October 16, 2019
What is APN TechDive?
APN TechDive is a free online event designed to inspire and educate technical professionals in our AWS Partner Network (APN) Community. This virtual event is design for you to learn about various AWS services and capabilities that will help you innovate on behalf of your customers, ask questions to our Partner Solutions Architects and AWS service team members, and apply your knowledge through a virtual GameDay.
Who should attend?
We have sessions ranging from 100-400 level, so whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, you can learn something new at APN TechDive. It is designed to help you develop the right skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications for your customers.
Why should you attend?
We recognize that our APN Partners are in various stages of developing their AWS-based offering. This conference will enable you to maximize innovation with access to scalable and flexible infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to learn about AWS services, ask questions to our AWS teams, and apply your knowledge in a real AWS environment.
Learnings
Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at APN TechDive. This free event is designed to educate you about AWS products, services, and solutions in the cloud that will help you innovate for your customers.
- Trainings: We will have various presentations, demos, and workshops for APN Partners to learn about topic areas.
- Resources: Receive additional resources during the session to supplement the trainings.
- Live Q&A: Get your questions answered by AWS service team members and Partner Solutions Architects during our live Q&A.
- Live GameDay: The AWS GameDay is a learning exercise designed to better familiarize players with the AWS environment and challenge them to come up with ways to solve problems based on the AWS resources they have available to them.
- Panel with AWS Partner Solution Architected Leadership: Join us for a panel with AWS Partner Solution Architect leadership to talk about career development, building on AWS, and more.
Featured Topics
APN TechDive Keynote speaker
Matt Yanchyshyn, the Director of Architecture Best Practices at AWS.
Matt Yanchyshyn leads the Architecture Best Practices team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Matt has lived and worked in over 60 countries, including long-term assignments in New York, Paris, and Dakar. During his seven years at AWS in NYC, Matt has witnessed the incredible growth of cloud computing. From Epic's Fortnite to Netflix to Capital One, companies all over the world are using AWS to power their products. His team builds software, authors technical content, and provides services that help customers run their businesses in the cloud. Prior to AWS, Matt was a technical leader at the Associated Press for nearly a decade, helping to spearhead their migration from traditional satellite delivery to modern, Internet-based systems. Matt graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, with a BSc in Computer Science and French. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, a teacher at P.S. 58, and two children.
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Agenda
Keynote: Join us at 8:30am (PST) to hear from Matt Yanchyshyn, Director of Solutions Architecture.
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Panel with AWS Partner Solutions Architecture Leadership: Join us at 9:00am (PST) for a panel with AWS Partner Solutions Architecture leadership to talk about career development, building on AWS, and more.
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Breakout Sessions: Attend one or many of our 50+ breakout sessions across various tracks. We have sessions from 100 level to 400 level to ensure we have content for everyone.
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Workshops & Self-Paced Labs: Attend one of our three workshops and self-paced labs during APN TechDive. We will give you an AWS test environment and/or completion credits for these workshops. We will also have AWS Partner Solutions Architects live to make sure you can successfully complete the workshops and labs.
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Live Q&A Session with AWS Service & Solution Architect Teams: From 12:00pm-1:00pm (PST), we will have a live Q&A session with AWS service teams and solution architecture teams. This time will be used to answer questions that come in through the Deep Dive technical sessions, or any other questions related to that topic areas APN Partners want to learn more about.
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Live Virtual GameDay: AWS GameDay is a learning exercise designed to better familiarize players with the AWS environment and challenge them to come up with ways to solve problems based on the AWS resources they have available to them. The path that GameDay participants take is open-ended and therefore offers an opportunity to learn about AWS best practices, new AWS services, and AWS architecture patterns in a risk-free environment. The first 100 teams to sign up for each of these different time zones are able to participate. Got your team ready? Register with the links below:
October 16th, 3:00pm-6:00pm EST | October 16th, 12:00pm-3:00pm PST
Sessions
Not sure what level is right for you? Check out our key below:
- 100 Level: Introductory sessions are focused on providing an overview of AWS services and features with the assumption that attendees are new to the topic.
- 200 Level: Intermediate sessions are focused on providing best practices, details of service features and demos with the assumption that attendees have introductory knowledge to the topics.
- 300 Level: Advanced sessions dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with that topic, but may or may not have direct experience implementing a similar solution.
- 400 Level: Expert sessions are for attendees who are deeply familiar with the topic, have implemented a solution on their own already, and are comfortable with how the technology works across multiple services, architectures, and implementations.
Recently Added Sessions
Overview of the APN Technical Baseline Review (100 Level)
Speaker: Claudine Morales, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
The Technical Baseline Review (‘baseline’) assesses a partner workload against a set of AWS best practices around security, performance, and operational processes. Passing the baseline is required for APN Technology Partners to achieve or retain Advanced Tier status, but all partners with a technology product offering are eligible to request a review, regardless of partner type or tier. This overview covers core baseline concepts, requirements for SaaS and customer-deployed workloads, review mechanics, and helpful resources.
Migration of enterprise workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS services (100 level)
Speaker: Kay VelloreSampathkumar, AWS Oracle Solution Architect
AWS offers a variety of services such as AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Storage Gateway, CloudEndure, AWS DataSync and others to migrate enterprise customers workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS. This session offers prescriptive guidance on how to choose your migration service for specific workloads.
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (100 level)
In Spanish Speaker: Hans Hahn, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
In this introductory session we will explore the AWS Simple Monthly calculator using a practical example for estimating a three-layer web application involving services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFront, VPC and others. This session does not go into the detail of each one of the pricing options of these services but rather, it is focused on giving a general introduction with some recommendations to initiate the audience in the use of the calculator. It is recommended to have prior knowledge of the operation and pricing of the services mentioned previously.
Workshops
Microsoft DevOps on AWS Bootcamp
AWS Test Environment Provided
This is a 100% hands-on technical bootcamp for APN Partners who want to learn more about how they can integrate their Microsoft DevOps tools with AWS. The goal of this technical training is to make you comfortable with some of AWS software and infrastructure deployment mechanisms and show you the avenues to integrate your CI/CD systems with AWS. See the full details and agenda here.
Windows Containers on AWS Bootcamp
AWS Test Environment Provided
This is a 100% hands-on technical bootcamp for APN Partners who want to learn more about running Windows containers on AWS. The goals of this technical training is to make you comfortable with Docker containers and show you the tools and services available for you to run Windows containers on AWS. Although this course is not related to any specific AWS certifications, those who are at least pursuing an Associate-level certification are recommended to attend. See the full details and agenda here.
Amazon EKS Workshop
AWS Credits Provided
The intent of this workshop is to educate users about the features of Amazon EKS. Background in Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container workflows are not required, but they are recommended. This workshop will introduce you to the basic workings of Kubernetes, laying the foundation for the hands-on portion of the workshop. Specifically, we will walk you through the following topics: Kubernetes (k8s) Basics, Kubernetes Architecture, Amazon EKS. Register for the link below, and we will send you the information on the Amazon EKS Workshop two days before APN TechDive. After the event, we will send you AWS Credits for completion.
Well-Architected
Are you Well-Architected? (200 Level)
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, AWS Well-Architected Solutions Architect
This session will provide an overview of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which enables customers to review and improve their cloud architectures and better understand the business impact of their design decisions. The Framework addresses general design principles, best practices, and guidance across five pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization”
Who should attend: developers, architects, operations, support
Monitoring with CloudWatch dashboards (Performance Efficiency) (100 Level)
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, AWS Well-Architected Solutions Architect
This hands-on lab will guide you through configuring an Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard to get aggregated views of the health and performance of all AWS resources. This enables you to quickly get started with monitoring, explore account and resource-based view of metrics and alarms, and easily drill-down to understand the root cause of performance issues.
Who should attend: architects, operations, support
Detective controls and automating incident response (Security) (300 Level)
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, AWS Well-Architected Solutions Architect
This hands-on lab will guide you through a number of examples of how you could use the AWS Console and Command Line Interface (CLI) for responding to a security incident. It is a best practice to be prepared for an incident, and have appropriate detective controls enabled.
Who should attend: architects, operations, security
How to test for resiliency (Reliability) (300 Level)
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, AWS Well-Architected Solutions Architect
The purpose if this lab is to teach you the fundamentals of using tests to ensure your implementation is resilient to failure by injecting failure modes into your application. This may be a familiar concept to companies that practice Failure Mode Engineering Analysis (FMEA). One primary capability that AWS provides is the ability to test your systems at a production scale, under load.
Who should attend: architects, operations, reliability engineers
Building a robust monitoring strategy with your customer (Operational Excellence) (300 Level)
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, AWS Well-Architected Solutions Architect
In this session, learn how to apply Amazon CloudWatch’s monitoring use cases and automated responses to events. We will build a self-healing event chain to demonstrate the capabilities of the CloudWatch agent, CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch metrics, CloudWatch alarms, and CloudWatch events to recover from actual failure of a sample system. We also discuss the benefits of various approaches and how they can be leveraged, including integrations from additional services for monitoring.
Who should attend: architects, operations, reliability engineers, performance engineers
Uncovering $$$ (Cost Optimization) (200 Level)
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, AWS Well-Architected Solutions Architect
Correctly understanding your and your customers AWS spend is a great way to uncover extra $$$s that you can allocate to other projects, building innovative new POCs, or just help to save some money. In this lab we will step through some of the fundamental aspects of understanding and allocating out your AWS spend, to help uncover some of those hidden $$$s.
Who should attend: architects, operations, procurement
AWS Well-Architected Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the AWS Well-Architected track.
Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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Building SaaS on AWS
Building Serverless SaaS Solutions on AWS (300 Level)
Speaker: Tod Golding, AWS SaaS Principle Solutions Architect
Serverless and SaaS are a natural match. In this session look at the alignment between the serverless and SaaS models, outlining how serverless influences the footprint of your overall SaaS architecture. We’ll look at how serverless impact the deployment, management, tenant isolation, cost, and overall agility of your SaaS offering.
Who should attend: software developers, architects
Beyond the SQL WHERE Clause: Isolating SaaS Multi-Tenant Data in Shared Relational Databases (300 Level)
Speaker: Michael Beardsley, AWS SaaS Solutions Architect
SaaS providers leverage shared resources to maximize agility and minimize costs. As you move toward a more shared model, you must consider how you will still ensure that tenant resources remain isolated. This can be especially challenging when working with a shared relational database where tenant data sits side-by-side in the same tables. In these environments, you must find more creative ways to enforce the isolation of tenant data. In this session, we’ll explore the challenges and approaches to this problem, digging into specific mechanisms and strategies that can be used to realize your tenant isolation goals. This will allow you to move beyond the use of SQL WHERE clauses and focus on less invasive, more systemic models for enforcing isolation. More specifically, we’ll look at how you can leverage Row Level Security (RLS) policies in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS to implement a more robust isolation scheme.
Who should attend: software developers, architects
SaaS Multi-Tenant Isolation Architectures with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (300 Level)
Speaker: Judah Bernstein, AWS SaaS Solutions Architect
Kubernetes is a represents a very compelling model for SaaS providers. However, it also presents new challenges when it comes to isolating the compute resources of your SaaS environment. In this session, we’ll review the general challenges associated with building a multi-tenant with the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). We will examine the fundamentals of SaaS EKS architecture, evaluating the design considerations, architectural patterns, and best practices that will shape this isolation model of a EKS SaaS environment.
Who should attend: software developers, architects
AWS Building SaaS on AWS Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the Building SaaS on AWS track.
Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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Database Services
Business Continuity with Global Database (200 Level)
Speakers: Sailesh Krishnamurthy, AWS GM for Amazon Aurora, Steve Abraham, Amazon Aurora Principle Lead Data Architect
Amazon Aurora Global Database provides fast cross-region disaster recovery and enables high performance, low lag, cross-region scaling of reads with minimal impact on database performance. As a feature of Aurora, Global Database uses physical, storage-level replication as opposed to logical replication used by other MySQL-compatible databases. With physical replication, Aurora provides high availability features together with a greatly improved replication performance. Data is replicated between the primary and secondary regions usually within a second, with an upper bound of 5 seconds. In the unlikely event your database becomes degraded or isolated in an AWS region, secondary regions can be promoted to take full read-write workloads in under a minute.
Who Should Attend: database technology consultants, solution architects, DBA/developers, development and/or infrastructure managers, AWS practice managers
What’s new in Amazon Aurora (200 Level)
Speaker: Kevin Jernigan, Amazon Aurora Principal Product Manager- Tech
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database built for the cloud that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora has released several cool new features in the recent past which can help solve some of your most complex problems. Please attend this session for an overview of these features & what’s on the roadmap for Amazon Aurora.
Who Should Attend: database technology consultants, solution architects, DBA/developers, development and/or infrastructure manager, AWS practice managers
Application development using Aurora Serverless & Data API (300 Level)
Speaker: Jatin Singh, AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon 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 hood, and delve into the future of serverless databases. We also talk about Data API & how your applications can take advantage of it.
Who should attend: database technology consultants, solution architects, DBA/developers, development and/or infrastructure manager, AWS practice managers
A closer look at Amazon Redshift new features (200 Level)
Speaker: Saunak Chandra, Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Redshift extends data warehouse queries to your data lake, with no loading required. You can run analytic queries against petabytes of data stored locally in Redshift, and directly against exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3. It is simple to set up, automates most of your administrative tasks, and delivers fast performance at any scale. Amazon Redshift has released several new features in the recent past. Join this session for a presentation and demo of the Amazon Redshift new features.
Who should attend: data architects, solution architects, business development
Common patterns of Data Warehouse migration (300 Level)
Speaker: Saunak Chandra, Partner Solutions Architect
Join this session as we dive into best practices of data migration from Oracle, SQLServer, Teradata, Netezza. This session will provide a birds eye view of the migration process and challenges. Demonstration of the Schema Conversion Tool on how to migrate data.
Who should attend: data engineers, solution architects, migration specialists
Database Services Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the AWS Database Services track.
Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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AI/ML Services
Building an AI powered Virtual Concierge using Amazon Sumerian and AWS StepFunction & Amazon Rekognition (300 Level)
Speaker: Stephen Salim, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
Business are continuously looking for ways scale their customer and support services, many are looking to leverage Artificial Intelligence to achieve this. In this session you will learn how to build a repeatable Virtual Concierge experience, that you can easily adjust for your business needs. Powered by Amazon Sumerian, Amazon Rekognition, and AWS StepFunction. We will dive deep on the works of each services and design consideration towards repeatability to build this solution.
Building integrations with Amazon Personalize (300 Level)
Speaker: Chaitanya Hazarey, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, AI/ML
Amazon Personalize is a machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to create individualized recommendations for customers using their applications. In the session, learn how to build integrations with Amazon Personalize to create real-time personalization and recommendation technology just like that used at Amazon.com.
Who should attend: software developers, architects, data scientists
Building integrations with Amazon Forecast (300 Level)
Speaker: Kris Skrinak, Global Machine Learning Segment Lead
Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts. Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, Amazon Forecast uses machine learning to combine time series data with additional variables to build forecasts. Customers only need to provide historical data, plus any additional data that you believe may impact your forecasts. Learn how to build integrations with Amazon Forecast in this session.
Who should attend: software developers, architects, data scientists
Building integrations with Amazon Textract (300 Level)
Speaker: Chris Burns, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AI/ML
Amazon Textract automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. Amazon Textract is not your parents OCR. It pulls data and text from sparse or dense documents as well as tables – all wrapped in a convenient API call. In this session, learn how to build an integration with this service.
Who should attend: software developers, architects, data scientists
Adding custom algorithms to Amazon SageMaker (300 Level)
Speaker: Chris Burns, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AI/ML
Amazon SageMaker provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that covers the entire machine learning workflow to label and prepare your data, choose an algorithm, train the model, tune and optimize it for deployment, make predictions, and take action. Your models get to production faster with much less effort and lower cost. Learn how to bring your own custom algorithms to Amazon Sagemaker in this session.
Who should attend: software developers, architects, data scientists
AI/ML Services Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the AI/ML services track. Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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Serverless
Serverless developer tooling fundamentals and best practices (200 Level)
Speaker: Trevor Hansen, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
Serverless architectures are enabling customers to increase their agility and innovation by shifting more of their operational responsibilities to AWS. Customers choose serverless because of the built-in high availability and fault tolerance, and lower total cost of ownership. Serverless also represents a paradigm shift in the application development lifecycle and developer tooling considerations. In this session, you will learn the serverless approach to developer tooling, AWS serverless tooling best practices, and the serverless tooling landscape, from deployment and CI/CD to monitoring and security.
Who should attend: developers, architects, DevOps roles, IT leaders
Unlock new use cases and win new customers with Amazon EventBridge (200 Level)
Speaker: Nick Smit, AWS Technical Senior Product Manager Amazon EventBridge
Customers today are increasingly building event-driven architecture to improve application scalability and reliability. They are taking advantage of data across their entire environment from their own apps, SaaS, and AWS services and looking for easy ways to connect all these applications seamlessly and in real-time. Amazon EventBridge extends your SaaS application data into AWS, unlocking new use cases for your customers. EventBridge delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources, such as SaaS applications like Zendesk, Datadog, or Pagerduty, and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. In the session, learn how EventBridge works, what developers are building today, and how you can help your customers build event-driven applications.
Who should attend: developers, architects, DevOps roles, IT leaders
Getting Started with CI/CD for Serverless applications (300 Level)
Speaker: Eric Johnson, AWS Serverless Senior Developer Advocate
Fact: Serverless removes the need to manage servers.
Fact: Serverless provides automatic scalability for applications.
Fact: Serverless allows developers to focus primarily on code.
Fact: Serverless improves the ability to innovate.
False: Code running on Lambda functions is always perfect.
While the serverless model empowers the developer in many ways, it does not remove the need for automated integration, testing, and deployment. Development teams that ignore this need can acquire technical debt quickly. This session will cover the advantages of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, and how it can help reduce time to market, time to repair, and code regression. We will also discuss applying a CI/CD pipeline to serverless architectures and the AWS tools that make this possible.
Who should attend: developers, DevOps roles, architects
Lean Lambdas: Shedding the Bloat (300 Level)
Speaker: Eric Johnson, AWS Serverless Senior Developer Advocate
As developers build out Lambda functions, they often make use of external libraries to share code between functions or consume open source software. As more libraries are added, the function artifacts get larger and larger. Many of these libraries are used across multiple functions causing them to be bloated with the same libraries repeated across each function artifact. In this session I will demonstrate how to use Lambda layers to help make your Lambda functions “skinny” again. You’ll see how layers allow you to streamline your application artifacts and provide an easier way to standardize dependencies inside of your own projects and externally across applications.
Who should attend: developers, architects
Serverless Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the Serverless track. Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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Workloads on AWS
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: Helping your customers run Windows file shares on AWS (200 Level)
Speaker: David Stein, Sr. Business Development Manager; Darryl Osborne, Solutions Architect
Organizations of all sizes are moving their Windows workloads to the AWS Cloud, and many of these workloads - including business applications, home directories, web serving environments, and software build setups - depend on shared file storage. Today, customers need to do the time-consuming and costly work of managing Windows file storage on their own. We recently introduced Amazon FSx, a fully managed Windows file server service. In this tech talk, we will do a deep dive into Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, walk through a demo, and targeted use cases to help you get your customers started today. You will learn about the Amazon FSx for Windows features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate for use, and details about its performance and security models. We will highlight and demonstrate how to deploy Amazon FSx for Windows File Server in our most common use cases and will share tips for success throughout.
Who should attend: IT decision markers, chief architects, system administrator, SysOps, and storage administrators looking to migrate Windows workloads to AWS including application and file storage
Deep Dive on SQL Server databases on Amazon RDS (200 Level)
Speaker: Richard Waymire, AWS Principal DB Specialist Solutions Architect
In this session, we will dive deep on features, best practices, and design considerations for running SQL Server databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). We will review best practices for storage, monitoring, availability, security, and backup and recovery for SQL Server. We will also cover key differences between running deployments on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Amazon RDS.
Migration
Non-x86 Legacy Modernization to AWS (300 Level)
Speaker: Phil de Valence, AWS Senior Partner Solutions Architect
Most enterprises or public institutions have some non-x86 legacy systems in their datacenters. These may be UNIX proprietary platforms, midrange systems, or even mainframes. Yes, we can modernize these with AWS. In this session, we present our customers preferred options, best practices and AWS quality of service.
Who should attend: cloud solution architects, migration engineers, and migration project manage staff
Migration Methodology and Tooling Overview (200 Level)
Speaker: Diego Dalmolin, AWS Senior Partner Solutions Architect
In this session we will provide an overview of the AWS migration methodology, describing the principles that drive our approach, and the essential activities that are necessary for successful enterprise migrations, as well as an overview of AWS' portfolio of tools that can help you to accelerate your migration project.
Who should attend: cloud solution architects, migration engineers, and migration project manage staff
DataSync for Data Migration (300 Level)
Speaker: Jim Huang, AWS Senior Partner Solutions Architect
Customers and System Integrators have been using various tools to migrate workloads, such as servers, databases, and data, to AWS. AWS DataSync Service released recently presents new opportunities for migrating data from existing storage or file systems in a secured, high-performance mode. In this session, we will explore the technical footprint of DataSync and demonstrate a file migration use case with DataSync Service.
Who should attend: cloud solution architects, migration engineers, and migration project manage staff
Deploying Add-On’s to AWS Landing Zone Environment (300 Level)
Speaker: Jim Huang, AWS Senior Partner Solutions Architect
Prior to workload migration, customers need to set up secure, multi-account AWS environments based on AWS best practices. Today, many customers have adopted AWS Landing Zone solution which accelerates the environment set up through automation. In this session, we will explore methods to extend a landing zone environment beyond its initial deployment. We will focus solutions to deploy additional services, solutions, or vendor products as Add-On to customer’s landing zone. We will exercise the solutions through an Add-On use case with Add-On templates, configuration, packaging, and deployment process.
Who should attend: cloud solution architects and migration engineers
Experience with AWS Landing Zone solution, Service Catalog, and CloudFormation is expected for participating in this session
Migrations Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the Migrations track. Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST\
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Containers
Introduction to Containers on AWS - The journey to modernization and how containers help transform your business (100 Level)
Speakers: Curtis Rissi, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, Carmen Puccio, AWAS Principal Solutions Architect
Containers have become an on-ramp to the development of modern, cloud-ready applications, and an accelerator for cloud migration. They allow customers to standardize the packaging of their applications’ code, configurations, and dependencies into a single object that offers a consistent deployment model, regardless of the operating environment. In this session, we will examine the benefits of containers, why enterprises are adopting them as part of their cloud strategy, and provide an overview of the AWS container services customers can leverage to build, deploy and manage their containerized workloads.
Who should attend: anyone interested in the value proposition of containers on AWS
Deep Dive on AWS App Mesh - AWS Online Tech Talks (200 Level)
Speakers: Shubha Rao, AWS Containers Senior Product Manager, Tony Pujals, AWS Containers Senior Developer Advocate, Michael Hausenblas, AWS Containers Senior Developer Advocate
AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that makes it easy to monitor and control communications for services running on AWS. Join us to learn about how AWS App Mesh can help give you end-to-end visibility and manage traffic routing to ensure high availability for your services. We will cover the capabilities of App Mesh, how to use it with AWS, partner, and community tools, and how to get started using App Mesh.
Who should attend: software developers, architects
Deep Dive Into Container Networking (300 Level)
Speaker: Anirudh Aithal, AWS Containers Senior Software Development Engineer
Building microservices enables you to decouple parts of your application so you can develop and deploy code faster. But once your microservices are running, how do you ensure they can seamlessly communicate with each other? In this tech talk, we will dive deep into microservices networking. We will discuss how you can build, secure, and manage the communications into, out of, and between the various microservices that make up your application. We will also take an in-depth look into various networking modes supported in ECS, EKS and Fargate, along with a brief introduction of AWS App Mesh. Learning Objectives: - Learn about the different networking modes supported in ECS, Fargate and EKS - Learn about which networking mode best fits your application - Discover how to build, secure, and manage the communications into, out of, and between the various microservices that make up your application
Who should attend: architects, networking engineers
Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) (200 Level)
Speaker: Brent Langston, AWS Containers Senior Developer Advocate
This talk will dive deep into Amazon ECS. We will take a look at recently added ECS features, like target tracking autoscaling, service discovery, daemon scheduling, task networking, and GPU pinning, including live demos!
Who should attend: software developers, architects
EKS Workshop (300 Level)
The intent of this workshop is to educate users about the features of Amazon EKS.
Background in EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container workflows are not required, but they are recommended. This chapter will introduce you to the basic workings of Kubernetes, laying the foundation for the hands-on portion of the workshop. Specifically, we will walk you through the following topics: Kubernetes (k8s) Basics, Kubernetes Architecture, Amazon EKS
Who should attend: software developers, security and infrastructure engineers/SRE’s
Containers Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the Containers track. Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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Data & Analytics
Data Lakes & Machine Learning- Evolving your Data Architecture (100 Level)
Speaker: Jorge A Lopez, Senior Data & Analytics Lead & Carlos Escapa, Global AI/ML Lead
Organizations that use data as a competitive differentiator are more likely to lead and outperform their peers. Many organizations have transformed their data architectures and adopted the cloud to meet a variety of scalability and automation challenges. In this session, we develop a blueprint for data flows from data sources to data lakes, data warehousing, advanced analytics, and machine learning (ML). We look at the big picture, understand how to build data pipelines and repositories for different use cases, and enable data science at enterprise scale in a way that unleashes the value of corporate data, and embeds AI/ML in business processes.
Who should attend: big data practitioners, business analysts, data scientists
Migrating Big Data Workloads to the Cloud (200 Level)
Speaker: David Potes, Partner Solutions Architect
Migrating analytics, data processing (ETL), and data science workloads to Amazon Web Services can help your customers save costs, increase agility, and improve performance at scale. This webinar explains how to identify the components and workflows in your customer's environment and shares best practices to migrate these workloads to AWS. Learning Objectives: - Identify the components and workflows in your customer's current environment - Explore best practices to migrate these workloads to AWS
Who should attend: Hadoop developers/administrators, consulting partners
Best practices to Grow Your AWS Data & Analytics Consulting Practice (100 Level)
Speaker: Andy Bhaduri, Senior Big Data Lead
AWS is relentlessly innovating and growing in data and analytics segment with new services, capabilities and use cases. Our consulting partners have a unique opportunity to participate and capture this market growth. This session will help you understand this market opportunity, what AWS portfolio of technologies & use cases you can leverage, and importantly some best practices to help grow your data and analytics consulting business.
Who should attend: existing or new APN Consulting Partners loking to grow a data & analytics practice on AWS
Compliance Everywhere: Data Governance in the post-GDPR landscape (200 Level)
Many customers recognize the need for data governance to achieve their compliance requirements, but what does that mean in practice? Tune in to this session to learn the basic elements to drive a data governance initiative for data privacy, confidentiality and compliance, and get practical guidance on the people, process and tools necessary to implement your strategy. Learning Objectives - understand key drivers of data governance, identify and select the right tools for the job, learn how to implement across people, policy and tooling.
Building Visualizations with ML Insights (200 level)
Speakers: Luis Wang, Principal Product Manager DBS QuickSight, Neal Cauley, Senior Business Development Manager Amazon QuickSight
Today, customers using traditional BI tools spend too much time sifting through numerous dashboards to manually interpret the charts or rows and columns in their tables. Amazon QuickSight now applies the power of machine learning and natural language to proactively discover and deliver insights to every user in your organization. Learn how QuickSight automatically analyzes data to help you discover hidden insights, understand key business drivers, and deliver these insights in plain language directly to your inbox, so you always stay on top of your business.
Building Embedded Analytics into your Application or Portal with Amazon QuickSight (300 level)
Speaker: Jose Kunnackal, Principal Product Management DBS QuickSight
In this 300 level presentation, we will discuss new API’s for QuickSight that encompass APIs for data sources, datasets and SPICE ingestion, APIs for dashboards and templates, APIs for users and groups (available) and Namespaces. Taken together, these API’s make it easy for builders to integrate the flexibility, scalability and ML powered insights of Amazon QuickSight using a programmatic, multi-tenant architecture.
Suggested pre-requisite: Visualizing with QuickSight – available via Partner Central
Data and Analytics Track Live Q&A Session
Join us for one of three live Q&A sessions with AWS service team experts or AWS Partner Solutions Architects to get your questions answered from the sessions in the Data and Analytics track. Sessions are offered at 12:00pm AEST | BST | PST
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Building Blockchain Practice with Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon QLDB on AWS (200 Level)
Speaker: Lana Kalashnyk, AWS Blockchain Partner Technology Lead
Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly. In this session, learn the differences between blockchain and ledger technologies and get introduced to, Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon QLDB. Consulting and Technology partners leverage blockchain and ledger technologies to bring efficiency, security and auditability to their
digital transformation projects. You will walk away with a working knowledge of how to easily build and manage scalable Hyperledger Fabric networks with Amazon Managed Blockchain on AWS and create a new ledgers with Amazon QLDB.
Who should attend: technical leaders, project managers, solution architects, developers
Building an AI powered Virtual Concierge using Amazon Sumerian and AWS StepFunction & Amazon Rekognition (300 Level)
Speaker: Stephen Salim, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
Business are continuously looking for ways scale their customer and support services, many are looking to leverage Artificial Intelligence to achieve this. In this session you will learn how to build a repeatable Virtual Concierge experience, that you can easily adjust for your business needs. Powered by Amazon Sumerian, Amazon Rekognition, and AWS StepFunction. We will dive deep on the works of each services and design consideration towards repeatability to build this solution.
Unlock new use cases and win new customers with Amazon EventBridge (200 Level)
Speaker: Nick Smit, AWS Technical Senior Product Manager Amazon EventBridge
Customers today are increasingly building event-driven architecture to improve application scalability and reliability. They are taking advantage of data across their entire environment from their own apps, SaaS, and AWS services and looking for easy ways to connect all these applications seamlessly and in real-time. Amazon EventBridge extends your SaaS application data into AWS, unlocking new use cases for your customers. EventBridge delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources, such as SaaS applications like Zendesk, Datadog, or Pagerduty, and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. In the session, learn how EventBridge works, what developers are building today, and how you can help your customers build event-driven applications.
Who should attend: developers, architects, DevOps roles, IT leaders
Service Delivery
QuickSight Roadmap Update for Service Delivery Partners (100 Level)
Speakers: Jose Kunnackal, Principal Product Manager DBS QuickSight, Neal Cauley, Senior BD Amazon QuickSight
In this session, the QuickSight product management team will update partners on our NDA roadmap, including best practices on recently released features, new features and preview opportunities planned for Q4 and beyond, review plans for Re:Invent 2019 and host a Q&A on specific feedback that partners are seeing in their customer implementations.
AWS Enterprise Roadmap: What’s coming for AWS Enterprise customers this year? (100 Level)
Speaker: Alan Back, Director of Software Development, AWS Windows
The AWS Enterprise team is responsible for building the tools and services that our Enterprise customers need. We focus on Microsoft workloads like Windows Server and SQL Server, and also the 3 M’s: Migration, Modernization, and Management. In this session, we will go into technical detail about all the new services and tools we are building this year, and how we can help our Enterprise customers move to the Cloud.
Note: This session is password protected, you must be a member of the AWS Service Delivery Program to participate, if you are a member of the AWS Service Delivery Program, reach out to your PDM for details.
Who should attend: anyone interested in the Enterprise space for AWS
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High Availability and Disaster Recovery for databases running on Amazon RDS for Oracle (200 Level)
Speaker: Nagesh Battula, Principal Product Manager, Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is the best platform for customers to run their Oracle databases. In this session, we will explore the High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities of RDS for Oracle. You will also learn how customers can leverage these features for their HA/DR use cases and to address the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements of their mission critical databases.
Note: This session is password protected, you must be a member of the AWS Service Delivery Program to participate, if you are a member of the AWS Service Delivery Program, reach out to your PDM for details.
PrivateLink Partner Adoption Patterns – How SaaS partners are using PrivateLink to Simplify Connections and Gain New Customers
Speakers: Bob Widlansky, Senior Manager of Product Management, EC2 Windows and Enterprise Workloads & Pratik Mankad, Senior Partner Solutions Architect
Over 200 AWS SaaS and MSP partners such as Snowflake Computing, Bloomberg and Dynatrace are connecting privately with their customers using PrivateLink, and the community continues to quickly grow We'll present an overview of the key use cases we see in the market, common architectural patterns, and future plans.
Note: This session is password protected, you must be a member of the AWS Service Delivery Program to participate, if you are a member of the AWS Service Delivery Program, reach out to your PDM for details.
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Do not forget the NFR (Non-Functional Requirements) (200 Level)
Speaker: Duvier Zuluaga, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
When we are designing solutions and establishing an architecture, our decisions have to be driven not only by the functionality our customers want, but mainly by the restrictions and details on those functionalities. In this session we will review the importance of NFR, and go through some sample scenarios to see how to create more effective architectures.
Databases on AWS – The right tool for the right job (300 Level)
Speaker: Cristian Torres Salamanca, AWS Partner Solutions Architect
The objective of this session is to highlight the main differences between databases available on AWS, providing examples, use cases and updates on the latest launches regarding databases.