AWS re:Invent 2018
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CON362: Container Power Hour with Jess, Clare, and Abby
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 48.7 MBJoin Jess Frazelle, from GitHub, and Clare Liguori and Abby Fuller, from AWS, for a container power hour to kick off your re:Invent. In this session, learn how to use Git and GitHub to run your containers, and build, test, and deploy processes. GitOps and Actions and AWS Fargate-oh my! This session features a demo from Jess on using the new GitHub Actions to deploy to Fargate.
CON366: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing AWS Cloud Map
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 50 minutes - 43.7 MBIn this session we introduce AWS Cloud Map, a new service that lets you build the map of your cloud. It allows you to define friendly names for any resource such as S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, SQS queues, or custom cloud services built on EC2, ECS, EKS, or Lambda. Your applications can then discover resource location, credentials, and metadata by friendly name using the AWS SDK and authenticated API queries. You can further filter resources discovered by custom attributes, such as deployment...
CON367: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing AWS App Mesh - service mesh on AWS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 52 minutes - 43.6 MBAWS App Mesh is a service mesh that makes it easy to monitor and control communications for containerized microservices running on AWS. Join us to learn about how AWS can give you end-to-end visibility, and help manage traffic routing to ensure high availability for your services. We will cover the benefits of service mesh, capabilities provided by AWS App Mesh and how you can use AWS App Mesh with AWS, partner, and community tools.
CTD201: Layered Perimeter Protection for Apps Running on AWS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 47 minutes - 49.9 MBThis is a practical demo-driven session where you will learn about the best practice to protect applications on AWS. We will give an overview of the threats on AWS, discuss why perimeter defense helps with these threats, and discuss some key techniques that use services such as Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, and WAF to protect your web applications. Lastly, you will learn about the best practices to protect different types of applications - Web/APIs, TCP-based, or Gaming.
CTD203: Amazon Prime Video: Delivering the Amazing Video Experience
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 47 minutes - 53.1 MBIn this session, hear engineers from Amazon Prime Video and Amazon CloudFront discuss how they have architected and optimized their video delivery for scaled global audiences. Topics include optimizing the application and video pipeline for use with content delivery networks (CDN), optimizations in the CDN for efficient and performant video delivery, measuring quality, and effectively managing multi-CDN performance and policy. Learn how CloudFront delivers the performance that Prime Video dem...
CTD204: All the World's a Stage: Enriching Minds with OTT Video
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBYou don't have to be a big media company to build your own OTT video workflow. Learn how Ravensbourne University created a live-streaming workflow using solutions from AWS Elemental to reach hundreds of schools with educational events featuring the Royal Shakespeare Company. Within months, students and staff from Ravensbourne were able to build, test, and successfully broadcast high-quality video streams to thousands of students.
CTD206: Broadcasting Sporting Events: AWS Media Services When It Matters Most
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 57 minutes - 50.8 MBLearn how TV New Zealand and France Televisions broadcast the Commonwealth Games and a major cycling event using AWS Media Services. Broadcasting live events is unpredictable. Reliability, agility, and scale all play important roles in ensuring a broadcast takes place without issues. Learn how to create channels on the fly for live events and how to seamlessly handle a fluctuation or influx of viewers using AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront. Complete ...
CTD301: Disney & TrueCar Deliver Web Applications for Scale & Availability
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBDisney Streaming Service is a Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) video streaming service, part of Disney and TrueCar is a digital automotive marketplace. You will learn about their different perspectives on how they built global applications for scale, performance and availability. TrueCar will share how they moved internet operations off premises from their datacenters to the cloud in AWS. Disney Streaming Service will dive deep into how they are leveraging Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge to enable ...
CTD302: Running Serverless at The Edge
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 54 minutes - 45.8 MBAWS Lambda enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers in an AWS Region. Lambda@Edge provides the same benefits, but runs closer to your end users, enabling you to assemble and deliver content, on-demand, to create low-latency web experiences. Come and join us for examples of how customers can move significant workloads they previously managed with server fleets to truly serverless website backends. Sentient Technologies, an artificial intelligence technology company, wil...
CTD305: Building and Moving Live Broadcasting to AWS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 53 minutes - 44.6 MBLearn how the BBC and Nine Network have enhanced the user experience and created new business models and opportunities, giving audiences more choices with more features, all while maintaining broadcast-grade service. When your business is providing live content to viewers, you know that there are no second chances. Audiences have come to expect a faultless live broadcast, and providers know they must ensure reliability with failover and redundancy plans. Learn how migrating to the cloud offer...
CTD306: How Pac-12 Streams Hundreds of Live Events
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 49 minutes - 55.9 MBThe way viewers expect to consume sports is completely changing, so Pac-12 Networks is completely changing the core of its video delivery infrastructure by shifting from on-premises to AWS. This move enables Pac-12 Networks to get more content than ever to more fans in more locations and on more devices. AWS is helping the network quickly set up new workflows at scale, such as live-to-VOD and OTT monetization, with thousands of hours of live content added annually. Learn how Pac-12 Networks i...
CTD320: How Reddit Scales to 1B+ Video Views a Month Using AWS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 53.7 MBReddit is one of the world's most trafficked websites with over 330 million monthly active users. They've built the vast majority of the infrastructure on AWS to support the increasing growth. As the world shifts to video-first, Reddit has redesigned their site and launched a new video platform. In this talk, we'll go over design paradigms, tradeoffs made, and lessons learned from rearchitecting one of the internet's top sites. See how this infrastructure operates at scale and how the team le...
CTD409: Four Ways to Leverage CloudFront in Faster DevOps Workflows
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBIncrease your organization's agility by diving deep and discovering how Amazon CloudFront integrates with other services to accelerate your DevOps workflows. In this session, which is jointly presented with Realtor.com, we cover four main areas of DevOps with customer success stories. Build: Programmatically launch and configure your CloudFront distributions by using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform templates as infrastructure as code (IaC). Test: Confirm that your updates deliver the intended...
DAT201: A Deep Dive into What's New for Amazon DynamoDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 56.1 MBThis is the general what's-new session for Amazon DynamoDB in which we cover newly announced features and provide an end-to-end view of recent innovations. We also share some customer success stories and use cases. Come to this session to learn all about what's new for DynamoDB.
DAT202: Reliable & Scalable Redis in the Cloud with Amazon ElastiCache
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 50 minutes - 56.4 MBThis session covers the features and enhancements in our Redis-compatible service, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. We cover key features, such as Redis 5, scalability and performance improvements, security and compliance, and much more. We also discuss upcoming features and customer case studies.
DAT203: What's New in Amazon Relational Database Service
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a fully managed relational database service that enables 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. We review the capabilities of the service and review the latest available featurese.
DAT204: What's New in Amazon Aurora
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBAmazon Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database with the speed, reliability, and availability of commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. This session provides an overview of Aurora, explores recently announced features, such as Serverless, Multi-Master, and Performance Insights, and helps you get started.
DAT205: Databases on AWS: The Right Tool for the Right Job
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBShawn Bice, VP of Non-Relational Databases at AWS, discusses a purpose-built strategy for databases, where you choose the right tool for the job. Shawn explains why your application should drive the requirements of a database, not the other way around. We introduce AWS databases that are purpose-built for your application use cases. Learn why you should select different database services to solve different aspects of an application, and watch a demonstration in which application use cases len...
DAT206: Leadership Session: AWS Database and Analytics
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 45 minutes - 54.2 MBWe're witnessing an unprecedented growth in the amount of data collected and stored in the cloud. Getting insights from this data requires database and analytics services that scale and perform in ways not possible before. AWS offers the broadest set of database and analytics services to process, store, manage, and analyze all your data. In this session, we provide an overview of the database and analytics services at AWS, new services and features we launched this year, how customers are usi...
DAT207: Migrating Databases to the Cloud with AWS Database Migration Service
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 55 minutes - 55.1 MBLearn how to convert and migrate your relational databases, nonrelational databases, and data warehouses to the cloud. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) can help with homogeneous migrations as well as migrations between different database engines, such as Oracle or SQL Server, to Amazon Aurora. Hear from Verizon about how they intend to migrate critical databases to Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility from their current on-premises Oracl...
DAT301: Building with AWS Databases: Match Your Workload to the Right Database
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 44.5 MBWe have recently seen some convergence of different database technologies. Many customers are evaluating heterogeneous migrations as their database needs have evolved or changed. Evaluating the best database to use for a job isn't as clear as it was ten years ago. We'll discuss the ideal use cases for relational and nonrelational data services, including Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Redshift. This session digs into how to evaluate a ...
DAT302: ElastiCache Deep Dive: Design Patterns for In-Memory Data Stores
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 47.1 MBIn this session, we provide a behind the scenes peek to learn about the design and architecture of Amazon ElastiCache. See common design patterns with our Redis and Memcached offerings and how customers use them for in-memory data processing to reduce latency and improve application throughput. We review ElastiCache best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] ElastiCache Deep Dive: Design Patterns for In-Memory Data Stores (DAT302-R1)
DAT303: Protecting Your Greatest Asset: Security Best Practices on DynamoDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 41.7 MBIn this session, learn about the security features built into Amazon DynamoDB and how you can best use them to protect your data. We show you how customers are using the available options for controlling access to their tables and the content stored within those tables. We also show you how customers are protecting the contents of their tables with encryption, and how they monitor access to their data.
DAT304: Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 50 minutes - 57.7 MBAmazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. With Aurora, we've completely reimagined how databases are built for the cloud, providing you higher performance, availability, and durability than previously possible. In this session, we dive deep into the architectural details of Aurora with MySQL compatibility, and we review recent innova...
DAT305: Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 45 minutes - 48.1 MBAmazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is a relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. We review the functionality in order to understand the architectural differences that contribute to improved scalability, availability, and durability. We also dive deep into the capabilities of the service and review the latest available features. Finally, we walk through the...
DAT313: Accelerate Database Development and Testing with Amazon Aurora
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBBuild faster, more scalable database applications with Amazon Aurora, a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. We cover Aurora Serverless, which automatically scales your database up and down to meet demand; Fast Database Cloning, which makes data instantly available for application development; Backtrack, which rolls back your database between test runs; and Performance Insights, which helps assess the load on your database and optimize your SQL queries.
DAT314: Migrating Your NoSQL Database to Amazon DynamoDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 46.4 MBAWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) can help migrate databases from many supported data sources to supported targets. In this session, we review how the combination of AWS DMS and AWS SCT can help migrate your NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB and Cassandra, to Amazon DynamoDB. We provide an overview of AWS DMS and AWS SCT, and we demonstrate migrating a sample Cassandra database into DynamoDB.
DAT316: How Do I Know I Need an Amazon Neptune Graph Database?
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBWhen do you need to use a graph database? What kinds of applications can benefit from using a graph-based approach? In this session, learn how customers are using graph databases to accomplish use cases from knowledge graphs to recommendations to network security. Hear how PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) is using graph-based approaches with Amazon Neptune and partners to build new applications. See how Tom Sawyer Software helps to visualize Amazon Neptune graphs.
DAT317: Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases on Amazon RDS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 50 minutes - 55.1 MBAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) continues to be a popular choice for Oracle DBAs moving new and legacy workloads to the cloud. In this session, we discuss how Amazon RDS for Oracle helps DBAs focus their time where it matters most. We cover recent RDS Oracle features, and we go deep on key functionality that enables license optimization, performance, and high availability for Oracle databases. We also hear directly from an AWS customer about their journey to Amazon RDS and the...
DAT318: Migrating Your Oracle & SQL Server Databases to Amazon Aurora
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes - 60.8 MBOrganizations today are looking to free themselves from the constraints of on-premises commercial databases and leverage the power of cloud-native and open-source systems. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database that is built for the cloud, with the speed, reliability, and availability of commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. In this session, we provide an overview of Aurora and its features. We talk about the latest advances in migration tooling and auto...
DAT319: Airbnb's Journey from Self-Managed Redis to ElastiCache for Redis
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.8 MBAt Airbnb, we use Redis extensively as an in-memory data store to reduce latency and provide sub-millisecond response for our website, search, images, payments, and more. We migrated our self-managed Redis environment from EC2 classic to fully-managed Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to reduce operational overhead and improve availability. Now, all our Redis is in an AWS managed service that provides multi-Availability Zone support, automatic failover, and maintenance. Attend this session to lear...
DAT321: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBCome to this session to learn how Amazon DynamoDB was built as the hyper-scale database for internet-scale applications. In January 2012, Amazon launched DynamoDB, a cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance, and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. This session discloses for the first time the underpinnings of DynamoDB, and how we run a fully managed nonrelational database used by m...
DAT322: Deep Dive on MySQL Databases on Amazon RDS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 30 minutes - 55.9 MBIn recent years, MySQL has become a top database choice for new application development and migration from overpriced, restrictive commercial databases. In this session, we provide an overview of the MySQL and MariaDB options available on AWS. We also do a deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a fully managed MySQL service, and Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database with up to 5X the performance, and many additional innovations.
DAT323: Best Practices for Running SQL Server on Amazon RDS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 53 minutes - 58.1 MBAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides a managed service to run SQL Server databases in AWS. While Amazon RDS handles provisioning and maintaining the SQL Server instance, there are things you can do to ensure that the SQL Server instance is healthy. We'll review some best practices involved in configuring the Amazon RDS SQL Server instance, focusing on availability, security and migration. We'll also hear from our customer Allstate, sharing details about their use of Amazon...
DAT324: Deep Dive on PostgreSQL Databases on Amazon RDS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBIn this session, we provide an overview of the PostgreSQL options available on AWS, and do a deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, a fully managed PostgreSQL service, and Amazon Aurora, a PostgreSQL-compatible database with up to 3x the performance of standard PostgreSQL. Learn about the features, functionality, and many innovations in Amazon RDS and Aurora, which give you the background to choose the right service to solve different technical challenges...
DAT325: How Oath Built a Multi-Region GDPR Application with Amazon DynamoDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBAs Oath, a Verizon company, prepared for GDPR compliance during integration of AOL and Yahoo! Internet properties, a global user consent and terms of service application was developed and deployed. The cloud-native service was deployed across multiple AWS Regions globally and leveraged Amazon DynamoDB global tables to enable data synchronization. The service was launched in April 2018, scaling to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of Oath users. Come to this session to learn more about ho...
DAT332: Why GE Aviation Migrated from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes - 53.3 MBGE Aviation sells $1.7B annually in parts and services through a customer portal called myGEAviation. To enhance its customers' experience, the portal enables users to input specific variables and build custom reports for later viewing. These applications, plotting, and data-query were experiencing issues with cost, scalability, and performance. In this session, GE discusses how it rearchitected plotting and data-query to resolve those issues by using Amazon DynamoDB.
DAT336: Aurora Serverless: Scalable, Cost-Effective Application Deployment
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 42 minutes - 51 MBAmazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Aurora (MySQL-compatible edition) where the database automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales up or down capacity based on your application's needs. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database instances. Aurora Serverless is a simple, cost-effective option for infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable workloads. In this session, we explore these use cases, take a look under the h...
DAT370: NEW LAUNCH! Do I need a ledger database? An intro to Amazon QLDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 57 minutes - 44.9 MBDo you need a ledger database? Let's talk about the kinds of problems that Amazon Quantum can solve, and answer your questions about when and why you would use a ledger database. We'll showcase a presentation with benefits and use cases for Amazon Quantum.
DAT374: [NEW LANUCH!] Building modern apps using Amazon DynamoDB transactions
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 55 minutes - 54.5 MBDynamoDB transactions enables developers to maintain correctness of their data at scale by adding atomicity and isolation guarantees for multi-item conditional updates. With transactions, you can perform a batch of conditional operations including, PutItem, UpdateItem, and DeleteItem with guarantees. Come to this session to learn about how DynamoDB transactions works, the primary use cases in enables, and how to build modern applications that require transactions.
DAT401: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MBThis session is for those who already have some familiarity with DynamoDB. The patterns and data models discussed in this session summarize a collection of implementations and best practices leveraged by Amazon.com to deliver highly scalable solutions for a wide variety of business problems. The session also covers strategies for global secondary index sharding and index overloading, scalable graph processing with materialized queries, relational modeling with composite keys, and executing tr...
DAT402: Using Performance Insights to Optimize Database Performance
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 56.2 MBDespite the importance of cloud databases as a core foundation for applications, many businesses face challenges in identifying database performance issues. Visibility into database performance is difficult due to a wide range of incomplete tools that can be difficult to install, configure, and maintain. While these tools may provide a wide range of statistics, they lack a standard methodology for analyzing the statistics to identify performance problems. In this session, learn how Amazon Rel...
DAT403: Deep Dive on Amazon Neptune
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 56.2 MBWhat can you do with Apache TinkerPop and Gremlin or RDF and SPARQL? How does Neptune provide multi-Availability Zone high availability? Learn about the features and details of Amazon's fully managed graph database service.
DAT406: Netflix: Iterating on Stateful Services in the Cloud
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBWhile stateless services are suitable for many architectures, stateful services are also useful and sometimes overlooked. In this session, we hear from Netflix about the unique challenges of upgrading stateful services in the cloud, architectural advice to make iterating on stateful services easy, and concrete tools and infrastructure you can use on AWS to make upgrading easy.
DEM103: How to Move Data to Amazon S3 and Access It On-Premises
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 17.7 MBJoin this demo-driven session to learn about a simple way to move data rapidly into Amazon S3. Then, see how to access it on-premises with AWS Storage Gateway for local applications. You'll leave understanding how to improve data transfer performance without the manual labor of extensive scripting or the cost of third-party licensed software.
DEM107: How We Made "aibo" Smart: A Journey through Serverless & IoT on AWS
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 42 minutes - 15 MBaibo" is an autonomous pet robot series by Sony, coming soon to the US. "aibo" cloud built on AWS uses various services, especially serverless one such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS IoT Core. In this session, we introduce how we use AWS services on aibo, and we share some of our serverless practices. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] How We Made "aibo" Smart: A Journey through Serverless & IoT on AWS (DEM107-R1
DEM113: Building Your Application with an Amazon Aurora Database
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 19 minutes - 18.8 MBDevelop and test your applications more quickly with Amazon Aurora, a MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible database built for the cloud. We'll show you how Aurora helps you scale your applications, prepare data for testing, and optimize your database queries.
DEM114: Databases on AWS: The Right Tool for the Right Job
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 16 minutes - 13.4 MBThe days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and developers are now building highly functional and performant applications using a multitude of purpose-built databases. In this demo, we'll use an ecommerce application and match use cases with the best database for the job.
DEM115: Quickly Build a Chatbot with Amazon Lex
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 20 minutes - 18.1 MBIn this demo, learn how Anki used the Amazon Lex chatbot capability to build interactive games that help students learn better.
ADT201: Digital Advertising - Customer Learning & the Road Ahead
December 01, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBIn this session, learn how experienced leaders in digital advertising respond to the rapid evolution and sophistication of the advertising market driven by innovation and groundbreaking technology. Our customers share real-world applications they've leveraged in the cloud and how they see the media landscape changing as adoption of AI in the space becomes more widespread. Learn about existing and upcoming advancements and how they affect digital transformation in the years to come. Come away ...