AWS re:Invent 2020 Sessions
This page only contains sessions that have a YouTube video.
Keynotes • Automotive • Blockchain • Builder's Library • Builders Fair • Business Apps (including Connect) • Business Intelligence • Community • Compute • Connected World • Consumer/Packaged Goods • Containers • Databases • Dev Chat • DevOps • End User Computing • Energy • Enterprise/Migration • Financial Services • Front-End Web & Mobile Development • Games/GameTech • Getting Started Lounge • Global Partner Summit (GPS) • Healthcare • Innovation • IoT • Leadership Sessions • Life Sciences • Management Tools & Governance • Manufacturing • Marketplace • Media & Entertainment • Netflix • Networking & Content Delivery • Open Source • Power & Utilities • Press Lounge • Public Sector • Quantum Computing • Retail • Robotics • Security Compliance & Identity • Serverless • Sponsor • Storage • Telecommunications • Training & Certification • Travel & Hospitality • We Power Tech • Windows • WPT Lightning Chat
 | Keynote with Andy Jassy
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, delivers his AWS re:Invent 2020 keynote, featuring the latest news and announcements, including the launches of Habana Gaudi-based Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Trainium, Amazon ECS Anywhere, Amazon EKS Anywhere, Lambda Container Support, AWS Proton, gp3 volumes for Amazon EBS, io2 Block Express for Amazon EBS, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS Glue Elastic Views, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon QuickSight Q, Amazon Connect Wisdom, Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, Real-Time Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, Amazon Connect Tasks, Amazon Connect Voice ID, Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, AWS Panorama Appliance, AWS Panorama SDK, AWS Outposts in two new smaller sizes, and 12 additional AWS Local Zones. Guest speakers include Lori Beer, of JPMorgan Chase, Blake Scholl, of Boom, and David Gitlin, of Carrier. |
 | AWS Partner Keynote with Doug Yeum
At AWS re:Invent 2020, Doug Yeum, head of Global Partner Organization, delivers the AWS Partner keynote featuring Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services; Sandy Carter, vice president, Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs; and Dave McCann, vice president, AWS Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services. Speakers will discuss the latest announcements, including AWS SaaS Boost, AWS ISV Partner Path, managed entitlements for AWS Marketplace, private Marketplace APIs, AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry, Professional Services in AWS Marketplace, Premier Consulting Partners; and the Mainframe Migration, Public Safety and Disaster Response (for Technology Partners), Energy, and Travel & Hospitality competencies. Guest speakers include Mohit Aron of Cohesity, Bob Cagnazzi of Presidio, Frederic Kerrest of Okta, and Lauren Woods of Southwest Airlines. |
 | Machine Learning Keynote with Swami Sivasubramanian
Swami Sivasubramanian, VP Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services delivers the first-ever Machine Learning Keynote at re:Invent. Hear how AWS is freeing builders to innovate on machine learning with the latest developments in AWS machine learning, demos of new technology, and insights from customers. Including the launch of Distributed Training on SageMaker, SageMaker Clarify, Deep Profiling for SageMaker Debugger, SageMaker Edge Manager, Amazon Redshift ML, Amazon Neptune ML, Amazon Lookout for Metrics, and Amazon HealthLake. Guest speakers include Jennifer Langton, NFL and Elad Benjamin, Philips with demos and deep dives from AWS speakers including Dr. Nashlie Sephus, Dorothy Li, and Dr. Matt Wood. |
 | Infrastructure keynote with Peter DeSantis
Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of AWS Infrastructure and Support, goes behind the scenes to show how AWS thinks differently about reliability, performance, and efficiency. He shares his insights on AWS data center, Availability Zone, and region design. Peter dives deep on AWS Graviton2, AWS Nitro System, and how Nitro enables the new Amazon EC2 Mac instance. He also provides an update on Amazon's progress towards The Climate Pledge. |
 | Developer Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels
Dr. Werner Vogels, Vice President and CTO of Amazon goes behind the scenes to show how AWS is solving today's hardest technology problems. He shares his insights on sustainability, observability, chaos engineering, automated reasoning, and adaptability as ways of building truly dependable applications. He discusses the future of software development, the role of quantum computing, and what developers can do to make a positive impact on the world. |
 | AWS EC2 Mac Instances Launch - macOS in the cloud for the first time, with the benefits of EC2
Amazon EC2 Mac instances are built on Mac mini computers, feature the macOS operating system and are powered by AWS Nitro. EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time, giving developers an efficient development environment with the benefits of AWS. Developers who rely on the Xcode IDE for Apple platforms (iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, iPadOS, or Safari) can now develop, build, test and sign apps with the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of Amazon EC2. |
 | David Gitlin of Carrier on Using AWS to Deliver Smarter Cold Chains
Carrier is using AWS to transform how food and pharmaceuticals are shipped, preserved and protected. In this video, CEO Dave Gitlin describes how AWS is enabling Carrier to innovate on behalf of its customers. Carrier is a 100-year-old company that provides cold-chain solutions—uninterrupted refrigerated distribution for perishable foods and medicines. The company is building Lynx, a digital connected platform for cold-chain logistics, using AWS IoT, AWS Analytics, and AWS Machine Learning. Lynx will provide end-to-end visibility and intelligence across the cold chain to help deliver food and pharmaceuticals safely and with much less waste. |
 | Michelle McKenna of the NFL on using AWS to produce the 2020 NFL draft
The National Football League (NFL), the most popular sports league in the U.S., used AWS to take the 2020 NFL Draft virtual. CIO Michelle McKenna talks about how AWS helped the league during the COVID pandemic produce the NFL draft remotely—with coaches, general managers, and 85 draft picks participating via mobile phones from their homes across the country. Using Amazon EC2, AWS Shield Advance, multiple AWS Availability Zones, and support from AWS engineers, the NFL produced a live broadcast of the draft for ESPN that drew record numbers of viewers and delivered an intimate viewing experience for fans. |
 | Jerry Hunter of Snap on using AWS to support its 250 million users
Snap uses AWS to support its massive scale and rapid growth, reduce costs, and maintain a secure, reliable infrastructure. In this fireside chat, Jerry Hunter, Engineering SVP, talks about how AWS rapid innovation helps Snap create new experiences for mobile devices. Snap owns the Snapchat camera app, Spectacles camera sunglasses, and Bitmoji, a tool for creating personal emojis. The company migrated to AWS Graviton processors in only one week and was able to greatly reduce instance costs, and with AWS services, like Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, Snap engineers can focus on new product development rather than managing infrastructure. |
 | Lori Beer of JPMorgan Chase on using AWS to modernize and innovate
JPMorgan Chase is using AWS to evolve its business for today's technology revolution. In this video, CIO Lori Beer describes how AWS service breadth, enterprise understanding, and willingness to collaborate are helping JPMorgan Chase make this journey. JPMorgan Chase is a 200 year-old financial institution with $3.2 trillion and operations worldwide. The company uses Amazon EMR for trading analytics and AWS Lambda and Amazon EKS for risk calculations, and it is building its firm-wide AI platform, OMNI AI, with Amazon SageMaker. With AWS, JPMorgan Chase is becoming more agile, secure, and efficient. |
 | Blake Scholl of Boom on using AWS to enable commercial supersonic flight
Boom Supersonic is using AWS to build the world's fastest and most sustainable aircraft. In this video, Blake Scholl, founder and CEO, describes how doing high performance computing (HPC) on AWS has saved the company millions of dollars and supported rapid design iteration. Boom is the first commercial airplane manufacturer to commit to a carbon-neutral flight test program and to build sustainability into its entire aircraft program. The company uses Amazon EC2 to build and manage HPC clusters that run hundreds of concurrent simulations, reducing design time while helping ensure that Boom produces a safe, efficient, and sustainable supersonic airplane. |
 | Elad Benjamin of Philips on using AWS to help improve healthcare
Philips uses AWS to develop data analytics, machine learning, and computer vision technologies that enable healthcare providers to make better decisions for their patients. In this video, Elad Benjamin, General Manager of Radiology Informatics, describes how AWS is helping Philips increase its use of AI and data science to extract new knowledge from health data. Philips is a leading health technology company that aims to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030. The company uses AWS for its HealthSuite data platform that securely consolidates information from patient records, wearables, home-based remote monitoring equipment, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations. |
 | Jennifer Langton of the NFL on using AWS to transform player safety
The National Football League (NFL), the most popular sports league in the U.S., is using AWS to bring speed and scale to its player health and safety initiatives. Jennifer Langton, SVP of Health and Innovation, describes how AWS is helping the NFL use AI and machine learning to transform player safety. Working with AWS, the NFL is developing the 'Digital Athlete,' a computer simulation model of a football player that can be used to replicate infinite scenarios within the game environment without risk to athletes—all in an effort to better understand how to treat and rehabilitate injuries in the near-term, and eventually predict and intervene to prevent injuries in the future. Together, they are also developing the first computer vision models that detect the forces that cause concussions and other injuries. |
 | Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron on using AWS to solve mass data fragmentation
Cohesity uses AWS to develop better ways to break down data silos and simplify enterprise data management. Mohit Aron, founder and CEO, discusses how Cohesity solves the problem of 'mass data fragmentation' and how AWS helped them develop Data Management as a Service (DMaaS). Cohesity is an AWS customer and partner that develops software for IT professionals to backup, manage, and gain insights from their data. AWS helped Cohesity deliver the right functionality and customer experience for its DMaaS solution and provided best practices on SaaS models and transacting through AWS Marketplace. |
 | Nicole Yip of the LEGO® Group on using AWS to support LEGO.com eCommerce
The LEGO Group uses AWS to increase reliability, flexibility, speed, and innovation for its eCommerce platform. In this video, Nicole Yip, Engineering Manager for Direct Shopper Technology, discusses how the LEGO Group began migrating to AWS in 2017 to support the spiky traffic patterns for LEGO.com and overall platform growth. The company created a completely serverless platform on AWS that could scale independently and automatically to support the ever-changing traffic profiles and provide a stable platform during 'high season.' Looking ahead, the LEGO Group plans to implement Chaos engineering to build greater reliability and craft even better shopper experiences. |
 | Lea von Bidder of Ava on using AWS to improve women's health
Ava uses AWS to securely manage massive amounts of data and scale to support daily traffic peaks on its platform. Lea von Bidder, Co-Founder and CEO, discusses how AWS helps Ava accelerate innovation and create new medical-grade services and applications. Ava is a digital women's health company that brings together artificial intelligence and clinical research to improve women's reproductive health. The company has built a technology platform for collecting long-term personal health information and relies on AWS solutions, like Amazon RDS, MongoDB on AWS, and Amazon S3, for managing over 300 terabytes of data. |
 | Lauren Woods of Southwest Airlines on using AWS to improve its technical health
Southwest Airlines uses AWS and AWS partners, like Onica, to help it build the technology it needs to thrive. In this video, Lauren Woods, Managing Director of Technology Platforms, describes how AWS helps Southwest become more efficient, technically advanced, and able to take on new opportunities. Southwest Airlines is the largest carrier by originating passengers in the U.S., celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021. Southwest Airlines uses a variety of AWS services, including Amazon Aurora and Amazon EKS, to modernize its applications, and it used AWS Lake Formation, Amazon S3, and Amazon Athena to build its first cloud-native data lake. |
 | AWS Proton
AWS Proton is the first fully managed application deployment service for container and serverless applications. |
 | New Amazon EC2 G4ad Instances
New Amazon EC2 G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second generation AMD EPYC processors, provide the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud. |
 | Introducing Amazon S3 strong consistency, featuring Dropbox
Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications for any storage request, without changes to performance or availability, without sacrificing regional isolation for applications, and at no additional cost. Hear the GM of Amazon S3, Kevin Miller, and Ashish Gandhi with Dropbox, discuss the benefits of strong consistency for S3, and what workloads this simplifies to move to AWS. |
 | Introduction to Amazon HealthLake
Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service that enables healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to store, transform, query, and analyze health data in a consistent fashion in the AWS Cloud at petabyte scale. From matching patients to clinical trials to analyzing population health trends, HealthLake enables healthcare organizations to make sense of health data and ultimately offer better care for patients. |
 | Introduction to AWS Glue Elastic Views
AWS Glue Elastic Views makes it easy to build materialized views that combine and replicate data across multiple data stores without you having to write custom code. With AWS Glue Elastic Views, you can use familiar Structured Query Language (SQL) to quickly create a virtual table—a materialized view—from multiple different source data stores. AWS Glue Elastic Views copies data from each source data store and creates a replica in a target data store. AWS Glue Elastic Views continuously monitors for changes to data in your source data stores, and provides updates to the materialized views in your target data stores automatically, ensuring data accessed through the materialized view is always up-to-date. |
 | Integrate Amazon Honeycode with your existing workflows and tools
Amazon Honeycode now allows you to integrate your existing workflows and data sources, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications or AWS services like Amazon S3, with Honeycode apps. Teams can build custom mobile & web apps that connect to their existing tools and data, enabling end-to-end solutions that solve the specific business productivity needs of teams. The connections between Honeycode and other tools are facilitated by Zapier or Amazon AppFlow, which are integration services that you can use with Honeycode. You can also use new Honeycode APIs to integrate with custom or internal tools that aren't supported by either Zapier or AppFlow. |
 | Enabling predictive maintenance for industrial equipment with Amazon Monitron
A single Amazon fulfillment center holds tens of millions of products, has miles of conveyer belts weaving throughout the facility, and deploys sophisticated equipment to assist employees to pick, pack, and ship thousands of customer orders every day. Learn how the Amazon fulfillment center in Mönchengladbach, Germany is using Amazon Monitron to prevent unplanned downtime by automatically detecting abnormal behavior in industrial machinery and enabling you to take proactive action on potential failures. |
 | Introducing AWS Glue DataBrew
AWS Glue DataBrew is a new visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics or machine learning by up to 80% faster. |
 | AWS IoT SiteWise - Collect, Organize, and Analyze Data from Industrial Equipment at Scale
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use AWS IoT SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute common industrial performance metrics, and create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues and reduce gaps in production. |
 | What is AWS IoT Greengrass?
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) open source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage IoT applications at scale on devices in homes, factories, vehicles, and businesses. |
 | Introducing strong consistency for Amazon S3
Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications for any storage request, without changes to performance or availability, without sacrificing regional isolation for applications, and at no additional cost. Hear the GM of Amazon S3, Kevin Miller, discuss the benefits of strong consistency for S3, and what workloads this simplifies to move to AWS. |
 | Amazon ECS Anywhere Demo
This is a demonstration of a new Amazon ECS capability: Amazon ECS Anywhere. This demo shows how to run an application in an AWS Region as well as on an arbitrary customer-managed infrastructure (in this case, two Raspberry Pis!). |
 | Demo Video - Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) & Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG)
Watch a demo of how to use the newly launched Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) and Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG). |
 | Don McAskill of SmugMug on Using AWS for Data Storage and Analytics
SmugMug CEO Don McASkill describes how SmugMug uses AWS to reinvent how it stores, secures, analyzes, and shares data at scale. SmugMug provides photographers with safe cloud storage and a digital platform for showcasing their work. |
 | Intuit CTO Marianna Tessel on Using AWS for Machine Learning and AI
CTO Marianna Tessel discusses how Intuit uses ML and AI to revolutionize its business and benefit customers. Intuit is a global financial platform company with products, including TurboTax and QuickBooks, that help consumers and small businesses improve their financial lives. |
 | Paul Cheesbrough of FOX on Using AWS to Modernize and Innovate
FOX CTO Paul Cheesbrough talks about the opportunity FOX has had to re-imagine itself after selling 21st Century Fox to Disney in 2019. FOX produces and distributes content through some of the world's leading brands, including FOX News, FOX Sports, and FOX Television Stations. The company is using AWS to create new ways to produce and deliver live events. |
 | Zach Blitz of Riot Games on Using AWS to Improve Gaming
Zach Blitz, Head of Infrastructure for Riot Games, talks about using AWS to provide players with the best possible gaming experience. Riot Games develops, publishes, and supports the most player-focused games in the world, including League of Legends, the world's most popular PC game. With the 2020 global launch of VALORANT, a team-based tactical shooter game, Riot wanted to reduce 'peeker's advantage' caused by latency and ensure competitive integrity. |
 | Amazon HealthLake Launch with Matt Wood
Dr. Matt Wood, introduces Amazon HealthLake (preview) at re:Invent 2020. HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service that enables healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to store, transform, query, and analyze health data in the AWS Cloud at petabyte scale. |
 | Alexa, charge my car! Test drive the Accenture EV roaming platform
As legislation and brand awareness drive electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the market, several points of friction surround ownership and user experience. Electric vehicle owners are challenged with fragmented charging infrastructure and uncertain battery health. Learn how Accenture developed an EV roaming platform with the AWS Connected Vehicle Solution, AWS IoT Greengrass, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, and more. Explore the architecture and see how it enables mobile applications and head units to allow OEMs and utilities a more meaningful role in shaping the EV experience, from charging and payments to trip planning and maintenance. |
 | Paving the way toward automated driving with BMW Group
In this session, explore the AWS autonomous driving data lake reference architecture to learn how organizations manage the challenge of ingesting, transforming, labeling, and cataloging massive amounts of data to develop automated driving systems using Amazon EMR, Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, and more. See how BMW Group collects 1 billion+ km of anonymized perception data from its worldwide connected fleet of customer vehicles to develop safe and performant automated driving systems. This sessions explains the purpose of and approach to the data collection and discusses examples from analyzing this valuable dataset. |
 | Reimagining mobility with Toyota Connected
Discover how Toyota's Mobility Services Platform (MSPF) and application programming interfaces (APIs) enable them to collect data from connected vehicles and apply it toward vehicle design and development; new contextual services such as car share, ride share, and full-service lease; and new corporate and consumer services such as proactive vehicle maintenance notifications and driving behavior-based insurance. See how Toyota uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to ingest data, AWS Lambda to decode the data, Amazon EMR to aggregate and decrypt the data, and Amazon Athena for analytics. |
 | Transforming the automotive industry with the Industrial Cloud
The Industrial Cloud is an open and secure industry platform, community, and marketplace bringing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), automotive suppliers, and service providers together to scale applications and help optimize operations. Learn how Volkswagen's digital production platform, built on AWS, has accelerated the development of an industry ecosystem with common services and broad solutions for efficiency improvements and greater insights through a diverse community of partners. This partner community brings together parts suppliers, technology providers, system integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), logistics providers, and OEMs to address a variety of manufacturing and supply chain use cases. |
 | Building audit-based apps that maintain data integrity with Amazon QLDB
Why do you need an immutable ledger database with data integrity? This session dives into the problems that Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) can solve, and it answers your questions about when and why you would use a ledger database. Customers such as Osano shares their use cases for maintaining data integrity and building audit-based functionality with Amazon QLDB. |
 | Customer perspective on building real-world blockchain applications
Building enterprise blockchain applications on your own infrastructure is often expensive, complicated, and time-consuming. Amazon Managed Blockchain makes it easy to build scalable blockchain applications by eliminating the need to set up and manage infrastructure. In this session, hear from insurance company Legal & General on how they built estua-re, a blockchain-based pension management system, with Managed Blockchain. Pension management is still a manual, error-prone, and costly process. Blockchain gives all parties a real-time, transparent single source of truth. In addition, get an in-depth look at Managed Blockchain features, APIs, and the Hyperledger Fabric SDK, and learn how to add members and join fabric channels. |
 | Building technology standards at Amazon scale
Technology is always moving forward. Every day brings new practices, new tools, and new programming languages. To keep innovating on behalf of our customers, we need to investigate, understand, and experiment with these new ideas as they come along. On the other hand, we need to think long-term about how to build sustainable systems, and make sure we're not spending too much time chasing trends. This session covers how teams at AWS find that balance, using the adoption of Rust as an example. |
 | Designing with simplicity at Amazon
At Amazon, teams are asked to invent and simplify. Amazon deeply appreciates simplicity and the reliability, efficiency, and operability that it brings. Come hear about how Amazon teams design for simplicity. This session dives deep into problems that Amazon has solved with very few moving parts, like the SIGv4 protocol that is used to secure AWS APIs or how Amazon uses DNS and health checks to protect availability. By hearing about real-world examples, you gain an understanding of how Amazon learned to recognize simplicity. |
 | Hands-off: Automating continuous delivery pipelines at Amazon
As a developer, manually deploying code to production can be a daunting series of tasks. Am I deploying the right changes? What metrics do I need to watch? Should I roll back? Each step could go wrong due to human error and cause teams to scramble. Amazon has taken an automated approach to continuous delivery that helps developers release code safely and quickly, with pipelines that enable developers to focus on building solutions rather than managing deployments. Join this session to see Amazon's approach to continuous delivery and how it has improved teams' abilities to deliver changes to production. |
 | Incident management in a distributed organization
AWS knows that service reliability is something that you rely on. In this session, learn how Amazon has used cultural mechanisms to help teams more effectively operate in a decentralized organization, especially for critical processes like incident management. This session also shares how AWS uses different principles to help teams continuously improve their operations, from readiness reviews to post-incident learning. |
 | Intentionally failing in production at Amazon Prime Video
Come along on the journey Amazon Prime Video took preparing for and debriefing from the English Premier League in 2019. Learn how the team created failure scenarios in the production systems (yes, production systems!). Leading up to the event, the team failed nearly 10,000 hosts in dress rehearsals; it was an experience that rapidly skilled-up the organization and gave the team some great learning opportunities. Learn how the team terminated hosts, injected latency, and created errors in dependencies. The strategies and approaches shared in this session are broadly applicable. |
 | Inversion of scale: Outnumbered but in control
Amazon decomposes large-scale distributed systems into smaller independent services that interact with each other over well-defined APIs. When doing that, Amazon pays attention to situations where one of the services has much larger scale than the others. In this session, learn about the patterns Amazon uses to avoid the risk of a larger service overloading the smaller ones and how Amazon puts the smaller service in control of the pace of interactions. |
 | Monitoring production services at Amazon
To operate services, Amazon relies on having high-fidelity visibility into how its systems behave and the user experience, whether that's using AWS services or shopping on Amazon.com. In this session, learn about Amazon's never-ending journey for the perfect granularity of monitoring. This session covers the full spectrum of monitoring at Amazon, from how teams assess system health at a high level to how they zoom in to understand the details of a single request. Also, learn how Amazon thinks about percentiles, dimensionality of metrics, dashboards, log analysis, and distributed tracing. |
 | Testing software and systems at Amazon
Amazon leverages automated testing to speed up delivery to users and reduce customer-impacting events. Join this session to learn Amazon's approach to testing and discuss the economics of automation and risk. The session also covers how Amazon increases development efficiency through fast feedback and how Amazon strives to improve user experience through nonfunctional testing. Finally, learn about preventing outages through scaling exercises and chaos engineering. You'll walk away with a better understanding of not just how and where to automate your tests but why. |
 | The pragmatic cloud developer
When you're starting out, or building small, it doesn't always make sense to build things the way big tech companies build. While this is often true, the details make this decision more complex than expected. How do you know what's worth doing at any stage or scale, and what might hold you back from delivering results for your customers and users? Come hear Amazon's approach. Learn insights from working with customers and how Amazon builds its own higher-level services. |
 | Automated corrosion detection using machine learning
Visual inspection of industrial environments is a common requirement across heavy industries, and as a result, experts often have to perform manual inspections in adverse environments that put them at risk. Many of these industries deal with huge metal surfaces that are subject to corrosion, which poses a serious risk and huge financial impact. This demonstration showcases a machine learning approach to corrosion detection that helps visualize corroded areas. Learn how AWS Step Functions is used to create Amazon SageMaker machine learning models and deploy them for inference within a web application built with AWS Amplify and Amazon CloudFront. |
 | Automating wind farm maintenance using drones and AI
We can use the power of drones, machine learning, and Internet of Things on the edge and the cloud to make turbine maintenance safer and more cost-effective. In this scenario, drones take pictures of turbines, while the solution analyzes the photos to detect damage or issues on the structure, achieving safer, quicker, and more accurate inspections. The inspection outputs are then used in business intelligence for issue monitoring, analytics, and forecasting for better decision-making processes. The project also showcases how the capabilities of digital twin technology can be leveraged for remote monitoring of wind farms. |
 | Connected vehicle repair
This is a complete connected digital solution that automates the process of scheduling a vehicle service appointment and warranty claim when a vehicle malfunction or fault is detected. It then uses the data collected from the vehicle to drive an augmented reality/mixed media experience to assist the service technician with completing the vehicle repair, allowing the technician to use a mix of computer graphics, video, audio, and voice to interact in real time with a digital twin of the vehicle. It also integrates with supporting applications like dealer management systems. |
 | Drone Zone
The Drone Zone demonstrates a multi-drone command and control environment powered by AWS IoT Greengrass and IoT. Drone movement and communication are powered with MQTT, seamlessly integrating with AWS IoT device jobs and Device Shadow service. With Amazon SageMaker models deployed to the edge, a drone can identify other drones within its range of vision, and report findings back to AWS IoT Greengrass. |
 | Dynamic codebreaking in the cloud with machine vision and IoT
Put a cloud-native spin on the classic Mastermind game from the 1970s. Using AWS DeepLens, OpenCV, AWS IoT Core, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon QuickSight, users attempt to dynamically break a randomly generated code of a set of four multicolored sticky notes. As the notes are moved in real time to new sequences, AWS DeepLens transforms the captured video into data that is then evaluated and presented back from the AWS Cloud with a notification of how close the user is to breaking the visual code. |
 | Multilingual omnichannel contact center
This project recognizes the contact center industry's critical language barrier issue between agents and customers participating in a live chat conversation. It would perform real-time translation of the chat conversation between the agent and the customer and provide a chat-based output to both sides according to their desired languages (the team is also performing research to try this solution for voice-based conversations). The project leverages Amazon Connect to provide a seamless contact center experience, as well as Amazon Translate, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Transcribe. |
 | My Tutor: Promoting inclusivity through Amazon Alexa and AWS DeepLens
Our world is complete only when we include everyone around us. With the application of computer vision and natural language understanding, we can enable everyone, including kids with functional needs, to have an educational experience similar to everyone else's. In this session, learn about a project that leverages the power of Amazon Alexa and AWS DeepLens to provide an Alexa Skill where kids with speech and visual disabilities can interact with Alexa and participate in an educational game that fosters early-age education. |
 | RhythmCloud
RhythmCloud teaches people to play acoustic drums by having them follow the patterns provided by lit LEDs inside the drums, and it adds robotics to the teaching repertoire. Students can have a robotic teacher play a sequence that they repeat back and have evaluated for accuracy. Robotics are done through AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass, as is the control of the LEDs and drum sensors. A UI is provided to the user via a serverless web application through Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda. |
 | Robo van Gogh: Sketching portraits with Amazon Rekognition and AWS IoT
Robo van Gogh recognizes faces, then sketches an artistic rendering in real time. Using Amazon Rekognition and AWS IoT, it asks a user to pose, snaps a portrait, and uses an IoT arm to sketch the user with a graphite pencil on a piece of paper. |
 | Rock-a-Bye Baby: Intelligent sleep assistant
Studies show that newborns generally sleep 13–16 hours a day, waking up every 1–2 hours. Rock-a-Bye Baby aims to help parents during this demanding period through automation and analytics. It detects when a baby wakes up using motion and cry detection, and it takes different actions to help the baby fall back asleep, such as playing lullabies or sleep sounds, turning on cradle swing, and alerting parents. Using a mobile app, parents can choose the actions, see live video feed, and track their baby's sleep patterns. The app also notifies parents if it detects significant changes in daily sleep patterns. |
 | Smart recycle kit
Do you ever have trouble identifying which items go into the recycle bin and which go into the garbage bin? Look no further than The Recycle Kit. This kit can differentiate between recyclable and nonrecyclable items, and it provides a visual indicator displaying red for trash and green for recycle. When it finds an item with low confidence, it displays yellow. This kit contains all the elements you need to build this solution at home. You also have an opportunity to compete in a virtual recycling competition. |
 | Amazon Connect and the future of cloud contact centers
Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud-based contact center that makes it easy for businesses to deliver better customer service at lower cost. Amazon Connect is based on the same contact center technology used by Amazon customer service associates around the world to power over a billion customer interactions every year. In this session, Amazon Connect leaders share the product vision, milestones, and latest agent productivity innovations, including new machine learning, speech, analytics, and channel functionality. Also hear how users are leveraging AWS contact center capabilities to reimagine the customer experience. |
 | Design critical customer communications with Amazon Pinpoint
Organizations of all types must communicate with their customers, patients, or constituents across a multitude of use cases and scenarios. Amazon Pinpoint is your hub for customer communication, enabling you to reach across channels such as email, SMS, or push notifications. In this session, learn how to use Amazon Pinpoint to make positive customer connections and measure impact through either built-in analytics or data streaming. Hear from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, an organization dedicated to the elimination of cancer, about how it used Amazon Pinpoint for community outreach. Finally, learn about the latest Amazon Pinpoint features and what's next in customer engagement. |
 | Embed video conferencing in any app with the Amazon Chime SDK
In this new world, video is more important than ever. You use video to talk to your doctor, your teacher, your personal trainer, and so on. Do you really want to download a separate video conferencing application for every conversation? AWS believes that video is not a destination, but a critical feature of every application. In this session, hear from Cerner, who is using the Amazon Chime SDK to enable video in its health applications. Learn how the Amazon Chime SDK is creating a new world of video everywhere with unique innovations and the global scale of AWS, and how you can enable video in your applications. |
 | Empower business leads to build apps with Amazon Honeycode
Teams need better tools to manage their work, but many are limited to spreadsheets or project planning tools that can't be sufficiently customized to meet their needs. Ideally, custom apps could be rapidly built and then adapted as business needs evolve, but this often isn't cost-effective or simple. Learn how the newly released Amazon Honeycode enables noncoders and developers alike to quickly build apps to meet business needs—without requiring programming or full-time developers. This session discusses the main business scenarios Honeycode apps can help teams solve and covers the main features for creating custom apps. |
 | How Best Western built a modular and dynamic contact center
Best Western, a hotels and resorts brand with 4,500+ locations worldwide, migrated its contact center to Amazon Connect in just one month amidst COVID-19. Learn how it streamlined customer experiences and routing logic by adopting an Amazon Connect contact flow design. This design allows Best Western to navigate various customer experiences across multiple languages, backend integrations, and build environments within the same contact flows, reducing management complexity by 51%. Learn how it automated its prompt recording process by building dynamic messaging logic that supports 14 languages and 35+ countries, and how it reduced its annual telecom expense by $200,000, eliminating associated hardware and moving agents to remote work environments. |
 | ML-powered voice authentication with Amazon Connect Voice ID
Amazon Connect Voice ID provides real-time caller authentication that makes voice interactions in contact centers more secure and efficient. Voice ID uses machine learning to verify the identity of genuine customers by analyzing a caller's unique voice characteristics. This allows contact centers to use an additional security layer that doesn't rely on the caller answering multiple security questions, and it makes it easy to enroll and verify customers without disrupting the natural flow of the conversation. Join this session to see how fast and secure ML-based voice authentication can power your contact center. |
 | Origin Energy delivers great agent and customer experiences
As one of Australia's largest integrated energy companies serving over 4 million customers, Origin is focused on providing customers with affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy as well as outstanding customer experience. Hear how Amazon Connect powers Origin's customer experience transformation, which has increased call quality scores, improved customer satisfaction, and increased agent productivity. Origin shares its recipe for success and its innovation roadmap for the future to deliver continuous improvement for its customers. |
 | Personalized service with Amazon Connect Customer Profiles
Your customers expect a fast, frictionless, and personalized customer service experience. In this session, learn about Amazon Connect Customer Profiles—a new unified customer profile capability to allow agents to provide more personalized service during a call. Customer Profiles automatically brings together customer information from multiple applications, such as Salesforce, Marketo, Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Amazon Connect contact history, into a unified customer profile. With Customer Profiles, agents have the information they need, when they need it, directly in their agent application, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and reduced call resolution times (by up to 15%). |
 | Prioritize, assign, track, & automate agent work: Amazon Connect Tasks
In this session, learn how Amazon Connect Tasks makes it easy for you to prioritize, assign, and track all the tasks that agents need to complete, including work in external applications needed to resolve customer issues (such as emails, cases, and social posts). Tasks provides a single place for agents to be assigned calls, chats, and tasks, ensuring agents are focused on the highest-priority work. Also, learn how you can also use Tasks with Amazon Connect's workflow capabilities to automate task-related actions that don't require agent interaction. Come see how you can use Amazon Connect Tasks to increase customer satisfaction while improving agent productivity. |
 | Pushing contact center boundaries with Salesforce and AWS
Customer service organizations have invested heavily in new digital channels, such as chat, social media, and self-service, to meet the needs of today's consumers. However, the most established channel—voice—is undergoing a tremendous amount of innovation. Join this session to explore how Salesforce's latest innovation, Service Cloud Voice built on Amazon Connect, seamlessly integrates voice with other digital channels for great customer service. You also hear how Salesforce migrated its contact center to Amazon Connect, enabling a connected, personalized, and efficient customer experience. Come see where voice is today and where it is heading tomorrow! |
 | Real-time ML analytics with Contact Lens for Amazon Connect
In this session, learn how Contact Lens for Amazon Connect enables your contact center supervisors to understand the sentiment of customer conversations, identify call drivers, evaluate compliance with company guidelines, and analyze trends. This can help supervisors train agents, replicate successful interactions, and identify crucial company and product feedback. Your supervisors can conduct fast full-text search on all transcripts to quickly troubleshoot customer issues. With real-time capabilities, you can get alerted to issues during live customer calls and deliver proactive assistance to agents while calls are in progress, improving customer satisfaction. Join this session to see how real-time ML-powered analytics can power your contact center. |
 | Responsive customer service with Amazon Connect
The emergence of COVID-19 required companies to move at an unprecedented speed in order to empower their employees to serve customers remotely. In this session, AWS Partner Accenture shares how digital innovation and resiliency went hand-in-hand as it helped companies like SunTrust, Truist, and ESDC enable remote workforces, rethink contact center operations, and reimagine customer experiences with Amazon Connect. Learn how, in just a few days, Accenture helped ESDC handle calls from millions of people, and hear about other ways Accenture is transforming contact centers to be prepared for the future. |
 | Send and deliver emails from any application with Amazon SES
Email remains one of the top channels for reaching your customers. It has the highest return on investment, is easily available across devices, and remains the account of record for many customers. But ensuring that your emails reach your customers isn't always easy. Learn how Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) has worked with top enterprises like Reddit on deliverability and scale across the AWS global footprint. Learn about the latest innovations in Amazon SES and how AWS is supporting customer connections during the COVID-19 crisis. |
 | Solve customer issues quickly with Amazon Connect Wisdom
New agent-assist capabilities from Amazon Connect Wisdom make it easier and faster for agents to find the information they need to solve customer issues in real time. In this session, see how agents can use simple ML-powered search to find information stored across knowledge bases, wikis, and FAQs, like Salesforce and ServiceNow. Join the session to hear Traeger Pellet Grills discuss how it's using these new features, along with Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, to deliver real-time recommendations to agents based on issues automatically detected during calls. |
 | BI at hyperscale: Quickly build and scale dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
Data-driven business intelligence (BI) decision making is more important than ever in this age of remote work. An increasing number of organizations are investing in data transformation initiatives, including migrating data to the cloud, modernizing data warehouses, and building data lakes. But what about the last mile—connecting the dots for end users with dashboards and visualizations? Come to this session to learn how Amazon QuickSight allows you to connect to your AWS data and quickly build rich and interactive dashboards with self-serve and advanced analytics capabilities that can scale from tens to hundreds of thousands of users, without managing any infrastructure and only paying for what you use. |
 | Customer perspective on building BI applications for the cloud
In today's world, companies need the ability to quickly react to change—and to anticipate it. In this session, learn how companies such as Blackboard are using Amazon QuickSight to embed analytics in their applications to improve the velocity and quality of decision-making for their end users. |
 | Design best practices for architecting a data-to-insights solution on AWS
Learn how to design a cloud-first business intelligence implementation using AWS-native services. Hear about best practices and the design patterns recommended for architecting a scalable and well-governed platform. This session discusses several integration patterns with AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Athena, including optimization strategies to reduce cost and improve decision-making within your organization. |
 | Embed analytics in your applications with Amazon QuickSight
Embedding analytics into your own applications is often expensive, complicated, and time-consuming. Amazon QuickSight makes it easy to seamlessly embed interactive dashboards and visualizations into your application, empowering your users to gain deeper insights with your application's data while allowing you to identify new ways to delight your users. In this session, hear from the QuickSight team about its new capabilities for embedding (for example, one-time analytics) as well as from users on how they are leveraging QuickSight serverless architecture to easily build and scale their applications while truly paying for only what's used. |
 | Introducing Amazon QuickSight Q: Ask questions on data & get answers in seconds
Full Title: Introducing Amazon QuickSight Q: Ask questions on data & get answers in seconds |
 | Reimagine business applications from the ground up
Join Larry Augustin, VP of AWS administration, as he details how AWS has expanded its services to empower business users to leverage cloud-based applications for remote workers, contact centers, productivity, communication and collaboration, and more. You also hear from Slack about how it is working with AWS to help people get work done. Finally, you go behind the scenes with Larry as he shares AWS business application strategy, customer use cases, and demos, along with simple ways in which you can get started today. |
 | Amazon DynamoDB: Untold stories of databases in a serverless world
Trustpilot has adopted a serverless mindset. Over the years, the company improved its software architecture by building serverless applications, which includes the important decision of choosing the right database. Today, Amazon DynamoDB is Trustpilot's first choice when building new applications, but this wasn't always the case. In this session, Trustpilot's Angela Timofte discusses what the company learned working with DynamoDB in a serverless architecture, misconceptions the team had, and mistakes they made. Angela also provides examples of how to model your data in DynamoDB so you can unlock its full potential. Finally, hear some of Trustpilot's favorite tips learned throughout the database and serverless journey. |
 | Build a scalable virtual learning platform with AWS AI services
Building scalable applications with speech, text, search, and chatbot intelligence can be difficult. In this session, you learn how AWS Machine Learning Hero Cyrus Wong built All Screens, an online education solution for teachers to engage with students in a meaningful way using AWS AI services such as Amazon Kendra, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon AI language services. |
 | Building out a serverless application with Amazon QLDB
Amazon QLDB is a centralized ledger database that supports many use cases for when you need a complete, immutable history of all data changes that can be trusted and verified. In this session, you learn how to get started with Amazon QLDB through a demonstration that brings its core features to life. You see how to build out, test, and optimize a fully functional serverless application combining Amazon QLDB with services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB without having to manage underlying infrastructure. |
 | How I built an online store in one day using the Amplify Framework
Join this session to learn how to build an online bookstore in one day using AWS, React, and Stripe. AWS Community Hero Manoj Fernando discusses how to quickly provision and consume AWS services (AWS AppSync, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon Cognito, and AWS Lambda) from a React front end using the AWS Amplify Framework. Manoj also discusses how to build a reliable payment handling flow with Stripe and AWS Step Functions. Finally, he walks through how all these technologies fit together to create a secure, scalable, and cost-effective real-world architecture. |
 | How I fed my cat with the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit
Alexa, feed the cat! The Amazon Alexa Gadgets Toolkit allows you to build Alexa-connected accessories that can interact with Amazon Echo devices over Bluetooth. In this talk, you learn how to integrate your smart home projects as Alexa Gadgets and make them sing, dance, and set alarms, along with other Alexa behaviors. Learn to build custom behaviors through a demonstration of how AWS IoT Hero Nathan Glover turned a pet feeder into a smart cat food dispenser completely controlled by Alexa. |
 | How robots can help make your AWS accounts more secure
Morningstar balances a self-service, decentralized account structure with regulated industry compliance. It can be difficult to know what is deployed across 100 accounts, and rigid IAM policies can inhibit innovation. Morningstar encourages developers to understand AWS and security best practices. In this session, learn how the company centrally achieves cloud security through event-based and time-based scanners. The scanners use custom scripts, AWS Lambda functions, Jira tickets, and SES. Currently, Morningstar reports on public Amazon S3 buckets, resources without backups, unpatched instances, and non-standard AMIs. This session delves into Morningstar's scanner architecture as well as how the company enables cloud security across business units. |
 | Scaling containers on AWS
Running containers on AWS, especially at scale with 10,000+ containers, can be challenging. Scale comes with many more responsibilities that are often not visible until much later in the process. This session covers different scaling behaviors for several AWS orchestrators (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda) and the patterns that emerge. You hear considerations for both developer velocity and the operational load involved. Cost management is a top priority, and opportunities for cost optimizations and patterns are discussed in depth. |
 | Serverless .NET on AWS with LambdaSharp
Over the years, MindTouch has built open-source tooling to make it easier for anyone to create infrastructure leveraging AWS CloudFormation for deployment and Amazon CloudWatch for observability. In this session, learn how you can build and deploy your serverless solution in minutes using LambdaSharp, an open-source CLI and framework for serverless .NET Core application development on AWS. The solution shares the same C# code for the backend and front end leveraging AWS Lambda functions and the Blazor WebAssembly framework. Finally, see a demonstration of how easy it is to integrate with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, metrics, and Amazon EventBridge. |
 | Vulnerability scanning for Kubernetes applications: Why and how
One of the most popular ways for unauthorized users to target deployments is to take advantage of known vulnerabilities in common dependency code, so you need tools to spot these vulnerable dependencies. In a cloud-native deployment, vulnerability scanning has to be automated if it's not going to stand in the way of shipping new functionality for your business. This session includes a demonstration of how vulnerability scanners work, and it covers why they are important. You learn about open-source tools that you can build into your CI/CD pipeline and your running Kubernetes deployment to help you detect vulnerabilities in your applications. |
 | Accelerating outcomes and migrations with Savings Plans
Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that allows you to save up to 72 percent on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. Many AWS users have adopted Savings Plans since its launch in November 2019 for the simplicity, savings, ease of use, and flexibility. In this session, learn how many organizations use Savings Plans to drive more migrations and business outcomes. Hear from Comcast on their compute transformation journey to the cloud and how it started with RIs. As their cloud usage evolved, they adopted Savings Plans to drive business outcomes such as new architecture patterns. |
 | Amazon Lightsail: The easiest way to get started on AWS
Amazon Lightsail is AWS's simple, virtual private server. In this session, learn more about Lightsail and its newest launches. Lightsail is designed for simple web apps, websites, and dev environments. This session reviews core product features, such as preconfigured blueprints, managed databases, load balancers, networking, and snapshots, and includes a demo of the most recent launches. Attend this session to learn more about how you can get up and running on AWS in the easiest way possible. |
 | Architecting 5G apps for ultra-low latency on AWS Wavelength
AWS Wavelength brings AWS services to the edge of the 5G network, minimizing the latency to connect to an application from 5G-connected devices. This session details the steps involved in deploying an application to the AWS Wavelength Zones. The session discusses best practices in architecting your application to run the most latency-sensitive parts of your application on AWS Wavelength and connect seamlessly to the full range of services in an AWS Region. You will learn about a broad range of use cases that are enabled by AWS Wavelength and 5G networks. |
 | AWS infrastructure for large-scale distributed ML training
Amazon EC2 provides the broadest and deepest portfolio of instances for machine learning (ML) applications. From P3 instances that provide the best performance for ML training to G4 instances for inference and Inf1 instances that provide the lowest-cost ML inference in the cloud, there's a right instance for each of your ML workload needs. This session provides a deep dive into these instances, discussing benchmarks and providing guidelines on ideal use cases for each instance. It includes a demo on initiating and scaling ML workloads in production. |
 | AWS Outposts: An in-depth look at hybrid cloud use cases
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. When building out an AWS Outposts environment, there are many considerations that go into choosing the right architecture. To help you choose the right architectural blueprint for your AWS Outposts hybrid deployment, this session dives deep into multiple hybrid architectures that users have implemented and discusses the applicable options and considerations for deployment. |
 | AWS Outposts: Bringing the AWS experience on premises
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that brings AWS infrastructure and services to your environments in virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility using the same hardware, software, and management tooling used in AWS Regions. This session examines how an Outpost works, including how AWS modified the AWS Nitro System to work in any on-premises facility to provide a truly consistent hybrid experience. |
 | AWS Outposts: Cloud where you want it
Your enterprise likely has a broad range of applications, some of which can easily be migrated to AWS Regions, while others need to remain in country or on premises due to latency, local data processing, or residency requirements. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility. In this session, learn how to use Outposts to support applications that need to remain on premises, as part of the continuum of AWS infrastructure and services, for a truly consistent hybrid cloud experience. |
 | AWS Wavelength: Run apps with ultra-low latency at 5G edge
Emerging interactive applications like autonomous vehicles, machine learning inference at the edge, and virtual reality require ultra-low latencies. Even with 5G networks that are up to 10 times faster than 4G, using traditional mobile architectures requires multiple network hops when connecting to an application server over the Internet that can result in latencies of 100 milliseconds or more. AWS Wavelength addresses these problems by bringing AWS services to the edge of the 5G network. In this session, learn how you can leverage AWS Wavelength to deliver new innovative applications that take full advantage of the speed of 5G networks. |
 | Bringing AWS benefits to all Apple developers with EC2 Mac instances
Apple delights its customers with stunning devices like iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs, and developers want to create applications that run on iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari. In this session, learn how Amazon is innovating to improve the development experience for Apple applications. Come learn how AWS now enables you to develop, build, test, and sign Apple applications with the flexibility, scalability, reliability, and cost benefits of Amazon EC2. |
 | Cost-optimize your enterprise workloads with Amazon EBS
Recent times have underscored the need to enable agility while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). In this session, learn about the latest volume types that further optimize your performance and cost, while enabling you to run newer applications on AWS with high availability. Dive deep into the latest AWS volume launches and cost-optimization strategies for workloads such as databases, virtual desktop infrastructure, and low-latency interactive applications. |
 | Deep dive on AWS Graviton2 processor-powered EC2 instances
AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 instances enable up to 40 percent better price performance than comparable x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads, including application servers, microservices, high-performance computing, CPU-based ML inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. This session dives into Graviton2-based EC2 instances, ideal workloads, benchmarks, and ecosystem support from AWS services, OSVs, and ISVs. It includes a demo of getting started with Graviton2-based instances for containerized workloads. |
 | Enable high-performance block storage for enterprise applications
The success of modern enterprises depends on how fast they can transact with their customers at scale. In this session, learn how next-generation Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon EC2 instances help you achieve high performance, scalability, and availability for your business-critical databases and file systems. You hear how you can achieve high-availability (HA) configurations and high performance (IOPS) and bandwidth for single-instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server. Learn how Multi-Attach can be used to share high performance for clustered applications, then hear an example from Netflix where petabytes of data were moved by building an innovative EV Cache using Multi-Attach. |
 | High-performance backup and restore for data on Amazon EBS
Enterprises need to protect their business-critical data against data loss and failures. Amazon EBS snapshots provide a simple and cost-effective mechanism to back up and restore your block data volumes, boot volumes, and on-premises block data. Learn how snapshots can help with disaster recovery (DR) of your business-critical workloads and how you can achieve your recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) goals while managing cost. Understand how snapshots can be restored instantaneously and at scale for DR and virtual desktop infrastructure. Learn how Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager makes it easy to manage your snapshots across multiple accounts and regions. |
 | HPC on AWS: Innovating without infrastructure constraints
Migrate your High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads to AWS to accelerate your most complex engineering simulations and high-performance data analysis workloads. In this session, learn how new Amazon EC2 instances and the latest features in Amazon FSx for Lustre, Elastic Fabric Adapter, AWS ParallelCluster, AWS Batch, and NICE DCV help you achieve the best price/performance metrics for your HPC workloads. Learn about AWS services that can help manage your HPC costs, and discover how AWS users are increasing their agility and accelerating life-saving research to develop drugs and vaccines by leveraging the virtually unlimited capacity and flexibility of HPC on AWS. |
 | Introducing 15 new Local Zones for ultra-low latency compute across the US
AWS Local Zones places compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to locations where no AWS Region exists today. Last year, AWS launched the first two Local Zones in Los Angeles, and organizations are using Local Zones to deliver applications requiring ultra-low-latency compute. AWS is launching Local Zones in 15 metro areas to extend access across the contiguous US. In this session, learn how you can run latency-sensitive portions of applications local to end users and resources in a specific geography, delivering single-digit millisecond latency for use cases such as media and entertainment content creation, real-time gaming, reservoir simulations, electronic design automation, and machine learning. |
 | Introducing AWS Outposts in two new sizes
AWS Outposts will soon be available in 1U and 2U server form factors for space-constrained locations like retail stores, hospitals, and factory floors. Outposts servers will seamlessly extend AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS so you can deploy applications that require low latency or local network access to locations with limited space or reduced capacity needs. Come learn how you can use the same AWS APIs to build applications, easily deploy software, manage permissions, and share resources to all locations with Outposts servers. Also hear how you can easily order and install Outposts servers and manage workloads across thousands of sites. |
 | Introducing EC2 G4ad instances for graphics-intensive apps
G4ad instances feature the latest AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second-generation AMD EPYC processors. These new instances deliver the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for graphics-intensive applications such as virtual workstations, game streaming, and graphics rendering. This session dives deep into these instances, ideal use cases, and performance benchmarks, and it provides a demo. |
 | Machine learning inference with Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances
Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia chips, are built from the ground up to provide high performance and the lowest-cost machine learning in the cloud. This session dives into the AWS Inferentia chip, Inf1 instances, and support for Inf1 in Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS. This session also provides architecture-level details of hyperscale services such as Amazon Alexa that have adopted Inf1 instances to lower their inference costs. It includes a demo on getting started with Inf1 instances and scaling out deployments. |
 | Optimize compute for performance and cost
It's easier than ever to grow your compute capacity and enable new types of cloud computing applications while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) by blending EC2 Spot Instances, On-Demand Instances, and Savings Plans purchase models. In this session, learn how to use the power of EC2 Fleet with AWS services such as Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon EMR, and AWS Batch to programmatically optimize costs while maintaining high performance and availability. Dive deep into cost-optimization patterns for workloads such as containers, web services, CI/CD, batch, big data, and more. |
 | Powering Amazon EBS: Infrastructure deep dive
Millions of organizations run their business-critical enterprise applications, databases, and analytics engines on AWS. Amazon EBS provides distributed storage infrastructure to enable exabytes of storage and trillions of IOPS for these workloads. In this session, dive into the details to understand how Amazon EBS provides users with a suite of volumes to serve varying performance needs, how AWS infrastructure scales to hundreds of petabytes within minutes, and how AWS ensures that the storage is highly available and durable for high application uptimes. Also, learn how AWS helps users secure data through encryption and provides simple, high-performance backup and restore for data protection. |
 | Powering next-gen Amazon EC2: Deep dive on the Nitro System
The AWS Nitro System, a rich collection of building block technologies that include AWS-built hardware offload and security components, is powering the next generation of Amazon EC2 instances with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. This session dives deep into the Nitro System, reviewing its design and architecture, exploring new innovations to the Nitro platform, and showing how it has made the seemingly impossible, possible. |
 | Proven compute for unprecedented times
The year 2020 has come with many challenges. It is during these unprecedented times that technologies are tested to see if they can truly scale and meet the demands of increased usage and changing requirements. AWS's vision is to build the most secure, reliable, and innovative platform that meets your needs both now and in the future. Join David Brown, VP, Amazon EC2, to learn about what is new in AWS compute, including innovations in core compute (Amazon EC2) and edge and hybrid offerings (AWS Outposts and AWS Wavelength). See how the design of AWS compute helps companies scale and adapt for their business needs. |
 | Quickly containerize .NET & Java applications with AWS App2Container
Learn about new tools to migrate your company's rich catalog of .NET and/or Java applications to AWS. Using AWS App2Container, AWS experts demonstrate how to package a .NET application into a container from a running instance on the server and deploy it to AWS container services, such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes with Amazon EKS. |
 | Reduce cost with Amazon EC2's next-generation T4g and T3 instance types
A large majority of customer workloads frequently sit idle or run light tasks that aren't able to leverage the full compute performance of their instances. Amazon EC2 burstable instance types, T3, T3a, and next-generation T4g, offer a quick and easy way to run workloads more efficiently, saving you money without sacrificing performance when you need it. The next-generation T4g instances, powered by AWS Graviton2, enable up to 40% higher performance than T3 for times when you need performance as well as 20% lower cost. In this session, come learn about Amazon EC2 burstable instance types, new features, and the new T4g instances. |
 | Scaling Kubernetes for less with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Containers are usually stateless and fault-tolerant, making them a great fit for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Learn how the latest AWS features make provisioning, managing, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters on Spot Instances easier than ever, allowing you to optimize cost and scale. This session covers best practices for provisioning and scaling worker nodes and handling Spot interruptions, and it discusses how to design for fault tolerance. Whether you are using Amazon EKS or open-source Kubernetes, attend this session to learn how you can power your Kubernetes node groups with Spot Instances to save up to 90 percent on compute costs. |
 | Selecting the right Amazon EC2 instance for your workloads
Amazon EC2 offers the broadest and deepest platform to run workloads ranging from simple web apps to mission-critical workloads. Now you can pick from over 300 EC2 instance types to get the best price-performance for any workload. Attend this session if you are getting started with EC2 or if you want to understand what instance type choices are right for your workloads. Learn how to get started with EC2 instance discovery and other tools that simplify the instance type discovery and selection process. |
 | Streamline selection and right size EC2 with AWS Compute Optimizer
Amazon EC2 offers over 350 instance types to run a broad range of workloads. AWS Compute Optimizer helps ensure you are using instance types optimized for your workloads. This session discusses considerations for choosing the best EC2 instance types to optimize performance and cost. Learn how Compute Optimizer can help you lower compute costs by up to 25 percent and maximize performance. |
 | The journey to silicon innovation at AWS
Organizations are bringing diverse workloads to AWS at a faster rate than ever before. To run diverse workloads with the performance and cost that customers expect, AWS often innovates on their behalf and delivers breakthrough innovations, even at the silicon level. AWS's foray into silicon design started with the AWS Nitro System and quickly extended to Graviton processors and purpose-built inference chips with AWS Inferentia. This session explores the AWS journey to silicon innovation and discusses some of the thought processes, lessons learned, and results from experiences thus far. |
 | Virtual workstations for content creation with G4 instances
Virtual workstations on AWS enable studios, departments, and freelancers to take on bigger projects, work from anywhere, and pay only for what they need. Virtual workstations have become essential to creative professionals seeking cloud solutions that enable remote teams to work more efficiently and keep creative productions moving forward. In this session, learn how virtual workstations on AWS function, who is using them today, and how to get started. |
 | Building a connected factory with Volkswagen
AWS and Volkswagen embarked on a multi-year collaboration to build the Digital Production Platform, enabling the transformation of the automotive company's manufacturing and logistics processes. In this session, you learn how Volkswagen used the breadth and depth of the AWS portfolio of services, including AWS IoT, machine learning, and analytics, to unlock insights and accelerate business value through new use cases and digital solutions. |
 | Building robots to help hospitals become safer and smarter
In hospitals and other healthcare venues, robots increasingly perform contactless delivery and autonomous maintenance services to reduce the risk of exposing patients and medical staff to harmful viruses and bacteria. In this session, see how Solaris JetBrain and Milvus Robotics develop and deploy robots quickly and safely for hospitals with open-source tools and AWS. Learn how Solaris JetBrain tests their robots in an AWS RoboMaker simulation to improve safety and find edge cases before deploying applications to physical robots. |
 | Building the next generation of residential robots
Robots are being used more widely in homes, and they are becoming increasingly advanced and include capabilities like artificial intelligence, data streaming, image recognition, voice activation, and remote monitoring. In this session, see how AWS RoboMaker and AWS IoT enable the development and testing of sophisticated robots that can autonomously navigate, communicate, comprehend, and learn. iRobot also discusses how it is using AWS to build intelligent robots that fit seamlessly into your life at home. |
 | Connected Factory Solution drives Industry 4.0 success
Data from the manufacturing plant floor is often untapped because it's locked into on-premises devices, machines, or historian databases. In this demo, learn how to use the AWS IoT Connected Factory Solution to unlock data from industrial equipment and optimize operations, improve productivity, and increase asset availability. |
 | Nestlé brings supply chain transparency with Amazon Managed Blockchain
Chain of origin is the Nestlé answer to complete supply chain transparency, from crop to coffee cup, with technology at its heart. Today, consumers want to know about the quality of their product and know where it is sourced from. Using AWS and Amazon Managed Blockchain, Nestlé can store supply chain transactions in ways that are transparent, immutable, and verifiable to allow its partners to interact in a trustworthy and efficient manner. This solution also ensures that the supply chain is verified and any mistakes, malpractices, or tampering is quickly addressed. |
 | Predictive quality for industrial companies
Come learn how AWS IoT software and services enable industrial companies to build predictive quality models using data from all the devices in their industrial environments and third-party data inputs |
 | Driving innovation in consumer packaged goods with Coca-Cola
Discover how Coca-Cola Freestyle is working with AWS to rapidly develop and deploy new solutions that increase consumer engagement, reinforce brand, and grow revenue. This session provides an inside look at how the Coca-Cola team is leveraging cloud-based services to offer a touch-free experience for their retail partners that allows consumers to select and pour drinks quickly, safely, and in a fun new way. Come away with a better understanding of Coca-Cola's innovation process and how AWS can help you reinvent consumer packaged goods (CPG). |
 | Amazon ECR Public: Share, discover, deploy, & monetize container apps easily
Full Title: Amazon ECR Public: Share, discover, deploy, & monetize container apps easily |
 | Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate deep dive with Affirm
This session dives deep into running batch workloads on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate. Come learn about how ECS and Fargate make it easy and cost-effective to run and manage your batch jobs. Additionally, Affirm provides insights into how it migrated its batch jobs to ECS on Fargate and Apache Airflow and discusses the benefits that the company achieved. |
 | Amazon EKS Anywhere: Manage your Kubernetes clusters on premises
Our customers have asked, 'Can you give us the same Kubernetes to run on premises as you run on AWS with the same support?' To them we say, 'Yes,' but we want to do even more. Amazon EKS Anywhere provides a consistent experience for managing Kubernetes clusters on premises and on other clouds. Amazon EKS Anywhere allows you to standardize Kubernetes, so you don't have to manage the complexity of multiple versions across different workloads and environments, and you can manage and monitor your clusters using the same Amazon EKS operational tooling. |
 | Amazon EKS Distro: An open-source distribution of Kubernetes
Building and running applications on Kubernetes can be a challenge, especially if you have different versions for different environments. Amazon EKS Distro is an open-source distribution of Kubernetes that is aligned on versions and features with the secure distribution used in Amazon EKS today and future upstream releases. See how standardizing on Amazon EKS Distro provides simplicity, security, and consistency for everywhere you need to have containers, whether on premises, hybrid, or multicloud. |
 | Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate deep dive
This session dives deep into the integration between Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate. You hear about the lessons learned since the announcement of this solution last year and the improvements AWS has made since then. |
 | Amazon EKS: To 40,000 CPUs and beyond!
This session includes a discussion of the best practices and lessons learned from running very large-scale (40,000+ vCPU cores) applications on Amazon EKS. |
 | An introduction to Amazon ECS Anywhere
In this session, we introduce Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new capability that enables deployment of Amazon ECS tasks on customer-managed infrastructure. This session covers the evolution of Amazon ECS over time, including new on-premises capabilities to manage your hybrid footprint using a common fully managed control plane and API. You learn some foundational technical details and important tenets that AWS is using to design these capabilities, and the session ends with a short demo of Amazon ECS Anywhere. |
 | AWS Copilot: Simplifying container development
The hard part is done. You and your team have spent weeks poring over pull requests, building microservices and containerizing them. Congrats! But what do you do now? How do you get those services on AWS? How do you manage multiple environments? How do you automate deployments? AWS Copilot is a new command line tool that makes building, developing, and operating containerized applications on AWS a breeze. In this session, learn how AWS Copilot can help you and your team manage your services and deploy them to production, safely and delightfully. |
 | AWS Fargate: Are serverless containers right for you?
You have a choice of approach when it comes to provisioning compute for your containers. Some users prefer to have more direct control of their instances, while others could do away with the operational heavy lifting. AWS Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. This session explores the benefits and considerations of running on Fargate or directly on Amazon EC2 instances. You hear about new and upcoming features and learn how Amenity Analytics benefits from the serverless operational model. |
 | AWS Proton: Automating infrastructure provisioning & code deployments
AWS Proton is a new service that enables infrastructure operators to create and manage common container-based and serverless application stacks and automate provisioning and code deployments through a self-service interface for their developers. Learn how infrastructure teams can empower their developers to use serverless and container technologies without them first having to learn, configure, and maintain the underlying resources. |
 | AWS X-Ray & Amazon CloudWatch: Increasing visibility for ECS & Fargate
The retail business unit at Vanguard is actively building out microservices on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate. As more workloads moved to AWS, the team realized that their legacy monitoring solutions were becoming more costly to run and didn't provide the real-time insight they required. To solve this problem, the retail team at Vanguard leveraged two AWS-native monitoring and observability services—AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch. This session shows how Vanguard was able to use group collaboration to instrument X-Ray and create CloudWatch dashboards and reduce metric latency from minutes to near-real time to meet the objective of real-time observability. |
 | Building resilient Kubernetes deployments with AWS App Mesh
Your new application is ready, and it's time to deploy to that new Kubernetes cluster. Before you push the button, think about the future. You'll need to triage and fix issues, deploy changes quickly and cleanly, and roll back if needed. This can be hard to manage as applications grow. How can you ensure your deployments don't become part of the problem? AWS App Mesh offers robust and easy-to-configure traffic routing, providing the building blocks you need for modern deployments. In this session, see how to use simple constructs to build blue/green deployments, canary deployments, and other patterns to help you manage application lifecycle without risking your customers' happiness. |
 | Choosing your container data plane on AWS
Five years ago, if you talked about containers, the assumption was that you were running them on a Linux VM. Fast forward to today, and now that assumption is challenged—in a good way. Come to this session to explore the best data plane option to meet your needs. This session covers the advantages of different abstraction models (Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate), the operating system (Linux or Windows), the CPU architecture (x86 or Arm), and the commercial model (Spot or On-Demand Instances.) |
 | Define AWS service resources with AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
Until now, if you had some dependencies on an AWS managed service resource—an Amazon S3 bucket, an Amazon SNS topic, an Amazon DynamoDB table, and so on—you needed to use a tool like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to manage the creation and lifecycle of those resource dependencies. With AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), you can now define your application's AWS managed service resources using your Kubernetes API and manifests. There is no need to use a different configuration system or log in to the AWS console! Come learn about the design of the ACK, the features provided, and the roadmap for service integration. |
 | Developing CI/CD pipelines with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate
Containers have helped revolutionize modern application architecture. While managed container services have enabled greater agility in application development, coordinating safe deployments and maintainable infrastructure has become more important than ever. This session outlines how to integrate CI/CD best practices into deployments of your Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate services using pipelines and the latest in AWS developer tooling. |
 | Fidelity Investments: Two years and 10,000 containers later
Starting in 2018, Fidelity Investments established an application migration strategy targeting Amazon EKS as their target platform of choice. Two years and 10,000 container deployments later, there are multiple lessons learned from managing this large-scale implementation. Hear Fidelity's head of Cloud Platforms share his firm's journey, from key architectural decisions and driving adoption and democratization of the platform to the process of migrating critical on-premise applications to Amazon EKS. Key topics covered include GitOps and cluster management, multi-tenancy and platform observability. Fidelity also discusses open-sourcing key components of their Amazon EKS platform. |
 | Getting an insight into your Kubernetes applications
Do you need to know what's happening with your applications that run on Amazon EKS? In this session, learn how you can combine open-source tools, such as Prometheus and Grafana, with Amazon CloudWatch using CloudWatch Container Insights. Come to this session for a demo of Prometheus metrics with Container Insights. |
 | Getting up and running with Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS provides a simple yet powerful way to deploy modern applications in the AWS Cloud using containers. This session demonstrates how easy it is to get started by deploying a real microservices application. It takes you through an application upgrade and demonstrates observability powered by the native integration of Amazon ECS with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. |
 | Getting up and running with Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. Join this session to learn about how Verizon runs its core applications on Amazon EKS at scale. Verizon also discusses how it worked with AWS to overcome several post-Amazon EKS migration challenges and ensured that the platform was robust. |
 | GitOps compliant: How CommBank multiplied Amazon EKS clusters
In this session, learn how the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) built a platform to run containerized applications in a regulated environment and then replicated it across multiple departments using Amazon EKS, AWS CDK, and GitOps. This session covers how to manage multiple multi-team Amazon EKS clusters across multiple AWS accounts while ensuring compliance and observability requirements and integrating Amazon EKS with AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Secrets Manager, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Certificate Manager. |
 | How Disney+ deploys globally with Amazon ECS
Hear how Disney+ empowered developers to scale globally using Amazon ECS to bring you your favorite Disney classics and brand new originals. This session covers the best practices that Disney+ uses to empower developers to build applications with minimal infrastructure toil. See how you can use Amazon ECS at massive production scale to make your developers' workflow simpler so that all they need to worry about is where to push the code. Finally, get a brief look at an abstraction layer on top of Amazon ECS that combines ALB, cluster scaling, application scaling, and robust health checking to enable simple and safe deployments. |
 | Improving observability with AWS App Mesh and Amazon ECS
As the number of services grow within an application, it becomes difficult to pinpoint the exact location of errors, reroute traffic after failures, and safely deploy code changes. In this session, learn how to integrate AWS App Mesh with Amazon ECS to export monitoring data and implement consistent communications control logic across your application. This makes it easy to quickly pinpoint the exact locations of errors and automatically reroute network traffic, keeping your container applications highly available and performing well. |
 | Modernizing with Containers
Leading containers migration and modernization initiatives can be daunting, but AWS is making it easier. This session explores architectural choices and common patterns, and it provides real-world customer examples. Learn about core technologies to help you build and operate container environments at scale. Discover how abstractions can reduce the pain for infrastructure teams, operators, and developers. Finally, hear the AWS vision for how to bring it all together with improved usability for more business agility. |
 | Optimize costs and manage spend for containerized applications
Do you have to budget your spend for container workloads? Do you need to be able to optimize your spend in multiple services to reduce waste? If so, this session is for you. It walks you through how you can use AWS services and configurations to improve your cost visibility. You learn how you can select the best compute options for your containers to maximize utilization and reduce duplication. This combined with various AWS purchase options helps you ensure that you're using the best options for your services and your budget. |
 | Optimizing your applications for scale on Amazon ECS
This session dives deep into the best practices for running and optimizing your large-scale workloads on Amazon ECS. You hear about lessons learned from working with Amazon ECS customers over the years, including scaling your ECS services and clusters, deploying your applications, and achieving observability at scale. |
 | Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS gives you an AWS-native experience for OpenShift cluster creation and management in the console, on-demand (hourly) billing, a single invoice for AWS deployments, and joint support. Developers already familiar with Red Hat OpenShift can leverage familiar APIs and existing Red Hat OpenShift tools for deployments on AWS and enjoy tighter integrations with AWS technologies and services. The Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS product was developed to meet the evolving needs of AWS customers. In this talk, see a demo of the service, walk through the technical implementation, and hear lessons learned during initial service development. |
 | Running hundreds of thousands of vCPUs on Amazon ECS with AWS Batch
Docker containers are particularly suited for batch job workloads. Batch jobs are often short-lived and embarrassingly parallel. Join this session to see a demonstration of how, with the scalability of AWS Batch on Amazon ECS, AWS Batch is capable of scaling up from hundreds of thousands to millions of vCPUs quickly and efficiently. |
 | Running machine learning workflows at enterprise scale using Kubeflow
This session takes you through the journey of enterprise AWS customer iRobot in adopting Kubeflow to run its machine learning (ML) workflows. It includes a discussion of evaluation criteria for Kubeflow and Kubeflow pipelines and how these tools help continuously improve the iRobot Genius AI feature. You learn how iRobot operationalized ML workflows by building a CI/CD pipeline for deploying and maintaining Kubeflow. Lastly, you hear best practices and lessons the company learned as it went through this journey. |
 | Samsung Smart TV: Globally scaling with AWS Fargate Spot
Learn how AWS Fargate Spot helped Samsung's Smart TV global application scale with minimal cost and operations effort. In this session, Samsung presents its approach and the automation benefits of using AWS Fargate, AWS CDK, and Amazon Aurora. |
 | Securing your Amazon ECS applications: Best practices
With Amazon ECS, you can run your containerized workloads securely and with ease. In this session, learn how to utilize the full spectrum of Amazon ECS security features and its tight integrations with AWS security features to help you build highly secure applications. |
 | Securing your Amazon EKS applications: Best practices
Security is critical for your Kubernetes-based applications. Join this session to learn about the security features and best practices for Amazon EKS. This session covers encryption and other configurations and policies to keep your containers safe. |
 | Snap Inc.: Leveraging the benefits of AWS Graviton on Amazon EKS
Snap built an in-house service mesh, code-named Switchboard, which is powered by Amazon EKS, Spinnaker, and Envoy. Snap has evolved the platform to include AWS Graviton instances, and Snap has seen a large cost savings versus x86 instances. In this session, learn how Snap was able to migrate an x86 application to Arm-based Graviton instances on Amazon EKS. Snap discusses the key benefits and lessons learned using AWS's next-generation instance types within Kubernetes. Attendees will be able to understand the advantages of using AWS Graviton and how to benchmark their applications on these instance types to establish the cost and performance benefits. |
 | ADP's next-generation platform powers dynamic teams with Amazon Neptune
ADP's Next Gen Human Capital Management (HCM) platform embraces how work really gets done—in dynamic teams that do not reflect traditional organizational hierarchies. Running over 200 microservices on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the platform leverages Amazon Neptune to model and query its dynamic team structures. The session covers why ADP picked Amazon Neptune, followed by technical deep dives on how ADP bulk loads and synchronizes graph data, and what it learned using Amazon Neptune with Amazon EKS. |
 | Amazon Aurora Serverless v2: Instant scaling for demanding workloads
Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling configuration of Amazon Aurora that automatically adjusts database capacity based on application demand. With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, you can now scale database workloads instantly from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second and adjust capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount of database resources. This session dives deep into Aurora Serverless v2 and shows how it can help you operate even the most demanding database workloads worry-free. |
 | Amazon Aurora storage demystified
Amazon Aurora is a high-performance, highly scalable database managed service with MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. One attribute that sets Aurora apart is its innovative storage system that is optimized for database workloads and purpose-built to take advantage of modern cloud technology. In this session, hear directly from the team that built Amazon Aurora's storage system. They detail how the system is designed, how it works, and what you need to know to get the most out of it. |
 | Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) deep dive
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 this session to learn more about Amazon DocumentDB and how you can run MongoDB workloads at scale. |
 | Amazon DynamoDB advanced design patterns, Part 1
Every year, AWS Principal Technologist Rick Houlihan leads this technical session dedicated to advanced users of Amazon DynamoDB. He explains design patterns and data models that are based on a collection of implementations and best practices used by a variety of customers to deliver highly scalable solutions for a range of business problems. In this first part of a two-part series, Rick discusses and demonstrates important concepts including partition sharding and index overloading, scalable graph processing, and managing distributed locks. |
 | Amazon DynamoDB advanced design patterns, Part 2
In this second part of the advanced design patterns for Amazon DynamoDB series, AWS Principal Technologist Rick Houlihan reviews more common patterns for this highly scalable NoSQL database service. He demonstrates how to optimize shard keys to ensure even workload distribution, dives into GSI replication lag, and shows how to support operational analytics with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda. Rick also shows how AWS AppSync can be used to stand up GraphQL APIs, and he demonstrates the performance benefits of single table design. |
 | Beyond AWS DMS: Programs and partners to ace your migration
A successful cloud migration goes beyond just migration tools. Enterprises and organizations often need technical advice, migration support, and financial incentives for their portfolio of databases. AWS offers just that. Learn how AWS can holistically support your migration efforts through expertise, programs like Database Freedom, solutions like Database Migration Accelerator, and a growing network of migration partners. |
 | Beyond caching: Advanced design patterns in Redis
Redis is the 'Swiss Army knife' of distributed applications; it offers low latency and high-throughput data processing. This session reviews use cases, examples, and demos of how you can take advantage of Redis to solve distributed system problems like managing state, processing events, and transforming data in real time. |
 | Break free from legacy commercial databases to save, grow, and innovate
Companies are often constrained by their commercial-grade database options and want the performance of commercial-grade databases with the pricing and friendliness of open engines like Amazon Aurora. AWS assists with database migration by providing tools, programs, and experts to help cut cost and innovate faster. Learn how FactSet achieved database freedom by migrating from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora. |
 | Building for the future with AWS databases
Data is at the core of every application, and companies are looking to use data as the foundation for future innovation in their applications and their organizations. In this session, Shawn Bice, VP of Databases, discusses how organizations are building for the future with fully managed purpose-built databases. From helping organizations move existing database-heavy applications to the cloud, to learning from some of the earliest adopters, Shawn shares strategies on how to get started building for the future. Join Shawn to go deep (with demos) on some of the newest database innovations. |
 | Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB – Part 1
Amazon DynamoDB is popular due to its flexible billing model and ability to scale without performance degradation. It is a common choice in serverless and high-scale applications. But modeling your data with DynamoDB requires a different approach than modeling in traditional relational databases. Alex DeBrie is an AWS Data Hero, recognized for his work with DynamoDB, and author of The DynamoDB Book, a comprehensive guide to data modeling. In Part 1 of this two-part session, see how modeling with DynamoDB is different than a traditional relational database, and learn some foundational elements of data modeling with DynamoDB. |
 | Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB – Part 2
Amazon DynamoDB is popular due to its flexible billing model and ability to scale without performance degradation. It is a common choice in serverless and high-scale applications. But modeling your data with DynamoDB requires a different approach than modeling in traditional relational databases. Alex DeBrie is an AWS Data Hero, recognized for his work with DynamoDB, and author of The DynamoDB Book, a comprehensive guide to data modeling. In Part 2 of this two-part session, learn more advanced guiding principles, including strategies on how to handle complex, highly relational data models that don't slow down as your application scales. |
 | Deep dive into Amazon RDS Proxy for scaling applications
Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon RDS that helps improve the scalability, availability, and security of applications. Many applications, including those built on modern serverless technologies, can open tens of thousands of database connections in response to user requests. A sudden burst of new connections or a large number of open connections can exhaust database resources and lead to longer response times and limited application scalability. In this session, dive into the core concepts of Amazon RDS Proxy to learn how you can build more scalable, resilient, and secure applications. |
 | Deep dive on Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility
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 MySQL. This session highlights Aurora with MySQL compatibility's key capabilities, including push-button compute scaling and fast database cloning; reviews the architectural enhancements that contribute to Aurora's improved scalability, availability, and durability; and digs into the latest feature releases. Finally, this session walks you through the techniques that you can use to migrate to Aurora. |
 | Deep dive on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is a relational database managed service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source PostgreSQL. This session highlights Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility's key capabilities, including low-latency read replicas and Multi-AZ deployments; reviews the architectural enhancements that contribute to Aurora's improved scalability, availability, and durability; and digs into the latest feature releases. Finally, this session walks you through the techniques that you can use to migrate to Aurora. |
 | Deep dive on Amazon Neptune
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 technical session for all users of Amazon Neptune, take a deep dive into the architecture of the service, query languages, and features supported and hear about the popular use cases of Neptune. This session also reviews some of the cool new features recently added to Neptune and provides a sneak peek at the road map. |
 | Deep dive on Amazon Timestream
Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, and serverless time series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day at as little as one-tenth the cost of relational databases. In this session, dive deep on Amazon Timestream features and capabilities, including its serverless automatic scaling architecture, its storage tiering that simplifies your data lifecycle management, its purpose-built query engine that lets you access and analyze recent and historical data together, and its built-in time series analytics functions that help you identify trends and patterns in your data in near-real time. |
 | Deep dive on AWS Glue Elastic Views
Now in limited preview, AWS Glue Elastic Views is a new AWS Glue capability that makes it easy to build materialized views to combine and replicate data across multiple data stores without writing custom code. In this session, learn how AWS Glue Elastic Views enables you to create materialized views using SQL. In addition, learn how it copies data from source data stores to a target data store and how it continuously monitors for changes to data in your source data stores and provides automatic updates to target data stores. |
 | Deep dive on Global Database for Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora Global Database is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each Region, and provides disaster recovery in the event of a Region-wide outage. In this session, learn how to easily scale Amazon Aurora reads across the world to place your applications close to your users. Also, learn how to achieve an effective recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 second and a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 1 minute with Amazon Aurora Global Database. |
 | Deep dive on PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS
PostgreSQL is an open-source database that is growing in popularity because of its rich features, vibrant community, and compatibility with commercial databases. This session covers key Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL functionality, availability, and management. In this session, review general guidelines for common user operations and activities such as upgrades, tuning, and security for PostgreSQL instances. Join this session to go deep into the capabilities of the service and review the latest available features, which give you the background to solve different technical challenges. |
 | Deliver business impact with feature-packed Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB offers an enterprise-ready database that helps you protect your time, your data, and your budget. In this session, review key features that help drive the most business impact, such as multi-Region, multi-primary replication with global tables, on-demand capacity mode for spiky workloads, backup and restore (including point-in-time recovery that backs up your table data automatically, down to the second, for the past 35 days), and more. |
 | Design for success with Amazon ElastiCache best practices
With the explosive growth of business-critical, real-time applications built on Redis, availability, scalability, and security have become top considerations. Learn best practices for setting up Amazon ElastiCache for success with online scaling, high availability across Multi-AZ deployments, and security configurations. |
 | Dive deep into AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS DMS
In this session, learn how to convert and migrate your relational databases, nonrelational databases, and data warehouses to the cloud. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS DMS can help with homogeneous migrations as well as migrations from different database engines, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora. Join this session for a demo of the latest features added to AWS SCT and AWS DMS. |
 | Dropbox cuts costs with cold metadata store using Amazon DynamoDB and S3
Dropbox was experiencing a capacity crunch in its on-premises MySQL metadata store, requiring it to migrate or delete several terabytes of metadata to avoid doubling storage costs. The company rapidly prototyped and migrated cold metadata to a new storage system built using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3—currently storing 300 TBs and growing. This storage system leverages the scale and flexibility of DynamoDB and the cost savings of S3. The session's first half focuses on an architectural review of DynamoDB's durability, availability, and scale. Dropbox then explains the architecture and scaling mechanisms for its metadata storage system on AWS. |
 | Enterprise database transition: License-free cloud databases
In this session, learn from bp's Head of Quantitative and Analytical Solutions, Cetin Karakus, and his lead engineer on how bp transitioned a large-scale, mission-critical data analytics platform from a commercial database platform to the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL open-source solution using the Database Freedom Program in an operationally fail-safe and isofunctional way. In this session, bp shares its experiences migrating with the help of AWS Database Freedom and Aurora PostgreSQL engineers and lessons learned along the way. |
 | How Amazon Aurora helps you protect your data from mistakes
As a database developer, tester, or administrator, you sometimes have situations where data is deleted or modified by accident or needs to be restored to a previous state. Amazon Aurora, a fully managed MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database, has flexible options for backing up, restoring, and exporting your data. In this session, learn all about Aurora automated backups, manual snapshots, retention policies, and recovery options, and hear about how to clone or backtrack to a previous state within seconds. You also learn about replication across Regions and accounts while ensuring compliance with corporate requirements. |
 | How Disney+ scales globally on Amazon DynamoDB
Disney+, one of the largest global online video streaming platforms, was launched in November 2019 as the home of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. Disney+ delivers its extensive library of digital content directly to the homes of over 60.5 million subscribers, and Amazon DynamoDB is one of the technologies that supports this global footprint. The Content Discovery team behind Disney+ uses DynamoDB global tables to scale and deliver popular features such as Continue Watching, Watchlist, and Personalized Recommendations. Hear from Disney+ about its use cases and learnings from using DynamoDB to meet customers' needs at scale. |
 | Increase availability and ROI with fully managed AWS databases
Enterprises continue to spend countless hours and millions of dollars managing their data environments, adding little value to their business. Fully managed AWS databases help you realize better return on investment, massive scale, high availability, and resilience. Learn how Dun & Bradstreet achieved higher availability (24/7), lower DB admin effort, and faster innovation by moving on-premises Oracle databases to Amazon RDS. |
 | Introducing Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
Migrating applications from SQL Server to an open-source compatible database can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Solutions such as the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) automate data and database schema migration, but there is often more work to do to migrate application code. This session introduces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, a new translation layer for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that enables Amazon Aurora to understand commands from applications designed to run on Microsoft SQL Server. Learn how Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL works to reduce the time, risk, and effort of migrating Microsoft SQL Server-based applications to Aurora, and see some of the capabilities that make this possible. |
 | Migrating databases to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
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 this session to learn how to migrate database workloads to Amazon DocumentDB. |
 | MySQL options on AWS: Self-managed, managed, serverless
In recent years, MySQL has become a top database choice for new application development and migration from overpriced, restrictive commercial databases. In this session, see an overview of the MySQL and MariaDB options available on AWS. Join this session to do a deep dive on Amazon RDS, a fully managed MySQL service; Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database with up to five times the performance; and many additional innovations. |
 | New capabilities to build graph apps quickly with Amazon Neptune
Since last year, the Amazon Neptune team has been working on features that make it easy to use, query, and scale your graphs. This session highlights new Neptune capabilities such as graph visualization, sample applications to graph your AWS resources, and other features to help you build graph applications quickly. See examples for knowledge graphs, fraud graphs, and identity graphs. |
 | Planning & executing your database migration to Amazon RDS for Oracle
More and more companies are exiting their data centers and migrating their legacy workloads to AWS. With a managed Oracle database service like Amazon RDS for Oracle, you can migrate your existing Oracle databases to the cloud while modernizing at the same time. Join this session to learn best practices, tools, and patterns for migrating your Oracle databases quickly and easily to Amazon RDS. Whether you're moving thousands of databases or just a few very large databases, you learn in this session how you can plan and execute a successful migration to fully managed Oracle databases on AWS. |
 | Running Apache Cassandra workloads with Amazon Keyspaces
Are you looking for an easier way to run and secure your mission-critical Apache Cassandra workloads? Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a serverless, scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service. Join this session for a deep dive on the Amazon Keyspaces architecture and key features, including data encryption by default, continuous backups using point-in-time recovery, and serverless throughput and storage management. You also learn how to design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models easily by using NoSQL Workbench. Finally, hear how PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) uses Amazon Keyspaces to store data for its proximity contact-tracing mobile application. |
 | Transforming Hilton's reservation system with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Hilton is a leading global hospitality company, with a portfolio of 18 world-class brands comprising more than 6,200 properties and more than 983,000 rooms in 118 countries and territories. In this session, learn how Hilton migrated its most critical application (its central reservation system) to AWS with zero downtime and no impact to customers. This session covers how Hilton technology and executive leadership embraced the cloud and migrated their central reservation system to AWS, how to scale Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL to handle millions of transactions each day, and lessons learned—both best practices and items to look out for. |
 | Using Amazon QLDB as a system-of-trust database for core business apps
Data integrity is an important feature of business applications built on databases, and auditing is a required element in database system-of-record design. In this session, learn how early Amazon QLDB users are applying the ledger database's unique properties for data provenance and cryptographic verifiability to implement systems of record with data integrity built-in rather than added as a secondary consideration. |
 | What's new in Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database managed service with the speed, reliability, and availability of commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. In this session, get an overview of Aurora and learn about recently announced features, such as enhancements to Global Database, snapshot export, and Microsoft Active Directory integration. This session also covers how to get started using Aurora to support existing and new applications. |
 | What's new in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. AWS continues to improve and add capabilities based on what customers actually use and ask for. This session provides an overview of new capabilities that have launched this year, including demos from some of the most recently launched features. |
 | What's new in Amazon ElastiCache
The Amazon ElastiCache team has been hard at work innovating on your behalf. In this session, learn about the work the team did in 2020 to make sure that ElastiCache cloud service is cost-effective and provides exceptional performance for Redis and Memcached. |
 | What's new in Amazon RDS for Oracle
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 durable. |
 | What's new in Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server databases in the cloud. This session will explore recent features that were designed to help run your SQL Server workload on Amazon RDS faster, save on cost, and allow for more use cases! |
 | What's new in Amazon RDS
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, see all the new capabilities launched for Amazon RDS across different engines and review the latest available features. |
 | Zulily drives shopping with Amazon DocumentDB and Kinesis Data Analytics
Zulily is a global online retailer that applies a unique approach to e-commerce, launching thousands of new products every day. In this session, learn how Zulily delivers solutions for its customers by using AWS services such as Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to innovate faster and reduce total cost of ownership. Zulily built a search experience with Amazon DocumentDB and Kinesis Data Analytics that enables shoppers to see what top brands, categories, and keywords are currently trending. This fun new way of browsing gives shoppers an engaging way to discover unique finds, hot items, and debut brands. |
 | 15 things I wish I knew about securing my AWS account
Join this chat for 15 practical cloud security tips that you can implement today. At the end of the talk, you are given resources such as a security checklist and accompanying how-to videos to help you implement all 15 tips. Come learn about MFA with YubiKeys, rotating access keys, Region restriction, inventory via AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, permissions boundaries, AWS accounts for isolation, and more. |
 | Boost serverless app performance with Amazon RDS Proxy & Amazon Aurora
When building serverless applications with relational databases, it is challenging to guarantee a scalable, secure, and highly available application. This session shows you how to overcome these challenges by leveraging a serverless architecture built using AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS Proxy, and Amazon Aurora MySQL. It walks you through implementation and best practices for connection management, failover, and scaling. Come dive deep on this topic with AWS Community Builder Carlos Zambrano Barrera. |
 | Creating a game development pipeline on AWS
COVID-19 has many game developers asking themselves if it's possible to successfully develop games without returning to a studio. Come listen to Denis Dyack discuss Apocalypse Studio's cloud-first approach and explore the components of its game development pipeline, built completely on AWS. Learn how to leverage AWS game tech services, like Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift, while using AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and high-powered G4 instances to power a remote workstation, creating a game development pipeline that runs without requiring the return to a studio. |
 | How CATCH FASHION built a serverless ML inference service with AWS Lambda
Deploying machine learning (ML) models for services in production can be challenging. And doing so using serverless feels really new for many people. This session walks you through a real-world example of how CATCH FASHION deployed fashion image analysis using ML and serverless and how it used TensorFlow.js. It also covers the lessons that the team learned along the way. |
 | No more idling: Creating parallel builds using serverless CI
Ever find yourself or your teams waiting for builds to start and finish? In this session, learn how to use the speed and parallelization of AWS Lambda so your development teams can move faster. This session reviews what the limits are and how you can set up fallbacks using AWS Fargate or AWS CodeBuild. You learn about AWS Lambda layers, Amazon EFS, and the best available AWS tools for super-fast builds. |
 | The journey of an AWS CloudFormation template to AWS CDK
Join this session for the journey of an AWS Fargate service and its AWS CodePipeline pipeline from AWS CloudFormation templates to an AWS CDK application. The session walks you through the migration and shows you how existing templates and infrastructure can be used without breaking anything. It also demos how to run AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK stacks in parallel until everything is migrated to a native AWS CDK application. In the end, the service will be improved with constructs from the community. If you're an AWS CloudFormation user and want to use AWS CDK, this talk is for you. Finally, learn how a migration can be done without taking too much time initially. |
 | Understanding multi-account management
Join this session to learn about the evolution of the AWS account and the need for a multi-account strategy. Learn how to set up and use AWS Organizations, which helps you efficiently create and manage multiple AWS accounts with consolidated billing, centralized logging, security, and control policies. This session covers service control policies, reviews a sample multi-account strategy, and includes a discussion of other best practices when dealing with multiple accounts. |
 | Using AI to automatically find insights in email: A rapid prototyping story
Every day, Liberty Mutual Insurance gets thousands of emails and attachments, and most are manually processed. Join this session for the story of how the Liberty Mutual team built a system that can monitor emails and automatically extract key information and insights from complicated unstructured data like email text and attachments. You learn what the big challenges are in working with unstructured data, how anyone can use serverless and managed AI services such as Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Lex to rapidly iterate, and how to identify where machine learning can provide value for your use case. |
 | Using Open Distro for Elasticsearch for developer analytics
Join AWS Data Hero Manrique Lopez as he showcases Cauldron.io, an open-source SaaS solution built on Open Distro for Elasticsearch. He walks you through an introduction of Cauldron.io and its Elasticsearch and Kibana dependencies, and he explains why it is critical to have a full open-source distribution of both Elasticsearch and Kibana that developers can rely on. This talk also dives deep into which Open Distro for Elasticsearch features are available for Cauldron.io users. |
 | You're a machine learning rock star with AWS DeepComposer
AWS DeepComposer is a machine-learning-enabled keyboard that allows you to explore the complexities of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in a fun, interactive, and hands-on way. In this talk, develop machine learning skills (and maybe score your first recording contract) by using generative AI and AWS DeepComposer to compose a unique music track. Learn about music composition and the power of machine learning to create something new. By the end of the talk, you'll be a machine learning rock star! |
 | AWS CDK: What's new and what's next
It's been a busy year for AWS CDK. The AWS team has launched a bunch of new features, seen the release of new related projects (such as CDK for Kubernetes [cdk8s] and CDK for Terraform), and watched a passionate community take shape. In this session, the lead development manager for AWS CDK dives into the most interesting changes from the past year. This session also includes a look ahead to what's next for AWS CDK and where it's going in 2021. |
 | AWS CloudShell: The fastest way to get started with AWS CLI
AWS CloudShell is a free, browser-based shell available from the AWS console that provides a simple way to interact with AWS resources through the AWS command-line interface (CLI). In this session, see an overview of both AWS CloudShell and the AWS CLI, which when used together are the fastest and easiest ways to automate tasks, write scripts, and explore new AWS services. Also, see a demo of both services and how to quickly and easily get started with each. |
 | AWS Fault Injection Simulator: Fully managed chaos engineering service
AWS Fault Injection Simulator is a fully managed chaos engineering service that helps you improve application resiliency by making it easy and safe to perform controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS. In this session, see an overview of chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator, and then see a demo of how to use AWS Fault Injection Simulator to make applications more resilient to failure. |
 | Build your first AWS CloudFormation resource provider
Last year, AWS announced the ability for you to define your own AWS CloudFormation resource types. Resource types allow you to define custom infrastructure provisioning logic and encapsulate it in a declarative specification. In this session, learn how to build a custom resource type and publish it so that others can reuse it as well. |
 | Canaries in the code mines: Monitoring deployment pipelines
All of your code's bits are sitting on a production host and now the easy half of running an application in production is done. Successfully running the application requires understanding if the deployment was successful, identifying faults, rolling back changes, and understanding when the application's behavior has changed. In this session, learn how to monitor your applications, test for page load errors, and detect increased load latencies with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS CodePipeline. |
 | Choosing the right modern deployment strategy
There are a variety of modern approaches to automating deployment that are popular on AWS. But should you do a blue/green, canary, rolling, or other deployment? And what is the best method to implement the strategy you choose? In this session, explore the options to help you choose and see how to implement the more popular strategies on AWS. |
 | Continuous improvement of code quality with Amazon CodeGuru
Software development teams are using modern tools that help automate developer workflows in order to improve speed and code quality. Amazon CodeGuru is powered by machine learning to provide intelligent recommendations and help you identify your application's most expensive lines of code. CodeGuru enables developers to mitigate potential defects and optimize performance early in the development cycle. In this session, you walk through how to onboard CodeGuru, review architectural diagrams, and witness CodeGuru in a pipeline, providing continuous feedback to the developer to iterate through code improvements. |
 | Learn how teams at Amazon rapidly release features at scale
The ability to deploy only configuration changes, separate from code, means you do not have to restart the applications or services that use the configuration and changes take effect immediately. In this session, learn best practices used by teams within Amazon to rapidly release features at scale. Learn about a pattern that uses AWS CodePipeline and AWS AppConfig that will allow you to roll out application configurations without taking applications out of service. This will help you ship features faster across complex environments or regions. |
 | Orchestrating complex deployments using AWS Developer Tools
Some applications and their architectures require complex and unique deployment processes. A single deployment might include a mix of automated and manual steps, traverse distinct but dependent components of your application, or require coordinated actions between AWS and your data center. In this session, learn about how you can orchestrate and manage complex deployment scenarios like these by combining AWS Step Functions and AWS CodePipeline. |
 | Serverless made easy from your IDE
Most real-world serverless applications use a combination of compute, storage, messaging, and databases to accomplish their work. The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs (for example, IntelliJ and PyCharm) is designed to support your whole workflow in the same place that you edit your source, from federated authentication (for example, SSO), development, and debugging through deployment and monitoring. This session reviews a nontrivial serverless application and how you can use toolkits to optimize your development process by debugging, monitoring logs, inspecting storage, and more from the comfort of your IDE. |
 | Share the road with traffic splitting and shared load balancers
AWS Elastic Beanstalk offers one of the easiest ways to deploy web applications to AWS without the overhead of managing cloud infrastructure. In this talk, learn how you can take advantage of the just-released support for shared Application Load Balancers (ALBs), allowing you to use a single ALB across multiple Elastic Beanstalk environments, and even allowing you to bridge traffic between your Elastic Beanstalk application and other AWS services, enabling distributed application architectures. This session shows how the new traffic splitting deployment capability increases the safety of your deployments with integrated canary testing and application health monitoring. |
 | Sharing code at arm's length with AWS CodeArtifact
Companies that use software package management systems can facilitate sharing the code across teams. However, they need various mechanisms to ensure the code being shared is reliable. In this session, learn how to use AWS CodeArtifact to safely and effectively share software artifacts across teams and explore pipeline processes for quality assurance. |
 | Simplifying Kubernetes application management with cdk8s
The CDK for Kubernetes (cdk8s) is a new open-source software development framework that lets you define Kubernetes applications and resources using familiar programming languages. In this session, learn how to use the construct programing model and the cdk8s+ library to define your Kubernetes applications and share common definitions as reusable components with your team, organization, and community. Come learn the fundamentals you need to use cdk8s to accelerate application development on any Kubernetes cluster running anywhere. |
 | Test twice, deploy once: Testing infrastructure code on AWS
The old saying goes, 'Measure twice, cut once.' And now, for infrastructure IS code, we need to apply the same principle to infrastructure delivery. By making sure all of our code is tested before making any changes to production, we can lower any potential risk that bad code can introduce to our end product. In this session, explore tools, patterns, and best practices for setting up testing pipelines for infrastructure as code frameworks, such as AWS CDK and AWS CloudFormation, with both third-party and AWS developer tools. |
 | Testable infrastructure: Integration testing on AWS
Reliable integration testing gives developers the confidence needed to promote the changes from testing to production environments. But how should you think about implementing tests for your applications? In this session, learn integration testing best practices with AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS Step Functions. |
 | Turbocharge the AWS CDK with AWS Solutions Constructs
Everyone wants the benefits that come from defining infrastructure as code (IaC), but defining a real-world architecture is challenging. A single architectural feature can require many resources, each of which has its own list of attributes that must be fine-tuned. AWS Solutions Constructs abstracts those details away with a library of common Well-Architected architectural patterns built on top of the AWS CDK. This session reveals how AWS Solutions Constructs enables you to create your IaC in minutes instead of hours or days. |
 | Turbocharge your code builds with AWS CodeBuild
The AWS CodeBuild team has been busy this year. In this session, learn how you can enhance your builds with features like batch builds, code coverage reporting, build machine access with AWS Session Manager, integration with Amazon EFS, and build-level metrics. You learn the use cases that these features enable and how you can use them to turbocharge your builds. |
 | Understanding how deployments affect application performance
Service-oriented environments introduce operational complexity that makes it difficult for developers to discover the root causes of issues. This is made even more difficult with an ever-increasing deployment velocity. In this session, learn how to leverage AWS X-Ray Analytics to easily understand how your application and its underlying services are performing during and after deployment. This session covers how you can leverage metadata from AWS CodePipeline and integrate it into AWS X-Ray to determine the effect your deployment has had on performance and error rates. |
 | Upgrading your productivity with the AWS CLI version 2
The AWS CLI is a powerful tool for interacting with AWS services and managing your AWS resources. AWS CLI Version 2, the latest major version of the AWS CLI, includes improved installation mechanisms, more interactive workflows, and new high-level commands. In this session, an AWS CLI core developer provides guidance on how to upgrade to the AWS CLI Version 2 and start using its exciting new features. |
 | Upgrading your service's performance with AWS SDK for Go v2
The AWS SDK for the Go programming language (AWS SDK for Go) is a comprehensive library for interacting with AWS services and managing your AWS resources. AWS SDK for Go v2 consists of modularized API clients, improved CPU and memory overhead, and a new customizable API middleware stack. In this session, an AWS SDK for Go core developer provides guidance on how you can upgrade to AWS SDK for Go v2 and take advantage of its improved performance and features. |
 | Using performance analysis to build efficient applications at Amazon
Poor application performance results in unhappy customers and wasted resources. In this talk, you learn about why application profiling and performance analysis is as important as testing. The session covers how Amazon uses always-on performance analysis in production to find efficiency opportunities. It reviews examples of Amazon services using application profiling to improve application performance, reduce resource usage, and debug operational events. From these examples, you learn techniques for how to use application profiling to save cost, increase customer happiness, find problems early, and improve your operational posture. |
 | Amazon WorkSpaces business continuity & disaster recovery best practices
This session is designed for IT decision makers, solution architects, and administrators who need to architect their end user computing solution for resiliency and business continuity, keeping end users productive and secure during failure scenarios. This topic is more relevant now than it has ever been before because businesses need to find ways to ensure their survival with a larger remote workforce. Join this session to learn the out-of-the-box capabilities of Amazon WorkSpaces, new service features, and additional infrastructure considerations and ideas to help improve your risk profile and lower recovery and restoration times. |
 | Enhance, expedite, and simplify provisioning and management of Amazon EUC
This session is designed for IT decision makers and administrators at organizations looking to optimize people's skills and the processes dedicated to their Amazon WorkSpaces or Amazon AppStream 2.0 implementations. This session discusses a variety of methodologies, examples, and associated benefits to automate, manage, and scale your deployments. These include integrating existing business processes to increase speed-to-market, simplifying day-to-day management, and reducing overhead costs. Topics covered also include automating and optimizing workflow provisioning using the Amazon API, understanding AWS tools for PowerShell, leveraging Amazon CloudWatch to proactively monitor your end user computing (EUC) environments, and enabling users through self-service capabilities and options. |
 | Getting started with Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces
This session is designed for IT decision makers and administrators looking to select the right building blocks for their end user computing solutions. This session provides an overview of Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0 and discusses key design considerations, including mapping solutions to user personas, selecting between persistent and nonpersistent deployments, and architecting for a great end user experience. |
 | Reimagine your workforce with AWS End User Computing Services
This session is designed for IT decision makers and administrators who are thinking about the future of their workforce in a post-COVID world. In this session, Muneer Mirza, GM for Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0, shares the latest innovations in virtualization and the AWS vision for how you can enable your workforce to be secure and productive from anywhere at any time. |
 | Scaling and optimizing Amazon AppStream 2.0
This session is designed for Amazon AppStream 2.0 users looking to scale their current deployments. Join AWS experts and Johnson & Johnson's Gaurav Kapoor, senior manager of End User Services, for a step-by-step walkthrough of cost management and optimization options. Learn proven methodologies to scale up quickly and securely—improving end user experience, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Topics in this session include cost management options, fleet management, and usage reports along with an Amazon AppStream 2.0 demo. |
 | AWS energy: An accelerator for innovation and transformation
This session highlights AWS innovation pillars 'transform the core' and 'build the future of energy.' You hear success stories and best practices for migrations that have helped AWS customers with their TCO and with reducing technical depth. Finally, you hear how AWS is developing the strategic platforms of the future (OSDU/Cloud Historian), and you learn about the role that the startup community and partner ecosystem play in driving strategic innovation. |
 | Data transformation for reservoir characterization
In the energy industry, profitable unconventional assets rely on comprehensive reservoir modeling to drive down capital costs and increase operational efficiency. ConocoPhillips Canada's strategy focuses on early investment in well pad appraisal to optimize well stacking and spacing, fracking procedures, and so on. In this session, you learn about the cloud-based data platform and architecture that ConocoPhillips implemented to gather these large amounts of incoming data from the edge and transform it into a consistent, easily accessible, and performant cloud environment. Hear how this solution is now leading to an optimized full-field development plan while also creating the foundation for future real-time data gathering and analysis. |
 | How Phillips 66 transformed its business with SAP on AWS
When Phillips 66 embarked on a journey to transform its hydrocarbon value chain with SAP's new S/4HANA platform, it collaborated with AWS, SAP, Accenture, and SUSE to deliver business value throughout the organization—and two of three key phases are now completed. In this session, you learn how Phillips 66 innovated in the AWS Cloud, driving new services and features and leading innovations across partners and the industry. |
 | OSDU: Reinventing the energy data platform
AWS worked with Shell to pioneer a subsurface data platform that solved a critical problem for geoscientists by democratizing data in disparate systems and applications. Learn how this initial Shell project has evolved into a global open-source Open Group OSDU Forum with more than 160 members spanning energy companies, systems integrators, cloud providers, and software vendors. Hear how the OSDU Open Energy Data Platform provides the energy industry with streamlined exploration, development, and production workflows to increase the efficiency of the full value chain. Finally, learn about efforts that are underway to expand the platform to support new energy such as wind and solar farms. |
 | Transforming collaboration on major capital projects
Within the oil and gas industry, there is a need to innovate and transform how an operator and its partners—such as engineering, procurement, and construction contractors; subcontractors; suppliers; and vendors—collaborate during major capital project (MCP) execution. In this session, learn how ExxonMobil chose AWS to help deliver an MCP collaboration platform, Digital Project Home (DPH). DPH is a comprehensive place for document review, whereas review engineers previously had to use multiple tools to collaborate and review a document. You learn how DPH is globally accessible, secure, and ready to scale, and how it is becoming a platform of choice for capital projects collaboration at ExxonMobil. |
 | Application modernization
The cloud can help companies modernize their applications through technology, but they benefit most from the cloud when they modernize their delivery practices and transform their organizations and cultures too. In this session, you hear strategies and customer stories that can help you modernize your people, processes, and applications to take full advantage of the cloud. |
 | Architectural patterns & best practices for workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS
When it comes to architecting your workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS, it is important to understand design patterns and best practices. Come join this session to learn how you can build well-architected cloud-based solutions for your VMware workloads. This session covers infrastructure designs with native AWS service integrations across compute, networking, storage, security, and operations. It also covers the latest announcements for VMware Cloud on AWS and how you can use these new features in your current architecture. |
 | Assess and accelerate your migration plans
If your company is in the early stages of considering migration and you are looking for best practices and solutions to assess and accelerate your business buy-in and migration planning, this session is for you! Attend this session for a review of tools and services available (from AWS and partners) to help you create a high-quality roadmap and plan to set up for success. Learn how AWS can help you build resilient migration plans and set the stage for successful migrations. |
 | AWS networking best practices in large-scale migrations
Network design is a critical component in your large-scale migration journey. This session covers some of the real-world networking challenges faced when migrating to the cloud. You learn how to overcome these challenges by diving deep into topics such as establishing private connectivity to your on-premises data center and accelerating data migrations using AWS Direct Connect/Direct Connect gateway, centralizing and simplifying your networking with AWS Transit Gateway, and extending your private DNS into the cloud. The session also includes a discussion of related best practices. |
 | Best practices for containerizing legacy applications
Enterprises are continually looking to develop new applications using container technologies and leveraging modern CI/CD tools to automate their software delivery lifecycles. This session highlights the types of applications and associated factors that make a candidate suitable to be containerized. It also covers best practices that can be considered as you embark on your modernization journey. |
 | Billing management and cost control
Organization leaders want to 'let builders build' while avoiding cost surprises. AWS offers tools to help you consolidate billing, create permission controls, and establish a unified view of your costs by member (linked) accounts. AWS also provides resources to help you monitor spend and, ultimately, take timely action to prevent unnecessary overage. In this session, learn cost control best practices and how you can use services such as AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and other AWS Billing and Cost Management services to prevent cost overruns and manage spend without slowing innovation. |
 | Build resilience and improve business continuity with AWS
Pandemics and natural disasters are just a few examples of events that organizations need to be prepared for in order to respond quickly to the associated changes in customer behavior and operating environment. Learn how AWS can support building resilience across your enterprise, from demand planning to new product development to production operations, in order to provide a consistent, positive experience for your customers. |
 | Building the right foundation for your migration
Foundational capabilities are critical and must be established to set the stage for a successful migration to the AWS Cloud. This session dives deep into functional areas such as security, operations, governance, and resiliency, and it covers skills, processes, and tools that you should consider as you prepare to migrate. Leave this session with guidance that can help your organization confidently migrate and operate applications in the cloud. |
 | Change Healthcare uses AWS Managed Services to complete Cloud Ops model
Change Healthcare, an independent healthcare technology company, is focused on insights, innovation, and acceleration for the transformation of the US healthcare system. As Change continues to expand its reach within the healthcare industry, its goal is to keep cloud expertise focused on developing with modern cloud services versus day-to-day cloud operations and data center exit activities. Join this session to learn how Change is using AWS Managed Services to offload undifferentiated cloud operations that support regulatory compliance efforts as it migrates and modernizes out of data centers, allowing it to keep the cloud experts focused on innovation. |
 | Cloud learning: Choose your path to career growth and innovation
Learning and education are the sparks that ignite curiosity, innovation, and business transformation. They fuel career growth and create new opportunities. Join this session to better understand how AWS Training and Certification empowers the diverse builders of today and tomorrow to reach their full potential and leverage the power of the AWS Cloud. Whether you're starting a new cloud career, upskilling your team, or transforming your entire workforce, see how AWS programs can help you gain and validate skills throughout your cloud journey. |
 | CloudEndure Migration Factory best practices
The AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory (CEMF) Solution is designed to coordinate and automate many manual migration processes. This session guides you through the CEMF and shares best practices for large-scale migrations. The session includes a quick demo based on real customer examples to show you how automation can help accelerate large-scale migrations. |
 | Cost allocation best practices
In order to establish cost visibility and accountability, organizations are looking to present and allocate AWS costs to relevant teams, projects, or initiatives. An effective cost allocation model starts with a clean AWS account structure, resource tagging, organization strategies, and internal alignment on how to allocate shared costs. In this session, learn how you can use AWS cost management solutions, including cost allocation tags, Cost Categories, tag policies, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Cost & Usage Report, to establish the cost allocation model for your organization and encourage cost-conscious cloud consumption. |
 | Data-driven enterprise
This session shares strategies and customer stories that can help you turn your company into a data-driven business by creating culture and capabilities at scale. Using actioned insights, analytics, and AI/ML, data-driven enterprises are able to better prepare for the unexpected, create new revenue streams, improve customer experiences, and increase operational efficiencies. Join this session to learn how to help your company move from believing that data is a strategic asset to achieving results. |
 | De-risking migration and modernization initiatives
Cloud migrations can be multi-year projects, and with the right strategies, they can be made simpler and faster. This session reviews how to identify technical and functional risks of migration. Additionally, you learn best practices for modernization frameworks, including replatforming, canary deployments, A/B tests, feature flags, config failover, empowered teams, and observability, to help achieve business outcomes in a predictable manner. |
 | Degrees of modernization
For most enterprises, moving to AWS presents a significant opportunity to modernize their IT portfolios. In this session, learn patterns and best practices that you can implement in your journey. Also, hear from an enterprise on how it accomplished the transformation using a prescriptive and methodical approach that helped reduce its technical debt. |
 | Deliver cloud operations at scale with AWS Managed Services
Organizations like Sallie Mae report a 50 percent reduction in IT incidents as a result of migrating to AWS and AWS Managed Services, which is designed for operational excellence. This deep dive session walks through how capabilities such as AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager, AWS Systems Manager Automation, and AWS Backup are used to achieve these results. Learn how you can quickly build scaled AWS operations tooling to meet some of the most complex and compliant operations system requirements. |
 | Differentiated results: How to scale and innovate quickly
Accelerating the digital journey for your enterprise has become more critical than ever. Transforming to a truly digital business goes beyond technology or simply moving to the cloud, particularly given today's unprecedented external factors. In this session, Todd Weatherby, VP of AWS Professional Services, shares the most impactful lessons from AWS engagements working with thousands of companies across many countries. Hear about these successful, agile, and innovative examples, which also include people transformations. Learn from the experiences of enterprises around the globe to accelerate your momentum and lead your organization, customers, employees, and business partners to faster time to value. |
 | Digital transformation: Attributes of a 21st-century agile organization
This session demystifies digital transformations at the CXO, CIO-1, and line of business leader levels. Referencing the experience gained through transformation journeys with companies like Netflix, Allianz, Live Nation, Coca-Cola, and Capital One, this session highlights mental models and transformational changes to the business operating model to help you fully capture the benefits of the AWS Cloud. |
 | Enterprise Next: Ready your enterprise for transformation at scale
Traditional enterprises need to innovate ever faster to match the pace of cloud-native companies disrupting almost every industry. Join this session to hear details from Nationwide Insurance's journey to the cloud. By using AWS people, patterns, and resources to drive digital transformation, Nationwide is achieving large-scale innovation to match the heightened expectations of its customers. This session introduces proven methodologies that the AWS Enterprise Next Program uses. The program is a large-scale AWS transformation system built for enterprise organizations to accelerate business transformation through IT innovation and modernization. |
 | Executing a large-scale migration to AWS
This session dives deep into lessons learned from large-scale cloud migrations. It details how to leverage all elements of the 7 Rs migration decision model while effectively managing technical interdependencies and securely and efficiently migrating your applications and data to the AWS Cloud at scale. It also covers how to execute a migration while ensuring that stakeholders and technical teams are engaged with the journey. |
 | Future-proof your enterprise: Why SAP customers choose AWS
In 2008 when SAP became an AWS customer, AWS became the first cloud to run SAP workloads. Now, more than 5,000 active customers run SAP on AWS. This session explores how companies are leveraging AWS to run legacy SAP landscapes, modernizing by extending these line of business applications to advanced AWS services including data lakes and IoT, and transforming their ERP systems with SAP S/4HANA. It also covers AWS innovation efforts on behalf of SAP customers that have been performed in 2020 and the future of SAP on AWS. |
 | How Capital One manages the health of its applications on AWS
As your applications grow, your resources can scale across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. In this session, learn how you can intelligently automate your applications on AWS using DevOps, machine learning, and support tools from AWS such as AWS Health, AWS Trusted Advisor, Service Quotas, AWS Config, and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. Additionally, hear how Capital One uses AWS Health across accounts to monitor the health of their applications on AWS at scale. |
 | How do you innovate to drive business outcomes?
In this session, hear real-life stories of how customers have used AWS Cloud and AWS Professional Services to accelerate technical innovation and drive transformational business outcomes. Hear examples across industries, use cases, and technology stacks. |
 | How Newmont migrated to SAP HANA while acquiring Goldcorp
Successfully integrating IT environments following mergers and acquisitions and migrating SAP landscapes to the cloud are both major undertakings for any organization. When Newmont Corporation acquired Goldcorp, it had to upgrade and migrate its most complex and intertwined SAP applications across both companies' global data center footprints. Seeing this as a key step in the journey to SAP S/4HANA, Newmont turned to AWS Professional Services. In this session, you learn how Newmont successfully merged two disparate landscapes running on ECC, Oracle, and AIX to a cost-optimized and co-hosted environment on time and on budget, despite dealing with unexpected COVID-19 lockdowns. |
 | How Zalando tracks business performance in near-real time
In 2016, Zalando (Europe's largest online fashion platform) started migrating its SAP systems to AWS to increase agility, simplify IT maintenance, and build a future-ready data architecture as part of its digital transformation. With a hybrid data lake on AWS that is tightly integrated with one of the world's largest SAP S/4HANA systems, Zalando has reduced its cost of insight by 30% while improving customer satisfaction. In this session, you learn about Zalando's S/4HANA implementation and how it built its data lake with services like Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and more. |
 | Identifying and realizing the business value of AWS
Understanding the value of a transformation can be hard. Identifying specific areas of cost savings versus your on-premises infrastructure expenses is opaque, and quantifying non-cost-related areas is difficult. Additionally, cloud cost management can be challenging as you move from a fixed to a variable cost model. In this session, you learn the AWS data-driven approach to identifying the value of transformation, which includes cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility. From this session, nontechnical executives can also learn the principles of cloud financial management needed to realize the value of a transformation on AWS. |
 | Improve strategic IT planning
The cloud has changed how technology and finance teams budget and plan for technology investments. Rather than planning months or years in advance, leaders need a more dynamic process to align with changing business needs, and they need a framework to articulate the economic value being created by technology investments. In this session, learn how you can use Migration Evaluator and cloud value benchmarking to develop your migration business case. Additionally, learn how you can use AWS Budgets to manage your cost commitments and how you can leverage AWS Purchase Order Management to configure and track POs for future usage. |
 | Lessons learned from successful large-scale transformations
After many years of experience advising enterprises across a wide array of industries, AWS has found that organizational change adoption and cultural impact are the most challenging and underestimated roadblocks to cloud adoption success. Based on years of experience, AWS has built a complete and proven approach for migrating workloads to AWS, helping you can gain business benefits faster. In this session, learn these best practices and hear from Philips 66 on how it overcame challenges to succeed on its large-scale transformation journey. |
 | Mainframe workloads' fast track to agility
Mainframe workloads are typically large, tightly coupled monoliths. Enterprises may initially choose a rip and replace approach and manually rewrite cloud-native microservices. However, this can be expensive, risky, and very slow. This session focuses on key characteristics that bring agility to mainframe workloads and covers accelerators that fast-track the transformation. Come learn about 12 agility attributes needed by mainframe workloads and how to quickly and incrementally evolve from a mainframe monolith to agile AWS services. |
 | Migrate and modernize applications using VMware Cloud on AWS
Come learn how AWS is helping customers seamlessly migrate on-premises applications to the AWS Cloud using VMware Cloud on AWS. In this session, you also hear best practices for driving application modernization using native AWS services to create value for customers. Finally, hear IDC discuss how VMware Cloud on AWS provides better management and business benefits. |
 | Migrate and modernize to achieve your business goals
Regardless of the industry or business driver, AWS users want to become more agile so they can innovate and respond faster to change. This requires rethinking the application portfolio to achieve desired business outcomes. For many organizations, a move to the cloud is not only the fastest way to lower TCO but also to increase agility. AWS has migrated hundreds of organizations and packaged the best practices in a simple framework. Learn about the AWS framework and migration and modernization best practices and how they can help you achieve business outcomes. |
 | People: Skills, culture, change, and leadership
In this session, learn strategies that have helped enterprises succeed in their migration and modernization journeys. Your organizational culture will impact your journey to the cloud. These cultural implications, your organization's receptivity to change, prior change successes and failures, organizational communication patterns, organizational structure, and existing employee training and enablement strategies are all important elements of building a successful approach to migrations and modernizations. To be prepared for an enterprise migration, you must have a critical mass of people with production AWS experience, established operational processes, and a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). |
 | SAP smart factory: Inside VW's digital production platform
To meet its goal of improving manufacturing and logistics performance over the next 5 years, Volkswagen (VW) created a cloud-native solution that integrates its back-office processes on SAP with its smart factories across multiple plants. In this session, see how VW has implemented this solution and the new capabilities gained, including automated stocking that leverages a 'call rocker' IoT device, improved scalability through an approach that uses infrastructure as code, and using AWS Lambda in conjunction with SAP tooling. |
 | SAP transformation and GxP compliance at Bristol Myers Squibb
As Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) was assessing its options for SAP S/4HANA transformation, it needed a way to streamline compliance with GxP and other regulatory requirements. This session looks at how BMS uses AWS CloudFormation to create a consistent, scalable, and repeatable compliance process so it can focus on its broader SAP transformation. |
 | The cutover: Moving your traffic to the cloud
One of the most critical phases of executing a migration is moving traffic from your existing endpoints to your newly deployed resources in the cloud. This session discusses practices and patterns that can be leveraged to ensure a successful cutover to the cloud. The session covers preparation, tools and services, cutover techniques, rollback strategies, and engagement mechanisms to ensure a successful cutover. |
 | Transformation, migration, and governance: Lessons learned
AWS helps thousands of organizations in the process of transforming, migrating, and governing their enterprise application portfolios. Join AWS VP David McCann to hear about how these organizations approach the challenges and opportunities of topics such as application modernization, mainframe migration, hybrid environments, and automating resource and application governance. Their real-world experiences and insights can help you execute your cloud transformation with confidence. |
 | Your guide to migrating your first application to AWS
Common migration patterns usually follow one of seven basic patterns (the 7 Rs), and identifying the right pattern for your applications is essential to accelerate your journey. Join this session for a discussion and demonstration of how to migrate, optimize, and modernize your first application on AWS. It covers different migration patterns, tools, and AWS services that you can use to build your first solution. At the end of the session, get the complete guide to migrate your first application to AWS at your own pace. |
 | AXA: Rearchitecting with serverless to accelerate innovation
More than 50,000 customers use AXA's usage-based, pay-as-you-drive insurance solution, which requires real-time data processing and analytics to generate a driver score (each moving car sends an update every second). AXA originally built the system using a traditional VM approach, but it was not scalable and created maintenance overhead, so the company fully rearchitected to serverless. The solution now leverages AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless. This session shares how AXA built its serverless solution, lessons the company learned, and benefits it is realizing from its architecture upgrade. |
 | Capital One's Journey to being 'all in' on the cloud
In 2015, Capital One decided to go 'all in' on the cloud. That decision set in motion a company-defining objective to transform how it operates. Five years later, Capital One shares its technology transformation story, from its initial approach to this massive objective to successfully exiting its remaining data centers in 2020. Attend this session to learn how a highly-regulated financial institution harnessed AWS to change the way it architects and deploys applications, accelerating new product and feature delivery from months to weeks. |
 | Fannie Mae: Transforming loan evaluation with machine learning on AWS
Fannie Mae used AWS machine learning services to improve its important Multifamily line of business, which provides lenders with essential loans to buy affordable rental units for families. By implementing Amazon SageMaker, Fannie Mae improved its loan evaluation process. Its machine learning application can identify up to 48% of applicants that are likely to default. This session shares practical guidance on implementing machine learning at scale, including data gathering and transformation using a data lake and model transparency and explainability. Services covered include Amazon SageMaker, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3, among others. |
 | Fidelity Investments' journey to operationalize cloud observability
Fidelity Investments has hundreds of AWS accounts spread across multiple AWS Regions, supporting a variety of business units and consumed by 12,000 global developers. Of primary importance to Fidelity is consistently, holistically, and proactively managing the health of hundreds of production workloads. This session covers a fully cloud-native, serverless solution created by Fidelity that delivers (near) real-time, actionable insights and enterprise-wide analytics on the operational health of its services. Fidelity will discuss why this solution was needed, operational insights, and how metrics measured are leveraged to improve Fidelity's cloud operations. |
 | Financial services: Navigating change while facing forward with HSBC
Throughout the 2020 pandemic, financial institutions have harnessed new technologies to meet the needs of consumers and businesses, rapidly issuing loans, processing exceptional trading volumes, providing critical insurance coverage, and supporting contactless payments. As the industry continues to navigate this difficult period, it is also building for the future. Attend this session to hear from Frank Fallon, VP of Financial Services at AWS, how organizations are working with AWS to become more secure, resilient, data-driven, and innovative. Dinesh Keswani, Group CTO at HSBC, will join Frank to discuss the bank's collaboration with AWS to deliver new solutions and drive transformation. |
 | How Venmo responded to the demand for contactless payment on Amazon Aurora
Venmo, a born-in-the-cloud payment platform running on AWS, is an early adopter that leveraged managed services to help fast-track their business use cases. Venmo's payment volume has grown nine times and is supported by Amazon Aurora's ease-of-use and seamless scale. Today, Venmo's core app (6 TB+ of data, up to 1,000 TPS) is on Aurora. In this session, learn how Venmo pilots new features quickly, including its response to customers' shift to contactless. Venmo piloted a new feature to accept payments separate from the individual owner's account. Discover how you can leverage AWS managed services to move to production earlier and with less administrative work. |
 | JPMC: Migrations at scale through cloud blueprints and automation
JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) is accelerating its cloud migration by leveraging reusable cloud blueprints. Cloud blueprints are standardized, automated, secure, and repeatable cloud architectures that can be deployed for common uses cases. Leveraging a modular design approach to create prebuilt and customizable opinionated blueprint architectures enables self-service and autonomy for the engineering teams. Learn how JPMC is using automated governance and compliance at scale, leveraging the flywheel effect for acceleration. Also, learn how JPMC defined their initial blueprints, threat modeling, and risk mitigation controls and standardized their offerings using AWS and infrastructure as code technologies to provide self-service capabilities to developers. |
 | Security at scale: How Goldman Sachs manages network and access control
Goldman Sachs is harnessing AWS to launch new businesses, such as its new transaction banking platform. Given the sensitivity of financial data, Goldman Sachs faces the challenge of managing access control across thousands of interconnected accounts on AWS. In this session, walk through the evolution of the Goldman Sachs micro-account architecture and network design to manage access control. Learn how AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Route 53 make it easy for development teams to establish connections between accounts while retaining connection-level visibility, isolation boundary, and enforcement of least privilege to ensure optimal security. |
 | Amazon Location Service: Enable apps with location features
Location data is a vital ingredient in today's applications, enabling use cases from asset tracking to geomarketing. Now, developers can use the new Amazon Location Service to add maps, tracking, places, geocoding, and geofences to applications, easily, securely, and affordably. Join this session to see how to get started with the service and integrate high-quality location data from geospatial data providers Esri and HERE. Learn how to move from experimentation to production quickly with location capabilities. This session can help developers who require simple location data and those building sophisticated asset tracking, customer engagement, fleet management, and delivery applications. |
 | Best practices to securely operate GraphQL at scale with AWS AppSync
It is critical that your APIs handle the demand for your application to deliver the desired user experience. AWS AppSync enables you to securely build and run GraphQL APIs at scale. This session demonstrates options for creating and managing security rules with services such as AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), controlling data access and authorization with services such as Amazon Cognito and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), leveraging infrastructure-as-code tools to deploy and manage GraphQL APIs, and troubleshooting with AWS CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. Additionally, learn about scale and performance benchmarks. |
 | Build and deploy dynamic Jamstack apps with AWS Amplify
Jamstack is a modern web development architecture built with JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. This new way of building websites and applications delivers performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience. In this session, you learn how to bring your Jamstack applications to life in record time when you develop and deploy with AWS Amplify. You also learn how to easily and quickly develop cloud-enabled applications with your choice of REST or GraphQL APIs, rapidly release new features, avoid downtime during application deployment, and handle the complexity of simultaneously updating the front end and backend of your applications. |
 | Build iOS & Android mobile apps in record time with Flutter and AWS Amplify
Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single code base. Harness the speed and performance of building with Flutter and seamlessly connect to a cloud backend. In this session, learn how to build Flutter apps with AWS Amplify's deeply integrated programming libraries and easy-to-use CLI. With Amplify Flutter, you can quickly create, configure, and integrate categories like Auth, Storage, and DataStore to build feature-rich, full-stack applications for use cases such as signing in and signing up users, uploading and downloading files, and offline and online scenarios. |
 | Empower front-end web and mobile app development with AWS Amplify
Companies that follow the fast-changing trends of web and mobile application development deliver superior customer experiences. This session reviews these trends and discusses how to deliver innovative apps faster using AWS Amplify for development, AWS Device Farm for application testing, and AWS Amplify Console for deployment and hosting. This session also reviews Amplify libraries, UI components, and the CLI toolchain to add cloud-based features to your app followed by testing on real mobile devices and desktop browsers. Discover how to deploy and host your app with Amplify and speed up your application release cycle with a simple CI/CD workflow. |
 | Faster application iteration with AWS Amplify CI/CD
Improving the time to value from code completion to code in production can be challenging and riddled with coordination issues. This session teaches you how to deploy your full-stack application via the AWS Amplify Console and set up a basic CI/CD pipeline. It demonstrates how your team can work on new features with branch deployments linked to each feature branch and not impact production. Hear from Amplify customer Noom about how it achieved easier collaboration and faster feature releases through 'blindingly fast' iteration with the AWS Amplify Console. |
 | Model and access application data more efficiently with AWS Amplify
The right data access pattern can significantly improve application performance to delight your end users. AWS Amplify helps front-end web and mobile developers leverage the power of GraphQL to model app data for faster production apps, with offline capabilities and Amplify DataStore, that can scale across platforms. In this session, learn how to create advanced data access patterns with the Amplify GraphQL transform library, powered by AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB. |
 | Power modern serverless applications with GraphQL and AWS AppSync
GraphQL is a technology that improves application performance and enables businesses to build applications faster. AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that lets you create scalable GraphQL APIs to securely access and combine data from multiple sources. With AWS AppSync, you can easily build performant applications with built-in offline and real-time capabilities. In this session, learn how AWS AppSync and GraphQL can help you implement powerful, secure, highly available, flexible, resilient, and scalable backends for all types of applications with increased development velocity. |
 | Speed up your release cycle: Build a web app from idea to MVP with AWS Amplify
Modern web applications provide delightful customer experiences with native-like interactivity and performance using single-page applications (SPA) or static websites. This session shows you how to bring full-stack applications to customers faster with AWS Amplify. It starts with a demonstration of deploying a simple ReactJS application, then modeling an application backend, adding a UI to interact with the backend, and setting up continuous deployment and hosting. Learn how the AWS Amplify Console simplifies deployment of the front end and backend in a single workflow with a fully managed experience across the development lifecycle and maximizes productivity with a simple CI/CD workflow for iteration, testing, and production. |
 | Unify access to siloed data with AWS AppSync GraphQL resolvers
Querying data across multiple sources can be complex and time-consuming. AWS AppSync provides a rich set of GraphQL resolver mapping templates and utilities that make it easy to query, update, and subscribe to data changes in services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, or Amazon ES, and any other data sources via AWS Lambda or Amazon API Gateway. This session provides an overview of these capabilities and shows how you can easily modify, extend, and test these proven templates. |
 | Epic Games supports creators during COVID with Unreal and AWS
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology and is responsible for Fortnite, one of the world's largest games with over 350 million players. Epic develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world's leading games and is used across industries including film and television, automotive, and simulation. In this session, Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine, shares how Epic is continuously evolving to support creators in delivering cutting-edge content despite challenges associated with COVID-19. Learn how Unreal is breaking free from on-premises infrastructure and leveraging AWS to provide remote workstations and rapidly scale rendering workloads using AWS Thinkbox and Amazon EC2 G4 instances. |
 | Gameloft: A zero downtime data lake migration deep dive
Gameloft is a leading mobile games publisher with millions of games downloaded every day. With a history spanning two decades, Gameloft is at the forefront of mobile trends, adapting to new technologies to innovate and provide the best gaming experience. |
 | How Sony Interactive Entertainment renders with AWS
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) Worldwide Studios is a diverse network of highly successful and passionate game development studios and support functions, responsible for creating some of the world's most well-known PlayStation games. In this session, SIE Cloud Infrastructure Project Manager Asghar Nisar and Engineer Andy Taylor share how SIE is modernizing its existing infrastructure to remotely render visual images and effects using AWS. See how AWS Thinkbox Deadline Amazon EC2 G4 and P3dn graphics instances can be used to assist artists in spending more time iterating on creative work rather than waiting for rendering workloads to complete. |
 | How Zynga modernized mobile analytics with Amazon Redshift RA3
Discover how Zynga modernized its mobile game platform and leveled up its analytics and data science efforts with AWS. In this session, Bharath Anandaram, Technology Lead of Data Engineering at Zynga, shares how the company migrated data generated by tens of millions of players from existing infrastructure to Amazon Redshift. Leveraging its RA3 instances, Zynga rapidly increased query performance while simultaneously reducing operational overhead and costs. Learn about the analytics solution that supports hit franchises like Words With Friends and Zynga Poker with AWS services including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3, enabling Zynga to personalize games and increase engagement. |
 | Ubisoft: Building a multi-platform multiplayer game on AWS
Ubisoft is a leading creator and publisher of interactive entertainment, responsible for world-renowned game franchises including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy's video game series. In this session, Ubisoft Live Operations Manager Naomi Barnes and Cloud Development Engineer Marie Laurent share how Ubisoft is preparing to launch its upcoming competitive sports game, Roller Champions, on AWS. Learn more about the serverless, containerized architecture behind this new multi-platform multiplayer game, and see how Ubisoft is leveraging AWS services (including Amazon GameLift, Amazon ECS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon ElastiCache) to provide a highly performant and reliable experience to players around the world while reducing operational costs. |
 | Add a custom domain to your AWS Amplify-hosted web application
Come learn how to add a custom domain to a web application built using AWS Amplify. |
 | Add image recognition to a web application
Learn how to create a simple React web application with AWS Amplify and add image recognition to read text from images using Amazon Rekognition. |
 | Build a modern technology foundation for your company's future
Technology is always evolving. Learn how the cloud model of technology delivery differs from legacy IT service delivery methods and how the AWS Cloud can help you better scale your technology platform securely, quickly, and flexibly to meet changing business needs. |
 | Build a web application and query stored data
Learn how to create a simple React web application with AWS Amplify and easily query stored data using the GraphQL API. |
 | GrayHair Software: Accelerating innovation by leveraging AWS
GrayHair Software had a 20-year-old technology stack that was extremely expensive to run and did not allow it to innovate and create new products. Learn how, as a result of moving to AWS, the company cut costs, improved customer uptime, and sped up software innovation. |
 | Learn how the AWS Cloud helped Echelon Fitness grow its business
Echelon Fitness Multimedia develops and manufactures innovative products such as the Echelon product line of connected fitness bikes. The company needed to be able to grow and scale its subscription-based business—come see why AWS was the right choice for them. |
 | See how Modus launched its new business on the AWS Cloud
Modus provides technology services to corporate law departments and law firms and was getting ready to launch a new business line called Modus Agile. Learn how the company collaborated with AWS to scale its business and improve top-line growth. |
 | The value of innovation in challenging times
During challenging times, many companies pause on innovation. History shows that companies that find the right balance between efficiency and innovation have a higher probability of long-term success. Come learn how AWS can help your company innovate. |
 | What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. See why millions of customers trust AWS to run their businesses and applications. |
 | Why AWS for digital transformation?
Does your business need to move faster than ever before to meet changing market conditions and customer expectations? Learn how AWS, the leader in cloud technology, can help you transform your business to reach and retain customers, reduce operational costs, and allow your business to scale. |
 | Accelerate migrations with the ISV Workload Migration Program
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. The AWS ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP) helps ISV partners migrate their customers who are using on-premises versions of their products to cloud-based solutions in a repeatable and scalable manner. In this session, you learn how the WMP team works closely with AWS ISV partners to build migration best practices and drive scale via automation and programmatic go-to-market support. |
 | Application modernization with AWS purpose-built databases
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. Application modernization is a key theme for any organization in their technology journey. While traditionally organizations relied on single relational databases for their applications, this one-size-fits-all approach is no longer ideal. It's important for developers, architects, and engineers to learn their data characteristics and pick the right database for their needs. AWS purpose-built databases can help you pick the right database, scale faster, innovate rapidly, and accelerate time-to-market when building highly scalable, distributed applications. In this session, learn how a purpose-built strategy helps ISVs and consulting partners build and scale their application modernization initiatives. |
 | ATO on AWS: Compliance as code
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. The ATO on AWS Program accelerates ISVs through multiple security and compliance certifications and authorizations, such as FedRAMP, ISO27k, PCI, DoD SRG, IRAP, GDPR, and many more. This program consists of varying resources that help expedite the authorization process. Program participants are afforded access to both technical security automation and orchestration capabilities as well as direct engagement with highly qualified AWS compliance specialists. Whether you're just beginning your cloud journey or you're a cloud veteran, this program provides you the necessary guidance and expertise to better migrate, manage, and secure your customers' most highly regulated workloads on AWS. |
 | AWS Partners driving innovation amidst COVID-19
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a formative event affecting our world physically, emotionally, and economically. Despite the challenges created, AWS Partners have responded quickly and proven their resiliency by enabling digital transformation at unprecedented rates. In this session, learn how partners in healthcare and life sciences, retail, and travel and hospitality have worked closely with AWS to deploy innovative solutions. Hear how these solutions scale customer service channels, enable remote work, and provide secure, global data sharing and insights that are modernizing patient care and medical product development, creating personalized experiences, delivering goods directly to consumers, and making travel and shopping safer. |
 | Close the cloud skills gap by building a diverse, vibrant workforce
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. Many AWS Partners are investing in building cloud skills for the next generation of talent and committing to reskill and/or upskill their existing staff. As organizations look to adopt cloud technologies, employees with the necessary cloud skills are in high demand. Seeking out and providing opportunities to underrepresented and underserved populations will enable you to grow your AWS practice. This session explores the cloud skills gap and how investing in cloud training can fuel business transformation. Come learn about the AWS Partner Network training resources that are available to help you deepen AWS knowledge and proactively invest in your employees now and for the future. |
 | Co-selling for independent software vendors
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. In this session, you learn how independent software vendor partners can build stronger co-selling relationships with AWS Sales. Learn what a successful co-selling engagement looks like, the dos and don'ts for joint meetings, the best ways to differentiate yourself from the tens of thousands of AWS Partners, and how to leverage the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program Pipeline Manager. |
 | Co-selling for systems integrators
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. In this session, you learn how to effectively engage in joint go-to-market and selling activities with AWS. It helps you navigate the various programs, teams, and initiatives that are available to support and enable your growth. Come learn how to build trusting, long-term, successful sales partnerships. |
 | Combining partner products with AWS CloudFormation
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. Every day, AWS Partners and end users continue to standardize their provisioning and governance processes via infrastructure as code. This critical and foundational process can be challenging though, especially when incorporating third-party resources in a consistent and easy-to-manage manner. In this session, see how AWS Partners can develop and publish third-party AWS CloudFormation resources that behave just like native AWS services, resulting in faster, repeatable, and consistent deployments. |
 | Containers on AWS: Architecting software delivery platforms
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. Enterprises are moving rapidly to containers, and Kubernetes is becoming the de facto platform of choice, providing benefits such as auto scaling, self-healing, a standardized API model, extensibility, and a declarative deployment style. However, with distributed systems and microservices comes the complexity of managing various technologies on top of container orchestration layers such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS. This session shows how to apply a holistic approach for modern delivery of containerized workloads and integrate practices and tools like IaC, GitOps, and progressive delivery with an open approach that enables factory-style software delivery. |
 | Database modernization with AWS Consulting Partners
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. According to Gartner, 75% of all databases will be migrated to the cloud by 2022. Companies are anxious to migrate from on-premises databases to AWS managed database services so they can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time innovating. Join this session to learn how AWS Consulting Partners can leverage AWS best practices, programs, and funding to accelerate database modernization projects. You also hear recent success stories and learn how you can provide your customers with a simple path off legacy databases and help them build modern applications leveraging the AWS portfolio of purpose-built databases. |
 | Deliver a secure digital workplace for your customers
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. It reviews key elements for building a business to support your customers' digital workplace needs. The digital workplace incorporates AWS End User Computing services and partner solutions that provide the best experience for remote users and remote learning while ensuring secure endpoints, application management, and secure collaboration tools. Digital Workplace Competency Partners that have the expertise and tools to best support their customers have an opportunity to bring their experience to the forefront. A true digital workplace is not one-size-fits-all. Come explore where and how to participate in this rapidly expanding area. |
 | Delivering professional services in a COVID-19 world
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. The global COVID-19 pandemic has been an extraordinary catalyst for change. New challenges such as managing contact centers, working safely from offices, and, most recently, getting back to work have created the need for reinvention, accelerating digital transformation and agile operations. Enterprises have had to act quickly to become more robust, and GSI partners have helped them respond, recover, and thrive during COVID-19. In this session, you learn best practices from AWS and GSI partners to help your customers turn new challenges into meaningful change by rapidly enabling global remote work strategies and executing business continuity plans. |
 | Enabling business continuity with VMware Cloud on AWS
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. This session shares how VMware Cloud on AWS enables business continuity priorities. Organizations are facing infrastructure supply chain disruptions, increased risk from crisis-related restrictions, and an urgent need to enable a remote workforce. Join this session to learn three ways that VMware Cloud on AWS enables companies to quickly and effectively address these challenges, which have been magnified by the pandemic. |
 | Getting to 'all-in': Realizing the full potential of the cloud
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. Realizing the full potential of the cloud requires executive commitment and a top-down strategy. This session reviews the challenges that executives focus on and how to help leaders look beyond technology implementation toward business transformation. You learn how to drive business-led engagements that deliver impactful outcomes, and you hear about the AWS resources that are available to enable business leaders to realize the value of their cloud journey. |
 | How AWS Partners use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to reduce risk
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. AWS Partners have a valuable opportunity to differentiate their businesses and achieve real improvements to risks in customer AWS Cloud environments. AWS Well-Architected enables AWS Partners to identify risks in customer architectures and provide resources to improve implementations. AWS Well-Architected also gives AWS Partners best practices for building applications that integrate into AWS environments. In this session, learn how AWS Partners can utilize the AWS Well-Architected Tool and help customers document improvements to their cloud environments, show where they need to invest, and build solutions that create lasting customer relationships. |
 | How to deliver effective customer workshops and webinars virtually
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. With many companies operating remotely these days, it has become increasingly difficult for partners and customers to participate in workshops and other interactive trainings. With the need for businesses to shift their strategies to online offerings, it is imperative for them to be able to host these activities in a manner that engages attendees and delivers the intended messages. This session shares AWS best practices for how to plan, build, and deliver impactful and repeatable workshops, webinars, and trainings in a virtual world. |
 | How to sell on AWS Marketplace
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. It covers how to list your software product on AWS Marketplace. You also learn how to reach new customers and decrease the time it takes to close transactions using AWS Marketplace. |
 | Insights and inspiration from those on the transformation path
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. While the value of adopting a SaaS delivery model is compelling, the transformational nature of this journey can be challenging. The move to SaaS often requires organizations to rethink how they market, sell, support, build, and operate their businesses. Navigating this path requires business and technical teams to work much more closely as they transition from a product to a service-centric mindset. In this session, industry leaders from Nasdaq discuss how they fundamentally changed their business and technology footprints on their path to delivering a SaaS solution on AWS. |
 | Keeping 'mission critical' critical but simple
AWS Public Sector partners bring a unique mix of skills, competency, and vertical knowledge—like no other—to the industry. No blueprint exists for our new normal; however, as customer expectations parallel the pace of innovation, we want to share how AWS has pivoted to help partners. Join Sandy Carter, AWS vice president of Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs, as she dives deep on how AWS helps public sector partners deliver on mission-critical focus areas, such as migrations, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT-based solutions through new programs, initiatives, and mechanisms. |
 | Looking beyond infrastructure to drive your SAP business
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. Today, more than 5,000 companies around the world are using AWS not only for the migration and modernization of their SAP environments, but also as their platform for innovation and growth. To meet these evolving needs, SAP on AWS partners are creating solutions that go beyond infrastructure, and AWS continues to invest in dedicated SAP resources, programs, and solutions. Attend this session to learn about the incentives, certifications, and use cases that you can leverage to drive your SAP business and better serve the needs of your customers. |
 | MAP 2.0: How SI and ISV partners can leverage the updated MAP program
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. You learn how AWS Partners can leverage migration-specific technical programs to see success with MAP 2.0. SIs can learn how to take advantage of the APN Navigate – Migration program; migration-specific Immersion Days, GameDays, and Black Belt seminars; and the Migration Consulting Competency. ISVs can learn how to effectively combine the Migration Technology Competency, reference architectures, and AWS prescriptive guidance such as migration methodologies (Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize) within their offerings. Finally, learn how ISV and SI partners can build complementary offerings to perform customer migrations to AWS. |
 | Modernize databases and apps with the Database Freedom Program for ISVs
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. To address customer demand, leverage the full benefits of the cloud, and remain competitive, independent software vendors (ISVs) must modernize legacy software products. This session reviews how the AWS Database Freedom Program for ISVs makes it easy for software vendors to take advantage of fully managed database services, move away from the costs and restrictions of legacy databases, and build modern applications on AWS. Learn about the program's resources, funding, accelerated POC and migration options, and AWS Consulting Partner support. You also hear recent success stories of market-leading ISVs, such as Amdocs, BMC, and Trend Micro, that leveraged the program to modernize legacy applications. |
 | Navigate success in the Consulting Partner journey
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. In this session, you learn how to achieve success with the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a Consulting Partner. The session explores new market research that details successful consulting and services practices. You learn how to leverage APN programs and benefits to demonstrate deep expertise to your customers, and you gain an overall understanding of the programs, benefits, and the partner opportunity. Finally, the session highlights new program launches specific to Consulting Partners that can help build and grow your business. |
 | Navigating the ISV partner journey: Succeed with AWS
Learn how to accelerate independent software vendor (ISV) engagement with AWS and drive innovation to reach a broader market of customers. Learn more about AWS curated programs for ISVs that provide prescriptive guidance, AWS Marketplace capabilities, unique co-selling opportunities, and other resources aimed at reaching your desired business outcomes with AWS support. Both current and prospective AWS Partners can gain an understanding of the new offerings in this session. |
 | SaaS jump start: Under the hood of an automated SaaS migration tool
Moving solutions to a SaaS delivery model can be daunting. The complexity and overhead of refactoring your solution, automating tenant onboarding, introducing new operational tooling, and a host of other factors make this effort challenging. This session explores a new open-source, ready-to-use SaaS environment created by AWS to accelerate your path to a SaaS model. Learn about the core architecture elements of this reference environment, including onboarding, deployment, tenant management, billing, metrics, and operational analytics. The session also highlights how this new environment enables organizations to bring SaaS offerings to market without rebuilding their systems. |
 | Win the market opportunity for Microsoft workloads on AWS
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. The session reviews 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 services 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 programs. You also learn how to leverage the latest AWS feature releases and tools for running, migrating, managing, and modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS. Finally, you hear customer success stories from AWS Partners around the world. |
 | Winning the Oracle enterprise workload transformation market
This session is open to anyone, but it is intended for current and potential AWS Partners. There are over 400,000 customers running Oracle database and application workloads globally. Customers are looking to move these workloads to the cloud, and AWS is a proven place to run them. AWS Partners can help customers accelerate their journeys to the cloud, decrease the time to market, and increase return on investment. In this session, you learn about the use cases, programs, incentives, and partner success stories like Sainsbury's, GE Oil & Gas, RISO, and others that can help you with your customers' Oracle workload transformations. |
 | Accelerating the transition to telehealth with AWS
Learn how AWS is helping healthcare organizations develop and deploy telehealth solutions quickly and at scale. Join speakers from AWS and MedStar Health as they discuss their experience developing and deploying two call centers in less than a week using Amazon Connect, supporting the delivery of an average of 3,500+ outpatient telehealth sessions every weekday. In this session, learn why and how the healthcare industry is able to quickly deploy telehealth support platforms at scale, helping them to reach consumers and patients wherever they are and create a safe and personalized healthcare experience. |
 | Healthcare executive outlook: Accelerating transformation
Join AWS Healthcare and Life Science Leader Shez Partovi, MD, for a look into how cloud technology can reshape the future of healthcare. In this executive overview, Dr. Partovi shares a vision of a digitally enhanced, data-driven future. Learn how AWS is working with industry leaders to increase their pace of innovation, unlock the potential of their healthcare data, help predict patient health events, and personalize the healthcare journey for their patients, consumers, and members. |
 | Making healthcare more personal with MetroPlus Health
COVID has made a huge impact across the world, and organizations have had to adapt quickly to changing requirements as a result. Learn how MetroPlus Health, a New York City health plan covering over half a million people, leveraged AWS technology to quickly build and deploy an application that personally and proactively reached out to its members to ensure they were okay during a time of critical need. This session covers the MetroPlus Health application, results, and technology deployed and features Amanda Parsons, MD, MBA, Deputy Chief Medical Officer at MetroPlus Health. |
 | Securing protected health information and high-risk datasets
Join this session featuring Jonathan Cook, Chief Technology Officer at Arcadia, for a discussion around securing mission-critical and high-risk datasets such as personal health information (PHI) in the cloud. Learn how Arcadia developed a HITRUST CSF-certified platform leveraging AWS technology that enabled both the high performance and high scalability needed to support petabytes of data Arcadia manages on over 100 million patients. Discover how Arcadia accomplished this while ensuring that all data was adequately protected in compliance with stringent HITRUST certification requirements. |
 | Amazon.com's architecture evolution and AWS strategy
Amazon.com's transition from an on-premises monolith architecture to a microservices architecture powered by AWS is a dynamic example of innovation. In this session, see a high-level overview of how Amazon utilizes AWS as a platform to drive innovation across many of its programs. Come learn the history of AWS usage up to the current state, best practices, lessons learned, and the benefits and value realized. |
 | Amazon.com's use of AI/ML to enhance the customer experience
Amazon.com uses AI/ML in innovative and scaled ways to transform the way we operate and invent new customer experiences. In this session, targeted at senior business and technology decision makers, we share specific examples from Amazon.com's consumer/retail and other businesses to explain how AI/ML helps Amazon deliver the best customer experience possible while improving efficiency and lowering cost. We cover the insights and lessons Amazon.com learned across the cultural, process, and technology aspects of building and scaling ML capabilities in the organization. |
 | Amazon's culture of innovation
Amazon has a peculiar culture and approach to innovation that is intrinsically linked to how it uses technology. In this session, learn how Amazon innovates, organized around four interdependent elements: culture, mechanisms, architecture, and organization. Attend to learn more about Amazon leadership principles, 'working backwards,' and 'two-pizza teams.' |
 | Innovating with Amazon
The AWS Digital Innovation Program helps business leaders bring better ideas to market faster using 'working backwards,' Amazon's peculiar customer-centric approach to innovation. This session explains how the program works and provides real-life examples of new products and services developed by AWS customers. |
 | Solving societal challenges with digital innovation on AWS
AWS public sector Cloud Innovation Center Programs use Amazon's 'working backwards' methodology and the AWS Cloud to bring together public sector organizations, students, AWS, and university personnel to drive citizen impact. Together, we collaborate in solving pressing social needs with digital innovation, such as using an AI/ML model on CT scans of the lungs to detect COVID-19 and improving the safety of e-scooters in cities, among many others. In this session, learn how digital innovation can improve outcomes for public sector organizations and how you can work with us to address an issue within your community. |
 | Two-pizza teams: Organizing for innovation
Amazon's 'two-pizza teams' are small, nimble, and empowered with the right resources to build in a way that best supports their customers. In this session, learn how Amazon organizes teams for technological development at scale, maintaining autonomy to drive innovation and deliver customer delight. |
 | Working backwards: Amazon's approach to innovation
Working backwards' is the peculiar, customer-centric mechanism that lies at the heart of every product and service we develop at Amazon. Join this session to learn more about how we use five customer questions and the press release and FAQ (PR-FAQ) format to think deeply about our customers' needs, clarify customer benefits, and invent on their behalf. |
 | Accelerating the future of connected vehicles with AWS
The automotive industry is going through a major transformation as customers build the next generation of connected and autonomous vehicles. Learn how you can accelerate time to market for different mobility use cases such as fleet provisioning, anomaly detection, and others using the AWS Connected Mobility Solution. Co-presented by Denso, this session discusses the reference architecture from edge to cloud and the modular and customizable nature of the Connected Mobility Solution. It shows how organizations are solving real-world problems using this solution as a foundation. |
 | Achieving efficiency in production with Volkswagen Industrial Cloud
AWS and Volkswagen embarked on a multi-year collaboration to build the Digital Production Platform (DPP), the foundation of the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud (IC), enabling the development of new digital solutions to increase plant efficiency and uptime, improve production flexibility, and increase vehicle quality for the Volkswagen Group. In this session, learn how Volkswagen and its brands have been able to unlock new insights and accelerate business value through new use cases to improve quality inspection processes, monitor assembly line performance, and optimize logistics fleets. |
 | Achieving tangible business outcomes with edge-to-cloud IoT solutions
Building IoT solutions is complex and requires components such as microcontrollers, gateways, sensors, connectivity, edge software, vertical platforms, cloud infrastructure, data analytics, and applications. This complexity and the expertise required to implement the different components in the technology stack contribute to long adoption cycles for IoT solutions. Learn how AWS can help you address those complexities across the entire edge-to-outcome value chain. This session discusses how you can discover and build IoT solutions faster, reduce risk, and deliver business outcomes. |
 | Announcing AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
Today, enterprises use low-power, long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) connectivity to transmit data over long ranges, through walls and floors of buildings, and in commercial and industrial use cases. However, this requires companies to operate their own LoRa network server (LNS). In this session, learn how you can use LoRaWAN for AWS IoT Core to avoid time-consuming and undifferentiated development work, operational overhead of managing infrastructure, or commitment to costly subscription-based pricing from third-party service providers. |
 | AWS at the edge: Using AWS IoT to optimize Amazon wind farms
AWS IoT and edge computing solutions move data processing and analysis closer to where data is generated to enable customers to innovate and achieve more sustainable operations. In this session, learn how Amazon renewable energy projects use AWS IoT to collect and analyze data in real time from wind farms in order to optimize performance and progress toward the goal of powering AWS global infrastructure with 100% renewable energy by 2025. |
 | Building the future of connected homes with AWS IoT
As the use of connected devices in the home continues to grow, so does the rate of enabling innovations in connected home applications with the latest IoT and machine learning technologies. AWS technologies in the cloud and at the edge enable an ecosystem of device manufacturers, service providers, and application developers to easily connect their products at scale, take action on data, and create a new class of interactive applications. In this session, learn how companies worldwide use AWS IoT to create reliable, scalable, and secure IoT applications that delight their customers with innovative, easy-to-use experiences. |
 | Connect today, transform tomorrow with AWS IoT
As the proliferation of IoT devices yields an increasingly connected world, device data fuels organizations' abilities to leverage actionable insights and operate at the speed of software. Regardless of where you are in your digital journey, AWS IoT enables you to securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that unlock new possibilities and drive greater business value. In this session, Dirk Didascalou, VP of AWS IoT, shares what's new with AWS IoT and how organizations are using it to solve real-world challenges today, like deriving consumer insights, creating better user experiences, and improving business operations. |
 | Deep dive into Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management
Challenges common to managing large fleets of IoT devices include visualizing the health of the fleet and pinpointing devices in need of troubleshooting. This session provides an in-depth look at how Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management solves several common use cases for device monitoring and alerting at scale with no code required. |
 | Defining your strategy for a successful IoT implementation
In working with customers to bring transformational IoT solutions to life, AWS has learned that the often overlooked key to a successful IoT project is ensuring that there is support from the organization at every step of the way. To gain (and keep) that support, AWS customers are most successful when they follow an implementation model of 'think big, prototype small, scale fast.' In this session, you learn best practices for defining and developing an implementation strategy that optimizes your ability to successfully bring your IoT solution to production and achieve business results. |
 | Developing and deploying modern edge applications at scale
Building a successful IoT solution depends on the potential of connecting devices at scale while they're sitting at the edge in our homes and offices, in factories and oil fields and agricultural fields, in planes and ships and automobiles—everywhere. You can use FreeRTOS and AWS IoT Greengrass to manage these devices, take action, and aggregate data. In this session, learn the latest capabilities of AWS IoT device software and see how customers have developed and deployed edge applications that manage fleets comprising millions of devices. |
 | Dive deep and accelerate your implementation of AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0
AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 introduces a new architecture and new features. In this session, dive deep into the new AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0, including detailed development methods. Also, learn how to adapt existing AWS IoT Greengrass workloads to AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0. |
 | Elevating your IoT security with the AWS multi-layered security approach
Security is foundational to every IoT application. With proliferating devices handling data collection, processing, and compute at the edge, organizations must think about security both in the cloud and at the edge. Learn how the AWS multi-layered security approach mitigates risk, including with legacy protocols, proactively reduces vulnerabilities, provides greater visibility, and more. This session discusses AWS multi-layered security principles using several use cases to demonstrate how you can use AWS IoT services to keep your IoT applications secure. |
 | Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management
Organizations, such as those manufacturing large volumes of devices, often manage device fleets ranging from thousands to millions of devices, and they must configure and update these devices remotely. AWS IoT Device Management makes it easy to register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage your connected devices at scale. In this session, learn what's new with AWS IoT Device Management and leave with an understanding of how you can more easily and securely view and interact with your device fleets. |
 | Getting to production fast with the AWS Connected Factory Solution
For manufacturers, operational data is notoriously challenging to unlock, with disparate equipment and multiple device protocols. In this session, learn how organizations are able to unlock their data and modernize their manufacturing operations, accelerating Industry 4.0 success, with the AWS Connected Factory Solution. See how you can take advantage of predesigned frameworks and solutions and deployment expertise to get to value quickly, increase operational efficiency, and reduce costs. |
 | How Carrier is transforming the cold chain to reduce food & medicine waste
The cold chain—the network of logistics providers and technologies used for transporting and warehousing items that need refrigeration—is highly fragmented, leading to limited visibility and control of cargo. This results in billions of dollars of losses and inefficiencies in transporting perishables like medicines and produce. Join this session to learn how Carrier Refrigeration is building a platform using AWS services across analytics, machine learning, and IoT to reduce waste and transform the cold chain. You hear how the platform will collect, process, and analyze data from telematics units across the fragmented chain, turning it into actionable insight and recommendations. |
 | How to build connected microcontroller apps with FreeRTOS
Applying power to a microcontroller (MCU) running FreeRTOS does not automatically connect it to the cloud. The MCU requires a communication peripheral, credentials, and code. So what does it take to plan, implement, and operate your IoT device fleet when connecting MCUs to the cloud? In this session, learn the hardware, software, and operational aspects of connecting an MCU to the cloud with demonstrations that highlight key processing points using powerful code tracing tools. At the end of the session, your hardware, software, and operational choices will be clearer for current or future IoT projects. |
 | How to efficiently architect IoT applications to optimize ROI
Often when organizations are running workloads on AWS using IoT services, they find it challenging to create the right strategy to build and maintain cost-optimized systems. This session discusses the cost-optimization pillar from the AWS IoT Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Learn design principles and best practices for running cost-optimized IoT workloads when operating at scale. |
 | Improving product quality using AWS IoT SiteWise
Data from industrial sites is often untapped because it is locked into on-premises devices and equipment or in proprietary historians. With AWS IoT, you have the ability to build secure, cost-effective, and reliable industrial IoT (IoT) solutions that ingest real-time streaming data across multiple sites containing both data assets and machine assets. Learn how AWS IoT SiteWise simplifies and automates the process of collecting, organizing, and analyzing industrial data at scale to help you optimize operations with better, data-driven decisions. |
 | Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge
Industrial organizations use AWS IoT SiteWise to liberate their industrial equipment data in order to make data-driven decisions. Now with AWS IoT SiteWise Edge, you can collect, organize, process, and monitor your equipment data on premises before sending it to local or AWS Cloud destinations—all while using the same asset models, APIs, and functionality. Learn how you can extend the capabilities of AWS IoT SiteWise to the edge with AWS IoT SiteWise Edge. |
 | Managing industrial data at the edge with AWS IoT SiteWise
Industrial customers have applications that need to run on premises, but they are also building new cloud applications that use advanced technologies like machine learning to reduce costs and drive operational efficiencies. Learn how AWS IoT SiteWise makes it easy to manage data across on-premises and cloud applications, allowing industrial users to collect, organize, process, and monitor equipment data at the edge before sending it to onsite applications or the AWS Cloud for further analysis. |
 | Managing robot fleets with AWS
Operating and managing fleets of robots in the field can be a challenging task, from automated software updates and remote troubleshooting to orchestrating complex tasks and workflows. Companies often struggle to build reliable and scalable operations workflows to manage, monitor, and safely update robots as their fleet grows. Learn how to securely deploy updates to robots and manage them using a combination of AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS RoboMaker, and other AWS services. The session walks through connecting your robots to the cloud for updates, monitoring, reporting, and performance analysis. |
 | Predicting anomalies before critical failures happen using ML & AWS IoT
IoT is the connective thread of valuable, differentiated solutions, enabling you to take advantage of powerful technologies such as machine learning (ML). Learn how to use AWS IoT and ML to identify anomalies and predict failure events before they occur. This session illustrates these concept using vibration sensors to gather data from things like rotary pumps, which when combined with ML models can prevent catastrophic conditions from happening in environments like oil and natural gas processing facilities. |
 | Securing IoT devices and applying machine learning with AWS IoT
In today's connected world, there are billions of IoT devices that operate with minimal, and sometimes with no, human intervention. Machines can be trained to recognize patterns, execute computation, and take action in response to data analysis at an incredible scale and with efficiency. The real-time responsiveness of IoT devices makes their security posture fundamental to their successful and safe operation. Come learn how to secure and protect devices and people throughout the connected world using AWS IoT and machine learning services. This session includes a real-world example from ERA Home Security. |
 | Setting up a private LoRaWAN network with AWS IoT
With the ever-increasing demand to connect long-range, power-constrained devices to IoT services in the cloud, organizations are adopting LoRaWAN, a connectivity technology, due to its wide connectivity range, low power consumption, and large ecosystem of devices. This session details the process of using LoRaWAN for AWS IoT Core, a new fully managed feature of AWS IoT Core, to connect and manage LoRaWAN gateways and devices to the AWS Cloud. Additionally, learn how its integration with other AWS IoT services enables you to build applications that turn the data coming from LoRaWAN devices into business value. |
 | Smart vision for predictive and preventive industrial operations
Industrial facilities and assets can be complex and old, and the cost of error can be extremely high, so the need for industrial digital transformation cannot be understated. With IoT and machine learning (ML), industrial customers can combine machine data from a single line, a factory, or a network of sites to improve performance and efficiency by remotely and proactively identifying issues before they happen. In this session, learn how ConocoPhillips is taking advantage of rapid IoT and ML innovations to integrate with on-premises data, process unstructured machine data, and generate predictive and preventive actions to increase operational efficiency. |
 | The extended cloud: AWS powers edge-to-cloud applications
AWS edge computing solutions provide infrastructure and software that move data processing and analysis as close to the endpoint where data is generated as required by customers. In this session, learn about new edge computing capabilities announced at re:Invent and how customers are using purpose-built edge solutions to extend the cloud to the edge. |
 | The ROI of IoT: Understanding and driving strategic business value
IoT can transform the fundamentals of a business, potentially evolving the core business model. To understand the potential business value of IoT so that you can then successfully drive it to fruition, you must think holistically about the ROI of IoT. This session presents a framework to help you deeply understand how the combination of connected devices, data, machine learning, and other emerging technologies can act as the springboard for transforming operations, creating new sources of revenue, and enabling you to deliver more value to your customers. |
 | Unlock data insights from broadband CPE devices using AWS IoT
Broadband and customer premises equipment (CPE) devices in production today can be enhanced by connecting devices to the AWS Cloud for modernized application development and integration with cloud-based AI and ML services. Whether providers are managing devices with TR-069, USP-369, or their homegrown device connectivity and management solutions, companies want to harness the advantages of cloud integration to gather customer insights, improve quality of service, and accelerate product innovation. In this session, you learn about how AWS IoT can accelerate the journey to connect broadband and CPE devices to the cloud, and you hear about advanced solutions that companies are building with AWS services. |
 | Using AWS services to create innovative & secure IoT consumer products
Consumer IoT solutions power the devices people are using every day, augmenting and enhancing their lives with devices such as security cameras, appliances, health trackers, and more. It can be a daunting challenge to build and maintain the infrastructure required to securely connect devices to the cloud, managing them continuously and reliably. In this session, you learn how AWS IoT helps you achieve these goals with scalable mechanisms, and you see how Jane, a smart living technology company, is advancing its products with AWS. |
 | What's new with AWS IoT Greengrass
AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices so that they can act locally on the data that they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. Join this session to learn about the latest updates for AWS IoT Greengrass. |
 | AWS networking: A global network for your workload
Join Mayumi Hiramatsu, VP of Amazon EC2 networking at AWS, to learn what makes the AWS global network the world's most comprehensive network for all your workloads. Mayumi discusses the networking complexity that organizations face as they journey to the cloud and the latest innovations AWS is delivering to make the journey easy. She discusses new capabilities that you can use to improve your security posture with AWS PrivateLink, ways to more easily scale your network, new ways to integrate your existing on-premises and branch office deployments for hybrid cloud connectivity, and how you can gain deeper insights with network management and monitoring capabilities. |
 | AWS security: Where we've been, where we're going
Join Steve Schmidt as he takes you through the latest security updates in the Well-Architected categories of detection, identity management, data protection, and incident response. Additionally, Steve breaks down new security services that are launching at re:Invent 2020 and discusses how AWS implements and recommends Zero Trust concepts. Finally, an updated 'ten areas your security group should focus on' list is presented, along with tactical and strategic ways to secure your environment comprehensively and efficiently. |
 | Boldness matters in critical moments
As companies face critical moments, the difference between success and failure often comes down to how leaders choose to meet these challenges. Join AWS's Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec as she moderates a discussion about leading through change. The conversation features top influencers in their industries, including Eva Chen (Trend Micro cofounder and CEO), Casey Coleman (SVP at Salesforce and former CIO of GSA), Shellye Archambeau (Verizon board member), and Julie Cordura (Thorn.org CEO). Panelists share how they led through pivotal moments such as setting up the first US government agency to use the AWS Cloud, building a leadership position in data security and cybersecurity solutions, and using machine learning to combat child trafficking. |
| Building for the future with AWS databases
Data is at the core of every application, and companies are looking to use data as the foundation for future innovation in their applications and their organizations. In this session, Shawn Bice, VP of Databases, discusses how organizations are building for the future with fully managed purpose-built databases. From helping organizations move existing database-heavy applications to the cloud, to learning from some of the earliest adopters, Shawn shares strategies on how to get started building for the future. Join Shawn to go deep (with demos) on some of the newest database innovations. |
| Cloud learning: Choose your path to career growth and innovation
Learning and education are the sparks that ignite curiosity, innovation, and business transformation. They fuel career growth and create new opportunities. Join this session to better understand how AWS Training and Certification empowers the diverse builders of today and tomorrow to reach their full potential and leverage the power of the AWS Cloud. Whether you're starting a new cloud career, upskilling your team, or transforming your entire workforce, see how AWS programs can help you gain and validate skills throughout your cloud journey. |
| Connect today, transform tomorrow with AWS IoT
As the proliferation of IoT devices yields an increasingly connected world, device data fuels organizations' abilities to leverage actionable insights and operate at the speed of software. Regardless of where you are in your digital journey, AWS IoT enables you to securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that unlock new possibilities and drive greater business value. In this session, Dirk Didascalou, VP of AWS IoT, shares what's new with AWS IoT and how organizations are using it to solve real-world challenges today, like deriving consumer insights, creating better user experiences, and improving business operations. |
 | From complexity to clarity: The strategic value of AWS
The ongoing global crisis has demonstrated the critical need for organizations to leverage technology that can serve their strategic goals and complex missions. In this session, Teresa Carlson, vice president and leader of AWS public sector and industry business units, shares use cases demonstrating how to leverage AWS services in the face of resource constraints, and in all environments. She shares AWS programs that can help you accelerate your organization's digital transformation and deliver impactful results. Additionally, AWS customers explain how they are driving impact around big ideas, discoveries, and turning points to solve some of the world's largest challenges. |
 | Harness the power of data with AWS analytics
Organizations are being challenged by an unprecedented scale of data as the amount of data under analysis increases from terabytes to petabytes and exabytes. In this session, Rahul Pathak, vice president of analytics at AWS, addresses the current state of analytics on AWS, focusing on the latest service innovations. Learn about the importance of a modern data architecture and what's to come in terms of scale, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness. |
 | Increasing innovation with serverless applications
Organizations around the world are minimizing operations and maximizing agility by developing with serverless building blocks. Join David Richardson, VP of Serverless, for a closer look at the serverless programming model, including event-driven computing with AWS Lambda. Learn how customers are using serverless technologies to build applications that are not only more resilient, secure, and scalable but also more cost efficient. David highlights new innovations made throughout the serverless stack and shares how you can benefit from the serverless programming model, whether you're building new applications or modernizing your existing portfolio. |
 | Innovate faster with applications on AWS storage
Organizations need to build applications faster than ever, with the ability to scale quickly to potentially millions of users, manage petabytes if not exabytes of data, and innovate with data-driven insights. AWS storage is purpose-built for the applications that drive your business. Join this leadership session to learn what's new in the rapidly changing world of storage; how to increase agility and reduce costs by moving workloads to the cloud; and how to innovate faster with data lakes, analytics, and ML applications built on AWS storage. Rethink what's possible with your storage for your applications today and tomorrow. |
| Keeping 'mission critical' critical but simple
AWS Public Sector partners bring a unique mix of skills, competency, and vertical knowledge—like no other—to the industry. No blueprint exists for our new normal; however, as customer expectations parallel the pace of innovation, we want to share how AWS has pivoted to help partners. Join Sandy Carter, AWS vice president of Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs, as she dives deep on how AWS helps public sector partners deliver on mission-critical focus areas, such as migrations, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT-based solutions through new programs, initiatives, and mechanisms. |
| Modernizing with Containers
Leading containers migration and modernization initiatives can be daunting, but AWS is making it easier. This session explores architectural choices and common patterns, and it provides real-world customer examples. Learn about core technologies to help you build and operate container environments at scale. Discover how abstractions can reduce the pain for infrastructure teams, operators, and developers. Finally, hear the AWS vision for how to bring it all together with improved usability for more business agility. |
| Proven compute for unprecedented times
The year 2020 has come with many challenges. It is during these unprecedented times that technologies are tested to see if they can truly scale and meet the demands of increased usage and changing requirements. AWS's vision is to build the most secure, reliable, and innovative platform that meets your needs both now and in the future. Join David Brown, VP, Amazon EC2, to learn about what is new in AWS compute, including innovations in core compute (Amazon EC2) and edge and hybrid offerings (AWS Outposts and AWS Wavelength). See how the design of AWS compute helps companies scale and adapt for their business needs. |
| Reimagine business applications from the ground up
Join Larry Augustin, VP of AWS administration, as he details how AWS has expanded its services to empower business users to leverage cloud-based applications for remote workers, contact centers, productivity, communication and collaboration, and more. You also hear from Slack about how it is working with AWS to help people get work done. Finally, you go behind the scenes with Larry as he shares AWS business application strategy, customer use cases, and demos, along with simple ways in which you can get started today. |
 | Speed up innovation with cloud management and governance
When enterprises modernize their application development strategies in order to serve millions of users globally and improve developer efficiency, operations management becomes even more crucial for businesses to run smoothly. IT operations or DevOps teams often need to provision and take operational actions on hundreds of thousands of applications and resources daily while maintaining safety and compliance. How can IT make operations management and governance easy and efficient, while also enjoying the freedom and speed of innovation that the cloud brings? In this session, hear from AWS senior leader Bill Vass on the future of monitoring, management, and governance, both on AWS and on premises. |
 | The evolution of cloud architecture
Cloud architecture has evolved over the years as the nature of adoption has changed and the level of maturity in our thinking continues to develop. In this session, Rudy Valdez, VP of Solutions Architecture and Training & Certification, walks you through that evolution and shares his insights on how these factors have influenced how to think about and approach building systems on the AWS platform. |
| The extended cloud: AWS powers edge-to-cloud applications
AWS edge computing solutions provide infrastructure and software that move data processing and analysis as close to the endpoint where data is generated as required by customers. In this session, learn about new edge computing capabilities announced at re:Invent and how customers are using purpose-built edge solutions to extend the cloud to the edge. |
| Transformation, migration, and governance: Lessons learned
AWS helps thousands of organizations in the process of transforming, migrating, and governing their enterprise application portfolios. Join AWS VP David McCann to hear about how these organizations approach the challenges and opportunities of topics such as application modernization, mainframe migration, hybrid environments, and automating resource and application governance. Their real-world experiences and insights can help you execute your cloud transformation with confidence. |
 | Accelerating regulatory assessments in life sciences manufacturing
Life sciences manufacturing is a highly regulated and dynamic environment where organizations must constantly evaluate change requests in the context of complex and varying regulations to determine regulatory impact. In this session, learn how Merck leveraged Amazon Machine Learning to create the Change Assessment Knowledge Engine (CAKE) to evaluate change request proposals, resulting in faster turnaround times. Attend this session to understand how a knowledge base of regulatory guidance and machine learning were used to develop an easy and elegant evaluation and recommendation engine for pharma manufacturing. |
 | AstraZeneca genomics on AWS: A journey from petabytes to new medicines
Join this session to hear about AstraZeneca's mission to analyze 2 million genomes/exomes by 2026 for integration with clinical data and use in R&D, clinical trials, and stratified medicine. AstraZeneca describes how it has built a world-leading genomics pipeline using high performance computing technologies such as AWS Batch and AWS Step Functions that is capable of processing more than 1,600 exomes per hour. Attend this session to learn how AWS services can be used to build a large-scale processing workflow, create millions of Amazon S3 objects, and create billions of records in an effective manner. |
 | Building patient-centric virtualized trials
As clinical trials increasingly become decentralized and virtual, engaging effectively with patients can be challenging. In this session, hear how Evidation Health architects on AWS to create patient-centric experiences, ingests data from millions of devices in real time using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and handles authentication at scale with Amazon Cognito. Learn how the company takes advantage of AWS Fargate to simplify how it deploys its study platforms globally while minimizing infrastructure and meeting stringent compliance and security requirements. This session helps you draw connections between patient-generated data, health insights, and the future of medical research. |
 | Improving data liquidity in Roche's personalized healthcare platform
Roche's personalized healthcare mission is to accelerate drug discovery and transform the patient journey by using digital technologies and advanced analytics to facilitate greater scientific collaboration and insight sharing. In this session, Roche shares how it uses advanced analytics, data management, and collaboration modules built on AWS to enable meaningful data liquidity at scale. By attending this session, you learn how Roche ingests and harmonizes multimodality data and makes it accessible in a scalable and secure way for data scientists to use across their organizations and with external partners. |
 | Life sciences industry executive outlook
In this session, learn from AWS leadership about how cloud technology is helping life sciences organizations improve their data liquidity, achieve operational excellence, and enhance their customer engagement. By attending, you gain an understanding of how new technology is impacting the life sciences industry. |
 | Streamlining manufacturing and supply chain at Novartis
Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company that brings innovative medicines to market to enhance health outcomes for patients. In this session, dive deep into how AWS is helping to optimize the manufacturing supply chain with end-to-end transparency, using data to optimize what has historically been an inefficient process. By attending this session, you learn how to use AWS IoT, data lakes, and Amazon machine learning to create real-time analytics and transparency in the manufacturing processes and supply chain. Additionally, you hear how Novartis built a comprehensive marketplace for items like lab supplies, PPE, and more. |
 | Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Management and Governance Lens
AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, and resilient infrastructure for their applications. Lenses extend the guidance offered by AWS Well-Architected to specific industry and technology domains. The new Management and Governance Lens provides prescriptive guidance on key concepts, design principles, and best practices for optimizing management and governance across your AWS environment. This Lens includes recommended combinations of AWS services, integration points with partner solutions, and vetted reference implementations. Learn how to leverage these recommendations to achieve visibility at scale in a dynamic environment, accelerate your cloud migrations, and improve your overall management and governance by following best practices based on thousands of successful migrations. |
 | Automate anything with AWS Systems Manager
You can automate any task that involves interaction with AWS and on-premises resources, including in multi-account and multi-Region environments, with AWS Systems Manager. In this session, learn more about three new Systems Manager launches at re:Invent—Change Manager, Fleet Manager, and Application Manager. In addition, learn how Systems Manager Automation can be used across multiple Regions and accounts, integrate with other AWS services, and extend to on-premises. This session takes a deep dive into how to author a custom runbook using an automation document, and how to execute automation anywhere. |
 | Best practices for securing your multi-account environment
In this session, learn how to define and implement a security baseline in multiple accounts by using AWS Organizations. Join this session to take a deep dive into the benefits of a security organizational units, account creation and AWS CloudFormation StackSets usage. Also learn about the standardization of settings across the enterprise for services such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, AWS Backup, and others. |
 | Configuration, compliance, and audit at scale
To avoid misconfiguration issues and security breaches, it's crucial that you have a robust configuration, compliance, and audit program to effectively manage AWS resources. In this session, learn how to use AWS Config to monitor and track resource configuration. See how AWS Config rules and conformance packs help set desired resource configurations, evaluate configuration compliance and risk, and remediate configuration drift. Also, learn how to use AWS CloudTrail to simplify compliance audits by recording and storing event logs for actions made within your AWS account. Hear directly from Intuit, which has been effective at managing compliance on AWS. |
 | Gaining application-level governance and cost visibility
Provisioning reusable application infrastructure on demand, quickly, and in a safe and repeatable manner is often difficult. In this session, learn how to automate and maintain a single source of truth for your applications using AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry. Hear how you can define your applications and their metadata, like cost, performance, security, compliance, and operational status, across AWS services and AWS Partner solutions. Learn how you can understand which application a resource belongs to and vice versa. Finally, learn how to get started with AppRegistry and how to integrate it with your existing application development processes. |
 | How to onboard existing AWS accounts onto AWS Control Tower
You can efficiently manage and govern your multi-account AWS environment using automated best practices and guardrails without needing to maintain code. In this session, learn the best practices for successfully managing existing AWS accounts using AWS Control Tower. NuData Security, a Mastercard company, discusses why it brought its 100+ AWS accounts under AWS Control Tower from the AWS Landing Zone solution. NuData uses AWS Control Tower to apply and manage guardrails, helping its security teams reduce risk and aggregate findings. Take a deep dive into AWS account provisioning with AWS Control Tower and learn how AWS Service Catalog can enable advanced capabilities of governance. |
 | Increase availability with AWS observability solutions
To provide access to critical resources when needed and also limit the potential financial impact of an application outage, a highly available application design is critical. In this session, learn how you can use Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to increase the availability of your applications. Join this session to learn how AWS observability solutions can help you proactively detect, efficiently investigate, and quickly resolve operational issues. All of which help you manage and improve your application's availability. |
 | Introducing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
Grafana is a popular, open-source data visualization tool that enables you to centrally query and analyze observability data across multiple data sources. Learn how the new Amazon Managed Service for Grafana, announced with Grafana's parent company Grafana Labs, solves common observability challenges. With the new fully managed service, you can monitor, analyze, and alarm on metrics, logs, and traces while offloading the operational management of security patching, upgrading, and resource scaling to AWS. This session also covers new Grafana capabilities such as advanced security features and native AWS service integrations to simplify configuration and onboarding of data sources. |
 | Introducing Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring and alerting solution optimized for container environments. Customers love Prometheus for its active open-source community and flexible query language, using it to monitor containers across AWS and on-premises environments. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service. In this session, learn how you can use the same open-source Prometheus data model, existing instrumentation, and query language to monitor performance with improved scalability, availability, and security without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. |
 | Manage configuration and compliance in hybrid environments
Capturing resource inventory and configuration history and defining compliance on resource configuration can be challenging. This is particularly true if resources span across on-premises environments and the cloud. In this session, you learn how to use AWS CloudFormation to extend the inventory and compliance management capabilities of AWS Config to private and third-party resources, including on-premises resources, at scale. By attending this session, you gain an understanding of how and when to use the AWS CloudFormation registry, and you learn how to get started with AWS Config custom configuration items and custom rules for inventory and compliance management. |
 | Rapid response to COVID-19 with AWS Control Tower
The State of Ohio Department of Job and Family Services needed solutions to respond to COVID-19 in the community. In this session, learn how the State of Ohio Cloud Broker team was able to respond in five days with AWS Control Tower, Amazon Connect, and Amazon WorkSpaces to serve Ohio. You learn how the team used AWS Control Tower to enable AWS account provisioning, security controls, and governance with consistency across the environment. Hear how, with AWS Control Tower, they were able to quickly establish a system to handle the volume of calls for unemployment assistance and to live stream the governor's press conferences. |
 | Securely manage all your servers with full auditability
Remotely managing cloud or on-premises servers securely and with auditability often requires additional infrastructure or software to be effective and secure. In this session, you learn how to eliminate those additional requirements and components and still provide secure and auditable access to your resources. The session covers features that give you secure access to your servers, including AWS Systems Manager Session Manager, which increases security and auditability. You also learn how to configure attribute-based access control federation to Session Manager, and you hear how AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon S3 provide various mechanisms for auditability and oversight. |
 | Simplify industry compliance management with AWS Config
Are you in a highly regulated industry? Do you need to meet industry compliance requirements in the cloud? In this session, deep dive into AWS Config conformance packs, which can be mapped to controls that audit and assess the overall compliance of your multi-account AWS resource configurations. You learn how to manage compliance in a multi-account environment, and you hear how Lockheed Martin simplified industry compliance management by implementing guardrails to limit exposure as well as incorporating remediation processes. |
| Speed up innovation with cloud management and governance
When enterprises modernize their application development strategies in order to serve millions of users globally and improve developer efficiency, operations management becomes even more crucial for businesses to run smoothly. IT operations or DevOps teams often need to provision and take operational actions on hundreds of thousands of applications and resources daily while maintaining safety and compliance. How can IT make operations management and governance easy and efficient, while also enjoying the freedom and speed of innovation that the cloud brings? In this session, hear from AWS senior leader Bill Vass on the future of monitoring, management, and governance, both on AWS and on premises. |
 | Turbocharging cost optimization with Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Understanding which parts of your architecture incur the most cost can often be difficult and time-consuming. In this session, learn how to drill down into your architecture spend and optimize for performance and cost by using Amazon CloudWatch metrics to enrich Cost and Usage Report data in your Amazon S3 data lake. Learn best practices for sending CloudWatch metrics to Amazon S3, discuss ways for correlating operational telemetry with cost and usage data, and review methods for optimizing cost. |
 | 3M optimizes global materials tracing with AWS
AWS is helping industrial organizations complete their Industry 4.0 journeys to transform their business operations. Hear from American multinational conglomerate corporation 3M, and learn how 3M was able to aggregate data from multiple, disparate sources across different functions within its business to create a single view of materials tracing in an AWS data lake. Learn how this allows its users to quickly build secure, self-service reporting for questions they may have on raw materials and finished goods to glean valuable insights from their data. |
 | Hyundai builds smart services for its connected machinery
Many manufacturers are looking to enhance their customer experiences, improve quality, and generate new revenue streams for their products with smart services. Learn how to build smart, connected product or machine offerings on AWS using IoT and machine learning services. Also, hear from Hyundai Construction Equipment about its journey of building Hyundai Connect, the smart service for heavy equipment machines that makes its customers' equipment and job sites more efficient, economic, and convenient. |
 | Rivian pushes the pace of automotive innovation with AWS
Rivian is one of America's most recognizable electric autonomous vehicle manufacturers. As part of setting the pace for global automakers in sustainability and innovation, Rivian envisioned a digital thread to simplify IT operations and unlock innovation. Rivian reshaped its simulation and modeling R&D operations with AWS to decrease time-to-market. Join this session to learn how Rivian is using open-source frameworks, the near limitless scale of AWS compute, and other next-generation AWS technologies to speed engineering and analyst innovation. Also learn how Rivian overcame obstacles and improved the engineering experience while encouraging self-service with cloud-based services and automation. |
 | Semiconductor design on AWS with Qualcomm
Semiconductor production relies on resources and partners far beyond what is needed for design and verification. This includes working with tool vendors, IP providers, foundries, contract manufacturing, and consumers. Organizations are running advanced node workflows and leveraging the breadth of services on AWS to enable analytics, AI/ML, and yield management. In this session, Qualcomm discusses running its flows on AWS. Also, learn how AWS is working across the entire semiconductor industry to enable innovation and scale workflows. |
 | Simulating city-scale transport behavior with AWS
Engineering and planning teams use simulation tools to understand how real-world behavior affects their work, but the storage and compute resources required can be costly to maintain on premises. Arup's City Modelling capability is helping plan for the future using open agent-based model (ABM) approaches to simulate people's activities and travel behavior in cities and countries. However, carrying out one ABM scenario for a London-sized city may require writing, storing, and analyzing around 6 terabytes of data. Learn how AWS allows simultaneous simulations running in parallel to explore the hyperparameter space and run at the scale required. |
 | Terex improves quality and optimizes manufacturing with AWS
Manufacturers around the world are undergoing digital transformation to operate smarter, improve existing products, and invent new ones. Organizations like Terex have been in business for close to a century, and legacy systems and processes can pose significant challenges to digital transformation efforts. In this session, hear about the latest trends and solutions around product and production design, supply chain adaptation, and smart factory enablement. Also, hear from Scott McNeal, VP of IT – Aerial Work Platforms for Genie, a Terex brand, on how Genie is digitizing its production and products to drive operational efficiency and new customer offerings. |
 | Accelerate application modernization with off-the-shelf containers
Organizations use AWS container services (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate) to build modern applications that are agile, scalable, and cost-effective. To accelerate their path toward adopting containers, users often look for off-the-shelf container products to meet their production use cases. In this session, learn how Schneider Electric used software from Kubecost to gain cost visibility and optimize its container workloads. Learn how Schneider Electric identified and implemented the best solution that met its needs, and how Schneider sped up the software procurement process by using AWS Marketplace. |
 | Accelerate machine learning projects with pretrained models
Insufficient enterprise AI adoption often happens due to lack of time, data, and skills required to develop ML models for solving your business problems. In this session, learn how pretrained ML models—available in AWS Marketplace and deployed with Amazon SageMaker—can help you quickly add new ML features in your applications and enable you to prove the value of powering your applications with AI to your leadership. Learn how to explore, test, deploy, and integrate ML models securely in your existing production application. |
 | Balance agility and control with curated software procurement
Organizations want control of and visibility into their software usage, but builders and procurement teams struggle to gain permission for available products. In this session, you learn about tools that help you safely build at speed through transparency and guardrails. You also hear how Nationwide Insurance balanced necessary purchasing controls with easy access to software teams that was needed to drive innovation and agility. See a demonstration of how you can incorporate software procurement into your existing centralized approval processes, and learn how to better identify, track, and control your software spending. |
 | Clarity and control: Managing your third-party software spend
Organizations want to have comprehensive visibility into their software spend and usage, but need tools that enable them to identify, track, and control their software budgets in the cloud. In this session, see how to analyze third-party software spend and usage from AWS Marketplace in Cost Explorer and cost and usage reports. This session also covers how to use cost tagging capabilities to allocate spend and provide greater cost management visibility into your third-party software costs on AWS. Learn how to create budgets against your third-party software spend in AWS Marketplace. |
 | Find, buy, and manage software on your terms
Do you struggle to innovate quickly due to your organization's long software procurement cycles? In this session, you learn how self-service access to thousands of third-party software offerings in AWS Marketplace can help you find, buy, and deploy the tools you need to innovate. You also hear how BankUnited simplified and modernized existing procurement processes. The session demonstrates how you can use standardized license terms to streamline negotiations and how private offers can help you get the best pricing on your third-party software solutions, all simplified onto your AWS bill. |
 | Greenfield to self-service automation
Organizations seek methods to streamline cloud migration but struggle to easily set up and govern secure multi-account environments. AWS has partnered with independent software vendors (ISVs) to create integrated solutions for AWS Control Tower to enable faster setup of your AWS accounts. In this session, Symetra financial services discusses its journey from on-premises to AWS. Learn how Symetra built a self-service solution that allows teams to migrate applications from data centers to the AWS Control Tower multi-account environment using CloudEndure, infrastructure resources from AWS Service Catalog, and secure third-party solutions from AWS Marketplace. |
 | Ignite migration and modernization with DevSecOps
Companies employ DevOps practices to expedite production of new application features and accelerate migration to AWS through better collaboration and automated testing. The challenge for many organizations is getting application features delivered at a fast pace while embedding needed security at the speed of DevOps. In this session, learn how AWS users, together with third-party solutions from AWS Marketplace, easily turn the idea of DevSecOps into well-orchestrated operating models. Hear how Silicon Valley Bank used third-party software to improve performance, availability, and security while migrating and modernizing their applications. |
 | Migrate & build faster on AWS with services in AWS Marketplace
As you migrate software and applications to the cloud, you need professional services from independent software vendors, consulting partners, and AWS certified third-party experts to guide your journey. In this session, learn about AWS IQ, a service to engage third-party freelancers and consulting firms to get work done on AWS, and about Professional Services in AWS Marketplace, so you can find and buy services to configure, deploy, and manage third-party software on AWS. Learn best practices to get needed support as you grow your business in the cloud and how to simplify management of these services through AWS. |
 | Simplify healthcare compliance with third-party solutions
Sensitive health data must be protected to ensure patient privacy, and healthcare organizations need to ensure that IT infrastructure is compliant with changing policies and regulations. In this session, learn how healthcare providers can address compliance challenges through secure cloud solutions from independent software vendors and consulting partners and how to easily get these third-party software solutions running on AWS. Hear from Redsson on its compliance journey, including how Redsson achieved compliance objectives with third-party software available in AWS Marketplace. |
 | Use data to optimize your daily fantasy sports football lineups
Over 59 million people play daily fantasy sports each year in the US. In football, it's hard to pick the optimal lineup because there are billions of combinations. In this session, you learn how to use AWS Data Exchange and Amazon SageMaker to optimize your daily fantasy sports football lineups using data from Stats Perform, giving you a head start. You see how to train a model to provide a pool of players with the most upside and pick the best lineup from that pool, all while staying under the salary cap. |
 | Who gets what? Manage software licenses across AWS accounts
Learn about managed entitlements for AWS Marketplace, a new feature that enables you to distribute, activate, and track software license entitlements acquired in AWS Marketplace through AWS License Manager. Organizations often run third-party software alongside AWS services and may struggle with the manual process of managing licenses for users and workloads on AWS. Procurement and asset management teams want to track and manage software licenses centrally to control costs, enhance visibility of their software portfolio, and maintain compliance with license terms. In this session, you learn about tools that can help you manage your organization's software licenses across hundreds of AWS accounts. |
 | Accelerating next-generation direct-to-consumer experiences
To captivate audiences, media enterprises have to remain nimble in the face of change to deliver innovative experiences that leverage their unique content libraries and technology assets. In this session, learn how NBCUniversal worked with AWS to design, implement, operate, and accelerate the launch of its successful Peacock streaming service. |
 | Empowering users with natural language search
Content creators face the ever-increasing challenge of cataloging content in a way that is easily accessible by users. Providing content relevant to a user's search from vast archives of content requires a system that automatically provides the best match from the most relevant content. Using the Amazon Kendra machine learning service, the Wall Street Journal created Talk2020, a tool that allows users to query thousands of transcripts from speeches and media appearances with natural language searches. Learn the challenges the team overcame and how working with AWS enabled them to offer an innovative, easy-to-use customer experience that was previously not possible. |
 | FOX: Uncompressed live sports in the cloud
FOX and AWS are continuing to innovate the way live television is created and distributed in the cloud. Now a year into their strategic collaboration agreement with AWS, FOX dives into how they use AWS Media Services to create adaptable, elastic, and efficient workflows. FOX will share lessons it has learned as pioneers moving the television technology industry forward and will give insight into what FOX is working on next. |
 | Innovate, enhance, and secure OTT and B2B video delivery
The world of content contribution and distribution is changing, and AWS is helping people solve the latest challenges. Whether the use case is one-to-many or many-to-one, AWS provides solutions custom built for media content. This session explores two use cases, one highlighting multisite contribution feeding centralized distribution and another focused on highly secure centralized contribution to multiple sites. Learn how the ease, flexibility, scalability, and security of AWS enables advancements for modern content contribution and distribution. |
 | Live content production on the AWS Cloud
The cloud is liberating broadcasters, sports federations, and OTT companies from onerous and inflexible capex models while maintaining reliable operations. AWS allows media organizations to scale up live production operations for major events and scale down during off-seasons or production hiatuses. Live production in the cloud also allows for new forms of innovation by decoupling product and content features from hardware refresh lifecycles. Learn how broadcast solutions provider Grass Valley uses the AWS Cloud to enable live productions of almost any scale, complexity, and genre at the touch of a button. Also hear how AWS is developing new technologies to enable live video operations in the cloud. |
 | State of media content distribution
Digital transformation is accelerating across the media industry. Worldwide, content providers of all sizes are turning to AWS as they reshape their digital strategies. In this session, learn how industry leaders in broadcast and over-the-top media are building the future of content distribution with AWS to optimize costs, accelerate innovation, and unlock new business models. See how new technologies are being deployed, including Amazon Interactive Video Service and AWS Elemental Link, for live broadcast and over-the-top distribution, and explore new solutions for reliable, high-quality video transport. |
 | State of media content production
Content creators are rapidly enabling production workflows using the cloud to take advantage of lower cost, faster time to market, and the ability for staff to access and create content anywhere in the world. Hear how Method Studios, a VFX company, uses AWS to advance and scale its content production pipeline to create some of the biggest blockbuster films. Learn about state-of-the-art best practices for rapidly and securely deploying AWS Cloud-based content creation workflows, including remote editing on virtual workstations, scale-out rendering and production distribution, and newly released AWS service offerings designed to augment and simplify creative workflows. |
 | State of media security: A discussion with industry leaders
Over the last year, there has been a shift to a remote, disbursed workforce, all while viewers are consuming more media in more ways, which has changed how content is created, delivered, and consumed. In this session, Chief Information Security Officers from HBO Max, Fox, and MGM join an AWS security expert to discuss how the AWS Cloud helps media organizations scale and secure content through the entire supply chain—from the camera to the cloud and then to the customer. Hear these studio and streaming services leaders discuss their experiences with the recent evolution of media security standards and share their thoughts on the future of digital content security. |
 | Closing the lid on public S3 buckets: Preventing S3 bucket exposure – Part 1
In Part 1 of this session, discovery ways that your infrastructure is being used, and explores the steps you can take to enable the public access block feature on all Amazon S3 buckets within your organization. This session discusses how the Amazon S3 public access block feature works and the building blocks required to enable it at scale with minimal to no disruption. Explore how to get visibility into what's happening within your buckets. Finally, explore patterns and anti-patterns for using S3 buckets within your organization. |
 | Closing the lid on public S3 buckets: Preventing S3 bucket exposure – Part 2
In Part 2 of this session, learn how to query S3 access logs for interesting findings, detect which objects are being publicly accessed, and lock objects down without causing serious disruption to your infrastructure operations. Explore patterns to follow when developing tooling to enable and enforce the Amazon S3 public access block feature at scale. |
 | Simplifying delivery as code with Spinnaker and Kubernetes
Software delivery can seem simple at first. Step 1: Build code. Step 2: Deploy application. Step 3: The end. Complexity often sneaks into our processes uninvited, disguised as scale, testing, auditing, sharing, etc. Delightfully simple workflows can quickly balloon into complex pipelines that require operators to see around every corner and, in many cases, are directly at odds with the declarative infrastructure processes operators love to build. In this session, Netflix and AWS discuss their collaboration on Spinnaker's next-gen vision for transitioning from an imperative mix of pipelines and stages to a more declarative description of end goals and bring the 'delightful' back to 'delivery.' |
 | Untangling multi-account management with ConsoleMe
At Netflix, the Cloud Infrastructure Security Team manages IAM permissions across hundreds of accounts, coordinating with users' varied AWS experience. In this session, explore a Netflix tool, ConsoleMe, developed to address this issue securely, reduce inconsistencies and delays experienced by end users, and lower the multi-account management burden. ConsoleMe simplifies IAM permissions management by showing Netflix cloud resources in a single interface. It provides a multistep, dynamic, self-service wizard, which determines permissions, generates resource policies automatically, and uses Zelkova to intelligently apply low-risk permission requests. ConsoleMe also brokers application AWS credentials to provide users with short-lived IAM credentials for testing and development. |
 | Advanced VPC design and new capabilities for Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gives you complete control over your AWS virtual networking environment. Given this control, have you ever wondered how new Amazon VPC features affect the way you design your AWS networking infrastructure or change existing architectures that you use today? This session explores the answers to these questions and more. |
 | Amazon CloudFront fundamentals: Features, benefits, and what's new
This session reviews features, benefits, and common uses for Amazon CloudFront, plus features that even long-time CloudFront users may not know. It covers cache key policies, TLS 1.3, real-time log telemetry to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Brotli compression, rootless trusted signers, zero rating, origin shield and dynamic content placement, and custom caching rules (depending on the content type). You also learn about determining what content gets cached at the edge and at the browser, using CloudFront to serve dynamic content, streamlining headers, handling cookies, improving cache-hit ratios, using read timeouts and keep-alive, and more. Finally, you get a look at performance optimizations that CloudFront does behind the scenes. |
| AWS networking: A global network for your workload
Join Mayumi Hiramatsu, VP of Amazon EC2 networking at AWS, to learn what makes the AWS global network the world's most comprehensive network for all your workloads. Mayumi discusses the networking complexity that organizations face as they journey to the cloud and the latest innovations AWS is delivering to make the journey easy. She discusses new capabilities that you can use to improve your security posture with AWS PrivateLink, ways to more easily scale your network, new ways to integrate your existing on-premises and branch office deployments for hybrid cloud connectivity, and how you can gain deeper insights with network management and monitoring capabilities. |
 | AWS Outposts: Networking foundations
AWS Outposts delivers AWS infrastructure and services to customer on-premises facilities for a truly consistent hybrid experience. This session dives into the networking foundations of AWS Outposts and how to connect your Outposts to AWS. It also covers how to seamlessly connect your on-premises network to AWS Outposts for low-latency access to local resources. |
 | Building with AWS PrivateLink, Gateway Load Balancer, and AWS Partners
AWS enables a vast ecosystem of partners and ISVs that allows you to choose the best-of-breed solutions for your business needs. AWS networking services, including AWS PrivateLink and the new Gateway Load Balancer, make it easier to adopt solutions from AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Marketplace partners without exposing data on the public internet. In this session, you learn how to combine services from AWS, third-party virtual appliances, and SaaS services as well as your own internally developed systems. |
 | Choosing the right load balancer for serverless applications
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple application targets for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, learn how to use the AWS load balancing services, Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer, with targets like AWS Fargate containers and AWS Lambda functions. The session also covers load balancing principles, how to pick the right load balancer, interesting use cases, and architectural best practices. |
 | Connect your network to the AWS Cloud with the new AWS Transit Gateway Connect
In this session, you learn about the new AWS Transit Gateway Connect feature. Come hear how AWS Transit Gateway Connect simplifies connectivity with SD-WAN solutions, helping you more easily create a more scalable interconnection between your on-premises network and AWS. |
 | Demystifying data transfer on AWS
Understanding the impact of architectural choices on data transfer can seem confusing even to veterans of AWS. In this session, learn about the details of data transfer and how to make architecture choices that improve application performance, reliability, and scalability—all while minimizing data transfer charges. |
 | Elastic Load Balancing: A year of innovations
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) makes up one of the most widely used AWS service categories—adopted by organizations of all sizes, in all geographies, and across every industry. ELB load balancers are the only load balancers available on AWS that natively connect users to Amazon EC2 instances, container deployments, and AWS Lambda functions. In the last year, ELB has released a host of new features, including IP session affinity, ALPN, weighted target groups, HTTP Guardian, and more. Learn about these new features and how they bring value to your network. |
 | Global traffic management with Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service with 100 percent availability SLAs. Route 53 allows you to connect user requests to infrastructure on AWS and beyond. In this session, learn how to configure health checks to validate the state of your application and set up routing policies to intelligently send users to the most suitable endpoint. Discover how to enable logging to track received queries and set up alerting when unusual load is detected. |
 | Go global with AWS multi-Region network services
A scalable multi-Region network accelerates global expansion and application deployment. Getting there requires a focus on three key areas: (1) global access to applications using a low-latency last-mile network (AWS Global Accelerator vs. DNS vs. Amazon CloudFront), (2) distributed deployment of application stacks using VPC networks spanning AWS Regions and Availability Zones (VPC and AWS Transit Gateway peering and cross-Region AWS PrivateLink), and (3) a scalable and redundant network connecting global VPCs to on-premises data centers (AWS Direct Connect global access). This session dives into these topics, highlighting common challenges and best practices when deploying a scalable multi-Region VPC network infrastructure. |
 | How AWS Global Accelerator improves performance
This session is a deep dive discussion with engineers who built AWS Global Accelerator. It covers the Global Accelerator POP footprint and architecture, how Global Accelerator uses the AWS network and backbone, and performance optimizations such as TCP termination at the edge. |
 | Improving website performance using Amazon CloudFront
You created an Amazon CloudFront distribution, but are you taking advantage of everything that CloudFront offers? This session walks through many options for improving performance, such as setting custom caching rules; determining what content gets cached at the edge or at the client; serving dynamic content; streamlining headers, cookies, and query string forwarding; and using read timeouts and keep-alive. It explains native performance optimizations that run behind the scenes (TLS session resumption, TCP fast open, OCSP stapling, S2N, and request collapsing). Gain a deeper understanding of CloudFront and learn ways to customize options for your specific use cases. |
 | Introducing Gateway Load Balancer for deploying & running virtual appliances
Many organizations want to incorporate the same traffic inspection appliances they use today when building their cloud network. But this can lead to architectural complexity, increased costs, and degraded performance. In this session, you learn about the new Gateway Load Balancer service, which creates new ways of integrating third-party virtual appliances into your network. Hear how, by managing the load balancing and scaling of appliances, you can simplify your network while increasing resiliency and availability, all without having to give up your preferred vendor and the skills and tools that you use today. |
 | Looking at Amazon EKS through a networking lens
Because of its security, reliability, and scalability capabilities, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is used by organization in their most sensitive and mission-critical applications. This session focuses on how Amazon EKS networking works with an Amazon VPC and how to expose your Kubernetes application using Elastic Load Balancing load balancers. It also looks at options for more efficient IP address utilization. |
 | Monitoring and troubleshooting network traffic
Visibility into the traffic flowing through your Amazon VPC infrastructure is fundamental to operating and scaling your AWS deployments with confidence. Whether troubleshooting connectivity issues, detecting security incidents, meeting compliance requirements, or making key security decisions, AWS native VPC monitoring solutions can help. This session demonstrates how you can get started with the recently launched Amazon VPC monitoring capabilities in VPC flow logs and VPC Traffic Mirroring, and it provides information about partner and customer use cases. Come learn how you can derive actionable insights about the traffic traversing your AWS infrastructure. |
 | Networking best practices & tips with the Well-Architected Framework
When connecting your network to AWS, it's good know about best practices that have been learned from real-world use cases. This session walks through the AWS Well-Architected Framework as it applies to networking best practices to help you build reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective designs for the cloud. |
 | Scale your network with IPv6
As enterprise networks grow, it is increasingly harder to find non-overlapping IPv4 CIDR space for VPCs. In addition, many organizations must use their own IPv6 addresses for compliance and regulatory reasons. Enterprises have traditionally used IPv6 for their internet IPv6 consumers. This session looks at the scale of IPv6 within a network, both in the cloud and on premises. It discusses best practices when adding IPv6, the benefit of IPv6 when scaling your network, and common implementation pitfalls. |
 | Shared VPCs, lessons learned, and best practices
Amazon VPC sharing launched two years ago, and today, many AWS customers are making use of it. In this session, you hear best practices for VPC sharing that have been uncovered by real-world customer use cases. The session also includes a discussion of several common security questions that must be considered when building with VPC sharing. |
 | Using AWS Transit Gateway for your multicast workloads
Multicast routing quickly distributes copies of the same data from one source to multiple receivers. This is a common design for media distribution (video conferencing, for example) or for when end destinations get the same information quickly and at roughly the same time (such as a stock ticker). AWS Transit Gateway routes multicast traffic between subnets of attached VPCs and serves as a multicast router for instances, sending traffic destined for multiple receiving instances. This session covers recent AWS Transit Gateway multicast updates and includes a quick demo of passing a message from a sender to multiple subscribers. |
 | VPC endpoints & PrivateLink: Optimize for security, cost & operations
As companies grow and start looking to optimize their network architectures for both cost and security in multi-account and multi-VPC environments, AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC endpoints provide a solution. This session demonstrates centralized and distributed security patterns leveraging VPC endpoints and AWS Transit Gateway for architectures with diverse connectivity requirements that span hundreds of accounts and VPCs. Leave this session with specific architectures for centralized logging, microservices patterns, and maintenance of management traffic on AWS using VPC endpoints. |
 | Which inspection architecture is right for you?
Which architecture is right for you? This session covers the benefits and challenges of centralized versus distributed inspection and how to determine which architecture is the best fit for your business. It also touches on how Gateway Load Balancer, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Network Firewall factor into those considerations. |
 | Accelerate that app with AWS Amplify open-source framework
Developers are building highly interactive and functional applications across social, consumer, and enterprise spaces. They want to scale their applications quickly on cloud services and enable similar patterns and use cases in their apps, such as sign-in, MFA, and GraphQL implementation. Learn how AWS Amplify provides an open-source framework of libraries and components that easily add these use cases to your applications powered by a cloud backend. This session demonstrates how to accelerate your app development and why Amplify is one of the top 5 fastest growing open-source projects on Github. |
 | App modernization on AWS with Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud
Learn how you can accelerate application modernization and benefit from the open-source Apache Kafka ecosystem by connecting your legacy, on-premises systems to the cloud. In this session, hear real customer stories about timely insights gained from event-driven applications built on an event streaming platform from Confluent Cloud running on AWS, which stores and processes historical data and real-time data streams. Confluent makes Apache Kafka enterprise-ready using infinite Kafka storage with Amazon S3 and multiple private networking options including AWS PrivateLink, along with self-managed encryption keys for storage volume encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). |
 | Building end-to-end ML workflows with Kubeflow Pipelines
Kubeflow is a popular open-source machine learning (ML) toolkit for Kubernetes users who want to build custom ML pipelines. Kubeflow Pipelines is an add-on to Kubeflow that lets you build and deploy portable and scalable end-to-end ML workflows. In this session, learn how to get started with Kubeflow Pipelines on AWS. See how you can integrate powerful Amazon SageMaker features such as data labeling, large-scale hyperparameter tuning, distributed training jobs, and secure and scalable model deployment using SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines. |
 | Building real-time applications using Apache Flink
Build real-time applications using Apache Flink with Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Apache Flink is a framework and engine for building streaming applications for use cases such as real-time analytics and complex event processing. This session covers best practices for building low-latency applications with Apache Flink when reading data from either Amazon MSK or Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. It also covers best practices for running low-latency Apache Flink applications using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics and discusses AWS's open-source contributions to this use case. |
 | Deploying PyTorch models for inference using TorchServe
From search and product recommendations to speech recognition and language translation, many services rely on machine learning (ML) to serve predictions. PyTorch is the deep learning framework of choice for many ML model developers. To make PyTorch deployment fast and easy, AWS developed TorchServe, an open-source model serving library for PyTorch, in collaboration with Facebook. This session introduces TorchServe and its features, including deploying models in eager mode and using TorchScript, serving and versioning models, A/B testing, loading and unloading models, monitoring logs, and customizing metrics. Through examples, take a look at how you can deploy TorchServe models at scale with Amazon SageMaker. |
 | Designing better ML systems: Learnings from Netflix
Data science at Netflix goes far beyond eponymous recommendation systems and touches every aspect of the business, from optimizing content delivery to fighting fraud. Netflix's unique culture affords its data scientists extraordinary freedom of choice in tools, which results in an ever-expanding set of machine learning (ML) approaches and systems. In 2019, Netflix open-sourced Metaflow, its human-centric ML platform. In this session, Netflix shares some lessons learned in its multi-year journey building the ML systems that Metaflow incorporates, covering a diverse range of scale from one-time experimentation on laptops to large-scale model training and serving systems on AWS. |
 | Introduction to GraphQL
Come learn the fundamentals of GraphQL. In this session, you get an introduction to GraphQL, including an overview of the GraphQL fundamentals that are important to know. |
 | Next-gen networking infrastructure with Rust and Tokio
Today's networking infrastructure software has stringent requirements. It must not only be fast, but also safe—that is, able to process untrusted data without crashing or being vulnerable to security exploits). Traditionally, these two requirements have been at odds. Network programmers had to pick a language that offered either speed or safety. With the Rust programming language and the Tokio networking library, you can have both. This session shows how Tokio's zero-cost abstractions can be leveraged to deliver a networking platform that provides expressiveness, speed, and safety with tradeoffs between them. |
 | Open-source failure injection on AWS
Distributed software systems are composed of several individual subsystems (e.g., CDNs, load balancers, and databases) and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable behaviors caused by unforeseen turbulent events (e.g., a network failure) that can turn benign issues into catastrophic failures. Such events can be minimized with chaos engineering, a discipline that helps gain confidence in the system's resilience to failures. This session presents an open-source approach to failure injection on Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS using AWS Systems Manager and discusses how Prime Video combines this approach with load testing for higher levels of resiliency. |
 | Open-source observability at AWS
Hear from a CNCF SIG observability (o11y) member on the state of open-source o11y on AWS. From the Fluent Bit-based FireLens to Prometheus metrics in Amazon CloudWatch to OpenTelemetry, there is a lot to discuss and show in the context of microservices, containers, and serverless compute. |
 | Pronto: An IaC suite for managing Cassandra at scale
Intuit's data persistence team has been managing hundreds of Cassandra nodes for nearly a decade. Since moving to AWS, the team has collected best practices, built a suite of automation tools, and optimized its configurations. Pronto is an effort to give back to the community with an open-sourced framework of tools for self-managed Cassandra. It automates Packer, Terraform, and Ansible to go from an empty account to a running cluster in less than an hour. This session walks through the journey to Pronto and details how you can leverage Pronto to manage Cassandra at scale. |
 | Redis 2020: Creating a community-driven project
Redis is regarded as the world's most loved database because of its ease of use and versatility, values that were instilled by its creator, who recently stepped down as maintainer. Redis is now evolving to engage the community to drive its development. This session covers the origins of the new light-governance model, including what's being preserved and how Redis wants to grow the community. See examples of successful community members, and hear ways that AWS will continue to contribute to Redis. Come learn about the immediate future of Redis with regard to the cloud and the areas most in need of community attention today. |
 | Rust-vmm: Secure VM-based isolation made simple
Rust-vmm is an open-source project that maintains a set of secure and highly reusable virtualization building blocks designed to be used as part of battle-tested, virtual machine monitors (VMMs) such as Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor. In this session, use rust-vmm building blocks (with some additional glue and a simple API) to assemble and run a VMM that isolates Linux guests. Dive into how the modularity of rust-vmm can be leveraged to enable the agile composition of use case-specific VMMs that are secure, minimalistic, and allow users to focus on key differentiators rather than reimplementing common functionality. |
 | SaaS boost: Using open source to accelerate SaaS adoption
The move to a SaaS delivery model can be daunting for ISV developers and architects. To target this need, AWS has created an open-source solution that can jump-start your path to SaaS. This session looks at the underlying architecture of this solution and provides a detailed view of how it enables you to leverage the power of an open-source environment to accelerate your path to a SaaS delivery model. In this session, examine the core services and developer experience of this model and review its approach to implementing and surfacing a range of prescriptive SaaS capabilities (onboarding, operations, billing, etc.). |
 | Securing Bottlerocket updates with TUF and Rust
With Bottlerocket, AWS had the opportunity to build an over-the-air updates system from the start. AWS looked to build on top of The Update Framework (TUF), now a CNCF graduated project, and wrote a Rust library and tooling for the project. This session dives deep into the TUF specification and how AWS implemented it in Rust. |
 | The future of Elasticsearch: Open Distro for Elasticsearch
Open Distro for Elasticsearch is a 100 percent open-source distribution of Elasticsearch that includes advanced features previously only available in commercial software. In this session, get an inside look into the project and many of the features, including enterprise security, real-time alerting, anomaly detection, integrated SQL engine, index state management, k-nearest neighbor search, and more. This session also covers what AWS is working on and what's next. Attend this session to learn how you can be part of a broad community that is using Open Distro for Elasticsearch to accelerate open innovation for Elasticsearch. |
 | The serverless LAMP stack
Learn about the serverless LAMP stack and how to use your favorite open-source frameworks like Laravel to build modern, serverless PHP apps. |
 | Fighting wildfire with artificial intelligence
Fueled by heat and wind, wildfires are burning throughout states on the West Coast of the United States. As part of its continued efforts to reduce the risk of wildfire, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is building machine learning models using AWS services to automatically identify asset damage on drone imagery and vegetation risks on satellite imagery. Also, to improve customer awareness ahead of public safety power shutoff events, the company has expanded its communication channels to smart assistants that enable convenient access to important information. |
 | PGE's customer and operational improvement journey with AWS
Electric and gas utility Portland General Electric (PGE) has reduced customer friction and reaped numerous operational improvements with AWS services. In this session, learn how PGE leveraged AWS technology and developed ML and analytic solutions to improve the operational efficiency for full-pole inspection, estimated restoration time calculation, and PV disaggregation. Also learn how PGE 'in-sourced' meter data analytics work and the real savings it is accruing. The session also covers how PGE leveraged the AWS stack and developed APIs and microservices for a web and mobile app and a data lake for internal customers. |
 | Utility meter data analytics and Quick Start walk-through
Utilities have been running smart meters for over a decade now, and yet utilities have gained little benefit for themselves or their customers from the rich data flowing from them. The focus has remained on the data needed for billing, while the rest is ignored. This has been largely due to the high cost, low capacity, and slow speed of legacy RDBM meter data systems. In this session, learn how AWS data lakes, analytics, and AI/ML unlock the value of your smart meter data and see a walk-through of the new meter data analytics AWS Quick Start. |
 | Press AWS News Desk 12/10/2020
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 | Press AWS News Desk 12/8/2020
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 | Press AWS News Desk 12/9/2020
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 | Press Feature Conversation: Reimagining the Global Workforce
The ripple effects of the pandemic have disrupted virtually every industry, and precipitated changes in work, learning, and daily life. These dramatic changes are challenging people, organizations, and communities – and bringing added urgency to the global conversation on the future-ready workforce. These changes also open a unique window of opportunity to transform our world with a 'Great Reset.' Join us for a discussion with Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and Teresa Carlson, VP of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, where they will address the need for reimagining education, jobs, businesses, and economic growth, and how individuals and organizations can stay ahead of rapidly changing work and workforce needs.  |
 | Press Fireside Chat with Dr. Werner Vogels
For the finale of the press program at re:Invent 2020, join us for an exclusive, press only fireside chat with Dr. Werner Vogels, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com. During this session, Kamini Aisola, Head of Amazon Web Services BENELUX, will host Dr. Vogels as he shares some of his observations from the world of technology over the course of the year. He will also look to the future, highlighting some of the trends we can expect to see in the world of technology in 2021, and beyond. |
 | Press Fireside Chat: Women in Leadership
The pandemic has posed unique and urgent challenges – from upending business strategies to reinventing workplace norms. It has required individuals to work in new ways, and has often required leaders to make decisions with little time and imperfect information. Join us for a conversation with Indra Nooyi, Amazon board member and former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, and Teresa Carlson, VP of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, as they discuss leadership insights into successfully navigating through the pandemic, women in the workplace, and lessons for the year ahead. |
 | Achieving healthcare interoperability with FHIR Works on AWS
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard has become increasingly necessary for enabling interoperability between healthcare applications and organizations. Join this session for a deep dive into how the FHIR Works on AWS open-source toolkit works, and hear how Black Pear Software has built an integration toolset around it to help its customers share healthcare data more effectively. |
 | Advancing the future of space in the cloud
Aerospace and intelligence companies are going all in on AWS to automate and scale space operations. Take a deep dive into how Maxar Technologies is using AWS to advance the future of space in the cloud using AWS Ground Station, AWS storage solutions, machine learning, and high-performance computing to predict where clouds and storms will be in order to deliver actionable earth intelligence to the world. Learn how Maxar uses the AWS Cloud and how they design space infrastructure to accelerate space exploration to the moon, Mars, and beyond. |
 | Agile governance on AWS GovCloud (US)
Agile governance is the new mantra for U.S. federal agencies and regulated sectors moving production and mission-critical workloads to the cloud. In this session, learn how AWS Service Catalog can consistently provision standardized, secure, and compliant AWS services, ISV solutions, and other multi-tier applications, enforcing governance controls. Also learn how organizations like Lockheed Martin make it simple to consume and manage cloud services in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions using AWS Service Catalog. |
 | An introduction to healthcare interoperability and FHIR Works on AWS
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is gaining popularity around the world as the standard to use for exchanging healthcare data, and it is being increasingly adopted in Europe and Australasia. In the US, it is actually mandated in the 21st Century Cures Act HHS final rule. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for those who manage healthcare data in EHRs and other systems. This session introduces the FHIR standard and a new open-source project, FHIR Works on AWS, that can help accelerate the use of FHIR in customer solutions. |
 | Building analytics workloads in highly regulated environments
Organizations working within highly regulated environments, such as healthcare, government, and financial services, face unique challenges when building data and analytics workloads. Join this session and learn how to overcome these challenges and drive insights from your data while supporting security and compliance efforts. Learn how these environments drive certain architectural decisions around data storage, governance, lineage, and permissions, and hear about customer use cases. |
 | Building the cloud workforce of tomorrow with AWS
As cloud technologies continue to help organizations transform at a rapid pace, cloud-skilled employees are in high demand. AWS customers around the world say there are simply not enough skilled applicants to meet their growing needs. AWS education programs are addressing this challenge by removing barriers to education and forging new paths for individuals to develop cloud expertise and obtain AWS certifications to enter the technology workforce. These programs work with academic institutions, governments, and employers to prepare students for cloud careers. Join this session to hear how Miami Dade College is helping grow and diversify tomorrow's cloud talent. |
 | Designing AI/ML applications for impact
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) help organizations improve outcomes with automation, predictive insights, natural language interactions, and data-driven decision making. The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps cloud architects build secure and resilient infrastructure for their applications and workloads. In this whiteboarding session, learn how to design an ML application guided by the AWS Well-Architected Framework five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. |
 | Detecting extreme weather events from space
Satellites revolving around the earth collect petabytes of data every day and send them back for ingestion, categorization, processing, and dissemination. While more organizations dedicate resources to environmental monitoring and predictive analytics, it is essential to not just give them the platform to implement their technologies but also share the responsibility in solving the problem. In this session, learn how to use AWS Ground Station, Amazon SageMaker, and data lakes to automate, scale extreme weather event detection, and help build disaster resilience. You also hear how Fireball International delivers early wildfire detection services through multi-sensor rapid wildfire intelligence. |
 | Drones and Snowballs: Delivering imagery at the edge
After disasters and in rural areas, connectivity is limited, intermittent, or not available. As drone usage increases for disasters and humanitarian use cases, the ability to process imagery in no- or low-connectivity environments gives organizations information critical to planning and response. Take a deep dive to learn how the AWS Disaster Response program collaborated with NGOs like Help.NGO to prepare, provision, and operate a drone imagery pipeline at the edge using AWS Snowball devices. The faster that drone imagery can be processed, the faster it can get to decision makers. |
| From complexity to clarity: The strategic value of AWS
The ongoing global crisis has demonstrated the critical need for organizations to leverage technology that can serve their strategic goals and complex missions. In this session, Teresa Carlson, vice president and leader of AWS public sector and industry business units, shares use cases demonstrating how to leverage AWS services in the face of resource constraints, and in all environments. She shares AWS programs that can help you accelerate your organization's digital transformation and deliver impactful results. Additionally, AWS customers explain how they are driving impact around big ideas, discoveries, and turning points to solve some of the world's largest challenges. |
 | Modernizing engagement for the 2020 United States Census
For the first time, households in the United States were able to respond to the 2020 Census Survey online. To make this possible, the United States Census Bureau stood up modern, real-time, mission-critical survey response applications in a secure and FedRAMP-compliant cloud environment for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). In this session, learn how using AWS GovCloud (US) can help you quickly modernize applications using multi-Region architectures for enhanced resiliency and security. This architecture allowed the Census Bureau to develop a new way to engage with households and supply critical data that lawmakers and others use to provide daily services, products, and support for communities. |
 | Ransomware: Be prepared
Recent events prove that organizations must continue to be prepared for the possibility of ransomware events. Join this session to learn how to leverage the AWS security self-assessment toolkit and other related AWS services to defend against ransomware. Also, hear key takeaways from the recently released NIST SP 1800-25 and SP 1800-26 ransomware guidance, and learn how to extend the self-assessment toolkit. |
 | Rapidly deploying social services on Amazon Connect
Organizations that respond to disruptive, large-scale events need the ability to rapidly scale and iterate on their contact centers to provide services to their constituents. Amazon Connect can be set up in minutes and scale to handle virtually any number of contacts in a matter of days or hours. In this session, hear from the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) on how it launched a contact center overnight to support the Paycheck Protection Program. Then, learn how the state of Maryland, the state of Kansas, and Employment and Social Development Canada responded to changing conditions by leveraging Amazon Connect. |
 | Reinventing medical imaging with machine learning on AWS
It is hard to imagine the future of medical imaging without machine learning (ML) as its central innovation engine. Countless researchers, developers, startups, and larger enterprises are engaged in building, training, and deploying ML solutions for medical imaging that are poised to transform today's medical workflows and the future value of imaging in diagnosis and treatment. In this session, hear how you can reinvent medical imaging with the cloud and how Radboud University Medical Center uses AWS to power its ML imaging platform with 45,000+ registered researchers and clinicians from all over the world. |
 | Securing student data in the age of virtual learning
Protecting student data is more critical than ever due to the rapid shift to online learning in 2020. Schools, academic institutions, and educational technology (EdTech) providers are implementing best practices to secure student data. In this session, learn how AWS enables you to meet your data security objectives, reduce risk, and automate tasks with tools such as Amazon Macie, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Lambda. Hear how education customers like D2L and Athabasca University are using these and other AWS security services to meet the highest standards in security. |
 | Shaping a growth work culture with agile leadership
In this session, learn from industry-defining women about leading, training, and motivating teams in a virtual workplace. Join Sandy Carter, AWS vice president of public sector global partners and programs, Yvonne Hodge, senior vice president of enterprise transformation at Lockheed Martin, and Wendy Pfeiffer, CIO at Nutanix, to hear their perspectives and best practices for enabling a growth work culture and employee success. |
 | Transform research environments with Service Workbench on AWS
Reenvison how research environments are spun up by reducing wait times from days to minutes. Service Workbench on AWS promotes repeatability, multi-institutional collaboration, and transparency in the research process. In this session, learn how Harvard Medical School is procuring and deploying domain-specific data, tools, and secure IT environments to accelerate research. |
 | Using Amazon SageMaker for geospatial imagery with Capella Space
Capella Space is leveraging Amazon SageMaker to build complex machine learning (ML) models on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery. By applying ML to SAR imagery, Capella can begin automatically detecting global events in near-real time without being hindered by weather or time of day. Join this session to learn which approaches can be applied to geospatial use cases and learn architectures for labeling, training, and deploying geospatial ML models on AWS. |
 | Using open data for sustainable agriculture
As the world population expands and food insecurity reaches record levels, the collective need for agriculture to produce more output with fewer resources is critical. Using Earth observation data brings insights to agriculture and helps inform improved practices and outcomes in farms from Africa to Brazil and beyond. In this session, hear how you can find publicly available Earth observation data relevant for agriculture on AWS, and learn how customers like OneSoil, Sinergise, and Digital Earth Africa are using the cloud to build tools that enable renewable practices. |
 | Exploring quantum computing today with Amazon Braket
Quantum computing is an emerging field, with great potential, rapidly evolving technology, and notable challenges. Even though today's quantum computers still can't outperform high-performance classical computers to solve commercial problems, there's plenty of opportunity to innovate and a clear need to prepare for the future. This session explains how developers and researchers can use the capabilities of the Amazon Braket quantum computing service to simulate and run quantum circuits. The session also discusses techniques to run iterative, variational computations using tools specifically designed to program hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for near-term applications. |
 | Is now the right time to explore quantum computing?
Quantum computing is a young and exciting field, but it's hard to know if, when, and how to get started. Join this session to learn when it makes sense for your organization to start its quantum computing journey. Hear about the scientific problems and potential use cases that Amazon Braket users are exploring. The session will provide a brief overview of Amazon Braket and share lessons from the service's early users and research consultants at the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab. |
 | Building the future of retail on AWS
Discover how Sainsbury's, one of the world's leading grocers, is redefining its retail business strategy through the cloud. In this session, hear about the key industry-optimized services and solutions AWS is delivering to reshape the future of the retail and grocery sectors. Also, hear from Phil Jordan, group CIO at Sainsbury's, on how his team is modernizing its IT architecture to enhance business agility, transform customer engagement, and deliver new services. |
 | How Stitch Fix is delivering personalized experiences
How can organizations deliver dynamic personalized customer interactions? Hear how the platform engineering team at Stitch Fix is transforming customer interactions by delivering a highly concurrent and scalable solution for real-time product recommendations. Come away with an understanding of the architectural requirements for leveraging Amazon DynamoDB to optimize near-real-time machine learning workloads to deliver the right user experience. |
 | Build a better robot faster with AWS and ROS
Building robotics applications can be a challenge without the right tools. Using open-source tools and cloud technology to build and test robotics applications in 3D virtual worlds can speed up development and increase quality. However, it can be daunting to get started working with all of the elements, from software distributions, simulation engines, 3D design for simulation assets, and test design. This session shows you how to get started building a robotic application using Robot Operating System (ROS). Also, learn how to create simulation environments, run key tests, and deploy software to your robots. |
 | How to test and train your robots with AWS RoboMaker
Building safe, high-quality robotics applications and machine learning models is difficult. It's even harder when you can't get enough hardware, time, people, or realistic physical space to test or train your robots. Join this session to learn how AWS RoboMaker simulation can help you simplify, accelerate, and expand your efforts to build better robots. This session covers how you can create 3D virtual simulation environments in minutes with Simulation WorldForge and how you can use AWS RoboMaker simulation for both application testing and reinforcement learning using Gazebo and other simulation engines. |
 | Reinforcement learning and robotics
Companies are building robots with increasing levels of sophistication and autonomy to work alongside humans. However, programming certain robotics functions for use in dynamic environments can be extremely difficult. Developers have started training machine learning models for robotics functions such as navigation and manipulation of objects with iterative reinforcement learning. This session explains how and for what applications reinforcement learning can be used in robotics. Join the session to learn how developers can use AWS RoboMaker to create and host 3D simulation training environments for reinforcement learning. |
 | A defense-in-depth approach to Amazon S3 security and access
Strong adherence to architecture best practices and proactive controls is the foundation of storage security and access controls. In this session, you learn best practices for data security in Amazon S3. The session reviews the fundamentals of Amazon S3 security architecture and dives deep into the latest enhancements in usability and functionality. You learn about options for encryption, access control, security monitoring, auditing, and remediation. |
 | A security operator's guide to practical AWS CloudTrail analysis
AWS CloudTrail helps you discover and troubleshoot security and operational issues by capturing a comprehensive history of changes that occurred in your AWS account within a specified period of time. In this session, you learn about the AWS CloudTrail service and its value for security operations. The session dives deep into sources of data enrichment and reviews how to leverage AWS CloudTrail as part of your security operations and incident response procedures. |
 | Achieve compliance as code using AWS Config
Many companies in regulated industries have achieved compliance requirements using AWS Config. They also need a record of the incidents generated by AWS Config in tools such as ServiceNow for audits and remediation. In this session, learn how you can achieve compliance as code using AWS Config. Through the creation of a noncompliant Amazon EC2 machine, this demo shows how AWS Config triggers an incident into a governance, risk, and compliance system for audit recording and remediation. The session also covers best practices for how to automate the setup process with AWS CloudFormation to support many teams. |
 | Achieving unparalleled scale on Amazon S3: Manage and analyze your data
As your dataset grows on Amazon S3 to millions of objects and petabytes of data or more, it becomes increasingly valuable to use tools and automation to handle that scale. Amazon S3 offers flexible management capabilities to classify, report, and visualize your data usage trends so that you can make informed decisions to optimize performance and cost. In this session, you learn how to use Amazon S3 management features to help you better understand, optimize, and perform actions across storage at scale. Learn how to create and manage S3 Replication rules, run S3 Batch Operations, configure Amazon S3 inventory and metrics, and more. |
 | Automated forensic artifact collection on AWS with Goldman Sachs
When a security event is detected, answers are needed quickly. Often, this starts with evidence collection and basic forensic analysis. While companies have developed automated solutions to collect evidence from on-premises hosts, few have tackled this task in the cloud. In this session, hear how Goldman Sachs worked with AWS product teams and followed AWS best practices to develop SkyCollect, an automated solution that performs full disk and memory evidence collections from potentially affected Amazon EC2 instances. Learn how this solution is leveraged across three organizations in AWS Organizations containing over 3,000 AWS accounts, and hear how it allows for an auditable and efficient workflow. |
 | AWS identity: Choosing the right mix of AWS IAM policies for scale
This session provides both a strategic and tactical overview of various AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies that provide a range of capabilities for the security of your AWS accounts. You probably already use a number of these policies today, but this session will dive into the tactical reasons for choosing one capability over another. This session zooms out to help you understand how to manage these IAM policies across a multi-account environment, covering their purpose, deployment, validation, limitations, monitoring, and more. |
 | AWS identity: Next-generation permission management
This session is for central security teams and developers who manage application permissions. This session reviews a permissions model that enables you to scale your permissions management with confidence. Learn how to set your organization up for access management success with permission guardrails. Then, learn about granting workforce permissions based on attributes, so they scale as your users and teams adjust. Finally, learn about the access analysis tools and how to use them to identify and reduce broad permissions and give users and systems access to only what they need. |
 | AWS identity: Ten identity health checks to improve security in the cloud
Get practical advice and code to help you achieve the principle of least privilege in your existing AWS environment. From enabling logs to disabling root, the provided checklist helps you find and fix permissions issues in your resources, your accounts, and throughout your organization. With these ten health checks, you can improve your AWS identity and achieve better security every day. |
| AWS security: Where we've been, where we're going
Join Steve Schmidt as he takes you through the latest security updates in the Well-Architected categories of detection, identity management, data protection, and incident response. Additionally, Steve breaks down new security services that are launching at re:Invent 2020 and discusses how AWS implements and recommends Zero Trust concepts. Finally, an updated 'ten areas your security group should focus on' list is presented, along with tactical and strategic ways to secure your environment comprehensively and efficiently. |
 | BBC: Driving security best practices in a decentralized organization
In this session, Andrew Carlson, engineer at BBC, talks about BBC's journey while adopting AWS Secrets Manager for lifecycle management of its arbitrary credentials such as database passwords, API keys, and third-party keys. He provides insight on BBC's secrets management best practices and how the company drives these at enterprise scale in a decentralized environment that has a highly visible blast radius. |
 | Best practices for archiving large datasets with AWS
The vast majority of data in the world is cold. Using Amazon S3 Glacier, businesses can safely and securely store data for years or decades without worrying about expensive and finicky tape drives or off-premises tape archival services. This session covers the unique challenges for managing cold data as well as best practices for migrating your data into and restoring your data from the Amazon S3 Glacier and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes. You learn about different options for ingesting and restoring your data at petabyte scale while taking into consideration cost and different tiers of performance. |
 | Better, faster, and lower-cost storage: Optimizing Amazon S3
Effective performance and cost optimization can require different approaches depending on application latency and access patterns. This session reviews key considerations for storing data in frequently accessed, infrequently accessed, and long-term backup and archive storage classes. Learn how Amazon S3 powers some of the most performance-sensitive workloads running in the cloud today. Finally, review how to get the most out of Amazon S3 to improve your architecture and enhance performance. |
 | Beyond authentication: Guide to secure Amazon Cognito applications
Amazon Cognito is a flexible user directory that can meet the needs of a number of customer identity management use cases. Web and mobile applications can integrate with Amazon Cognito in minutes to offer user authentication and get standard tokens to be used in token-based authorization scenarios. This session covers best practices that you can implement in your application to secure and protect tokens. You also learn about new Amazon Cognito features that give you more options to improve the security and availability of your application. |
 | Building post-quantum cryptography for the cloud
This session introduces post-quantum cryptography and how you can use it today to secure TLS communication. Learn about recent updates on standards and existing deployments, including the AWS post-quantum TLS implementation (pq-s2n). A description of the hybrid key agreement method shows how you can combine a new post-quantum key encapsulation method with a classical key exchange to secure network traffic today. |
 | Building your cloud incident response program
You've configured your detection services and now you've received your first alert. This session provides patterns that help you understand what capabilities you need to build and run an effective incident response program in the cloud. It includes a review of some logs to see what they tell you and a discussion of tools to analyze those logs. You learn how to make sure that your team has the right access, how automation can help, and which incident response frameworks can guide you. |
 | Bytes to insights: Analyze and take action on your storage usage
As you use Amazon S3 to manage large shared datasets across tens to hundreds of accounts and buckets and multiple AWS Regions, it becomes more and more important to gather complete and up-to-date information about your storage to make decisions or implement optimizations. Amazon S3 offers a range of tools to aid in analysis and optimization of your storage. In this session, take a tour of Amazon S3 Storage Class Analysis, Amazon S3 inventory, and other tools to learn valuable tips for how to optimize your storage and apply best practices to manage your data. |
 | Comparing AWS deployment tools to manage multiple accounts
Have you enabled your multi-account strategy and now have a dozen different accounts, each of which needs to be managed separately? This session introduces you to numerous tools that can help you manage those accounts and enable common standards and guardrails around them while allowing you to offer secure self-service to your users. |
 | Data protection at scale using Amazon Macie
Data loss prevention is a common topic among companies that work with sensitive data. If an organization can't identify its sensitive data, it can't protect it. In this session, you learn more about how Amazon Macie, a fully managed data security and data privacy service, uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect sensitive data on AWS. Hear about some of the design and architecture that you can use to deploy Amazon Macie at large scale. |
 | Deep dive on AWS Nitro Enclaves for applications running on Amazon EC2
The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for the next generation of Amazon EC2 instances that enables AWS to innovate faster, further reduce cost for AWS customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types. This session dives deep on the security aspects of the Nitro System, including AWS Nitro Enclaves. You also learn how you can leverage the Nitro System to build secure applications using EC2 instances. |
 | Do you need an AWS KMS custom key store?
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) has integrated with AWS CloudHSM, giving you the option to create your own AWS KMS custom key store. In this session, you learn more about how a KMS custom key store is backed by an AWS CloudHSM cluster and how it enables you to generate, store, and use your KMS keys in the hardware security modules that you control. You also learn when and if you really need a custom key store. Join this session to learn why you might choose not to use a custom key store and instead use the AWS KMS default. |
 | Event-driven data security using Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie sensitive data discovery jobs for Amazon S3 buckets help you discover sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial information, account credentials, and workload-specific sensitive information. In this session, you learn about an automated approach to discover sensitive information whenever changes are made to the objects in your S3 buckets. You also learn about how to optimize sensitive information discovery as well as align and maintain compliance with your data security and privacy by minimizing the classified information disclosure in S3 using one-time, scheduled, and event-driven sensitive data discovery jobs. |
 | Get ahead of the curve with DDoS Response Team escalations
This session identifies tools and tricks that you can use to prepare for application security escalations, with lessons learned provided by the AWS DDoS Response Team. You learn how AWS customers have used different AWS offerings to protect their applications, including network access control lists, security groups, and AWS WAF. You also learn how to avoid common misconfigurations and mishaps observed by the DDoS Response Team, and you discover simple yet effective actions that you can take to better protect your applications' availability and security controls. |
 | Getting started with AWS identity services
The number, range, and breadth of AWS services are large, but the set of techniques that you need to secure them is not. Your journey as a builder in the cloud starts with this session, in which practical examples help you quickly get up to speed on the fundamentals of becoming authenticated and authorized in the cloud, as well as on securing your resources and data correctly. |
 | How Goldman Sachs administers temporary elevated AWS access
Goldman Sachs takes security and access to AWS accounts seriously. While empowering teams with the freedom to build applications autonomously is critical for scaling cloud usage across the firm, guardrails and controls need to be set in place to enable secure administrative access. In this session, learn how the company built its credential brokering workflow and administrator access for its users. Learn how, with its simple application that uses proprietary and AWS services, including Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon S3, and Amazon Athena, Goldman Sachs is able to control administrator credentials and monitor and report on actions taken for audits and compliance. |
 | Instance containment techniques for effective incident response
In this session, learn about several instance containment and isolation techniques, ranging from simple and effective to more complex and powerful, that leverage native AWS networking services and account configuration techniques. If an incident happens, you may have questions like 'How do we isolate the system while preserving all the valuable artifacts?' and 'What options do we even have?'. These are valid questions, but there are more important ones to discuss amidst a (possible) incident. Join this session to learn highly effective instance containment techniques in a crawl-walk-run approach that also facilitates preservation and collection of valuable artifacts and intelligence. |
 | Introducing AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager is a managed compliance service that helps you audit your use of AWS in a single place, where usage evidence is continuously collected and organized. In this session, learn how you can transform the audit process from a periodic, time-consuming, and manual process that can take weeks to gather evidence into a situation where you are continually ready to support an audit with much less manual effort. Now, the evidence is collected automatically so you can more easily demonstrate compliance with requirements from controls for compliance standards, such as the GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. |
 | Introducing AWS Network Firewall
AWS Network Firewall is a new security service that enables users to implement granular traffic inspection across their entire network with all the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. This session walks you through how to get started with AWS Network Firewall, common use cases, architecture patterns, rules creation, and how AWS Network Firewall fits in with your existing security ecosystem. |
 | Manage your AWS Service Catalog portfolios like an expert
Enterprise customers often look for prescriptive instruction on how to scale management of standardized cloud architecture patterns to enable standardized self-service provisioning of IT resources. This advanced session provides guidance for how to set up an AWS Service Catalog portfolio to enable IT resource self-service at scale. You learn best practices for setting up your AWS Service Catalog portfolios and launch constraints, and you learn about maintaining a configuration state via a repository. |
 | Network security for serverless workloads
Are you building a serverless application using services like Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon SQS? Would you like to apply enterprise network security to these AWS services? This session covers how network security concepts like encryption, firewalls, and traffic monitoring can be applied to a well-architected AWS serverless architecture. |
 | Privacy-preserving machine learning
Privacy-preserving machine learning is a systematic approach to protecting the privacy and intellectual property of data owners, data users, and other parties involved in machine learning activities. This session presents the AWS model for privacy-preserving machine learning and describes two prototypes that AWS has developed. |
 | Protecting sensitive data with Amazon Macie and Amazon GuardDuty
As organizations manage growing volumes of data, identifying and protecting your sensitive data can become increasingly complex, expensive, and time-consuming. In this session, learn how Amazon Macie and Amazon GuardDuty together provide protection for your data stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Macie automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and lowers the cost of protecting your data. Amazon GuardDuty continuously monitors and profiles S3 data access events and configurations to detect suspicious activities. Come learn about these security services and how to best use them for protecting data in your environment. |
 | Security best practices the AWS Well-Architected way
As you continually evolve your use of AWS products and services, it's important to consider ways to improve your security posture and take advantage of new security services and features. This session shares architectural patterns for meeting common challenges, service quotas, and tips and tricks for continually evaluating your architecture against best practices. Automation and tools are featured throughout, and there will be code giveaways! Be prepared for a technically deep session on AWS security. |
 | Security investigations with Amazon Detective
Amazon Detective makes it easier to perform security investigations and identify the root causes of potential security issues. This session includes a demonstration of how to use Detective in conjunction with Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub to quickly assess security findings. You learn how automatic data collection for multiple log sources and deep analysis in Detective coupled with out-of-the-box visualizations can help you conduct security investigations faster. You also see how Detective can be used to simplify investigation tasks such as understanding communication behavior and how it can be used for evaluating AWS CloudTrail activity across AWS Identity and Access Management principals. |
 | Ten easy and effective ways to secure your AWS environment
Security in the cloud is your highest priority, but sometimes it can be difficult to boil the vast ocean of security capabilities in the cloud down to actionable steps. This session is all tactics. Learn ten easy things you can do in your AWS environment, today, with your permission policies, your data, and your networks that will simply and effectively keep you in a great security posture for the long term. |
 | The busy manager's guide to encryption
In this session, explore the functionality of AWS cryptography services and learn when and where to deploy each of the following: AWS Key Management Service, AWS Encryption SDK, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CloudHSM, and AWS Secrets Manager. You also learn about defense-in-depth strategies including asymmetric permissions models, client-side encryption, and permission segmentation by role. |
 | Transform the relationship between DevOps and compliance teams
Workloads with sensitive or regulated data benefit from the broad security capabilities of AWS. Builders know that AWS services enable the creation of secure and resilient applications, but they need to understand how to align innovation to legacy approaches to compliance. Organizations seeking to accelerate business outcomes adopt quantitative risk-based models, align security strategies to enterprise goals, and prove compliance automation. This session dives deep into typical blockers, learning methodologies, prescriptive guidance, and reliable patterns for transforming the relationship between DevOps and compliance teams. Join the governance discussion by discovering how AWS (and partner) security tools protect the most sensitive workloads. |
 | Trusted connects for government workloads
Cloud adoption across the public sector is making it easier to provide government workforces with seamless access to applications and data. With this move to the cloud, we also need updated security guidance to ensure public-sector data remain secure. For example, the TIC (Trusted Internet Connections) initiative has been a requirement for US federal agencies for some time. The recent TIC-3 moves from prescriptive guidance to an outcomes-based model. This session walks you through how to leverage AWS features to better protect public-sector data using TIC-3 and the NIST CSF. Also, learn how this might map into other geographies. |
 | Use Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub to secure multiple accounts
This session provides you with account-level considerations, best practices, and guidance to help structure and manage security across multiple AWS accounts and on-premises operations. It covers the benefits of aggregating, parsing, and remediating security findings at scale using services such as Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub, and it reviews integrations with external SIEM systems. GuardDuty and Security Hub help filter findings to reduce noise prior to ingesting data into a SIEM. Come learn how to coordinate these services across accounts for a single source of truth for security findings. |
 | Use AWS Firewall Manager to audit overpermissive security groups
Centrally auditing VPC security groups for overpermissive rules is often a requirement. As the number of security groups increases, users also want to monitor them organization-wide. In this session, learn how you can centrally monitor VPC security groups for overpermissive rules using AWS Firewall Manager. Learn about the newly released managed policies, which provide preconfigured checks you can readily enable for auditing your VPC security groups. In addition, learn about the details dashboard to give visibility into violations while offering remediation options across all accounts. |
 | Using AWS WAF and AWS Secrets Manager to enforce Amazon CloudFront origins
When delivering web applications through Amazon CloudFront, a common objective is to prevent viewer requests from directly accessing origin resources. Preventing viewer requests from bypassing CloudFront helps ensure all traffic is handled by global edge locations and is processed according to your AWS WAF rule set prior to being forwarded to your origin endpoint. This session covers common origin enforcement approaches with a deeper focus on how to use CloudFront, AWS WAF, and AWS Secrets Manager to prevent viewer requests from directly accessing your origin resources. |
 | Using certificate-based authentication on containers & web servers on AWS
In this session, BlackSky talks about its experience using AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) end-entity certificates for the processing and distribution of real-time satellite geospatial intelligence and monitoring. Learn how BlackSky uses certificate-based authentication on containers and web servers within its AWS environment to help make TLS ubiquitous in its deployments. The session details the implementation, architecture, and operations best practices that the company chose and how it was able to operate ACM at scale across multiple accounts and regions. |
 | Zero Trust: An AWS perspective
AWS customers have continuously asked, 'What are the optimal patterns for ensuring the right levels of security and availability for my systems and data?' Increasingly, they are asking how patterns that fall under the banner of Zero Trust might apply to this question. In this session, you learn about the AWS guiding principles for Zero Trust and explore the larger subdomains that have emerged within this space. Then the session dives deep into how AWS has incorporated some of these concepts, and how AWS can help you on your own Zero Trust journey. |
 | Ahead of time: Optimize your Java application on AWS Lambda
This session is intended for Java developers who like to optimize their applications on AWS Lambda. Join this session to learn various tweaks to improve all phases of the development lifecycle, at build, deploy, and runtime. The session revisits best practices from 25 years of Java as well as AWS Lambda tricks of today to reduce the cold start time, speed up execution, and improve monitoring. |
 | Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs: Beyond the proxy
In this session, you learn about the advanced features for Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs that make it go beyond a simple proxy service. You learn patterns like direct service integrations to help reduce code and improve reliability and private integration options for infrastructure in a VPC. Learn about security best practices using authorizers and throttling, management techniques like infrastructure as code with OpenAPI, and enhanced monitoring options to get the full story of request/response objects. By attending this session, you learn about the HTTP API advanced features that enable you to build secure, efficient APIs that are easier to manage, faster, and cost less to operate. |
 | Amazon S3 to AWS Lambda: A flexible pattern at the core of serverless apps
It's not just image resizing! In this session, see how to use Amazon S3 as an event source for the core of your application workflow, including language translation, transcription, data processing, and content management. This session walks through the architectures, discusses how these applications work, and provides code repos you can use to build your own scalable production applications. |
 | Analyzing data at any scale with AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda functions provide a powerful compute environment that can be used to process and gain insights from data stored in databases, Amazon Aurora, object storage, and file systems. This session reviews options and techniques to optimize your data analytics platform without managing a server, and it focuses on unstructured (Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS) and structured (Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora) data, including integrations with Amazon Athena, an interactive query service. |
 | API patterns and architectures: RESTful vs. GraphQL APIs
Join this session for a discussion on patterns you can use to build your serverless APIs. Learn about REST APIs powered by Amazon API Gateway and compare them to GraphQL APIs on AWS AppSync. Also, learn from use cases, learn best practices, and see how AWS helps developers build secure and scalable APIs. |
 | AWS Lambda – Part 1: Optimizing your serverless applications
In the first of this two-part series, you learn what you can do to optimize your serverless applications built with AWS Lambda from the Lambda platform and service side. From how to think about your invoke model and usage to what storage makes the best sense for your use case, this session covers everything that you should consider apart from your Lambda function. |
 | AWS Lambda – Part 2: Optimizing your Lambda function performance
In the second of this two-part series, you learn what you can do to optimize your serverless applications built with AWS Lambda from the function configuration and in your function code. The session covers how you can best measure and tune your function's performance by configuring memory to get the right application performance. You also hear best practices for prehandler logic and reuse of information to enable fast startup and fast execution of your functions. |
 | AWS Lambda networking best practices
Networking is always an important part of your architecture. What happens when your architecture involves AWS Lambda functions? What if those functions need to access private resources in your VPC? What about internet access? And let's not forget security. Come to this session to learn the basics of Lambda networking, understand some of the nuances of Lambda that make its networking unique, and get troubleshooting tips. |
 | Becoming proficient with serverless application observability
Performance monitoring is an important part of any application. By understanding the health of your application, you know whether it's functioning as expected and can proactively react when it becomes unhealthy. With serverless applications often built on top of many different services, it can be challenging to pinpoint the source of an issue without proper observability tooling used throughout. Come learn how to add monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing to your serverless applications, including for functions deployed as container images. See how you can track platform and business metrics, visualize your application's performance and operations, and understand which services should be optimized to improve your customers' experiences. |
 | Best practices for growing a serverless application
So your serverless proof of concept became an MVP (minimum viable product) and launched to your customers with great success. Now you need to grow and expand that serverless application in functionality and complexity to deal with increased business needs. How should you think about tackling challenges such as when to break apart functions, create new APIs, and create new AWS Lambda 'microservices' to overcome organizational challenges? How can you use features of AWS to help facilitate this? In this session, learn how to tackle the real scaling challenges, not getting your application to handle more requests, but getting your team to scale its development and do less while seeing more of the benefits of serverless. |
 | Best practices for securing your serverless applications
This session explores how to think about security from the front to the back of a typical serverless application. How do you configure AWS serverless services to provide least privilege access while ensuring functionality? How should you think about managing IAM policies for your AWS Lambda functions? This session covers all of this and more, leaving you with concrete examples that are applicable to almost any workload. |
 | Best practices for security governance in serverless applications
AWS provides services and features that your organization can leverage to improve the security of a serverless application. However, as organizations grow and developers deploy more serverless applications, how do you know if all of the applications are in compliance with your organization's security policies? This session walks you through serverless security, and you learn about protections and guardrails that you can build to avoid misconfigurations and catch potential security risks. |
 | Building revolutionary applications the serverless way
Since launching in 2014, AWS Lambda has enabled hundreds of thousands of developers every month to iterate faster and reduce cost with minimal operational overhead. In this session, Ajay Nair, director of AWS Lambda, guides you through how Lambda has continuously enabled new use cases and workload patterns while improving performance, portability, cost efficiency, and usability. This session focuses on the new ecosystem enabled by Lambda extensions and on container image support, which enables you to use consistent tooling across your compute platforms. Learn why AWS believes serverless is the foundation of application development for the next generation and hear why AWS is just getting started. |
 | Building serverless applications with infrastructure as code
Serverless allows developers to quickly build scalable applications without managing infrastructure. Many build their first serverless application right in the AWS Lambda console. While great for learning, this is not a scalable method for building serverless applications. In this session, learn how to move from the console to the AWS SAM framework. See how to construct a serverless application using reusable templates designed specifically for serverless. Also, develop, debug, and deploy your serverless applications to multiple environments with a simple command line. By the end of this session, understand how to start with a serverless application on your laptop and take it to production without leaving your favorite IDE. |
 | CI/CD for serverless applications, now with container image support
To get the most out of the agility afforded by serverless, it is essential to build CI/CD pipelines that help teams iterate on code and quickly release features. This session breaks down the CI/CD pipeline and looks at different technologies that can help you achieve automated deployments. You learn how container image support for AWS Lambda makes deployment simpler. You also see how the AWS Serverless Application Model, an infrastructure as code framework, and other AWS tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeDeploy can perform safe deployments of your serverless applications. |
 | Decoupling serverless workloads with Amazon EventBridge
Event-driven architecture can help you decouple services and simplify dependencies as your applications grow. In this session, you learn how Amazon EventBridge provides new options for developers who are looking to gain the benefits of this approach. |
 | Deep dive into AWS Lambda security: Function isolation
This session dives into the security model behind AWS Lambda functions, looking at how you can isolate workloads, build multiple layers of protection, and leverage fine-grained authorization. You learn about the implementation, the open-source Firecracker technology that provides one of the most important layers, and what this means for how you build on Lambda. You also see how AWS Lambda securely runs your functions packaged and deployed as container images. Finally, you learn about SaaS, customization, and safe patterns for running your own customers' code in your Lambda functions. |
 | Deep dive on AWS Lambda consumers for Amazon Kinesis
AWS released mechanisms for scaling the consumption of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams last year. In this session, dive deep on two different scaling mechanisms. First, learn how Enhanced Fan-Out allows you to scale multiple, independent application AWS Lambda consumers per shard. Second, see how Parallelization Factor allows you to scale an application as multiple concurrent Lambda consumers per shard. This gives users more flexibility as they look to consume from Kinesis Data Streams. |
 | Enabling a serverless-first Cloud Center of Excellence
Enterprises are embracing serverless to drive continuous innovation, faster time to market, and developer agility as part of broader modernization efforts. While individual teams are building prototypes, many are enabling cross-organizational support through their Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). These CCoEs have been a critical mechanism for scaling a serverless-first strategy through an organization by establishing standardized frameworks, best practices, and common patterns. This session outlines key patterns for a CCoE and how it accelerates serverless adoption. You also hear from Liberty Mutual about its journey to a serverless-first mindset. Leave this session ready to bring a serverless strategy to your organization through a CCoE. |
 | Getting started building your first serverless web application
In this talk, Emily Shea, senior partner development manager at AWS, shares first-hand experience and practical steps for getting started with building serverless web applications. Emily wanted to build a solution to an everyday problem: regularly practicing a second language. This session walks through the process of evolving that solution from an AWS Lambda function into a fully featured application that uses Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon QuickSight, the AWS Amplify Console, and more. Learn why serverless is a great toolset for experimenting with new ideas, and hear how the extensibility and modularity of serverless applications allow you to start small and quickly add features. |
 | Getting started with AWS Step Functions for service orchestration
So you decoupled your monolith into a set of coordinated services. How robust is your approach? Can it manage workloads of over 100,000 events per second? How are you monitoring and debugging when things go wrong? In this session, you learn how to manage the complexity of distributed service coordination using a pattern called orchestration. See how AWS Step Functions helps you quickly build fully managed and resilient workflows powered by easy-to-understand state machines. You hear about real-world use cases, see examples of how to orchestrate work between several AWS services, and learn how to start using Step Functions in your projects. |
 | Handling errors in a serverless world
Serverless technologies introduced new ways to build highly scalable, resilient applications without managing infrastructure. When building serverless applications by using several managed services, how should you handle errors? Should you include a try/catch block in your code or let the service deal with errors? What if the function is invoked as a task in an AWS Step Functions state machine? Can AWS Lambda Destinations help? In this session, explore error handling across Lambda invocation models and discuss patterns for proper visibility and retry behavior. Leave this session with a better understanding of how to code and/or configure services to better deal with errors across different use cases. |
 | How LEGO.com accelerates innovation with serverless
After experiencing scaling issues on Black Friday, the LEGO team fully refactored its monolith to serverless microservices on AWS. In this session, LEGO Senior Engineering Manager and AWS Serverless Hero Sheen Brisals shows you how LEGO.com rebuilt a monolith into an event-driven architecture with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions at its core. He also discusses how designing with a serverless-first mindset can provide surprising benefits. Come learn about successful architectural patterns and see how LEGO.com manages and grows its serverless team to deliver more in less time at the scale of millions of customers. |
 | I didn't know AWS SAM could do that!
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and the AWS SAM CLI work together to make it easier to create, build, test, and deploy serverless applications. There are also a number of less commonly used features that give you powerful tools to solve development challenges. This session walks you through some of these features such as custom builds, custom runtime support, AWS Step Functions definitions that can be put directly in your template, and more. |
| Increasing innovation with serverless applications
Organizations around the world are minimizing operations and maximizing agility by developing with serverless building blocks. Join David Richardson, VP of Serverless, for a closer look at the serverless programming model, including event-driven computing with AWS Lambda. Learn how customers are using serverless technologies to build applications that are not only more resilient, secure, and scalable but also more cost efficient. David highlights new innovations made throughout the serverless stack and shares how you can benefit from the serverless programming model, whether you're building new applications or modernizing your existing portfolio. |
 | Introducing container image support for AWS Lambda
This session covers one of the most requested new features for AWS Lambda: container image support. With container image support, developers can now package their Lambda functions and required dependencies using familiar container image tooling. You can also build and test your functions using familiar tools and services to analyze their contents and perform audits. Learn about the new developer workflow that is possible with this capability and how to potentially improve your continuous integration and deployment pipelines. Lastly, hear an explanation of container image security and how to share container images inside your organization. |
 | Observability, logging, and more with AWS Lambda extensions
In this session, learn a new way to easily integrate AWS Lambda with your favorite monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools. Come dive into the AWS Lambda function lifecycle to see how extensions work. This session guides you through installing, configuring, and running extensions and showcases common use cases where extensions can help you get more from your serverless applications. And, if you can't find an existing extension for what you need, see how to build your own from scratch. By the end of this session, you'll be ready to take full advantage of this new powerful AWS Lambda capability. |
 | Scalable serverless event-driven architectures with SNS, SQS & Lambda
Event-driven serverless architectures enable your applications to seamlessly scale to burst so they can handle virtually any demand benefiting from pay-as-you-go pricing and minimal operational overhead. Join this session to learn architecture patterns and best practices for composing end-to-end architectures with queues, publish/subscribe topics, and front-end APIs paired with AWS Lambda-based on-demand and automatic scaling serverless event processing. You learn guiding principles for building optimal event-driven architectures with considerations for delivery and ordering guarantees, event consumption models, and infrastructure cost. AWS services featured in this session include Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and AWS Lambda. |
 | Serverless API authentication for HTTP APIs on AWS
HTTP APIs is a new flavor of the Amazon API Gateway. It focuses on delivering enhanced features, improved performance, and an easier developer experience for those building with API Gateway. In this session, dive deep on how to build serverless API authentication for your HTTP APIs. Learn how to control client access to your APIs using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and OAuth 2.0 frameworks. |
 | Serverless, the Swift way
Discover how to run Swift functions on AWS Lambda using the Swift AWS Lambda Runtime package, debug locally using Xcode, and deploy these functions to AWS. Join this session to explore the runtime package and what it has to offer, including its low-memory footprint, as well as how to make performance adjustments. |
 | Thinking serverless: From business problem to serverless solution
Serverless is more than just AWS Lambda, it's about learning to use a range of different services and techniques to solve a customer problem. How do you approach building a solution with a serverless mindset? In this session, learn how to tackle a business problem from a customer perspective by breaking down the needs into serverless building blocks that work well together. The session highlights the power of distributed systems design and event-based architecture. Come learn how easy it is to turn a flowchart into a model for a serverless application. |
 | Understanding AWS Lambda streaming events
Dive into the details of using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon DynamoDB Streams as event sources for AWS Lambda. This session walks you through how AWS Lambda scales along with these two event sources. It also covers best practices and challenges, including how to tune streaming sources for optimum performance and how to effectively monitor them. |
 | Understanding state and application workflows with AWS Step Functions
In this session, explore some of the latest features of AWS Step Functions and dive deep into how you can build complex workflows with them. From the new capabilities of the Amazon States Language to advanced integration patterns, this session covers the bits you might have missed that can enable you to do more with less code. Join this session to examine the types of solutions that can be built using Step Functions, such as approve/deny, error handling, and data science workflows. |
 | Understanding your serverless application's TCO
Serverless applications benefit from a pay-for-value pricing model that enables organizations to closely align their costs with their usage, and this usually results in a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). As a result, predicting and managing costs in serverless applications requires a fundamentally different approach to cost optimization. In this session, gain insight into how serverless application costs are calculated and how you can optimize application design to minimize that cost. Learn strategies for optimizing your bill, and hear real-life examples of common workloads and architectures and how to think about their cost. |
 | What's new in serverless
In this session, learn what's new for serverless at AWS in 2020. Are there exciting things that might have slipped past you for AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and AWS SAM? Come explore the newest launches, such as container image support for AWS Lambda, and learn about exciting patterns and what's been made possible. By the end of this session, leave ready to make use of the latest features to build better serverless applications. |
 | 2021 great cloud expectations (Cloudreach)
2020 saw an acceleration of cloud-based transformation as organizations were forced to react, pivot, and pivot again in response to the global pandemic. This session, hosted by the Cloudbusting podcast team, dives into 2021 cloud trends and what organizations must do, both technically and culturally, to enhance business continuity and adopt cloud as critical infrastructure. Learn why cloud-native organizations are inherently more adaptable and what your organization must do to realize the promise of the cloud in 2021. Leave this session with insights from real customer stories and the Cloudreach strategists guiding them through modern cloud-driven transformation. This presentation is brought to you by Cloudreach, an AWS Partner. |
 | 5 best practices for migrating large analytics systems to AWS (Teradata)
Full Title: 5 best practices for migrating large analytics systems to AWS (sponsored by Teradata) |
 | AMD on AWS: Get even more from your Amazon EC2 instances (AMD)
High-performance AMD technology powers some of the largest organizations using Amazon EC2. With second-generation EPYC processors, AMD sets high standards for performance, scalability, and flexibility. Learn how AMD-based Amazon EC2 instances can accelerate your most demanding workloads while optimizing your total cost of ownership. This presentation is brought to you by AMD, an AWS Partner. |
 | Augmenting native AWS security controls (Rapid7)
Appropriate use of native security controls in the AWS Cloud is essential to managing risk and incorporating security best practices into your cloud use case. In this session, learn how and when to augment these tools for security and compliance. This presentation is brought to you by Rapid7, an AWS Partner. |
 | Automate & modernize data protection with AWS & Rubrik (Rubrik)
Are you looking for ways to simplify protecting data on AWS? This session demonstrates how Rubrik helps you simplify and enhance data protection within SLA parameters, achieve fast data recovery, and adapt to data growth. Leave this session with a deep understanding of how Rubrik's policy-driven framework orchestrates critical data management functions for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. Additionally, see a demonstration of how to simplify data backup and recovery across hybrid cloud and cloud-native environments. This presentation is brought to you by Rubrik, an AWS Partner. |
 | Build cloud-ready apps faster with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (Red Hat)
Full Title: Build cloud-ready apps faster with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (sponsored by Red Hat) |
 | Build, run, manage, connect, & protect hybrid clouds with VMware (VMware)
Full Title: Build, run, manage, connect, & protect hybrid clouds with VMware (sponsored by VMware) |
 | Building for the edge: Verizon 5G Edge & AWS Wavelength foundations (Verizon)
Full Title: Building for the edge: Verizon 5G Edge & AWS Wavelength foundations (sponsored by Verizon) |
 | Can cloud observability be career- & (potentially) life-changing?
Full Title: Can cloud observability be career- & (potentially) life-changing? (sponsored by Dynatrace) |
 | Cisco and AWS innovations for a cloud-first world (Cisco)
In this session, join Cisco's Carlos Pereira, chief architect of strategy, emerging technologies, and incubation, to learn about Cisco and AWS solutions and technology for networking, security, and workloads and applications through insights from the perspectives of developers and IT operations teams. The session includes a discussion of advanced visibility, security with segmentation, and optimized connectivity to AWS, as well as an examination of Cisco technologies that map to such offers and the availability of these assets through the AWS Marketplace. This presentation is brought to you by Cisco, an AWS Partner. |
 | Code-to-cloud visibility with observability & pipeline analytics (Splunk)
Full Title: Code-to-cloud visibility with observability & pipeline analytics (sponsored by Splunk) |
 | Confluent Cloud metamorphosis: Making Apache Kafka easier (Confluent)
Full Title: Confluent Cloud metamorphosis: Making Apache Kafka easier (sponsored by Confluent) |
 | Databases & Amazon S3: Auto-archiving & federated queries (MongoDB)
Databases are built for fast access, but this makes them resource-intensive. As data grows, you may want to optimize performance (or cost) by migrating old or infrequently used data to inexpensive object storage. But this presents its own challenges: automating the archival process, ensuring data consistency during failures, and either querying two data stores separately or building a query federation system. In this session, learn how MongoDB approached these challenges while building the Online Archive and Federated Query features into MongoDB Atlas, and hear about lessons learned and how you can do the same. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an AWS Partner. |
 | Delivering infrastructure automation through consistent workflows (HashiCorp)
Full Title: Delivering infrastructure automation through consistent workflows (sponsored by HashiCorp) |
 | End the monolith! Lessons learned adopting serverless (New Relic)
This session, focused on AWS Lambda, examines lessons learned from teams that have gone all-in with serverless and those just building their first microservice. Discover team strategies that can be applied from day one to help minimize roadblocks, and learn how agile methodologies are essential to serverless success. This session also covers a few tools to help end the monolith, including structured logging with Amazon CloudWatch and infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or the AWS CDK. Whether you're just beginning, or consider yourself an expert, if you're interested in Lambda, this session is for you. This presentation is brought to you by New Relic, an AWS Partner. |
 | Enterprise technology transformation: Going all in on the public cloud
Full Title: Enterprise technology transformation: Going all in on the public cloud (sponsored by Capital One) |
 | How Freshworks scaled using Redis Enterprise Cloud (Redis Labs)
A vital question for organizations building business-critical applications is when to graduate from open-source Redis to Redis Enterprise. In this session, experts from Redis Labs and Freshworks identify the top considerations for moving to an enterprise version of Redis, when it's the right time, and how to optimize your investment in Redis Enterprise. Learn how Freshworks scaled from 30 million requests per day to 500 million and plan to double to 1 billion requests per day. Also, hear why Redis Enterprise Cloud was a key component for Freshworks' growth, and how to get up and running with Redis Enterprise on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by Redis Labs, an AWS Partner. |
 | How to be a data management genius (Cohesity)
Ransomware, natural disasters, and other challenges can strike at any time and put your data and organization at risk. Learn how a genius approach to data management, which includes an as-a-service option, can help you stop worrying and sleep better at night. This session discusses the top mistakes to avoid when backing up on-premises data and best practices for protecting your AWS and SaaS workloads. Learn how to get ahead by turning your data into an asset instead of a liability using comprehensive data management services to extract more value, whether it be for security, compliance, or AI/ML. This presentation is brought to you by Cohesity, an AWS Partner. |
 | How to use machine learning & the Data Cloud for advanced analytics (Snowflake)
Full Title: How to use machine learning & the Data Cloud for advanced analytics (sponsored by Snowflake) |
 | Improving analytics productivity for overwhelmed data teams (Matillion)
Full Title: Improving analytics productivity for overwhelmed data teams (sponsored by Matillion) |
 | Innovate on a hybrid cloud environment with IBM, Red Hat, & AWS (IBM)
Full Title: Innovate on a hybrid cloud environment with IBM, Red Hat, & AWS (sponsored by IBM) |
 | Lessons learned with serverless application development (Rackspace Technology)
Full Title: Lessons learned with serverless application development (sponsored by Rackspace Technology) |
 | Migration of Fidelity's Money Market trading platforms to AWS (Capgemini)
Full Title: Migration of Fidelity's Money Market trading platforms to AWS (sponsored by Capgemini) |
 | Mistakes were made, lessons were learned (Trend Micro)
There's always more than one way to solve a problem. That's a big advantage of AWS, but it can also be overwhelming to deal with. Is Amazon Aurora the right choice? MySQL on Amazon RDS? Create your own on Amazon EC2? These are just some of the decisions that your team is going to have to make. You may make mistakes. Decisions you make now could cause problems down the road. This session explores how teams handle failure and come back stronger, using resources like the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Amazon CloudWatch, and many more tools to help make decisions and build better. This presentation is brought to you buy Trend Micro, an AWS Partner. |
 | ML & analytics addressing nationwide COVID-19 impact & recovery (Intel)
Full Title: ML & analytics addressing nationwide COVID-19 impact & recovery (sponsored by Intel) |
 | NetApp: Storage efficiency meets compute optimization (NetApp)
Don't let your infrastructure limit your imagination—let applications drive your infrastructure. Scale-out applications are primed to take advantage of the scalability of AWS, but they can't run themselves. Infrastructure and DevOps teams need a remedy for the lost time devoted to provisioning, scaling, and upgrades. Need more than just another dashboard, report, or alert? How about automatically understanding, predicting, and adapting to application needs? Learn how to enable application-driven infrastructure in the cloud to optimize cloud compute and improve storage efficiency across your applications and services on AWS—with up to 90 percent savings. This presentation is brought to you by NetApp, an AWS Partner. |
 | Next-generation data control for anything AWS (Veeam)
Whether you're all in with cloud-native applications or just getting started on AWS, this session is for you. From containers and Kubernetes to traditional on-premises workloads (and everything in between), this session covers how to best operate and scale a comprehensive backup, restore, and application mobility strategy on AWS. Come learn about Veeam's industry-leading backup and data management solution for AWS and hybrid cloud environments. This presentation is brought to you by Veeam, an AWS Partner. |
 | Optimize enterprise workloads with Intel-based Amazon EC2 instances (Intel)
Full Title: Optimize enterprise workloads with Intel-based Amazon EC2 instances (sponsored by Intel) |
 | Optimizing protection for AWS service workloads at petabyte scale & beyond
Full Title: Optimizing protection for AWS service workloads at petabyte scale & beyond (sponsored by Commvault) |
 | Proven security best practices for defending cloud applications (F5 Networks)
Full Title: Proven security best practices for defending cloud applications (sponsored by F5 Networks) |
 | Reality check: Moving data lakes from storage to strategic (2nd Watch)
Full Title: Reality check: Moving data lakes from storage to strategic (sponsored by 2nd Watch) |
 | Red team vs. blue team in AWS: Learn to defend your cloud applications
Full Title: Red team vs. blue team in AWS: Learn to defend your cloud applications (sponsored by Check Point Software) |
 | Rethink data protection for hybrid and cloud deployments (Druva)
As the benefits of the cloud continue to grow, most organizations are migrating away from onsite data centers and embracing a cloud-first strategy. Organizations with traditional hybrid workloads like VMware, SQL, and Oracle and native cloud workloads like Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS need a predictable and efficient way to scale data protection services up and down as workloads evolve. Join this session to hear how Druva and AWS are helping customers protect applications in hybrid cloud environments, better secure backups from ransomware, lower the TCO, and improve resiliency with orchestrated virtual machine failover/failback and automated disaster recovery testing for cloud applications. This presentation is brought to you by Druva, an AWS Partner. |
 | Safe and successful AWS migrations (NETSCOUT)
Buckle up! Your journey to the cloud is about to take off. As you're reviewing the final safety checks, you start to wonder if you left something behind. You know where you're going, but did you remember to bring everything you need? We've all been there. In this session, you learn how NETSCOUT provides visibility into and actionable intelligence for any application, anywhere it may be to help you ensure a safe and successful journey to AWS. This presentation is brought to you by NETSCOUT, an AWS Partner. |
 | Scaling Tableau Public by 10x: A COVID-19 conversation (Tableau)
With increased demand for data and analytics during the COVID-19 crisis, Tableau and AWS worked together to support state and local governments in keeping their constituencies informed—from scaling their internal Tableau deployments to creatively leveraging platforms like Tableau Public to communicate data as quickly as possible. In this session, learn how Tableau and AWS address analytics infrastructure challenges, and get a behind-the-scenes look at Tableau Public architecture on AWS, including how Tableau and AWS support surges in traffic, with lessons you can apply to securely scale your own Tableau deployment in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by Tableau, an AWS Partner. |
 | Security-led transformation with Takeda and Accenture (Accenture)
The need to improve cybersecurity through cloud services can actually be the foundation for a more holistic, end-to-end digital transformation with the cloud at its core. Hear Mike Towers, CISO of biopharmaceutical company Takeda, and Shaan Mulchandani, Accenture AWS security lead, discuss a security-led approach to AWS adoption that is helping Takeda realize its vision of being the most trusted and data-driven biopharma business in the world. Plus, learn about native security automation (with Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Macie, Amazon Detective, AWS WAF, etc.), scalable hybrid networking with AWS-native/vendor firewalls, and advanced logging and monitoring in AWS Control Tower and other environments. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an AWS Partner. |
 | Serverless everything: Replatforming for speed & ownership (Datadog)
Full Title: Serverless everything: Replatforming for speed & ownership (sponsored by Datadog) |
 | Shared services platforms & design patterns for federated CCoEs (Cognizant)
Full Title: Shared services platforms & design patterns for federated CCoEs (sponsored by Cognizant) |
 | Solar Turbines' journey to full-stack observability (AppDynamics)
Solar Digital, part of Solar Turbines, is committed to digital transformation and migrating to AWS as part of that journey. But this was only made possible by first gaining full-stack observability through a combination of approaches, including data from AppDynamics and Amazon CloudWatch. In this session, Tomas Huszagh, software engineering manager and head of IT operations at Solar Turbines, discusses the challenges DevOps faced in managing, monitoring, and optimizing application services during their cloud migration journey. He also shares why every business needs to first gain full-stack observability to migrate with confidence and how AppDynamics enabled a seamless and confident move to AWS. This presentation is brought to you by AppDynamics, an AWS Partner. |
 | Spend less, orchestrate more: Maximize your workload protection strategy
Full Title: Spend less, orchestrate more: Maximize your workload protection strategy (sponsored by Veritas) |
 | Sprawl, security, and strategy at the edge (Lumen)
In this session, learn about the Lumen Platform and the importance of acquiring, analyzing, and acting on data insights at the edge through real-world use cases such as supply chain integration, automated operations, autonomous vehicles, and more. Learn how Lumen and AWS enable you to support your organization for mission-critical data and applications and scale for evolving sprawl and security challenges with a real-world strategy that you can implement for your digital business. This presentation is brought to you by Lumen, an AWS Partner. |
 | Stop struggling with analytics on the data lake (Databricks)
Many organizations struggle to provide a data platform that makes data ready for analytics. Learn how to use Databricks with Delta Lake to make the data in your Amazon S3 data lake more reliable with higher performance so it can support all of your analytics across data science, machine learning, and BI/reporting. See how companies like Comcast have used this approach to reduce costs (Comcast saved $9 million) and improve model deployment time from weeks to minutes. This presentation is brought to you by Databricks, an AWS Partner. |
 | The definitive guide for Kubernetes cost management (Apptio Cloudability)
Full Title: The definitive guide for Kubernetes cost management (sponsored by Apptio Cloudability) |
 | The next frontier in broadcasting: Professional live content production
Full Title: The next frontier in broadcasting: Professional live content production (sponsored by Deloitte) |
 | Thomson Reuters, cloud migration & modern tools to manage tech operations
Full Title: Thomson Reuters, cloud migration & modern tools to manage tech operations (sponsored by PagerDuty) |
 | Transform contact centers into experience centers for a resilient future (Wipro)
Full Title: Transform contact centers into experience centers for a resilient future (sponsored by Wipro) |
 | Up-level your AWS infrastructure automation with GitOps
GitOps is being adopted by organizations that want to manage the ever-increasing complexity and sophistication of today's workloads. With GitOps, they can increase the pace of innovation while maintaining enterprise-level security and compliance. In this session, learn how to use GitOps principles like version control, code review, and CI/CD to manage collaboration and compliance in almost any environment, from legacy systems to sophisticated cloud-native microservices. A session demo shows how to use infrastructure as code to manage containers on AWS. Learn how the principles can be applied to any service from AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS to Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and VMware on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by GitLab, an AWS Partner. |
 | Western Union builds a future-ready enterprise with the cloud (TCS)
Gain insights from Western Union and TCS in this session on how a robust cloud strategy is helping Western Union, a financial and communications company, drive modernization, agility, and resilience across its business to build a future-ready enterprise. Learn about the company's cloud modernization journey, which is helping it deliver outcome-driven transformation and superior customer experiences by harnessing the power of the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by TCS, an AWS Partner. |
 | What do 1,000 people say about open-source observability? (Logz.io)
Observability is on everyone's mind; you cannot operate a digital business without it. Running complex architectures requires granular and deep understanding, not only to identify problems but also to make the right decisions for the business. What is observability and how are people handling it today? In this session, learn what exciting tools communities are using to solve for observability needs and which best practices work when implementing and scaling open-source observability. Also, learn from the recent Logz.io DevOps Pulse survey (with over 1,000 respondents) what people's roles and responsibilities entail, what tools they are using, and what challenges they identified as time-consuming toil. This presentation is brought to you by, Logz.io, an AWS Partner. |
 | Your fastest path from idea to impact (Salesforce)
As the #1 CRM and the most broadly adopted cloud platform, respectively, Salesforce and AWS offer cloud services with strategic integrations based on a foundation of security and simplicity. In this session, explore how Service Cloud Voice with Amazon Connect is transforming customer service, and learn how you can use Private Connect and Amazon AppFlow to securely share data between Salesforce and AWS. Hear the latest updates on Tableau and MuleSoft, and check out joint learning initiatives powered by Trailhead. With innovations in AI, voice, and productivity, and by empowering everyone to skill up for the future, Saleforce and AWS together are your fastest path from idea to impact. This presentation is brought to you by Salesforce, an AWS Partner. |
 | Accelerate your migration to Amazon S3
AWS offers a wide variety of services and partner tools to help you migrate your data to Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier. Learn how AWS Storage Gateway and AWS DataSync can remove the friction out of the data migration process as you dive into the solutions and architectural considerations for accelerating data migration to the cloud from on-premises systems. |
 | Amazon EFS performance best practices
Amazon EFS delivers highly available and highly durable file systems that are distributed across an unconstrained number of storage servers, enabling massively parallel access. This means that highly parallelized workloads can drive high levels of aggregate throughput and operations per second. In this session, learn best practices for leveraging this distributed data-storage design. Learn to select the appropriate performance and throughput mode as well as best practices for configuring clients, ingesting data, and monitoring performance. |
 | Amazon S3 foundations: Best practices for Amazon S3
Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier provide developers and IT teams with object storage that offers industry-leading scalability, durability, security, and performance. This session provides an overview of Amazon S3 and a review of key features such as storage classes, security, data protection, monitoring, and more. You learn about how Airbnb uses Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier for cost optimization, data management, and analytics of its workloads. |
 | Architecting for high availability on Amazon S3
High availability starts with an infrastructure that is resilient and resistant to disruption, and the core of that is Amazon S3. Amazon S3 delivers high durability, availability, and performant object storage. That is the foundation, but to architect your system for high availability, you also need the right components and defined processes to respond quickly, minimize disruptions, and reduce downtime. In this session, get an inside look at how Amazon S3 is architected for high availability, and get actionable takeaways that you can implement in your environment. |
 | Break down data silos: Build a serverless data lake on Amazon S3
Flexibility, security, performance, and optimizing costs are key when building and scaling a data lake. The analytics solutions you use in the future will almost certainly be different from the ones you use today, and choosing the right storage foundation gives you the agility to quickly experiment and migrate with the latest analytics solutions. In this session, explore the best practices for optimizing your storage, performance, and costs when building a data lake in Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier. |
 | Choosing the right storage for your on-premises file-based workloads
In this session, learn about AWS storage for on-premises file use cases. Workloads relying on the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, such as home directories, cloud file shares, content repositories, and business applications can benefit from the scalability, durability, and reliability of AWS storage solutions. During this session, gain an understanding of which service to use in various scenarios, learn from examples, and discover fast and easy ways to accelerate your file migration journey. |
 | Data lake security in Amazon S3: Perimeters and fine-grained controls
As you build a data lake on Amazon S3, managing security and access is essential. You require granular access control for your data with strong controls around authentication, authorization, encryption, and auditing. At the same time, you require strong guardrails that protect your data from outside access, at scale. Amazon S3 provides enhanced data security features in the cloud, on both ends of this spectrum. In this session, get guidance on the mechanisms you use on AWS, from identity to encryption to networking, to maintain tight control over your data. |
 | Data protection and compliance for cloud workloads with AWS Backup
In this session, learn how to leverage AWS Backup, a fully managed service for centralizing policy-based backup and restore capabilities, to meet enterprise compliance and data protection requirements for your AWS workloads. Learn how Workday leverages its AWS Backup policies across its AWS Organizations accounts to seamlessly protect its Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon Aurora clusters, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, Amazon EC2 instances, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes in the cloud and on-premises. |
 | Deep dive on Amazon EFS
In this session, learn about Amazon EFS and how to select applications and workloads that can benefit from the massive scale, features, and benefits of Amazon EFS. Join this session for important details about security, scale, performance, management, storage classes, and data lifecycle management. |
 | Deep dive on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable, and durable Windows file storage, built on Microsoft Windows Server. It delivers full compatibility and features for your Windows workloads, including support for the SMB protocol, automatic backups, and Microsoft Active Directory integration. It offers fast and flexible performance and the lowest-cost file storage in the cloud for Windows workloads. In this session, discover the latest features to enable faster innovation with your business applications. Storage administrators and application owners will learn how to deploy and scale highly available Windows file storage integrated with their organization's existing Active Directory environments. |
 | Edge computing innovation with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge
In this session, learn how the AWS Snow Family can help you run operations in harsh, non-data center environments and in locations where there is a lack of consistent network connectivity. The AWS Snow Family, comprised of AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge, offers a number of physical devices and capacity points with built-in computing capabilities. This session covers how organizations are using AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge to address edge computing workloads in rugged, mobile, and portable environments across industries such as industrial, healthcare, public sector, media, and telecommunication. |
 | Extend Amazon S3 to on-premises environments with AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts extends Amazon S3 to your on-premises and connected edge environments to support applications with data residency requirements. Learn how you can use Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts to create and manage object storage running on premises. AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility. This session covers how you can use the same Amazon S3 capabilities that you use today in the cloud to easily set up, operate, scale, and manage storage running on AWS Outposts in your data centers. Attend this session to learn more about how Amazon S3 on Outposts works and key use cases. |
 | Get on-premises access to cloud storage in minutes with AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway provides a fast and easy path to using cloud storage while optimizing your current business workflows and storage experience. Storage Gateway enables hybrid cloud storage use cases, such as backup and archiving, cloud-backed on-premises file shares, and cloud data processing. In this session, learn how Storage Gateway enables you to build your own hybrid cloud storage architecture in minutes. Also, see how you can use Storage Gateway to overcome your on-premises storage challenges, learn how others are using the service, and chart a path forward to using the cloud for storage and data processing. |
| Innovate faster with applications on AWS storage
Organizations need to build applications faster than ever, with the ability to scale quickly to potentially millions of users, manage petabytes if not exabytes of data, and innovate with data-driven insights. AWS storage is purpose-built for the applications that drive your business. Join this leadership session to learn what's new in the rapidly changing world of storage; how to increase agility and reduce costs by moving workloads to the cloud; and how to innovate faster with data lakes, analytics, and ML applications built on AWS storage. Rethink what's possible with your storage for your applications today and tomorrow. |
 | Lessons from the vanguard: Build modern apps using Amazon S3 or Amazon EBS
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 storage. In this session, learn how to start innovating with serverless technology from Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS. The session includes user stories of accelerating innovation and driving business value. |
 | Migrate your data to AWS quickly and securely using AWS DataSync
Do you need to move TBs or PBs of unstructured data to AWS? Are you looking to move your data quickly and easily, without the hassle of do-it-yourself scripting, error handling, and monitoring? Do you need encryption, end-to-end data validation, and automatic recovery from network issues? In this session, learn how AWS DataSync enables you to quickly, easily, and securely migrate your on-premises NAS or object data to Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. |
 | Modernize your applications with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS
Serverless computing enables you to be more agile while spending less time dealing with the security, scalability and availability of your applications. At the same time, modern data-intensive applications require fast access to large volumes of shared data. In this session, learn about running large-scale, mission-critical, data-intensive applications with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS. Explore using Amazon EFS serverless storage to simplify the sharing of data that needs to persist beyond and between executions of Lambda functions. |
 | Modernize your applications with containers using Amazon EFS
Modernizing applications with containers improves agility, so you can innovate faster while saving on infrastructure costs by improving utilization. In this session, learn best practices for using fully managed Amazon EFS to share data between containers. This session includes a walk through of how to get started with Amazon EFS for Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate. We discuss your implementation questions, and then we diagram different architectures and techniques to help you maximize your container deployments. |
 | Modernize your on-premises backup strategy with AWS
On-premises data centers can be prone to unintended outages, disasters, and malicious threats. Attend this session to learn how you can easily and cost-effectively protect your data and applications to meet your business and regulatory compliance requirements. The session reviews deploying enterprise-wide backup solutions using AWS storage services. You learn how to use AWS Storage Gateway for seamless integrations to extend your backups to the cloud with Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier and how to use Amazon EFS to back up databases and other enterprise applications. |
 | Move to managed file storage with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Managing file-based workloads on Network Attached Storage (NAS) hardware is often complex, difficult to scale, and costly. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is the first and only fully managed Windows file system—built on Windows Server—providing the full compatibility, performance, and rich features required for Windows-based workloads. In this session, dive into SMB file storage use cases, such as user shares/home directories, content management, and media workflows. Learn about the latest cost optimization capabilities, such as data deduplication and user quotas, and gain best practices to ensure your migration project is a success. |
 | Now is the time: Move your workloads to AWS storage
Organizations of every size realize the benefits of moving to cloud storage. They want to put an end to hardware refresh cycles and data migrations resulting from systems upgrades while increasing their agility in delivering new capabilities to their businesses faster and with better data durability, massive scalability, higher availability and performance, and lower cost. In this session, you learn how moving to Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon FSx, or Amazon EFS provides better business value. You also learn about how to manage costs with cloud storage and the different methods of migrating on-premises data to the cloud. |
 | Optimize your data migration with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge
In this session, learn the considerations and best practices for optimizing your data migration of up to dozens of terabytes using AWS Snowcone as well as using AWS Snowball Edge for your large data migrations. The session will cover tooling and methodologies to transfer and migrate data from intermittently connected environments to the AWS Cloud. |
 | Optimizing Amazon EFS for cost and performance, using best practices
Amazon EFS brings simple, highly available, durable, elastic, cloud-native file storage to your Linux-based applications. In this session, AWS experts share best practices to optimize costs and performance when accessing data from your Amazon EFS. This session includes details on storage classes, lifecycle management, performance modes, and how to get the most from Amazon EFS. |
 | Reduce TCO for your Linux file-based applications
Managing on-premises legacy NAS storage arrays brings complexity and high sunk costs. Amazon EFS is a cloud-native, scalable, elastic NFS file system for Linux workloads for use with Amazon EC2, AWS containers and serverless, and on-premises deployments. In this session, learn about the latest features to optimize costs with your Linux file-based applications. Also, discover cost-saving scenarios for files accessed less frequently. |
 | SAS Grid on AWS: Optimize price, performance, and agility
Many organizations use SAS Grid to analyze data and make critical business decisions. Companies are also moving their SAS applications from on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud to increase their agility and reduce costs. In this session, you learn how Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon EC2 compute instances can simplify your migration to AWS and optimize the price and performance of your SAS Grid deployment. |
 | Secure your file transfers to Amazon S3 over SFTP, FTPS, and FTP
In this session, you learn how AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed support for file transfers directly into and out of Amazon S3. With support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP, AWS Transfer Family helps you seamlessly migrate your file transfer workflows to AWS by integrating with existing authentication systems. It also provides DNS routing with Amazon Route 53 so that nothing changes for your customers and partners or their applications. Learn how, with your data in Amazon S3, you can use it with AWS services for processing, analytics, machine learning, and archiving. |
 | Security best practices with Amazon EFS
Security is your first priority. In this session, you'll learn best practices to improve the security of your file-based applications. Amazon EFS provides scalable, cloud-native file storage for your applications running on Amazon EC2, AWS containers, and serverless, as well as on-premises deployments. This session includes discussion of Amazon EFS security features, from data encryption to permissions and managing access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and using access points. |
 | Simplify SQL Server deployments with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
In this session, learn best practices for moving to fully managed Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Amazon FSx offers fully managed file storage built on Windows Server. It provides highly available, and highly performant file shares to support SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster deployments. Using Amazon FSx, you can simplify your deployments, optimize costs with greater license flexibility, increase reliability, and optimize performance. This session covers selecting file systems, maximizing performance, and designing for durability and availability. |
 | Supercharge your compute workloads: deep dive on Amazon FSx for Lustre + S3
Fast, shared file systems can help your compute workloads achieve peak performance and reduce costs. Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully managed, POSIX-compliant shared file system integrated with Amazon S3. FSx for Lustre provides high-performance storage for Amazon EC2 compute resources without the overhead and complexity of a self-managed file system. In this session, you hear about common storage challenges with running compute-intensive workloads and how these opportunities can be addressed with FSx for Lustre. You also learn best practices and see technical demos to help you maximize compute resources and reduce total cost. |
 | What's new with Amazon EFS
In this session, learn about new Amazon EFS features you can use now to modernize your applications with persistent file storage for containers and serverless. You'll also learn how to maximize your performance, get your file systems created faster, and lower your costs. |
 | What's new with Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. With Amazon S3, organizations of all sizes and industries can store any amount of data for any use case, including applications, IoT, data lakes, analytics, backup and restore, archive, and disaster recovery. In this session, learn what's new with Amazon S3, including new features launched in 2019 and 2020, such as Amazon S3 Access Points, S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers, and Object Ownership. |
 | At the cutting edge: Dedicated edge networks and mobile edge cloud
This year, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Wavelength, a service that extends the AWS Cloud to the edge of the 5G network, enabling several industrial and single-digit latency applications for millions of customers. Come learn how dedicated edge networks powered by AWS edge services interoperate with AWS Wavelength. This session dives into real-life architectures using cellular network–enabled robots that interoperate with multiple macrocellular networks. It also explores how AWS Outposts enable enterprises to use cloud services and tools to orchestrate, update, scale, and manage the lifecycle of enterprise dedicated mobile networks for Industry 4.0 across the cloud, on premises environments, and the edge. |
 | BlueJeans' explosive growth journey with AWS during the pandemic
Global video provider BlueJeans (a Verizon company) supports employees working from home, healthcare providers shifting to telehealth, and educators moving to distance learning. With so many people now working from home, BlueJeans saw explosive growth in traffic since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In just two weeks, its usage skyrocketed 300% over the pre-COVID-19 average. This session covers BlueJeans' journey with AWS and the architecture that was required to scale its operations while saving costs during the pandemic. |
 | Getting it done together: A digital transformation
The communications industry is changing rapidly. In this session, you hear how Vodafone Germany has collaborated with AWS and Amdocs and has embarked on an end-to-end transformational journey to accelerate business in the digital economy. |
 | Telefónica: Enabling industry 4.0 with Ericsson's 5G and edge cloud
In this session, Telefónica will talk about leveraging the benefits of the AWS edge cloud for critical network workloads, namely the Telefónica 5G Core (5GC) network. Telefónica Germany is deploying Ericsson's cloud-native 5GC for private networks on AWS, and a major German automotive manufacturer is a pilot customer for a proof of concept (involving Telefónica, Ericsson, and AWS) on industrial use cases enabled by standalone 5G and powered by AWS Outposts. |
 | AWS Certification Digital Badges
Get a quick overview of why digital badges are a key benefit of getting AWS Certified. Learn about flexible options for recognition and verification to showcase your achievement. |
 | AWS Certification Explainer: Exam Scoring
Are you curious about your AWS Certification exam score? Learn how scaled scoring works and how to understand your exam score with help from an AWS Certification Technical Architect. |
 | AWS Certification: Getting Started
Get a quick overview of how to start your AWS Certification journey. Just follow these tips to make a plan, get exam ready, and get AWS Certified. |
 | AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
The AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty certification validates your ability to design and maintain network architecture for the breadth of AWS services. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification builds your confidence and credibility by validating your cloud fluency and foundational AWS knowledge. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty validates your expertise in using AWS data lakes and analytics services to get insights from data. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Database - Specialty
AWS Certified Database - Specialty validates your expertise in recommending, designing, and maintaining the optimal AWS database solution to improve performance, reduce costs, and enable innovation. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Developer - Associate
The AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification validates your ability to write and deploy cloud-based applications that follow AWS best practices. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional certification validates your expertise with automating the testing and deployment of AWS infrastructure and applications. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty validates your expertise in building, training, tuning, and deploying machine learning models on AWS. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Security - Specialty
AWS Certified Security — Specialty validates your expertise in understand security risks, secure your infrastructure at every layer, and detect and automate responses to security incidents with the AWS Cloud. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional certification validates your expertise with the breadth of AWS services and how they best work together within diverse, complex requirements. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — Associate certification validates your ability to operate systems on the AWS platform and migrate on-premises workloads to AWS. Find preparation resources or schedule your exam. |
 | AWS Partner Spotlight: Accenture
Get a quick overview of global system integrator Accenture's human-centric approach to AWS Partner Training and how AWS Training and Certification provides value for its business. |
 | AWS Partner Spotlight: Slalom Consulting
Get a quick overview of how Slalom Consulting, a Premier AWS Consulting Partner, helped over 1,200 employees get AWS Certified to grow their careers and meet their clients' needs. |
 | AWS Partner Spotlight: World Wide Technology
Get a quick overview of how World Wide Technology (WWT), an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, builds skills with AWS Training and Certification to help its customers through all stages of the digital transformation journey. |
 | First Look - AWS Certified
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 | How Just Eat Takeaway is building resilience for the long run
Just Eat Takeaway is a leading global marketplace for online food delivery services (and the leading online food delivery marketplace in Continental Europe and Israel). In the first half of 2020, it processed over 257 million orders. Hear from the CTO of Just Eat Brands at Just Eat Takeaway, Richard Haigh, about how AWS helped the company scale to meet unprecedented global demand for food delivery during the global health crisis. He also explains how building on AWS is allowing them to expand globally, streamline operations, and enhance the experience of their customers. |
 | How Star Alliance is building resilience for the long run
Star Alliance is recognized as the world's largest and most experienced global airline alliance, founded in 1997 by Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS (Scandinavian Airlines), Thai Airways International, and United Airlines, and now consisting of 26 member airlines operating worldwide. In this session, hear from Star Alliance CEO Jeffrey Goh about how the company is navigating the biggest disruption in the history of the industry. Learn how Star Alliance is leveraging AWS services to innovate faster and better serve its customers in the midst of an ever-changing travel environment and how it is leveraging its unique position to enhance the customer experience and improve operational efficiency. |
 | How Wyndham Hotels is building resilience for the long run
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the world's largest hotel franchising company with over 9,000 hotels across approximately 90 countries on six continents. Hear from Wyndham CIO Scott Strickland on how choosing to build on AWS has helped them navigate the impact of COVID-19 for their end users, guests, and franchisees alike and build resilience for the long run. Also, learn how AWS enabled Wyndham to quickly integrate new properties after an acquisition and deliver actionable information across the enterprise. Finally, gain practical tips for leading an organization through disruption. |
 | Advancing access to entrepreneurship & enabling inclusive startups
Entrepreneurship is riskier and historically less accessible to entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds, including people with disabilities as well as Black, Latinx, Native American, and LGBTQ+ tech founders. Meanwhile, research consistently shows that diverse leadership relates to entrepreneurial success. How can organizations, companies, and founders find ways to increase access to all entrepreneurs, enabling an inclusive startup ecosystem? Join Jerrod Hill, AWS venture capital business development manager, Gil Addo, CEO and cofounder of RubiconMD, and Shireen Hafeez, founder and president of Deaf Kids Code, for a discussion about how to more equitably provide access to financial, educational, and talent resources to fuel an identity, background, and ability-inclusive innovation economy. |
| Boldness matters in critical moments
As companies face critical moments, the difference between success and failure often comes down to how leaders choose to meet these challenges. Join AWS's Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec as she moderates a discussion about leading through change. The conversation features top influencers in their industries, including Eva Chen (Trend Micro cofounder and CEO), Casey Coleman (SVP at Salesforce and former CIO of GSA), Shellye Archambeau (Verizon board member), and Julie Cordura (Thorn.org CEO). Panelists share how they led through pivotal moments such as setting up the first US government agency to use the AWS Cloud, building a leadership position in data security and cybersecurity solutions, and using machine learning to combat child trafficking. |
 | Emotional resilience: How to thrive in stressful times
With COVID-19, social isolation, racial inequity, and less-than-ideal work environments, we are facing an unprecedented amount of stress and the very real threat of employee burnout. Would you like to manage your stress more effectively? Do you want to be resolute in the face of adversity? Do you want to be healthier mentally, emotionally, and physically? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then join this session on emotional resilience. This training has benefited tens of thousands of people within AWS, and we are excited to share it with our customers. With emotional resilience, you can do more than survive—you can thrive. |
 | Intersectional approaches to inclusive design
The role of technology in society is more than infrastructure. The products, services, and experiences we are creating today will impact how people perceive, engage, and access the world around them. Join this session to discuss why applying an equity lens is important to creating inclusive and innovative products that reflect the reality of today and the real potential of tomorrow. Join Joshua Kissi, acclaimed photographer/director and cofounder of TONL (a stock photography platform that captures the essence of multicultural people, places, and stories), AWS Senior Solution Architect Brian Hammons, and AWS Inclusion Diversity and Equity Customer Leader Humeera Khan for this session. |
 | Unlocking a global mindset through allyship
Join Carla Stratfold, vice president of AWS Global Verticals and Strategic Accounts, and Amber Cabral, CEO of Cabral Co., ID&E strategist, and author of Allies and Advocates, for a candid conversation about the role allyship plays in technology and leading a global company. How do we center on the experiences of those who are underrepresented? What can leaders do, from cultivating the pipeline to internal strategies, to make the future of tech more diverse, inclusive, and accessible? Learn how to lean into discomfort as an ally and how culturally competent leaders cultivate teams that celebrate diversity and lead innovation. |
 | Accelerate innovation for your Windows workloads on AWS
In this session, learn how AWS is driving innovation for Windows when migrating to, modernizing with, and building on AWS. We share the latest investments we have made to support Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET applications to include new services, tools and programs so that you can reduce costs and increase performance on AWS cloud. |
 | Best practices for running Microsoft Active Directory on AWS
When moving Microsoft workloads to AWS, it's important to consider how to deploy Microsoft Active Directory to support group policy management, authentication, and authorization. This session details your options for deploying Active Directory to AWS, including using AWS Managed Microsoft AD and deploying Active Directory to Windows on Amazon EC2. It also covers integrating your on-premises Active Directory environment to the cloud and leveraging AWS Directory Service. Finally, includes a demo using on-premises Active Directory as an identity provider to access AWS services and other third-party applications with AWS SSO. |
 | Cost-optimize SQL Server on AWS
You can cost-optimize SQL Server workloads on AWS across Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS SQL Server. Learn to diversify and optimize your licensing investments, consider strategic licensing options, and easily bring your own licenses to AWS, with a variety of cost-optimization features and real examples of how users optimized SQL Server–specific workloads. This session discusses best practices, such as on-premises assessments, price-performance optimization with the latest Amazon EBS instances and volumes, Dedicated Hosts, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, optimized CPUs, and cost savings from SQL Server Enterprise to Standard. |
 | Managing and governing Microsoft workloads on AWS
Having migrated your Microsoft Windows workloads to the AWS Cloud, you need to manage this new environment. Where do you start? With what services? In this session, learn best practices and approaches for managing your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure on AWS. This session covers services to help you manage Windows servers at scale and maximize cloud benefits, such as AWS Systems Manager, Amazon CloudWatch agent, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and Amazon EC2 launch templates. Learn how to build simple and effective solutions to deploy and manage logging, patching, configuration drift, inventory, licensing, and more. |
 | Migrate Microsoft SQL Server to AWS
In this session, learn about the journey of migrating a Microsoft SQL Server to AWS. The session covers available tools and services to help you simplify and save on your migration, such as AWS DMS, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, the AWS Snow Family, AWS Storage Gateway file gateway, and AWS DataSync. You can choose to lift and shift your workloads using Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS, or you can replatform on Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora. |
 | Migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS
In this session, you are introduced to the holistic journey of migrating your Microsoft workloads to AWS. It covers common migration patterns for Microsoft workloads, including migrating Microsoft Active Directory, SQL, and .NET. To help your successful migration journey, the session covers services and tools, such as AWS SMS, AWS DMS, CloudEndure Migration, and the End-of-Support Migration Program. The session closes with a demo of a migration tool. |
 | Building the pipeline of next-generation tech employees and leaders
Join Bertina Ceccarelli, CEO of NPower, and Lindsey Erlick, product marketing manager for AWS re/Start, as they discuss the importance of up-skilling and mentoring to enable the next generation of diverse builders. |
 | Changing the game: Addressing intersectionality with inclusive design
In this session, join AWS Solutions Architect Brian Hammons and Trailhead General Manager Heather Conklin to learn how they have built technical careers in gaming and how they approach inclusion in game technologies. |
 | Closing the digital divide with accessible technology
Tech inclusion involves considering the needs of the widest number of people across age, race, gender, and other classifications in the design of tech products, services, and virtual experiences. Join Michael Jackson, public health and US elections leader at AWS; Angelina Howard, senior product manager at Amazon and president of the Amazon Black Employee Network; and Nichelle Saunders, strategic advisor at AFROPUNK, to learn about the importance of tech accessibility. |
 | Connecting communities through digital storytelling
Roshni Mahtani is the founder of theAsianparent, Southeast Asia's largest parenting community platform, helping over 30 million parents have healthy pregnancies and providing families with hyperlocalized content. Roshni shares what a founder like herself can do to enable more communities across the world through digital platforms. |
 | Empowering entrepreneurs through eco-initiatives
The CEO and founder of Market Kurly (a fast-growing grocery delivery startup), Sophie Kim, is changing the landscape of Asia by empowering entrepreneurs, farmers, and suppliers to launch their businesses on Market Kurly. As a champion of eco-initiatives, Kim supports sustainability through Market Kurly's products, with benefits reaching elementary schools. Learn more from Kim as she shares her story. |
 | Empowering formerly incarcerated citizens through code
Through a partnership with Columbia University, Justice Through Code (JTC) offers life-changing access to career-track opportunities in the technology industry to people impacted by the mass incarceration crisis. JTC seeks to tackle mass incarceration by addressing two of the most significant contributors to recidivism: a lack of job training and the subsequently high rates of unemployment for the formerly incarcerated. Come learn how JTC aims to equip participants with the requisite skills to embark on a sustainable career in the tech industry. |
 | Enabling womxn to lead and succeed in tech
The business case for needing more womxn in tech is widely discussed, but we need to invest just as much attention into celebrating, promoting, and retaining diverse talent within organizations. Come learn critical factors that affect the retention of womxn, including organizational culture, diverse leadership, and career advancement. |
 | Human-centric security: It's more than just a tagline
The cybersecurity industry is ripe for a human-centric change. When humans are at the center of design thinking, ideas like privacy by design become a reality. And then there are the humans creating the design—they are the soul of cyber. Cyber innovation for the future is powered by inclusion and diversity. Join Jenny Brinkley, AWS senior manager of growth strategies, for an insightful discussion on driving the cyber industry change that is long overdue. |
 | Making tech inclusive and accessible through AI
In this session, Miku Hirano, CEO of Cinnamon, Inc., talks about how she founded an artificial intelligence (AI) startup out of her passion and desire to use technology to change the world, making it more inclusive and accessible. Miku, winner of the Woman of the Year 2019 Award from Nikkei Woman in Japan, discusses how her company's products and services have reached customers in Japan, Singapore, the US, Vietnam, Taiwan, and beyond, with the mission of extending human potential with AI. |
 | Scaling sustainable community development with tech
We can change the system of 'doing good' by enabling the people in the communities where the problems exist with the tools, technologies, and self-efficacy to own their solutions. Join AWS Heroes and Further Impact to discuss how social entrepreneurs are using tech for good to create more livable and equitable communities. |
