microsoft workloads on AWS. Customer demand for AWS Competency Partners with migration and modernization skills, capabilities, and service offerings is high in both mature and emerging markets. Learn key insights and best practices for building, marketing, and selling your Microsoft workload solutions and services leveraging APN Partner Programs. You also learn how to leverage the latest AWS feature releases and tools for running, migrating, managing, and modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS. Hear about customer success stories from APN Partners around the world.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Modern service desk with Amazon Connect and News Corp (EUC211)	EUC	211	EUC211	Learn how News Corp implemented Amazon Connect to improve employee and service desk engagement. News Corp's service desk is the 24/7/365 central point of contact for all IT-related questions and issues within News Corp companies in North America, including Dow Jones, HarperCollins, and Realtor.com. News Corp was able to set up Amazon Connect in weeks instead of months, while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Amazon Connect contributed to improved employee experience, reduced abandon rate, reduced time to answer, enhanced reporting capability, and more. Come hear how News Corp realized a modern service desk and what it plans for the future.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build your next microservices application with modern AWS services (ENT308-S)	ENT	308	ENT308	Learn how easy it is to get started with a new application composed of several microservices on AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, Amazon SQS, and Amazon DynamoDB. In this session, you first learn through live demonstration how to do basic administration, such as deploying an application and inspecting the relevant Kubernetes resources. Next, you learn some troubleshooting practices (using log files, accessing containers, etc.) and dive into advanced troubleshooting. Innovate faster with software as you learn to leverage some of the most modern services on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by New Relic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Scaling to billions of requests the serverless way at Capital One (DEM34-S)				Stream processing tools like Apache Spark and Flink are the default choice for big data processing, but these frameworks also come with high development and operation costs. Serverless streaming architecture is an alternative solution that brings significant reduction in these costs and allows developers to focus on business delivery, not infrastructure management. This session explores how Capital One used serverless streaming architecture to provide real-time insights for millions of customers through its intelligent assistant Eno. Learn how high-throughput streaming loads can be handled with ease as well as how message-driven architecture can be implemented using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis for complex asynchronous applications. This presentation is brought to you by Capital One, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Self-service AWS Serverless Application Model (DEM05-S)				Security is paramount at Coinbase, and this includes its serverless applications. However, Coinbase doesn’t want security to get in the way of its developers’ productive and smooth serverless experience. Come learn how to use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to develop serverless applications in a security-conscious organization. See how understanding features of AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you provide a secure way to take your serverless ideas to production. We also go over our open-source tool Fenrir, which has reduced time and friction in the deployment of serverless applications while maintaining high security standards. This presentation is brought to you by Coinbase, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Preparing data for reporting, ML, and AI on AWS (ANT227-S)	ANT	227	ANT227	In today’s complex world, everyone is trying to compete using data. The starting point for all reporting, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) tools is high-quality, trusted data drawn from many sources, which is often the biggest pain point for any organization. Data professionals have all the skills necessary to analyze the data but are spending too much time gathering and validating it instead of analyzing it. Join Matillion in this session and learn how ETL jobs can load, cleanse, aggregate filter, and join data in Amazon Redshift or Snowflake to give your reporting, ML, and AI teams a head start. This presentation is brought to you by Matillion, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating AWS Lambda's front end from Java 8 to Java 11 (OPN304)	OPN	304	OPN304	In this session, we explore the journey of migrating AWS Lambda's front-end service from Java 8 to Java 11 using Amazon Corretto, our no-cost distribution of OpenJDK. We also walk through the code and dependency changes required to migrate to Java 11, how we measured performance improvements, and how we safely deployed such a significant update to a large-scale service across multiple regions in production.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Change is coming to robotics development: The shift to ROS 2 (OPN201)	OPN	201	OPN201	As more robots move from research and academia into real production use, we’ve seen an accelerated adoption of ROS 2 (Robot Operating System). What’s driving this shift from ROS 1 to ROS 2? What was missing from ROS 1? What makes ROS 2 more commercially capable? In this session, you learn how the design, development, and features of ROS 2 change the landscape for all robot lovers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Architect governance at enterprise scale with Goldman Sachs (MGT313)	MGT	313	MGT313	As AWS customers accelerate their AWS adoption, going from managing a few AWS accounts to supporting pilot applications to operating on an enterprise scale, they encounter common challenges to maintaining necessary governance. They face issues such as how to control budgets across accounts, workloads, and users; how to automate account provisioning and maintain good security; and how to automate compliance. In this session, we define cloud governance and provide best practices to achieve security, optimized costs, and compliance. Come learn how these best practices for managing your AWS environment have been applied in the real world by Goldman Sachs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Automate everything: Options and best practices (MGT304)	MGT	304	MGT304	You can use an expanding set of services to automate many common management tasks in your AWS environment: patching, configuration updates, software stack deployments, and more. In this session, we explore how you can use AWS management tools for automation, including through the use of self-service runbooks. We discuss the many options available, including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Service Catalog, and AWS Systems Manager.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enhancing clinical trials with machine learning (LFS203)	LFS	203	LFS203	Machine learning is reinventing every part of the pharmaceutical value chain, and clinical trials are no exception. This talk reviews how Q2 Solutions, a clinical trial laboratory services organization, is using AWS machine learning tools to streamline clinical trial operations. Hear about the initiatives that Q2 Solutions is pursuing to simplify the clinical trial process, and walk away with a better understanding of AWS natural language processing offerings and the clinical trial life cycle.
AWS re:Invent 2019: APN Technology Partner journey: Winning with AWS for ISVs (GPSBUS203)	BUS	203	BUS203	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In it, you learn from AWS subject matter experts and APN Partners about the steps of the APN Technology Partner journey, from onboarding to building, marketing, and selling. We share with you the markers for success along each path, programs to take advantage of, and how to accelerate your growth with AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB (CMY304)	CMY	304	CMY304	Modeling your data in the DynamoDB database structure requires a different approach from modeling in traditional relational databases. Alex DeBrie has written a number of applications using DynamoDB and is the creator of DynamoDBGuide.com, a free resource for learning DynamoDB. In this session, we review the key principles of modeling your DynamoDB tables and teach you some practical patterns to use in your data models. Leave this session with steps to follow and principles to guide you as you work with DynamoDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Turbocharge your data center infrastructure with AMD (CMP343-S)	CMP	343	CMP343	With the ever-increasing need for efficiency and better price performance, a balanced data center infrastructure is a crucial component of today’s cloud solutions. Organizations seeking to maximize the value of their cloud and on-premises infrastructures now have a choice when selecting their compute and GPU platforms. In this session, a representative from AMD discusses how AMD EPYC processors and AMD GPUs can help you optimize your workload performance and security while providing significant cost savings. This presentation is brought to you by AMD, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Delight your customers with ML-based personalized recommendations (AIM323)	AIM	323	AIM323	Recommendation engines make targeted marketing campaigns, re-ranking of items, personalized notifications, and personalized search possible. In this session, we deep-dive into using Amazon Personalize to create and manage personalized recommendations efficiently, letting you focus on the real value of the data for your business. We discover how these deep learning techniques have a direct impact on the bottom line of your business by increasing engagement, click-through, satisfaction, and revenue. Learn from customer examples and dive into some live demonstrations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Running critical FSI applications on AWS (FSI201-L)	FSI	201	FSI201	As financial services institutions strive to grow their businesses and better serve customers by building secure, flexible, and scalable solutions on the cloud, they have gained the confidence to run their most business-critical applications on AWS. In this session, Frank Fallon, VP of Worldwide Financial Services at AWS, discusses the industry’s growing reliance on the public cloud and the strengthening of ties between business and IT. Frank is joined by senior executives of leading financial institutions who share why and how they moved key applications to AWS—and the benefits they have realized as a result.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Move your desktops and applications to AWS EUC (EUC302)	EUC	302	EUC302	IT organizations today need to support a mobile, flexible, global workforce and ensure that their users can be productive anywhere. Moving desktops and applications to AWS 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.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build high-volume email applications with Amazon SES (EUC207)	EUC	207	EUC207	Companies in many industries use AWS to send millions of emails every day, including Amazon.com. In this session, learn how to build applications using the highly scalable, highly reliable, and multi-tenant-capable email infrastructure of Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). You also learn how to monitor delivery rates and other important metrics, and how to use this data to improve deliverability. Members of the Amazon.com team discuss the architecture of their multi-tenant email-sending platform, the historical challenges they faced, and the ways Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon SES helped them meet their goals around Prime Day, Cyber Monday, and other retail events.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Financial services customer optimizes & migrates workloads to AWS (ENT321-S)	ENT	321	ENT321	Today, development is cloud-first. Many companies are migrating to the cloud and replacing workloads with cloud-based alternatives. But how do you bring the cloud to the final frontier—mission-critical applications, such as SAP, Oracle, or custom options? In this technical deep dive, learn how a financial services customer uses easy-to-use AWS CloudFormation Templates and Amazon Machine Image deployments with Veritas InfoScale for running heavily used applications on AWS. Veritas experts provide guidance on decoupling applications from the underlying infrastructure, enabling seamless migration to AWS. Are you ready to go where no administrator has gone before? If so, join this session. This presentation is brought to you by Veritas Technologies, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: New IT for new pharma: Cloud as catalyst for Sanofi innovation (ENT213-S)	ENT	213	ENT213	To achieve its business objectives of improved cost-efficiency, better service quality, and next-generation digital support, Sanofi was looking to capitalize on a decade-long journey to an 80-percent data center consolidation. This panel discussion explores how Accenture and AWS are working with Sanofi to move most of its applications to AWS. We discuss how they’re deploying an innovative infrastructure managed service model center with the key elements of modernizing infrastructure services to full managed services and introducing next-generation infrastructure to optimize operations and increase service quality to all geographies and business functions. Learn how these ongoing efforts will help Sanofi leverage IT to accelerate business transformation and innovation. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deploy your code, scale, and lower cloud costs using Elastic Beanstalk (DOP326)	DOP	326	DOP326	You can effortlessly convert your code into web applications without having to worry about provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure, applying patches and updates to your platform, or using a variety of tools to monitor your application’s health. In this session, we show you how anyone—not just professional developers—can use AWS Elastic Beanstalk in various scenarios without the need to understand or manage the infrastructure details. These scenarios include an administrator moving a Windows .NET workload into the cloud, a developer building a containerized enterprise app as a Docker image, and a data scientist deploying a machine learning model.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon DocumentDB deep dive (DAT326)	DAT	326	DAT326	Developers have adopted the flexible schema and expressive query language of the MongoDB API because it enables them to build and evolve applications faster. However, some developers find that managing databases can be time-consuming, complicated, and challenging to scale. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) provides a fast, reliable, fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service that eliminates time-consuming setup and management tasks, allowing developers to focus on building high-performance, scalable applications. Join us to learn more about Amazon DocumentDB and how you can run MongoDB workloads at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Top 5 container and Kubernetes best practices (CON307-S)	CON	307	CON307	Yes, technologies like containers and Kubernetes can help make your software delivery processes easier and faster. However, these new deployment tools and orchestration methods are very different from a traditional environment in terms of management and monitoring. How should you architect your container so that it works the way that you want—and need—it to? Through the live examples provided in this session, you learn best practices for ensuring the efficiency and quality of the next application that you migrate to AWS. This presentation is brought to you by New Relic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Lambda@Edge to keep spammers out (CMY303)	CMY	303	CMY303	In this session, we look at the timeline, analysis, and solution implemented for a sudden attack by spammers. Suddenly, the number of newly registered users in our system spiked. We could see that these new users were likely spammers. It was a more sophisticated attack than earlier, as traffic originated from everywhere; captchas and email verifications were bypassed. We already had some countermeasures in place, including a manual process for approval. We needed a quick and cost-effective solution. By using Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, Lambda@Edge, and some smarts, we permanently stopped 99% of the spammers within an hour.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Paths to anomaly detection w/ TIBCO data science, streaming on AWS (AIM201-S)	AIM	201	AIM201	Sensor data on the event stream can be voluminous. In NAND manufacturing, there are millions of columns of data that represent many measured and virtual metrics. These sensor data can arrive with considerable velocity. In this session, learn about developing cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses for anomaly detection and yield optimization using deep learning methods, as well as super-fast subsequence signature search on accumulated time-series data and methods for handling very wide data in Apache Spark on Amazon EMR. The trained models are developed in TIBCO Data Science and Amazon SageMaker and applied to event streams using services such as Amazon Kinesis to identify hot paths to anomaly detection. This presentation is brought to you by TIBCO Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: We Power Tech: The importance of inclusive design (WPT201)	WPT	201	WPT201	Inclusive design involves considering the needs of the widest number of people across age, race, gender, and other classifications in the design of our tech products and services. What are the ways in which technology enables us to be inclusive of people with cognitive and physical disabilities? Join us to discuss this question and other important aspects of inclusive design.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From prototype to org-wide serverless adoption: Key considerations (SVS226)				You heard about the benefits of serverless and are intrigued. Maybe your team even put together a small prototype in a tenth of the time and half the budget. Moving from hype to production, though, will require extra scrutiny. Learn about best practices around serverless security, performance, cost, data management, CI/CD, tooling, and team organization that enable teams to adopt serverless microservices and deliver innovative projects on time and under budget.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Backup-and-restore and disaster-recovery solutions with AWS (STG208)	STG	208	STG208	Disasters, failures, and threats come in all shapes and sizes and can significantly impact your business. In this session, learn how to modernize your backup and disaster recovery (DR) architectures by employing hybrid models to the cloud as well as backup and DR in the cloud. The session includes discussions of the various architectures that customers are using in their backup and DR implementations, as well as the AWS services and building blocks used for backup and DR. We also discuss common architectures employed by customers leveraging third-party backup and DR tools from AWS backup and DR partners.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five hybrid cloud backup and disaster recovery mistakes to avoid (STG207-S)	STG	207	STG207	Protecting and backing up your data across a heterogeneous hybrid environment is not an easy task. Learn about the top pitfalls and mistakes to avoid if you are backing up your legacy on-premises data to AWS or protecting your Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS cloud-native workloads. Further, learn how progressive organizations are using Cohesity’s backup and data management software to redefine success for backup, archival, and disaster recovery on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by Cohesity, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: National Australia Bank: Automating governance in Financial Services (SEC352)	SEC	352	SEC352	National Australia Bank (NAB) is migrating hundreds of sensitive, regulated financial workloads to the cloud. This session focuses on the automated approach that NAB has taken to evolve and scale its ability to meet its strict risk and regulatory requirements. Specifically, NAB describes its cloud governance framework and the automated enforcement platform (Deputy) that supports it and that brings governance and technology together to ensure that compliant workloads are deployed in the cloud. The talk dives deep into the architecture of Deputy, which uses AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS to create a cost-efficient, scalable solution.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Toyota Motor North America: Securing the cloud with AWS KMS (SEC337)	SEC	337	SEC337	Imagine being tasked with collecting, analyzing, and securing data from hundreds of sources around the world, in multiple cloud and on-premises environments. Toyota Motor North America, along with Booz Allen Hamilton, has created a secure, cloud-native solution to analyze billions of messages per day using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). We discuss how AWS KMS with AWS native services provides granular access and secures corporate assets with data segregation using AWS KMS encryption. Toyota uses AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon SageMaker to generate actionable intelligence in its corporate IT and vehicle telematics environments to solve its business and analytics challenges.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Unleashing the 5G value (NET208-S)	NET	208	NET208	The new 5G technology is poised to be a far bigger transformational shift for the Telecommunications industry than previous mobile technologies. With the promise of greater speed and capacity, ultra-low latency, and lower power consumption, 5G promises an astonishing new array of innovative, industry-specific product and service solutions (such as smart city, smart grid, and smart manufacturing) that are powered by the intelligent network. In this session, listen to executives from Accenture, AWS, and one of their joint customers as they talk about how 5G will transform the established business models, network, and infrastructure value chain. Additionally, hear about a vision for convergence with opportunities for new players and partnerships. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From RDS to SAP, protect your cloud databases the right way (DAT221-S)	DAT	221	DAT221	Most business-critical applications rely on databases. Whether you have a new serverless cloud application, a database that is using Amazon RDS, or a high-transaction application using SAP HANA over hybrid cloud architecture, these databases need to be backed up, protected, and quickly recovered. Legacy backup solutions that were built for on-premises environments don’t quite cut it for today’s cloud workloads, while cloud snapshots can quickly become a burden to manage. Learn how to automate the backup of your cloud databases and provide fast and reliable recovery options when needed using Cohesity’s modern data management software. This presentation is brought to you by Cohesity, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enterprise blockchain: AWS's open-source approach (OPN217)	OPN	217	OPN217	Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly and organizations are experimenting with this technology across many use cases, including streamlining financial transactions, supply chain transparency, and healthcare data management. In this session, Hyperledger Foundation’s Brian Behlendorf joins AWS’ Tamara Dull to explore how three popular open source blockchain frameworks – Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth, and Ethereum – contrast/compare and how they are being used to address our customers’ blockchain needs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: PartiQL: One query language for all of your data (OPN207)	OPN	207	OPN207	PartiQL is a SQL-compatible query language that makes it easy and efficient to process both structured (relational) data, as well as semi-structured, schemaless, and nested data, as typically found in open data formats in the Amazon S3 data lake and document-oriented databases. PartiQL is a unifying query language, enabling single-query-language access to multiple AWS services. We discuss its core tenets and how they served AWS services and Amazon projects. Then we discuss how PartiQL can benefit your applications and tools in need of unifying query access to the data lake.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Secure your Open Distro for Elasticsearch cluster (OPN204)	OPN	204	OPN204	Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security is a rich, deep technology that has a variety of ways to control access to your cluster and your data. In this session, we dive deep on Open Distro Security. You learn how to secure your cluster with your own SSL certs, set up fine-grained access control for your documents and fields, assign users to roles, create multi-tenant Kibana visualizations and dashboards, and integrate with federated identity providers like LDAP, Active Directory, and Okta.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How IBM is driving innovation with next-generation solutions on AWS (OPN203-S)	OPN	203	OPN203	Join us to hear how IBM is working with AWS to help customers accelerate innovation and digital transformation with IBM Cloud Paks on AWS. IBM Cloud Paks are enterprise-grade containerized solutions that are built on top of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. They provide enterprises with a fast, secure way to build, move, and manage core business applications and leverage innovative new technologies such as blockchain and IBM Watson. Hear how IBM and AWS customers are leveraging these cutting-edge solutions and are supported by dedicated AWS practices, and learn about the IBM Garage, a co-creation experience that drives purposeful innovation and transformational change. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Frontend web and cross-platform mobile development on AWS (MOB307)	MOB	307	MOB307	Web applications are now first-class citizens of mobile. AWS Amplify libraries give you an open-source cross-platform environment for building mobile and web applications using React, Vue, and other JavaScript frameworks. In this session, we review the current feature set of Amplify, dive deep into the newest APIs and features, and share some best practices for creating secure, high-performance applications using Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS AppSync (GraphQL).
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: From BI to AI at INVISTA (MFG205-L)	MFG	205	MFG205	Manufacturers need to optimize their operations to remain competitive and digitally transform. Hear from INVISTA, a manufacturer of chemicals, polymers, fabrics, and fibers that delivers products and brands incorporated into your clothing, your car, and even your carpet. Learn about INVISTA’s transformative journey from business intelligence to artificial intelligence, where they share their experience empowering data science by adjusting talent and processes and building a modern analytics platform. Experimentation with change management, project management, model maintenance, and development life cycles has helped drive profitable innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Digital therapeutics and patient personalization (LFS202)	LFS	202	LFS202	In our highly connected world, patients now expect pharmaceutical companies to provide them with enhanced customer experiences, tools, and services to assist in their patient journey and help them get better faster. This can be in the form of digital therapeutics, such as a digitally connected medicine, a mobile application, or a connected patient portal that can provide personalized feedback to influence patient behavior. In this session, learn the best practices for gathering and managing therapeutic device data and how industry-leading companies are using Amazon AI/ML to facilitate personalized engagement with patients and customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Life Sciences leadership: Transforming the pharma value chain (LFS201-L)	LFS	201	LFS201	The pharmaceutical industry is moving from the era of blockbuster drugs into the age of precision medicine. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies need to find innovative ways to more quickly and efficiently discover, trial, manufacture, and commercialize therapeutics. In this session, you learn how life science companies are working with AWS to transform their organizations, from creating labs of the future, to enhancing clinical trials with artificial intelligence and machine learning, to developing digital therapeutics. Finally, hear how this transformation helps organizations drive top line revenue and improve patient experiences.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Primary storage for SaaS solutions (GPSTEC342)	TEC	342	TEC342	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. When building your SaaS platform on AWS, choosing the right storage solution pays dividends. In this session, learn how services and solutions from APN Technology Partners can help avoid operational headaches and accelerate development. Topics and examples include how to handle multi-tenancy, accidental deletion, incremental growth, bursty traffic patterns, and Multi-AZ/region/account architectures.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building data lakes for your customers with SAP on AWS (GPSTEC338)	TEC	338	TEC338	Although this Global Partner Summit breakout is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Many customers are migrating their on-premises SAP applications to AWS, opening up interesting opportunities to build data and analytics transformations using SAP data with AWS data lake solutions. One of the biggest questions customers have is how to extract data from SAP applications. In this demo-driven session, we show the best practices and reference architectures for extracting data from SAP applications at scale. You will take home prescriptive guidance on how to design high-performance data extractors using services like AWS Glue and AWS Lambda with code samples for various use cases that you can implement in your customers’ projects.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerate your business growth with VMware Cloud on AWS (GPSBUS212)	BUS	212	BUS212	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In it, we provide an update on VMware Cloud on AWS customer momentum, top use cases, and upcoming innovative features. We share best practices on how APN Partners can embark on this journey by leveraging various APN programs. Further, we feature success stories of how APN Partners have transformed their businesses with VMware Cloud on AWS. You walk away with knowledge on available programs and enablement resources to accelerate your business growth with VMware Cloud on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building ML practices to address the top four use cases (GPSBUS205)	BUS	205	BUS205	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. In this session, APN Partners learn to build ML practices, increase margins, and accelerate time-to-market by leveraging AWS’s AI/ML stack depth with differentiable solutions for ML’s top four use cases: personalization and recommendation engines, forecasting, computer vision, and natural language.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amplifying CI/CD helped Wag! reduce release process by 600% (DOP205-S)	DOP	205	DOP205	To improve its DevOps process, Wag Labs’ strategy was to build a single pane of glass. As a result, the Wag! dog-walking platform is achieving the impossible by using self-hosted GitLab on AWS to power its CI/CD. Wag! deploys its application and infrastructure using a combination of GitLab and Terraform. Wag! made its development process painless and has cut its release process from 40 minutes down to six. Come see how Wag! implemented automation to achieve these awesome results, learn some best practices, and get an inside look at where the company is going next. This presentation is brought to you by GitLab, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Inside story of Phillips 66 SAP S/4HANA business transformation (ENT317)	ENT	317	ENT317	When Phillips 66 embarked on a journey to transform its hydrocarbon value chain with SAP’s new S/4HANA platform, it selected AWS to host its project and production landscapes. It successfully launched in October 2019, and Phillips 66 is now sharing how AWS accelerated its innovation, decreased its costs, and reduced the risk of a two-year S/4HANA business transformation. Leave this session with an understanding of how to extend your traditional SAP systems to leverage native, low-cost, and massively scalable AWS services to drive value for years.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices for building your business on AWS IQ (DOP212)	DOP	212	DOP212	In this session, we share best practices for using AWS IQ to complete on-demand project work and supplement your team’s technical skill set. Learn from the AWS IQ team, hear customer stories, get your questions answered, and leave with insights for growing your business.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Scaling Hotstar.com for 25 million concurrent viewers (CMY302)	CMY	302	CMY302	This session focuses on why traditional autoscaling doesn't work for Hotstar (Disney's OTT streaming service), who recently created a global record for live streaming to 25.3 million concurrent viewers. We talk about challenges in scaling infrastructure for millions and how to overcome them, how Hotstar runs gamedays before facing live games, how it uses a load-testing monster called Hulk to prepare its platform for 50M peak. We also learn how the company uses chaos engineering to overcome real-world problems and achieve this scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Performing chaos engineering in a serverless world (CMY301)				The principles of chaos engineering have been battle-tested for years using traditional infrastructure and containerized microservices. But how do they work with serverless functions and managed services? In this session, we cover the motivations behind chaos engineering, how we perform chaos experiments, and what some of the common weaknesses are that we can test for in our serverless applications. We also run some actual experiments in a serverless AWS environment. Join us as we move from talking about principles to performing real chaos-engineering experiments for serverless.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Future-proof your career: Java dev to machine-learning practitioner (CMY201)	CMY	201	CMY201	In this session, learn how to level-up your skills and career through the journey of Kesha Williams, an AWS Machine Learning Hero. Kesha transformed her engineering skills from Java developer to ML practitioner by learning hands-on with AWS AI solutions like AWS DeepLens, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon SageMaker; as well as TensorFlow, Jupyter, and Python. As an ML practitioner, she integrates technology into everyday life by developing ML models using computer vision on SageMaker to help us better connect with people around us. Hear the challenges she faced on her journey and how she overcame them using AWS AI solutions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Achieving unparalleled elasticity on AWS at the lowest cost (CMP208-S)	CMP	208	CMP208	Selecting the optimal cloud resources for your applications can be challenging since there are many ways that your cloud instances can be configured. Cloud engineers and architects are facing this challenge every day, trying to manually find the perfect match and avoid potential operational risks. In this session, join the VP of technical sales at Densify to learn how one line of code (e.g., Terraform) can unlock workload elasticity by precisely and automatically aligning your application demands with the right AWS resources, giving you better performance with reduced operational risk. This presentation is brought to you by Densify, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How rapid growth accelerated Zipwhip's move to AWS (ARC224-S)	ARC	224	ARC224	Zipwhip is an SMS and MMS texting provider that has seen a 280-percent message growth over the past year. To support this growth and effectively deal with aging on-premises infrastructure, Zipwhip required a drastic migration to the cloud. Come learn how three engineers redesigned Zipwhip’s infrastructure over nine months and began leveraging AWS services, including Amazon EKS and Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances. Hear how they used F5 Network’s BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) and NGINX (Kubernetes ingress controllers) to optimize application performance, visibility, and security throughout this migration. Finally, learn how with AWS, they increased performance, scalability, and resiliency while optimizing costs over traditional infrastructure. This presentation is brought to you by F5 Networks, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Spirit AeroSystems’ Factory of the Future powered by AWS (ARC221-S)	ARC	221	ARC221	Factory of the Future solutions are designed to increase production volume, achieve optimal machine utilization, and synchronize inventory-to-consumption rates. In this session, learn how Spirit AeroSystems combined IoT technology (for real-time inventory and machine performance data) with enterprise resource planning data and supplier inventory data in the cloud to create a digital twin of the factory’s current and planned performance. Hear how Deloitte Consulting LLP and AWS applied advanced algorithms to dynamically schedule the production facility and enhance material movement, which helped improve Spirit’s overall factory performance. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Innovation at speed (ARC203)	ARC	203	ARC203	What does it take to innovate quickly? In this session, we address how blockers to innovation, such as culture, skills, antiquated processes, and board-level concerns, can stand in the way of business agility. We map out a pathway to digital transformation, including new metrics for success, integration of real-world best practices from enterprises, and the most effective organizational patterns, as we integrate the business with development and operations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Nondisruptive strategies for application migration (API313)	API	313	API313	Many companies want to refactor applications to increase agility, but they face the challenge of migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud first. This is especially challenging for mission-critical applications, where any downtime has a major customer or business impact. In this session, we dive into common application-migration challenges and nondisruptive approaches, including hybrid architectures, that minimize the impact that migration has on existing applications. We review common on-premises message-broker vendors, like IBM MQ and RabbitMQ, and the benefits of using a managed broker like Amazon MQ as part of a migration strategy.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS analytics enables fraud prevention for Sony’s PlayStation (ANT331)	ANT	331	ANT331	Sony Interactive Entertainment built their EVE Fraud System as a big data platform to aggregate transactional activity of users, resulting in substantially increased approvals with no increase in declines or chargebacks from banks. In this session, learn how Sony used Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon DynamoDB to generate aggregations and retrieve them in a single purchase transaction in less than 180 milliseconds.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Intuit: Moving from monitoring to observability using Amazon ES (ANT330)	ANT	330	ANT330	As Intuit moves to a cloud hosting architecture that includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), containers, and serverless applications, the company is on an “observability” journey to transform the way it monitors its applications' health. Observability requires correlating logs, metrics, traces, etc., which becomes complex as systems become more distributed. In this session, the company discusses leveraging tools such as OpenTelemetry, Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), Amazon Kinesis, and Jaeger to build an observability solution, and the benefits this solution provides by giving visibility across the platform, from containers to serverless applications. The company also discuss how it sees observability evolving in coming years.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Discovering the value of a cloud data platform (AIM204-S)	AIM	204	AIM204	In this session, Discover Financial Services and Accenture discuss their work with moving Discover from an on-premises data infrastructure to the AWS Cloud, which offers advanced analytics. With an intelligent data strategy and fully optimized AWS Cloud data solution, Discover is transforming the customer experience and increasing shareholder value. Today, the bank leverages data from many sources—structured and unstructured, streaming and batch—and analyzes the data for insights. This strategy required a bold pivot from a legacy, on-premises architecture to a fully integrated data platform on the cloud. Learn how Discover is also successfully navigating the cultural changes of this type of transformation. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: JPMorgan Chase: Moving workloads at speed and scale (FSI204)	FSI	204	FSI204	In this session, JPMorgan Chase, one of the leading global financial institutions in the world, talks about unlocking adoption across its enterprise of 50,000 developers and its application estate. Learn how JPMorgan Chase embraced “cloud parties,” shifted to a focus on patterns from a focus on service enablement, and leveraged CI/CD tools to move 50+ workloads to production in three weeks. We discuss how JPMorgan Chase achieved this speed and scale across several lines of business in collaboration with engineering teams across disciplines, while maintaining the controls required to operate within a highly regulated environment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: DevOps your Alexa skill: Why testing and automation matter (ALX318)	ALX	318	ALX318	Developing an Alexa skill can be a lot of fun, but you don’t want to wait for one-star reviews to start identifying and fixing bugs. Professional skill developers use testing and automation to minimize these risks. In this session, we talk about unit testing and end-to-end testing best practices for Alexa skills. Then we show you how to automate your deployment workflow, from committing your source code to skill deployment. Finally, we walk you through setting up some proactive alarms so you can act quickly on errors in your skill.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Twelve-factor serverless applications (SVS365-P)				This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. The twelve-factor application model is composed of twelve best practices for building modern, cloud-native applications. With guidance on factors like configuration, deployment, runtime, and multiple-service communication, the twelve-factor model prescribes practices that apply to everything from web applications to APIs and data-processing applications. Although serverless computing and AWS Lambda have changed application development, the twelve-factor methodology remains relevant and applicable in a serverless world. In this talk, we apply the twelve-factor model to serverless application development with Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, and we demonstrate how these services enable you to create scalable, well-built, low-administration applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Upgrade your APIs from REST to GraphQL with AWS AppSync & AWS Amplify (SVS364-P)	SVS	364	SVS364	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Learn how to migrate or upgrade your existing REST APIs to GraphQL with AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify. In this session, we go over the different strategies that you can use with AWS AppSync to leverage GraphQL, and we explain how to think in terms of a data API if you are used to developing REST APIs. We also cover the process of implementing AWS Lambda sources with AWS Amplify and using local mocking features to speed up development.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Selecting your first serverless pilot (SVS242-P)				This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Serverless microservices architecture is the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to AWS, increasing your agility and innovation. In this session, we explore some tips and best practices that will help you select your first serverless workload, including how to best position yourself for success. We also explore what success could look like. Finally, in addition to discussing tactical elements like prerequisites, size, complexity, and importance, we offer suggestions for how to set expectations within your organization and your team.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Rapid time to value with the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) (ROB319-P)	ROB	319	ROB319	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. There are many ways to develop robotic applications. Over the past few years, the maturing of the Robot Operating System (ROS) has created a valuable open-source code base for robotics researchers and developers. With the release of ROS Melodic and ROS 2, we are reaching a tipping point of having secure, scalable enterprise-level code available to developers for use in production. As such, we are seeing more companies move production workloads to open-source ROS and contribute code to the community. In this session, we review the financial and development advantages of maintaining sync with ROS and participating in the open-source community.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From space to your hands: AWS Ground Station brings space data to you (NET220-P)	NET	220	NET220	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. AWS Ground Station supports various missions, including IoT, Earth observation, and remote sensing. It enables customers to schedule satellite contacts using a global network of antenna systems and process their data in real time using cloud technologies. This session provides overview of commercial use cases for space data. Learn how AWS Ground Station can help you scale your business.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amplifying fullstack serverless apps with AWS AppSync (MOB306-P)				This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. AWS AppSync enables you to create robust, scalable GraphQL APIs to securely access and manipulate data from multiple sources and build engaging, collaborative applications that deliver responsive user experiences, providing offline and real-time capabilities. The Amplify Framework enables you to easily build and connect to your serverless backend with a powerful toolchain and resource library. The Amplify console provides a Git-based workflow for deploying and hosting fullstack serverless web applications, providing out-of-the-box CI/CD capabilities. In this session, learn how to use AWS AppSync and the Amplify Framework to create, deploy, and host engaging fullstack serverless applications, speeding up backend and front-end development in addition to CI/CD and automation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build ML-powered applications with speed (MKT249-P)	MKT	249	MKT249	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Technology leaders want to use machine learning (ML) powered applications to automate processes, improve customer experiences, and curate content. Join this session to learn how pre-built ML models offer an easy integration path for enabling ML inferences in your applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Developing resource providers with new AWS CloudFormation tools (MGT222-P)	MGT	222	MGT222	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. AWS CloudFormation is used by hundreds of thousands of customers to automate the deployment of native and custom infrastructure resources. New resource provider tools provide developers with the ability to build AWS and non-AWS resources that leverage AWS CloudFormation’s unique benefits across many usage scenarios. This session demonstrates how to use these new tools to create new resource types that can be invoked and managed like AWS native resources.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Application configuration as code (MGT221-P)	MGT	221	MGT221	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Learn how to approach application configuration when it’s constantly changing by using AWS AppConfig. We walk you through AWS AppConfig setup and the features that empower developers to manage application configuration in the same way they manage their code.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Centralize control & visualization of your multi-account environments (MGT220-P)	MGT	220	MGT220	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. AWS best practices dictate using a multi-account strategy because many customers require a presence in multiple regions. Centralized governance, control, visualization, and auditing are now complex tasks requiring the configuration of multiple toolsets and the aggregation of all their data to a single location. Many organizations struggle with the resources needed to run the tools and gather the data into a single console for visibility. AWS Systems Manager Explorer eases that burden. In this session, we explain how AWS Systems Manager Explorer works with other AWS management tools to simplify this task and help organizations adopt a centralized governance and control point while providing local development teams the freedom to drive innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Machine learning at the edge for industrial applications (IOT356-P)	IOT	356	IOT356	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this talk, learn how you can integrate edge computing and machine learning with industrial IoT solutions by combining AWS Cloud services with AWS IoT Greengrass. Then, discover how machine learning can provide important functions in mixed criticality systems through practical machine learning examples at the edge with AWS IoT Greengrass on Zynq Ultrascale+ and Amazon FreeRTOS on Xilinx Zynq-7000. Learn how this is applied across object classification, model-based calibration, and model-predictive control inferencing.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Modernizing Amazon warehouse device connections with AWS IoT (IOT230-P)	IOT	230	IOT230	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Amazon ships millions of packages every day from fulfilment centers worldwide. As part of that process, it’s imperative to print labels, packing slips, and other documents in a scalable and quick manner. Enter the Amazon Fulfillment Technology team, who pioneered an AWS IoT Greengrass–based solution to ensure consistent and stable network connections in addition to smooth printing of artifacts. Join us to learn about their journey and about how they used AWS IoT to modernize fulfilment centers, warehouses, and beyond.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to use Amazon Linux WorkSpaces for agile development (EUC330-P)	EUC	330	EUC330	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this session, learn how Amazon Linux WorkSpaces can be customized to provide ready-to-go development cloud workstation environments for developers in your organization. We discuss how developers working with different programming languages, such as .NET, C++, Java, and Go, or with tools like Docker containers, can become agile using Amazon Linux WorkSpaces. We also cover best practices for getting the most out of a cloud-based development desktop service.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build immersive experiences with Amazon Pinpoint Journeys (EUC230-P)	EUC	230	EUC230	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this session, we discuss how to build immersive customer journeys using the newly launched Amazon Pinpoint Journeys. In this fast-moving session, we cover marketing on AWS and how we built Amazon Pinpoint Journeys on AWS. We also provide a live demo to demonstrate the flexibility that Amazon Pinpoint Journeys can provide.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS & sustainability: Unlocking impact at scale (ENT267-P)	ENT	267	ENT267	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Customers across all verticals, segments, and geographies use AWS to achieve sustainability-related outcomes that align with and advance their goals. From farms and forests to factories, from cities to rural areas, from babies to adults, AWS services enable customers to develop solutions that reduce carbon emissions, water usage, waste, and more. In this breakout session, we share information about our company’s own efforts around sustainability, its relevance to our customers, and several customer use cases that illustrate how AWS services and applications are enabling and catalyzing innovation and outcomes, and making an impact.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Remote desktop and application streaming with NICE DCV (CMP220-P)	CMP	220	CMP220	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this session, learn how you can use NICE DCV to deliver remote desktops and application streaming from the cloud or any data center to any device. NICE DCV supports both Windows and Linux across a wide range of usage scenarios, from users who are accessing productivity applications on mobile devices to the most demanding high-end graphics workstation users for HPC and M&E.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Powering Zillow 3D Home tours with AWS serverless (ARC374-P)				This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Home buyers value the ability to experience a home before visiting it. To empower them to do so, Zillow launched its 3D Home tour product nationwide in March 2019. Zillow built a highly performant, scalable, and reliable computer vision and media processing pipeline powered by AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon S3. This architecture enabled Zillow to provide an immersive experience that continues to enhance and transform the home buying process. In this talk, Zillow discusses the evaluation process for its chosen technologies, and it provides an in-depth breakdown of the architecture and resulting cost savings.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon.com: Reducing time to market & TCO using serverless (ARC373-P)				This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational toys as a subscription—it started as a program manager’s dream about selling to Amazon.com customers, and it took seven months and four engineers working in a serverless environment for this dream to come to fruition. This serverless solution has scaled to support hundreds of subscription businesses both within and outside the company, with minimal operational engineering costs. In this session, learn how this small and scrappy team was able to quickly deliver STEM education to its customers using a simple and well-designed serverless approach leveraging Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch.
AWS re:Invent 2019: SaaS tenant isolation patterns (ARC372-P)	ARC	372	ARC372	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Tenant isolation is one of the most fundamental aspects of SaaS architecture. Every SaaS provider must consider how to ensure that their tenant resources are isolated and secure. The challenge is that each resource type (compute, storage, etc.) requires different isolation approaches. In this session, we build a clear roadmap for navigating the landscape of isolation options, highlighting the strategies for achieving isolation spanning the different multi-tenancy models and AWS services. Our goal is to create a comprehensive view of the considerations that impact your approach to introducing isolation into your SaaS solution.
AWS re:Invent 2019: SaaS migration: Real-world patterns and strategies (ARC371-P)	ARC	371	ARC371	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Migrating an existing single-tenant solution to a multi-tenant SaaS model can be challenging. Finding a migration approach that balances the ongoing needs of the business with the market, cost, and competitive pressures of getting to SaaS often requires teams to identify creative migration strategies. In this session, we explore common SaaS migration patterns and dive deep into the specific architecture, operational, deployment, and build strategies that are used to implement these patterns. We review a range of options that span from minimally invasive to a complete rewrite, highlighting the challenges, advantages, and demands of each of these approaches.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building resilient, scalable IoT workloads with AWS IoT Core (ARC370-P)	ARC	370	ARC370	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this session, learn how AWS teams used AWS IoT Core to provide more advantage to their architectures. These teams got operational by connecting multiple devices, managing their device fleet, learning lessons along the way, and deploying their workloads to production. Gain insights from tried and tested architectures that you can use to supplement your own workloads. We also discuss other AWS IoT offerings, such as AWS IoT Greengrass and Amazon FreeRTOS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Zappos uses AWS services for near-real-time search optimization (ANT380-P)	ANT	380	ANT380	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this session, learn how Zappos developed an end-to-end machine learning (ML) platform leveraging AWS analytics. The engine is made up of a real-time event ingestion system that relies heavily on Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Lambda. Learn about the system, how it was built, and how it feeds into various ML algorithms. Finally, learn how it powers a myriad of features on the Zappos website, including near-real-time search optimization and size recommendations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Upgrading AWS Glue to use AWS Lake Formation permissions (ANT281-P)	ANT	281	ANT281	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Learn how to upgrade to use Lake Formation permissions. We start with a simple data lake that has fine-grained access control (FGAC) on the AWS Glue Data Catalog using IAM policies. We then upgrade to using Lake Formation permissions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Natural language modeling with Amazon SageMaker BlazingText algorithm (AIM375-P)	AIM	375	AIM375	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. In this session, we showcase the power of machine learning in taking a large corpus of a foreign language text (we use the entire Wikipedia) and automatically learning word embeddings for that language. This is typically the first key step in building natural language processing (NLP) solutions, such as text classification or topic modeling. You see how easy it is to apply the BlazingText algorithm built into Amazon SageMaker in order to process the entire contents of Wikipedia in this language and visualize the results. You then can apply these learnings to any language of your choice.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What can you build with AI? No ML experience required (AIM240-P)	AIM	240	AIM240	This presentation was recorded prior to re:Invent. Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the customer experience in a contact center, automate content moderation in media, improve healthcare analytics, forecast demand more accurately, and much more. With AI services from AWS, you can add capabilities like image and video analysis, natural language, personalized recommendations, virtual assistants, and forecasting to your applications without deep expertise in machine learning (ML). Join this session to learn more about the ways that AI can improve your business.
Announcing AWS DeepComposer with Jonathan Coulton!				Learn more about Amazon DeepComposer at https://amzn.to/33Dk1RT Developers, make some noise! Watch the AWS DeepComposer announcement by Dr. Matt Wood and hear Jonathan Coulton play the original song he wrote using AWS DeepComposer.
Introducing Amazon Chime Meetings App for Slack				Learn more about Amazon Chime at https://amzn.to/35IJYkr New Amazon Chime Meetings App for Slack enables Slack users to start and join meetings powered by Amazon Chime from their Slack workspace. This video provides a quick demo of the app features and how administrators can deploy the app in their organization.
Introduction to Amazon Connect chat				Learn more about Amazon Connect at https://amzn.to/2qg1P3e Amazon Connect was designed from the ground up to be omnichannel, giving customers and agents a truly seamless experience across voice and chat. See Yasser El-Haggan, worldwide technical leader for Amazon Connect, show how easy it is to quickly leverage chat along-side voice to realize the benefits of a true omnichannel cloud contact center.
Introduction to Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration				Learn more about Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration at https://amzn.to/33Mmo5C This video introduces Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration (S3TA) and shows you how to turn it on. S3TA can speed up long-distance content transfers to and from Amazon S3, particularly for applications with widespread users or applications hosted far away from S3 bucket. S3TA improves transfer performance by routing traffic through Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed Edge Locations and over AWS backbone networks, and by using network protocol optimizations. You can turn on S3TA with a few clicks in the S3 console.
Introduction to AWS Ground Station				Learn more about AWS Ground Station at – https://amzn.to/2Khe9qI  AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure. AWS Ground Station can help you save up to 80% on the cost of your ground station operations by allowing you to pay only for the actual antenna time used, and relying on our global footprint of ground stations to download data when and where you need it. There are no long-term commitments, and you gain the ability to rapidly scale your satellite communications on-demand when your business needs it. Watch this video to learn more!
Nine Serverless Patterns: Intro to Lambda for Startups [Coinbase]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/36X0puC. Have you ever wanted to learn more about AWS Lambda but aren't sure where to start, or the key benefits? Interested to hear more context on how startups are using Lambda to solve problems internally and the many application scenarios? Using his own challenges, Luke Demi, Engineer at Coinbase, shares how he's been able to speed up developer productivity and solve scaling problems by leveraging AWS Lambda. He'll break down the benefits, how it works with specific use cases, and dive deep by using nine common serverless patterns as a backdrop to explain AWS Lambda. See a practical walkthrough and gain insights into how you can leverage AWS Lambda for your startup.
Instituto Nacional Electoral de México y AWS				Vea cómo el Instituto Nacional Electoral de México utilizó AWS para proporcionar servicios informáticos de manera confiable tanto a la institución como al público en general y agregar estabilidad política al país.
AWS DeepRacer League Championship Cup Final 2019				Watch the final race of the 2019 AWS DeepRacer League!
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Daily Recap Episode 4 - Wednesday				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at http://bit.ly/38ku81A. Join AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Rudy Chetty at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas to explore the quirky side of this cloud computing conference. Go Rudy Go! In Episode 4, Rudy runs around Las Vegas asking re:Inventors how their week is going. He catches up with the winners of the 4k/8k race, We Power Tech members, and his fellow AWS re:Invent hosts Annie Hancock and Jill Fagan.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels				Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, delivers his AWS re:Invent 2019 keynote. Watch as pulls back the covers to talk about the innovations behind AWS Nitro, Firecracker, AWS Fargate, Amazon EBS and more. This year’s featured guests include Clare Liguori, Principal Software Engineer at AWS - who goes deep on AWS Fargate and how we’ve built this to give customers a truly unique customer experience – as well as Jeff Dowds, IT Executive at Vanguard, Sebastien de Halleux, COO of Saildrone and Dr. Martin Hofmann, Group CIO of Volkswagen automotive group. In this keynote you’ll also hear more about the launch of the Amazon Builders’ Library: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/ And Werner’s video series, “Now Go Build”: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/NowGoBuild/ 01:10:26 A special thanks for the satellite imagery provided by AWS customer Maxar: https://bit.ly/33VJG8i
AWS and NFL Partner to Transform Player Health and Safety				NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joins AWS CEO Andy Jassy to announce a new initiative that will transform player health and safety using cloud computing. NFL Executive VP, Health and Safety Innovation, Jeff Miller, Chairman, NFL Engineering Committee, Dr. Jeff Crandall, and AWS VP, Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Matt Wood discuss how AWS and the NFL will create new, innovative tools such as the “Digital Athlete.”
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Recap Exclusives - Tatonka Champion				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at http://bit.ly/2Rnt7zC. Rudy Chetty, AWS Senior Solutions Architect and AWS re:Invent Daily Recap host extraordinaire, talks with our 2019 AWS re:Invent Tatonka Champion, Shu-Mei-Lee from Taiwan. She clinched the title by eating 16 wings in 10 min in the final round! But she didn't just come all the way to Las Vegas to eat chicken. Shu-Mei wants to inspire her fellow students back home to learn more about cloud computing.
Now Go Build with Werner Vogels EP8 – Amsterdam				Start building on AWS today - https://amzn.to/31QjX05. Follow Amazon CTO and VP, Werner Vogels to Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Dance Event, the worlds largest EDM festival, to explore how cloud technology enhances the artistic process and the ability to get their music out. Werner meets with special guest DJ Shiftee, Kate Wild and companies like Splice, Native Instruments, and GUTS ticketing.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Recap Exclusives - Certification				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at http://bit.ly/2DLSZgx. Rudy Chetty, AWS Senior Solutions Architect and AWS re:Invent Daily Recap host extraordinaire, talks with an attendee who got two AWS Certifications last year, at age 17! He is here at re:Invent with his proud father, who also happens to work in Amazon Fulfillment.
AWS Re:invent 2019 – Stewart Fry of BP Talks About Working With AWS on Its Cloud Transformation				Learn more about Amazon Aurora at https://amzn.to/2Rnp4n2. BP is a global energy business. It operates in 78 countries and delivers heat, light, and mobility products and services to people all around the world in ways that will help drive the transition to a lower carbon future. BP is using digital, big data, and advanced technologies to develop new ways to tackle emissions, improve its products, and create new low carbon businesses–including renewables, like wind energy, solar energy, and biofuels. Since 2016, BP has been a “cloud first” organization. It has worked closely with AWS, transforming its applications as it has moved them to the AWS Cloud, including upgrading databases to Amazon Aurora and RDS. BP has migrated 32 production environments to AWS, including its 16 TB strategic global fuels instance and its refinery optimization system, which now runs calculations that once took 7 hours in only 4 minutes. BP has announced that it is “all in” on AWS for its two European mega data centres, which it will exit by moving data and key applications to AWS. The company is also exploring using Alexa for Business in its retail operations and Amazon Kinesis for emissions monitoring and improving the customer experience.
AWS Chatbot Overview				Learn more about AWS Chatbot at https://amzn.to/33LY03b. AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts and run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases so that your team can collaborate and respond to events faster.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – Christopher Cerruto of Avis Budget Group Talks About Cloud Transformation				Learn more about AWS serverless computing at https://amzn.to/2Yh7lPu. Avis Budget Group provides mobility solutions in more than 180 countries with three of the most recognized brands in the industry: Avis, Budget, and Zipcar. Two years ago, the company decided to work with AWS to make a revolutionary transformation, helping ensure it could provide customers with on-demand services, mobile applications, and greater personalization and transparency—as well as position Avis Budget to meet evolving customer needs in the future. Avis Budget leverages the AWS Connected Vehicle Solution for its Global Telematics Hub, which collects vehicle data from across the fleet into a single environment. It uses AWS Lambda for serverless compute, Amazon SageMaker for real-time analytics, and Amazon RedShift and Amazon EMR for its advanced data and BI platform, global enterprise data lake, real-time data warehouse, and visualization tools.
2019 re:Invent Global Partner Keynote with Doug Yeum				Watch the Global Partner Keynote with Doug Yeum, Head of Worldwide Channels & Alliances, AWS. Featured Guests: - Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS, Stewart Fry, Vice President, CIO Global Enterprise Systems, BP, Chris Cerruto, Vice President, Global Architecture and Analytics & BI, Avis Budget Group, Dave McCann, VP, Migration, Marketplace & Control Services, and Sandy Carter, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector Partners & Programs, AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – Rob Smedley From Formula 1 Talks About Using AWS to Improve the Fan Experience				Learn more about Amazon EC2 at https://amzn.to/2qloY45. Formula 1 has been using Amazon EC2 for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to simulate race car aerodynamics, achieving the performance of a super computer at a much lower cost and reducing simulation time by an average of 70% — from 60 hours down to 18 hours. With the CFD project, Formula 1 used over 500 million data points to study downforce loss when two vehicles race in close proximity. (A car’s downforce increases its tire grip and cornering speed and reduces lap time.) Based on its CFD simulations, Formula 1 has designed a car for the 2021 racing season that reduces downforce loss in wheel-to-wheel racing from 50% to 15% — and offers a more exciting experience for fans.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – David Solomon of Goldman Sachs Talks About Using AWS to Innovate				Learn more about about AWS Cloud security at https://amzn.to/34MtTdk. Goldman Sachs is using AWS to enhance how they help clients achieve their financial goals and provide services that allow businesses to build financial capabilities into their workloads. The company has around 9,000 engineers—1/4 of its workforce—who build safe, secure, responsible technology that helps make finance better. Goldman Sachs has worked with AWS to create the Bring Your Own Key security solution and uses AWS to deliver digital capabilities at scale, such as its consumer credit card. Moreover, Goldman Sachs is migrating Marquee, a service for institutional investors, to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – Hans Vestberg of Verizon Talks About Collaborating With AWS on 5G				Learn more about AWS Wavelength at https://amzn.to/2LqVzwS. Verizon is a leader in 5G innovation, offering its customers 5G Mobile and 5G Home internet—and now it is the first company to provide 5G network edge computing with AWS Wavelength, a new service Andy Jassy announced during his keynote. AWS Wavelength extends the AWS infrastructure, including compute and storage services, to the edge so that developers can create and deploy ultra-low latency applications, such as gaming and machine learning, to mobile devices on 5G. Using AWS Wavelength, Verizon is piloting 5G Edge, the company’s innovation platform for ultra-low latency applications, with customers in Chicago.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – Brent Shafer of Cerner Talks About Using AWS to Transform Healthcare				Learn more about AWS Machine Learning at https://amzn.to/2YiVYqi. Cerner Corporation delivers healthcare technology globally to 3 million healthcare professionals and innovates to create a seamless and connected world where everyone thrives. The company has spent the last four decades digitizing healthcare data and ridding clinician’s offices of manila folders and filing cabinets. Now, the collaboration of Cerner and AWS will deliver data that is more accessible, actionable and uses AWS AI and Machine Learning technologies to predict and potentially prevent health problems. Also, as part of its effort to modernize how it delivers solutions and improves patient outcomes, Cerner has been migrating its privately hosted platforms to AWS. One of the company’s goals is to bring more joy to the practice of medicine—Cerner is testing its Virtual Scribe technology using speech recognition and Amazon Transcribe Medical that can dramatically reduce data entry and give doctors more time to spend with patients.
Now Go Build with Werner Vogels EP7 – Porto				Description: Start building on AWS today -https://amzn.to/386ALo1. Follow Amazon CTO and VP, Werner Vogels to the city of Porto, Portugal as he meets with the founders of Veniam and Ceiia and to explore how an ancient city is transforming itself into a smart city to meet the needs of a growing population within the confines of a city that dates back to 300 BC.
Build for a Better Today				Learn more about AWS in the Public Sector at https://amzn.to/2OMI2Sg Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers around the world rely on the cloud to power their missions. From the classroom to the oceans, travel with us to hear how these five organizations – International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, American Heart Association, Saildrone, Matific, and Wefarm – use technology to help make the world a better place.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Keynote with Andy Jassy				Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, delivers his AWS re:Invent 2019 keynote, featuring the latest news and announcements, including the launches of M6g, R6g, C6g instances, Inf1 instances, Amazon EKS for AWS Fargate , Amazon S3 Access Points, Amazon Redshift RA3 instances, AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service, Amazon SageMaker Studio, Amazon SageMaker Notebooks, Amazon SageMaker Experiments, Amazon SageMaker Debugger, Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor, Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, Amazon Fraud Detector, Amazon CodeGuru, Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, Amazon Kendra, the general availability of AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Wavelength. Guest speakers include Dr. Matt Wood, of AWS; David Solomon, of Goldman Sachs; Brent Shafer, of Cerner, and Hans Vestberg, of Verizon. Launch Announcements: 00:19:50 M6g, R6g, C6g EC2 instances 00:23:00 Inf1 EC2 instances 00:27:50 Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate 00:56:50 Amazon S3 Access Points 01:03:30 Amazon Redshift RA3 instances 01:06:45 AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift 01:11:05 UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service 01:16:50 Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service 01:36:00 Amazon SageMaker Studio 01:37:20 Amazon SageMaker Notebooks 01:38:30 Amazon SageMaker Experiments 01:40:10 Amazon SageMaker Debugger 01:42:55 Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor 01:45:40 Amazon SageMaker Autopilot 01:55:20 Amazon Fraud Detector 01:58:40 Amazon CodeGuru 02:05:55 Contact Lens for Amazon Connect 02:09:15 Amazon Kendra 02:16:30 General availability of AWS Outposts 02:23:20 AWS Local Zones 02:31:55 AWS Wavelength Guest speakers include: 01:48:00 Dr. Matt Wood, of AWS 00:30:40 David Solomon, of Goldman Sachs 01:21:35 Brent Shafer, of Cerner 02:26:20 Hans Vestberg, of Verizon Learn more about AWS at - https://amzn.to/2OPqk0F Note: Amazon EKS for AWS Fargate is the proper term @ 00:27:58 Awaken Your Data Power your workloads on AWS with the latest 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors featuring built-in AI acceleration. On-demand viewing of the Keynote sponsored by Intel. Visit: https://youtu.be/MIv32gcwOQM
AWS CLOUD Day 2019 Recap				Learn more about AWS Cloud Day at http://bit.ly/34GFtXr. Join us for AWS Cloud Day in your city. This one-day event will be delivered by Industry and AWS Leaders. This event is ideal for business and technical leaders, as well as IT Executive who use Technology to innovate and build solutions.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis				Watch Peter DeSantis, VP, AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, deliver the Monday Night Live keynote, featuring Cris Collinsworth from PFF, Rob Smedley with Formula 1 and Daphne Koller, from Insitro. Learn more about re:Invent at - https://amzn.to/2DJJHmz. 00:00:53 Cris Collinsworth from PFF 00:32:48 Rob Smedley with Formula 1 01:03:24 Daphne Koller, from Insitro
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 20: Friday Highlights				Jill and Annie are back for the final day at re:Invent... and the fun isn't over yet! Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/2Rd77ax
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 19: Thursday Highlights				It's re:Play time! Jill and Annie are here to give you the highlights of Thursday at re:Invent 2019. Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/34K8f9J
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 18: Wednesday Highlights				So much fun happening on Wednesday at re:Invent 2019! Tune in to hear Jill and Annie tell you more about it. Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/2R9qbql
AWS Outposts: Ordering and Installation Overview				Learn more about AWS Outposts at https://amzn.to/2DGf3cC AWS Outposts offer a range of pre-validated Outposts configurations offering a mix of EC2 and EBS capacity designed to meet a variety of application needs. AWS delivers and installs Outposts at your desired site. Learn how you can choose the right Outposts configurations and prepare your site for your Outpost installation.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 17: Tuesday Highlights				So much happening on Tuesday at re:Invent! Jill and Annie return and take a sneak peek at what to look forward to. Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/2rKS8Km
AWS DeepComposer - Jonathan Coulton Performance at AWS re:Invent 2019				Learn more about AWS DeepComposer at https://amzn.to/34HNH1t Watch Jonathan Coulton perform the song written collaboratively with AWS DeepComposer.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 16: Monday Highlights				Jill and Annie go over the big things you need to know about Monday at re:Invent 2019: Welcome Reception, Monday Night Live, and more! Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/33CAZjo
Philips: AWS Outposts Customer Testimonial				Learn more about AWS Outposts at https://amzn.to/2LaKvDZ Learn how Philips deployed their AWS Outposts solution on premises to support their low latency and local data processing needs to improve healthcare outcomes.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 15: Sunday Highlights				It's almost here! Jill and Annie preview Sunday's events at re:Invent 2019 and go over some last minute tips. Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/2Dw0yI3.
AWS Pop-Up Loft Jakarta 2019				The Jakarta Pop-up Loft was a four-weeks program meant to provide the platform for local startups, entrepreneurs, developers, and customers to gather to learn from each other, network, build, and collaborate. During four weeks, 2.8k attendees enjoyed 44 events, 70+sessions, hands-onworkshops, career fairs, fireside chats,etc. on business and technical topics. Are you a startup? Learn more on this page about these Southeast Asia hot startups and how we can support you to join the unicorns’ club. (Webinar, newsletter, events etc.) Learn more at https://amzn.to/37RrMH2
Threat Stack: Proactive risk identification and real-time threat detection across AWS				In this video, we outline an ingestion pipeline that gathers telemetry data at the scale of 60B events a day. The pipeline grants key security insights from that data, both in the form of alerts and proactive risk identification. Customers can consume that telemetry in a variety of ways, including landing that data in their own S3 bucket and then leverage Amazon Athena, Amazon Sagemaker, and Amazon EMR to interrogate that data.
Meet Digbijoy, Head of Start-up at Amazon Internet Services Private Limited				For career opportunities with AWS, visit –http://bit.ly/2Y28ESt Meet Digbijoy, our Head of Start-up at Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, as he shares how we work closely with our customers to reinvent and build new solutions. Come build the future with our AISPL team.
AWS Storage Gateway				Learn more about AWS Storage Gateway at https://amzn.to/34p4AxK AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. Customers use Storage Gateway to simplify storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases. These include moving tape backups to the cloud, reducing on-premises storage with cloud-backed file shares, providing low latency access to data in AWS for on-premises applications, as well as various migration, archiving, processing, and disaster recovery use cases.
VR FleetCare (Finnish Rail) simplifies reports using AWS data analytics and machine learning				Learn more about public sector innovation across the Nordics: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nordics-public-sector/ Part of the VR Group, VR FleetCare (Finnish Rail) increases its innovation and launches new projects ten times faster using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as compared to using their on-premises configuration. VR FleetCare offers repair, predictive maintenance, and lifecycle services across the Nordic and Baltic countries. With a history dating back 150 years, the VR Group is widely recognizable in Finland. VR FleetCare can now simplify reports, innovate fast, and build an agile organization using AWS machine learning and data analytics. VR FleetCare ingests their Internet of Things (IoT) data using services such as Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and AWS Glue.
What is Cloud Computing?				Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources such as compute, databases, and storage via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/ Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access a wide range of technology services on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services. Organizations of every type, size, and industry are using the cloud for a wide variety of use cases, such as data backup, disaster recovery, email, virtual desktops, software development and testing, big data analytics, and customer-facing web applications. Explore how your business can use cloud computing to become more agile, reduce costs, instantly scale, and deploy globally in minutes. Topics: Startups using Cloud Computing: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ Enterprises using Cloud Computing: https://aws.amazon.com/enterprise/ Public Sector using Cloud Computing: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/ Cloud Solutions by Industry: https://aws.amazon.com/industries/ Cloud Solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences: 0:46:19 https://aws.amazon.com/health/ Cloud Solutions for Financial Services: 0:53:00 https://aws.amazon.com/financial-services/ Cloud Solutions for Game Tech: 0:58:18 https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/ Cloud Products: 01:16:00 https://aws.amazon.com/products/ Compute: https://aws.amazon.com/products/compute/ Storage: https://aws.amazon.com/products/storage/ Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ Internet of Things (IoT): https://aws.amazon.com/iot/ Data Lakes and Analytics: https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/datalakes-and-analytics/ Machine Learning: 1:45:00 https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/ Global Infrastructure: 2:30:00 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
What is AWS?				Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 services such as compute, databases, and storage. Learn more: https://amzn.to/33lsybW Explore how millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. To learn more about our products and customers see the links below: Topics: Cloud Products: 00:39:03 https://aws.amazon.com/products/ AWS Startups: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ AWS in the Enterprise: https://aws.amazon.com/enterprise/ AWS in the Public Sector: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/ Cloud Solutions by Industry: https://aws.amazon.com/industries/ Compute: https://aws.amazon.com/products/compute/ Storage: https://aws.amazon.com/products/storage/ Databases: 1:11:00 https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ Machine Learning: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/
Team Up With an AWS Competency Partner				Learn more about AWS Competency Partners at https://amzn.to/37Iucrm The AWS Competency Program highlights APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized offerings. See how Competency Partners like Domino, Flexera | RISC, Onica, and Slalom help AWS customers with their IT needs. #TheNextSmart
AWS Databases: Break Free to Save, Grow, and Innovate Faster				Learn more about AWS Databases at https://amzn.to/2Ol0uRH AWS provides the broadest selection of purpose-built databases for all your application needs, allowing you to save, grow, and innovate faster. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on AWS databases, including Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, and more!
Automate Account Creation Using AWS Service Catalog				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/37DzaWt In this video, you’ll see how to automate account creation using AWS Service Catalog. You’ll learn how to quickly generate new accounts for your AWS Organization, configure baseline templates to employ during the creation process, and provision the new accounts using those templates.
Enforce License Rules with AWS License Manager				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/2sfl2T2 In this video, you'll see how to enforce license rules (defined as license configurations) in AWS License Manager. AWS License Manager enforces your license rules when you launch new instances using Amazon Machine Images, EC2 launch templates, AWS CloudFormation templates, AWS Service Catalog, or software acquired from AWS Marketplace.
Manage Licenses Across Multiple AWS Accounts with AWS License Manager				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/2QSFNOI In this video, you’ll see how to manage licenses across multiple AWS accounts with AWS License Manager. With AWS License Manager, you can set up a link to multiple accounts in AWS Organizations, share license configurations among member accounts, and search resources across multiple accounts at once.
Provisioning Users in AWS Control Tower Using AWS SSO				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/2roeilr In this video, you’ll see how to provision users in AWS Control Tower using AWS Single Sign-On (or SSO). With Control Tower, you can create users using preconfigured groups, manage account access from a centralized location, and create customized permission sets for groups and users within those accounts.
Monitor Performance of Amazon ECS Applications Using CloudWatch Container Insights				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/2OKkxrK In this video, you'll see how to monitor the performance of your Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) applications using CloudWatch Container Insights. With Container Insights, you can aggregate and summarize metrics from your containerized applications, allowing you to troubleshoot your Amazon ECS clusters by isolating specific issues.
Optimize Application Performance with AWS X-Ray				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/2skujcG In this video, you’ll see how to optimize application performance with AWS X-Ray. With this service, you can determine the root cause of an issue, understand which end users are impacted and to what extent, and create sampling rules.
Monitor AWS Resources Using Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/34otwWe In this video, you'll see how to monitor your AWS resources using Amazon CloudWatch dashboards. You can monitor multiple resources at once, view automatic dashboards that can be dynamically filtered, or create your own custom dashboards.
View and Manage Quotas for AWS Services Using Service Quotas				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/2KXkLur In this video, you’ll see how to view and manage quotas for AWS services using Service Quotas. With Service Quotas, you can monitor quotas across AWS services from one central location, proactively manage your quotas by setting up alarms or requesting quota increases, and simplify quota requests for new accounts in AWS Organizations.
Aggregate and Resolve Operational Issues Using AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/34osUQu In this video, you'll see how to aggregate and resolve operational issues using AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. With OpsCenter, you can view operational work items across AWS services from one central location, investigate issues with contextual information, and remediate using quick solution steps.
Manage Compliance Across Accounts with AWS CloudFormation StackSets				Learn more about AWS Management and Governance at https://amzn.to/37EvC6d In this video, you'll see how to manage compliance across multiple accounts with AWS CloudFormation StackSets. With StackSets, you can enable consistent AWS Config rules on target accounts from a centralized administrative account, right from the AWS CloudFormation Console in your web browser.
Amazon Athena Federated Query				Learn more about Amazon Athena at https://amzn.to/2XQa95Y Watch principal engineer Anthony Virtuoso give a deep dive and demo of Amazon Athena Federated Query. Athena enables you to run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. You can use familiar SQL constructs to JOIN data across multiple data sources for quick analysis, and store results in Amazon S3 for subsequent use. Athena executes federated queries using Athena Data Source Connectors that run on AWS Lambda. AWS has open source data source connectors for Amazon DynamoDB, Apache HBase, Amazon Document DB, Amazon Redshift, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudWatch Metrics, and JDBC-compliant relational databases such MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Additionally, using the Athena Query Federation SDK, you can build connectors to any data source.
AWS Builder Stories - Jed Sundwall, Open Data Global Lead				For career opportunities with AWS, visit – http://bit.ly/2rrJEaI Jed and his team are working towards a future where anyone can create applications that help us better understand our world.
AWS Returners Program				Learn more about AWS Returners Program at – http://bit.ly/2OILAnd The AWS Returners program is designed to help individuals who have been our of the work-force for two or more years to relaunch their career. Come build the future with us.
Morningstar Runs One of the World’s Largest Private AWS DeepRacer Leagues				Learn more about AWS DeepRacer League at – https://amzn.to/2DbVnNt  Morningstar uses AWS DeepRacer to provide hands-on training to its employees and accelerate the application of machine learning across its investing products, services and processes. More than 445 employees from multiple functions and 8 countries—including 35 percent of Morningstar's technology function—are taking part in Morningstar's very own version of the DeepRacer League.
MakeMyTrip: Building Next Generation SOC				MakeMyTrip is a pioneer in India’s online travel industry. MakeMyTrip came to life to empower the Indian travelers with instant bookings and comprehensive choices. In this episode of This is my Architecture, Vikram Mehta from MakeMyTrip talks about how they built their next gen SOC platform on AWS.
MaiCoin: How we conquer permission, testing and collaboration issues to achieve IaC on AWS.				For the past two years, digital currency boom global, as a leading digital asset exchange in Taiwan, Maicoin not only need to establish but also to ensure the high security level for the complicated cloud infrastructure. Apparently, IaC sounds like a good practice to manage the thousands of cloud resources, but IaC isn't a silver bullet, hence, Tom Tsai from Maicoin shares what the issues they encounter during adopting IaC, and how they complete the IaC workfolw to conquer permission, testing and collaboration problem on AWS
Irdeto: Multi DRM solution with Kubernetes on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS				Irdeto, a global leader in the cyber security industry, will outline how they leverage AWS cloud architectures to deliver media security solutions. Focusing in particular on their multi-DRM solution - Irdeto Control – they will discuss how leveraging Kubernetes on AWS allows video and audio content owners to encrypt their content and securely transfer the keys from the operators to the users.
HubSpot: Task queueing system built on top of Amazon SQS				HubSpot discusses how they built a task queueing system built on top of Amazon SQS, for delivering retries, high availability, dead-letter management, message tracing, and more. HubSpot leverages this task queueing to support 450+ micro services, delivering features ranging from email delivery, to automated marketing workflows, or even automatic impaired host replacements.
Extreme Reach: The AdBridge Platform on AWS Handles 80%+ of all Commercials in the US				Extreme Reach discusses how the AdBridge platform on AWS connects creative advertising assets with media outlets. Digital ad assets and traditional linear commercials are delivered from content originators to S3 and Cloudfront. The content is transcoded, batch processed, and quality controlled on EC2 before being sent to the media outlets.
How can I troubleshoot and prevent PostgreSQL Storage full scenarios when using Amazon RDS?				Find more details in the AWS Knowledge Center: https://amzn.to/2kdTbyX Ayushi, an AWS Cloud Support Engineer, shows you how to troubleshoot and prevent PostgreSQL Storage full scenarios.
Jembi leverages AWS Training to Improve Healthcare Information Exchange in Africa				Learn more about AWS Training at https://amzn.to/2QGxMwo Hear Lourens Walters, Senior Program Manager and Data Scientist at Jembi Health Systems, discuss how AWS Training has allowed them to improve the way healthcare information is standardized and shared between governments, healthcare organizations as well as academia across Africa.
AWS Summit Bahrain 2019: Keynote Address Full Video				With over 165 services, AWS has the breadth and depth that enables millions of customers worldwide to build and operate applications in ways never seen before. Focusing on best practices as well as thought leadership, the AWS Summit Bahrain keynote is relevant for both technical and business leaders.
How Transfix is Building the Future of Trucking				Learn more about AWS Startups at https://amzn.to/2KJWacF Transfix is hauling the trucking industry into the 21st century with a digital freight marketplace that matches and connects shippers with carriers based on a number of key variables. Critical to that success is Amazon SageMaker. Here’s how it works.
Streamlining Event Management With One-stop Shop Solution Platform InEvent				Learn more about AWS Startups at https://amzn.to/2KJWacF InEvent strives to be the one-stop shop for event organizers to manage all logistical aspects, whether it’s scheduling, flight management, ticketing, or registrations. We recently sat down with CEO & Co-founder Pedro Góes, CTO & Co-founder Mauricio Giordano, and CRO & Co-founder Vinicius Neris, to chat about organization in the event industry, scaling on the cloud, and where InEvent is headed next.
Meet Ed Lenta, Vice President at AWS Asia Pacific				For career opportunities with AWS, visit http://bit.ly/AWSAPAC Meet Ed Lenta, Vice President, AWS Asia Pacific, as he shares how his team of builders are inventing with customers & partners around the world to build the future of technology.
Triboo: Hosting Magento on Containers (Italian)				Alessandro Canzi, IT Infrastructure Manager, explains how Triboo hosts magento on containers.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 14: Know Before You Go				Jill and Annie return for the final How to re:Invent episode before re:Invent 2019 with all the tips, tricks and insider knowledge you need to know before you go! Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at http://bit.ly/2Ou5Hp7
How do I create a Replication Instance in AWS DMS?				Find more details in the AWS Knowledge Center: https://amzn.to/35vdzi6 Daniel, an AWS Cloud Support Engineer, shows you how to create a Replication Instance in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
How do I create Event Subscriptions in AWS DMS?				Find more details in the AWS Knowledge Center: https://amzn.to/2NCmeqT Daniel, an AWS Cloud Support Engineer, shows you how to create Event Subscriptions in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
How do I monitor my task by using CloudWatch metrics in AWS DMS?				Find more details in the AWS Knowledge Center: https://amzn.to/36kIVsa Daniel, an AWS Cloud Support Engineer, shows you how to monitor your task by using CloudWatch metrics in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
NewsLeopard: How to build an eDM service with a high delivery rate on AWS (Mandarin)				NewLeopard built their mail delivery service on AWS. They not only built up an effective pipeline for Simple Email Service (SES) for mass delivery, they also built up a tracking mechanism with API Gateway and Lambda. This provides their customers with a reliable channel to understand their eDM operations.
Amazon Chime SDK Demo and Code Walkthrough				To learn more about Amazon Chime SDK, visit: https://amzn.to/2Xw7qym The Amazon Chime SDK is a set of real-time communications components that developers can use to quickly add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing capabilities to their own applications. Developers can leverage the same communication infrastructure and services that power Amazon Chime, an online meetings service from AWS, and deliver engaging experiences in their applications. In this video, Giri Kalpathy Narayanan demoes a custom meeting application and walkthroughs through the code to explain how developers can build with the Amazon Chime SDK. To learn more about Amazon Chime SDK, visit: https://amzn.to/2Xwg6oq To learn more about AWS SDK, visti: https://amzn.to/2s5cfmL To check out the Amazon Chime SDK GitHub repo, visit: http://bit.ly/2KAhCkf To review the Amazon Chime SDK Developer Guide, visit: https://amzn.to/35m3B1y To review the Amazon Chime API Reference, visit: https://amzn.to/2Ou4zSp
Amazon Chime SDK Overview				To learn more about Amazon Chime SDK, visit: https://amzn.to/33bueow The Amazon Chime SDK is a set of real-time communications components that developers can use to quickly add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing capabilities to their own applications. Developers can leverage the same communication infrastructure and services that power Amazon Chime, an online meetings service from AWS, and deliver engaging experiences in their applications. In this video, Aaron Friedman (Principal Product Manager, Amazon Chime) covers a high-level overview of the Amazon Chime SDK operation.
Amazon Chime SDK Introduction				To learn more about Amazon Chime SDK, visit: https://amzn.to/2raxOBX The Amazon Chime SDK is a set of real-time communications components that developers can use to quickly add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing capabilities to their own applications. Developers can leverage the same communication infrastructure and services that power Amazon Chime, an online meetings service from AWS, and deliver engaging experiences in their applications. In this video, Aaron Friedman (Principal Product Manager, Amazon Chime) introduces the use cases and benefits of the Amazon Chime SDK.
Building Hyper-Personalized Customer Service Using Freshworks and Amazon Sagemaker				Learn more about Amazon Sagemaker at https://amzn.to/345DgEN reshworks is a Chennai based B2B Unicorn catering to small and medium businesses globally for their software support needs. For one of their flagship products “Freddy” they have built customer support ticket resolution and routing model on Sagemaker which helps them reduce the ticket resolution time for all of their customers. Using Amazon Sagemaker, 59% of Freshworks customers experienced a reduction in ticket resolution time leading to improved CSAT score. Freshworks has built 30000 models for 11000 customer on Sagemaker and training time for these models in down to 33 minutes which earlier use to take more than 24 hours in their conventional open source backed system. This AI based “Freddy” has helped them attract more mid-market customers and delight them with state of the art AI solution.
Haptik: Data Lake for Conversational AI				Ranvijay showcases how various AWS managed services have helped Haptik process more than 40 million messages every month, delivered by a large number of chatbots. Come join us to understand Haptik's journey of realtime and batch analysis of chat sessions.
Ztore: Building a Recommendation System on AWS				Ztore is an online supermarket with a convenient delivery service, selling quality groceries and home essentials. Dennis Yung, Data Strategy Lead from Ztore shares how they built and run their recommendation system on AWS, providing personalized product suggestions to their customers. Ztore是香港本地一間提供方便送貨服務的網上超級市場，售賣優質的糧油雜貨及生活用品。你可簡易地在網上隨時隨地購買心儀產品。在本集的 This is My Architecture，Ztore的Data Strategy Lead，Dennis Yung將會展示他們如何在AWS打造他們的產品推薦系統，以及向客戶提供實時的產品推薦。
AWS Hackathon for Good Nordics 2019				Learn more about AWS in the Nordics at https://amzn.to/35fyapr AWS in the Nordics hosted the Hackathon for Good event in Stockholm, Sweden on Sep 25, 2019. It is an AWS Nordic annual event for the social good that challenges hackers to create technological initiatives and solutions to address local and global issues. 100 Developers across Nordic countries were invited to engage, collaborate, and innovate together to solve specific problems that addressed by charities or non-profit organizations to improve the communities and create a better future for the Nordic countries.
What is the Value of Being AWS Certified?				Learn more about AWS Certification at https://amzn.to/2qsvlCO Hear from AWS Certified professionals about the value they have found in AWS Certification. AWS Certification validates cloud expertise to help professionals highlight in-demand skills and organizations build effective, innovative teams for cloud initiatives using AWS. We offer diverse certification exams by role and specialty designed to empower individuals and teams to meet their unique goals.
AWS Config: Assess, Audit, and Evaluate You AWS Resources				Learn more about AWS Config at https://amzn.to/37idxLf AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
Getting Started with Amazon Connect chat				Learn more about Amazon Connect at https://amzn.to/2OmrWxn Amazon Connect was designed from the ground up to be omnichannel, giving customers and agents a truly seamless experience across voice and chat. Recognize the power of a true omnichannel contact center as Yasser El-Haggan, worldwide technical leader for Amazon Connect demonstrates how to quickly and easily set up voice and chat experiences in Amazon Connect.
Getting Started with Amazon Connect				Learn more about Amazon Connect at https://amzn.to/2Opterh Amazon Connect is an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies provide superior customer service at a lower cost. Watch Yasser-El Haggan, worldwide technical leader for Amazon Connect, show you how easy it is to setup your first Amazon Connect contact center. Learn how Amazon Connect provides you with the flexibility to scale to meet unpredictable demand, while saving you up to 80% over traditional contact centers.
AWS Executive Forum 2020 - Save the Date				Learn more about AWS at https://amzn.to/2NWH71e The 2020 Amazon Web Services Executive Forum is an invitation only forum for senior business and technology leaders with a dedicated stream within the wider 3-day AWS Summit Sydney. It will be held on March 31 - April 1.
Come Build with AWS Indonesia				For career opportunities with AWS, visit http://bit.ly/33RieJZ Delivering & managing how our customers use advanced cloud technologies to help their customers throughout Indonesia. That’s our focus. Come build with us.
AWS Outposts: Overview and How It Works				Learn more about AWS Outposts at https://amzn.to/2NPrc4E AWS Outposts delivers AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any customer on premises facilities for a truly consistent hybrid experience.
AWS CloudTrail: Simplify Security Analysis, Resource Change Tracking, and Troubleshooting				AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Learn more at - https://amzn.to/2XjfXEF.
AWS ジャパン 公共部門チーム（パブリック セクター）のご紹介 / Meet our Public Sector Team at AWS Japan				For career opportunities with AWS, visit http://bit.ly/32VIOAp 政府機関との協働から、医療業界や学術機関との連携まで、幅広く担当するAWSの公共部門チーム（パブリック セクター）をご紹介します。最新ビデオをご覧ください。 From working with government agencies, to collaborating with healthcare industry and academic institutions in Japan, learn more about what our Public Sector teams are building in Japan and around the world. Meet our AWS Public Sector team.
The Expanding AWS and Salesforce Global Alliance				Learn how to innovate faster with Salesforce and Amazon Web Services - https://amzn.to/2KpuFow. Modernize your enterprise applications and drive new value from customer data. Salesforce and AWS have expanded their global presence to make these unified solutions available to more customers around the world.
AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 13: We Power Tech				Jill and Annie meet with Sacha Thompson, Inclusion Marketing Lead for AWS, to talk about We Power Tech at re:Invent 2019. Learn more about AWS re:Invent 2019 and register at – http://bit.ly/2Kqd6F0
ZS Associates: Intelligent Process Automation Using AWS AI Services				Automation has been a key priority for ZS’ customers and its managed services business. ZS was one of the early adopters of AWS for scaling Robotics Process Automation (RPA), ensuring the right level of security, compliance and governance. ZS is now innovating using AWS AI services like Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Comprehend, combining them with RPA to drive new and more impactful use cases.
Producer Perspective Panel				Learn more about AWS Thinkbox at - http://bit.ly/32MkTTP. Facility compute power, artist team size and the capability to deliver many creative iterations are essential ingredients in bringing content to life, and the cloud is now changing how we approach the process. Although demand for CG content is at an all-time high, creative studio margins remain thin. Competition demands individual facilities adopt new technology to not only remain competitive but excel in a new world with more content needs and shorter production schedules. Hear from our elite panel of VFX facility veterans as we discuss the Producer's Perspective on the cloud's impact on production, VFX shot iterations, and the delivery of shows. Moderator: Chris Del Conte, Sr. Business Development Manager, AWS Thinkbox Panelists: Frederick Lissau, VFX Producer, Pixomondo; Ken Zorniak, President & CEO, Tangent Animation; Graham Peddie, Operations Director, Rocket Science VFX
Impact of the Cloud Panel				Learn more about AWS Thinkbox at - http://bit.ly/2OqwXVN. How would you reimagine production, without the physical constraints of compute and artist locations? Talent and hardware are the essential ingredients in bringing content to life, and the cloud is changing how we approach the process. Hear from our illustrious panel of industry veterans as we take a deep dive to discuss the impact of the cloud on production and collaboration. Moderator: Rex Grignon Director, Technical Evangelist, AWS Thinkbox Panelists: Jeff Bell, COO, Vice President and Producer, Tangent Animation; Michelle Grady, Executive Vice President, Sony Pictures Imageworks; Karen Dufilho, Producer, Independent; Don Parker, VP & GM, Shotgun - Autodesk
Creating Apocalyptic VFX for Good Omens				Learn more about AWS Thinkbox at - http://bit.ly/2CKrXpj. Adrian Williams, Milk Visual Effect’s CG and Lookdev Supervisor on Good Omens, and Benoit Leveau, Head of Pipeline at Milk, discuss both the artistic and technical challenges they solved during production - from creating a Bentley in flames to Crowley and Aziraphale's wings for the Amazon Original Series Good Omens, and how scaling up with AWS helped them complete the project. Speaker: Adrian Williams, CG and Lookdev Supervisor, Milk Visual Effects Speaker: Benoit Leveau, Head of Pipeline and Systems, Milk Visual Effects
Why EdTechs innovate and grow using AWS				Learn more about cloud computing for education with AWS at https://amzn.to/2KCtAKj Find out what programs and benefits are available to your EdTech. The needs of educators and students are changing, but many educational technology (EdTech) companies aren’t prepared. Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing can provide a strategic advantage to help your company achieve its potential – whether it’s at concept stage, IPO, or beyond. With the global infrastructure and tools the cloud provides, you can build and scale solutions for student success.
SAP in the Cloud - Considerations for Enterprise Executives				Learn more about SAP in the Cloud at https://amzn.to/33P71tl Learn how companies have evaluated moving their SAP landscapes to the cloud and the unexpected benefits they encountered by migrating to AWS. This webinar will also feature details on the services and tools enterprise companies are using to successfully achieve their SAP migration and innovation goals.
AWS and Siemens IoT Performance Optimizer				Learn more about AWS Industrial Software Partner Solutions at https://amzn.to/2KlzM9l Learn how AWS and Siemens IoT Services partner together to deliver a performance optimizer for an industrial client.
How Nice Shoes Conjured On-Demand Scalable Rendering…Over the Weekend				Learn more about AWS Thinkbox at – http://bit.ly/2CLAmZA. Phil Wortas, Sr. Systems Engineer at Nice Shoes, explains how they were able to extend their rendering pipeline over the weekend using AWS Thinkbox Deadline and EC2 Spot in order to deliver their project on time. Speaker: Phil Wortas, Sr. Systems Engineer, Nice Shoes
AWS Industrial Software Consulting Partners Highlight Customer Use Cases				Learn more about AWS Industrial Software Partner Solutions at https://amzn.to/33PCdsj Hear key industrial customer use cases from our AWS Industrial Software consulting partners, including Siemens IoT Services, T-Systems and Tata Consultancy Services.
AWS In Conversation With… Raphaël Basset - 3				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… Raphaël Basset - 2				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… Raphaël Basset - 1				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… ERCOM – 6				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Mathieu Jeandron, responsable et architecte des solutions pour le secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… ERCOM – 5				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Mathieu Jeandron, responsable et architecte des solutions pour le secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… ERCOM – 4				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Mathieu Jeandron, responsable et architecte des solutions pour le secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… ERCOM – 3				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Mathieu Jeandron, responsable et architecte des solutions pour le secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… ERCOM – 2				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Mathieu Jeandron, responsable et architecte des solutions pour le secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
AWS In Conversation With… ERCOM – 1				AWS In Conversation With… est une série de vidéos qui vous permettent de mieux comprendre tous les détails relatifs à la conformité et à la protection des données, en un format pratique. Dans cet épisode, nous avons rencontré Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication chez ERCOM, afin de découvrir comment les entreprises du secteur public peuvent faire face aux défis posés par le RGPD et même tirer parti des opportunités offertes par celui-ci. Participants : Raphaël Basset, vice-président du pôle stratégie, marketing et communication, ERCOM Olivier Boucharlat, responsable des partenaires du secteur public en France, AWS Mathieu Jeandron, responsable et architecte des solutions pour le secteur public en France, AWS Découvrez plus en détail les innovations liées au secteur public en France : https://aws.amazon.com/fr/government-education/paris-secteur-public/
Cognosante builds compliant, secure cloud solutions for customers using AWS				Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS GovCloud (US), Cognosante delivers compliant, secure, and reliable cloud-based healthcare solutions for its government customers. Cognosante is a GovTech providing healthcare technology solutions and business process outsourcing services with a mission to transform the American healthcare system. Using AWS, Cognosante built its serverless eSante suite – a set of tools that increase visibility into health data for care providers – using AWS GovCloud (US).
Delhivery: Building a supply chain technology platform for speed & network optimization				Delhivery is India’s leading supply chain services company and has successfully fulfilled over 450 million orders to more than 50 million households across India. Karan Agarwal talks about how Delhivery leverages containers, serverless frameworks, and event driven design to handle logistics operations at scale.
Unibui Scales Globally Using AWS to Meet Student Needs				Learn more about AWS EdStart at – https://amzn.to/2CKB0GE  Unibui helps over 20 million college students save money on everyday expenses through an interactive, direct-to-student marketplace powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unibui is an EdTech with a mission to help students in their day-to-day purchasing decisions. Leveraging Elastic Beanstalk, Unibui deploys and scales its web applications. Additionally, as an AWS EdStart Member, Unibui benefits from having access to a global community of EdTech startups and technical support.
Tata Global Beverages: How a Global CPG Enterprise Built a Secure Foundation for SAP				Pawan Satyawali from Tata Global Beverages talks about how they built a secured foundation on AWS, leveraged multiple Availability Zones for reliability and implemented secured hybrid architecture enabling seamless migration of their mission critical SAP on Windows workloads. They used Amazon Guard Duty and AWS Lambda services to get threat detection alerts on their mobile phones, significantly reducing their incident response time. They also implemented Zero Trust architecture by using a solution from an APN Advanced Technology Partner, Zscaler, which enabled applications to connect only to authorized users via inside-out connectivity versus extending the network to them.
Cyxtera: How to Enable Secure Zero Trust Access to AWS Resources & Hybrid Architectures				Gernot Hacker, Solutions Architect at Cyxtera, explains how to secure access to AWS & hybrid architectures enabling Zero Trust & faster DevOps by using Cyxtera's AppGate Software Denied Perimeter Solution.
Cognomos Powers Its Course Match Algorithm with AWS				Learn more about AWS EdStart at – https://amzn.to/359shdF  Course Match by Cognomos, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), improves the student experience of scheduling courses and forecasts demand for class registrations. Cognomos is an EdTech organization that uses algorithms to find the best allocation of class schedules for an entire student body. AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon S3 power Course Match’s algorithm. Additionally, as an AWS EdStart Member, Cognomos benefits from having access to a global community of EdTech startups and technical support.
Five Keys for a Successful SAP Transformation on AWS				Learn more about SAP on AWS at – https://amzn.to/2NK1pL5  Learn how an SAP transformation (including S/4HANA) on AWS can change your business and how Protera can help ensure your success.
Frictionless Data Lake ETL for Petabyte-Scale Streaming Data				Learn more about AWS Partner Webinars at – https://amzn.to/2Kk7cVT. Learn how ironSource uses Upsolver, a data lake ETL platform that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to transform 500K events per second, using only a visual interface and SQL.
Standard Chartered Cuts Risk Grid Costs 60% on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances				Learn more about grid computing for financial services on AWS at – https://amzn.to/2KhiTMM. Standard Chartered reduced the cost of its risk-analysis grid computing solution by more than 60% on AWS. The company is a leading worldwide provider of CFIB, wholesale, treasury, and retail banking services. Standard Chartered uses Amazon EC2 Spot Instances as grid compute resources and manages the grid with a provisioning solution based on AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS.
AWS Data Exchange				Learn more about AWS Data Exchange at https://amzn.to/2OeRInh. AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified data providers include Reuters, Foursquare, TransUnion, Change Healthcare, Virtusa, Pitney Bowes, TP ICAP, Vortexa, IMDb, Epsilon, Enigma, TruFactor, ADP, Dun & Bradstreet, Compagnie Financière Tradition, Verisk, Crux Informatics, TMX Group, Acxiom, Rearc, and many others. AWS Data Exchange has diverse selection of third-party data covering a wide range of industries including financial services, healthcare, life sciences, geospatial, consumer, media & entertainment, and more. For qualified data providers, AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to reach the millions of AWS customers migrating to the cloud by removing the need to build and maintain infrastructure for data storage, delivery, billing, and entitling.
AWS Pop-up Loft Stockholm 2019				Thank you for visiting the AWS Pop-up Loft in Stockholm 2019! Find out about more AWS Lofts around you - https://amzn.to/34WE1Qk
Dunelm Supports UK Business Growth with AWS				Learn more about AWS at – https://amzn.to/36X9lAk Watch Max Watson, head of engineering at Dunelm, explain how the UK’s largest homeware retailer uses AWS Lambda to rapidly deploy serverless applications that support peak trading times; and why it no longer worries about network infrastructure, scalability or availability. Additionally, learn how AWS helps Dunelm’s engineering teams solve timely business challenges – and how the company’s technology-first focus is making it a more attractive employer.
Epihub Quickly Scales and Remains Agile by Building on AWS				Learn more about AWS EdStart at – https://amzn.to/2NHOOIA  Epihub, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), helps tutors create their online businesses – from building a website to booking sessions to collecting payments. As a long-time user of AWS, Epihub has realized the benefits of the AWS Cloud for creating consolidated and nimble teams – something that is necessary for a growing startup. As a new AWS EdStart Member, Epihub has gained first-hand knowledge on how to best navigate the education landscape.
Generating PR for Your Early Stage Startup [Fast Company, CNET, Battery Ventures]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/2Q6KwMf While paid media and press releases can help drive traffic to your startup, it’s costly and out of reach for many early founders. Plus, throwing money at the problem can only get you so far. Earned media coverage – free news stories, magazine write ups, blogs, etc., is what truly helps a startup scale. Fast Company, CNET, and Battery Ventures break down how to score free media coverage. Hear insider secrets on what inspires the media to cover a founder, or a startup, and how to build relationships with journalists in order to lean on them when the time is right. They share why they chose certain startups, over others, to cover along with the great and bad ways to pitch them. Speakers: Harry McCracken, Technology Editor, Fast Company Connie Guglielmo, VP, Editor In Chief, CNET Rebecca Buckman, VP Marketing Communications, Battery Ventures
Generating PR for Your Early Stage Startup [NASDAQ, Fast Company, Bateman Group]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/2X4hCOp. While paid media and press releases can help drive traffic to your startup, it’s costly and out of reach for many early founders. Plus, throwing money at the problem can only get you so far. Earned media coverage – free news stories, magazine write ups, blogs, etc., is what truly helps a startup scale. Fast Company, NASDAQ, and Bateman Group break down how to score free media coverage. Hear insider secrets on what inspires the media to cover a founder, or a startup, and how to build relationships with journalists in order to lean on them when the time is right. They share why they chose certain startups, over others, to cover along with the great and bad ways to pitch them. Speakers: Lara Sorokanich, Associate Editor, Fast Company Ryan Wells, Managing Director Corporate Communications, Nasdaq Tyler Perry, President and Partner, Bateman Group
Defining Your Startup's Target Audience [Entrepreneur Magazine]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/33EDP8j. Terry Rice, Digital Marketing EIR at Entrepreneur Magazine, shares how startups can define their target audience and estimate market size on various channels prior to launch. He'll outline how to have a good grasp on who you're trying to reach, where to find them, and how to measure the size. He explores the various costs of customer acquisition and how to tap into, and convert, the right pool of prospects - at the right time. Terry will take us on a tour of startups that got it right, the metrics that matter, and how all of this plays out when chatting with investors. What you’ll learn: - Addressable vs non-addressable markets - Deep dive on the acronyms that matter: CLV, TAM, SAM, KPIs, etc. - When to bring in help, partners or freelancers, to better interpret audience metrics - Best practices for communicating scale and efficiency metrics to investors
Digital Minds meets other EdTech entrepreneurs with AWS EdStart				Learn more about AWS EdStart at – https://amzn.to/2CL7Zel. Hive Digital Minds products and services provide a way for K12 school leaders to consolidate many of the communication tools they use so they can more effectively reach, connect, and engage all members of their school communities. Hive Digital Minds is an EdTech startup committed to creating a better way for school leaders to communicate with parents. As an AWS EdStart Member, Hive Digital Minds has benefited from having access to a global community of EdTech entrepreneurs, thought-leadership, and go-to-market support.
Code Driven Lightning Tech Talks [Better Mortgage, Firehydrant, and Ethyca]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/34QfJYf. Engineering teams have to be fast, especially when it comes to adapting to change. But as a startup, with a lean team, what should your technical success story look like - and how do you achieve it? Erik Bernhardsson, CTO at Better Mortgage, Bobby Ross, Co-founder at Firehydrant, and Cillian Kiera, Founder at Ethyca, share a behind-the-scenes look at the infrastructure challenges they've had along with creative solutions to solve scaling challenges and engineering management best practices for startups. They break down new approaches to shipping and storing your telemetry data, and more technical topics!
Creating a Startup that Solves a Problem [Brex]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/32DjvTa. Valued at $2.6 billion and unicorn status in less than one year, Brex, has hit a number of milestones in record breaking time and have been able to solve a major problem which accounts for their considerable growth trajectory. So how did they do it? Henrique Dubugras, is the Co-founder of Brex. He shares how he and his co-founder came to America from Brazil and built a hypergrowth startup from the ground up. He discusses how they pivoted quickly from their original startup idea and narrowed in on the problem they knew they could solve, along with the uphill climb once they left Y Combinator. From the wins, to the losses, and the responsibility of running a $2.6 billion startup – he’ll offer lessons learned, share key scaling tactics, outline the steps from a single product to a brand, and the importance of pacing your product growth by building one section at a time.
Cash Flow Basics for Startups [Brex]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/36W6YxC. While frugality and bootstrapping can extend your runway, many early startups have poor tracking of their cash flow. Whether you’re a bootstrapped startup or you’ve secured funding, paying very close attention to your business's cash as it ebbs and flows is vital for both long and short-term success. Michael Tannenbaum, CFO of Brex, shares how startups can avoid the pitfalls of money mismanagement, and running out of cash. He covers how to develop good financial infrastructure, benchmark spending, calibrate marketing ROI and how founders can become CFO-ready when it’s time to forecast or meet with investors. What you’ll learn: - Do you really need to raise money – or just increase sales? - How to monitor your (and your co-founders) spend - Setting a reasonable valuation and the financial data investors want to see - When to hire a CFO or seek outside help - Free and low-cost tools and resources for managing your current cash flow the influx of seed funds when you get it
Build & Leverage Your Startup's First Board Members [San Francisco]				To attend one of our AWS Loft events, visit us at one of our many locations - https://amzn.to/2CwIwF1. Assembling your board is a critical step along the startup journey. As they play a significant role in the success of your startup, how do you build a board and manage it effectively so it becomes an incredible source of value-add? Our panel of startup board members share lessons learned from their board seats – the good and the bad. They discuss the key considerations founders should make prior to fundraising and how, if built correctly, your board can be just as much a factor in your startup’s long-term success as your co-founders and your early employees. What you’ll learn: - Board of Directors vs. Advisory Board vs. Observers - Benefits & goals – including when to start a board and who to ask - How to address the composition of your board in a term sheet Speakers: David Cheng, Vice President, DCM Ventures Alison Ryu, Managing Director, Able Partners Ryan Conner, Counsel, Atrium Justin Wang, CEO & Co-Founder, LARQ Nicki Stone, Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Veolia Creates a Digital Atmosphere with Amazon AppStream 2.0				Learn more about Amazon AppStream 2.0 at – https://amzn.to/33Dy5vs  Veolia Group is the global leader in optimized resource management. With over 171,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions which contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Veolia uses AppStream 2.0 to deliver their applications to end users securely, anywhere and at any time.
Elite Logistics Enjoys Rapid Global Expansion with Cost Reductions on AWS				Learn how using Amazon EC2 - https://amzn.to/2q1Ccms - can help your business scale faster and lead to quicker time to market for failure resilient applications. Elite Logistics is a global integrated logistics and supply chain organization based in Singapore and having operations in all 4 regions of world. Using AWS, the company extended their ERP to 2 third party logistics provider in Saudi very quickly at minimal cost & very short lead time in 2015, and further extended their full ERP suite to an expanded customer base in Houston, Texas in 2017. Since using AWS, they have saved 20% in annual spend and has since grown quickly to handle more customers and order volumes. AWS has also allowed them to concentrate on enhancing & delivering better ERP & application systems to end users & customers instead of focusing on infrastructure management.
How Healthcare & Life Sciences Customers in the UK use AWS to Enable Transformation				Learn more about AWS Public Sector Summit Canberra at –  https://amzn.to/2oHpqci The National Health Service (NHS) was born out of the ideal that good healthcare should be available to all. As the UK population grows and demand for healthcare services increase, the NHS is increasingly pursuing an innovation agenda, including the use of AWS, to continue delivering high-quality healthcare. Speaker: Angus McAlister, Solutions Architect, AWS (Previously NHS)"
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Daily Recap Episode 5 – Thursday				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at http://bit.ly/2s46SnA. Join AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Rudy Chetty at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas to explore the quirky side of this cloud computing conference. In the 5th and final episode of 2019, Rudy wraps up the week with the AWS Deep Racer Finals, Dr. Werner Vogels keynote, a visit to the AWS Certification lounge, and re:Play. Rudy finds out what customers have learned, what they are excited about, and if they are having fun. SPOILER ALERT: So much fun.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Recap Exclusives - Charity Activity				Learn more about re:Invent at http://bit.ly/33XJoOv. Rudy Chetty, AWS Senior Solutions Architect and AWS re:Invent Daily Recap host extraordinaire, talks with Three Square Food Bank and AWS customers as they work together to supply Nevada school children with weekend food supplies.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Take AI/ML from theory to practice with Intel technologies on AWS (AIM203-SR1)				The challenges associated with scalability have been removed in the cloud. Today, organizations deploy tons of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads on AWS. Learn about how easy and cost-effective it is to build customized, intelligent data models leveraging the full power of Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Additionally, learn how Footasylum, a leading UK leisurewear retailer, is globally optimizing its value chain. By utilizing the Peak AI ML solution powered by Intel on AWS, Footasylum is leveraging ML for long-term success in the modern retail climate. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Daily Recap Episode 3 - Tuesday				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at http://bit.ly/369p3Hz. Join AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Rudy Chetty at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas to explore the quirky side of this cloud computing conference. In Episode 3, Rudy joins customers to watch Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, deliver his keynote, sees the cool stuff in the Quad, and learns about vertical farming at the Machine Learning summit.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Take AI/ML from theory to practice with Intel technologies on AWS (AIM203-SR)				The challenges associated with scalability have been removed in the cloud. Today, organizations deploy tons of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads on AWS. Learn about how easy and cost-effective it is to build customized, intelligent data models leveraging the full power of Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Additionally, learn how Footasylum, a leading UK leisurewear retailer, is globally optimizing its value chain. By utilizing the Peak AI ML solution powered by Intel on AWS, Footasylum is leveraging ML for long-term success in the modern retail climate. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Daily Recap Episode 2 - Monday				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Join AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Rudy Chetty at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas to explore the quirky side of this cloud computing conference. In Episode 2, Rudy chats with customers about what's on their agenda and gets some tips. At the opening of the Expo, Rudy is right there arm and arm with the crowd, rushing in to speak with AWS partners and get yet even more swag! The day wraps up Monday Night Live with Peter De Santis.
AWS re:Invent 2019 - Daily Recap Episode 1 - Sunday				Learn more about AWS re:Invent at http://bit.ly/2PmHsJZ. Join AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Rudy Chetty at re:Invent in Las Vegas to explore the quirky side of this cloud computing conference. In Episode 1, Rudy meets customers as they get registered, get their swag, and kick off re:Invent at Midnight Madness. Chicken wings, air guitar, Freddy Mercury impersonators... Oh my!