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Interactive attendee guide forGaming Professionals

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Welcome.Hello,

On behalf of the entire AWS Worldwide Game Tech team, welcome to re:Invent 2018! This year’s conference is going to be our biggest yet, with 50,000+ attendees and more than 2,000 technical sessions.


To get the most out of re:Invent, we encourage you to take advantage of the resources outlined in this document, including the game industry sessions, the Game Dev Pub Crawl, and the “How to re:Invent” video series. Keep in mind that reserved seating is live as of October 11. You can start planning your schedule at any time by logging into your account, visiting the session catalog, and marking sessions of interest.

Join me, the AWS Game Tech team, and over 350 game developers for a great week of learning. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

Brian TaptichVice President, Amazon Game Techaws.amazon.com/gametech

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Let’s get started.This guide is designed to help attendees of AWS re:Invent 2018 plan their experience and identify breakout sessions and events of interest. It is intended to complement the re:Invent app, which will help attendees navigate the conference on-site.

Click on the links to navigate this guide.re:Invent agenda »

What to expect in 2018 »

Other recommended sessions »

Networking opportunities »

Event venues and logistics »

Executive Summit overview »


Gaming sessions »

AWS Game Tech contacts »

re:Invent Agenda Other RecommendedSessions

Networking Opportunities

Executive Summit Overview

Event Venue and Logistics

What to expect in 2018

AWS Game TechSessions

AWS Game Tech Expert Contacts

WhatAWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community. The event features keynote announcements, training, and certification opportunities. At the conference, you’ll have access to more than 2,000 technical sessions, a partner expo, after-hours events, and so much more.

WhenNovember 26 - November 30, 2018. Onsite registration desk opens on Sunday, November 25, at 1PM.

WhereWe are taking over Las Vegas--with events at the ARIA, Vdara, Bellagio, Encore, MGM Grand, Mirage, and The Venetian.

Who

HowRegister here, book your travel and hotel here, check out our justification letter(if you need one), and watch the How to re:Invent videos here.


50,000+ attendees, including the AWS Game Tech team.

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What’s new in 2018?

Deeper technical content and more hands-on learning opportunities.

For the first time, attendees will be able to reserve seats using both the re:Invent registration app and the re:Invent mobile app.

A bigger and better Partner Expo, with over 2,000 breakout sessions.

More unique events: broomball, the Tatonka Challenge, fitness activities, and the re:Play party!

Resources to get you started

RE:INVENT HOMEPAGE

FAQ PAGE

GETTING AROUND

OVERVIEW OF RE:INVENT CONTENT

EVENT CATALOG

AGENDA

RESERVED SEATING & MOBILE APP

BOOKING MEETING SPACE


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How to re:Invent

Are you ready for re:Invent 2018? We certainly are!

In our new webinar series, “How to re:Invent,” you’ll get an introduction to all things re:Invent 2018. Join your hosts, Annie Hancock (Head of Creative & Customer Experiences, AWS) and Jill Fagan (Lead, AWS re:Invent Content) for a tour of the campus, the content, the after-hours events, and all of the ways we are making this year’s event better than ever.

Watch the full webinar series »


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The re:Invent Mobile App

The AWS re:Invent app is your companion in planning and navigating your re:Invent experience.

Download the app to:

• Plan and explore your re:Invent experience by adding sessions of interest to your planner

• Find and reserve open seats, build your re:Inventschedule, and resolve scheduling conflicts

• Get real-time shuttle estimates to help you navigate the re:Invent campus

• Get updates on the latest content, speakers, and services added to the catalog

• Use the chatbot within the app for any questions regarding the event

• Evaluate sessions using your mobile device

• Live steams available through the app


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How to manage your scheduleWe are pleased to announce Breakout, Chalk Talk and Workshop sessionsfocused on Games at re:Invent. We have highlighted them in the following sections and have provided a guide to finding any session of interest in the event catalog and adding it to your schedule.

Visit the event catalog and make sure you are logged in.

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Scroll down the left-hand navigation bar, find Topic or Industry, and check any topics or industries of interest.

2. 3. Tag appealing sessions as “I’m interested in this” or click on the arrow at right to pursue different scheduling options.

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Reserved your seat by clicking on the “+” sign next to the date and time under Scheduling Options.

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View full agenda online »


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Types of Sessions

Breakout Session

re:Invent breakout sessions are lecture style and 60 minutes long. These sessions will take place throughout the re:Invent campus and cover all topics at all levels (200–400). Sessions are delivered by AWS experts, customers, and partners, and they typically include 10–15 minutes at the end for Q&A.

Workshop

Workshops are two-hour, hands-on sessions where you work in teams to solve problems using AWS. Workshops organize attendees into small groups and provide scenarios to encourage interaction, giving you the opportunity to learn from and teach each other. Each workshop starts with a 10–15-minute lecture by the main speaker, and the rest of the time is spent working as a group. Come prepared with your laptop and willingness to learn! AWS will provide credits.

Builders Session

Builders Sessions are 60-minute small groups sessions with up to five customers and one AWS expert, who is there to help, answer questions, and provide guidance. You will use your laptop to experiment and build with the AWS expert after a short demonstration. There is reserved seating for builders sessions.

Chalk Talk

Chalk talks are a highly interactive content format with a smaller audience. They begin with a 10–15-minute lecture delivered by an AWS expert, followed by a 45–50-minute Q&A session with the audience. The goal is to foster a technical discussion around real-world architecture challenges. Chalk talks are one hour and are presented by AWS experts. They have expert level content.

Demo Sessions

Demo sessions feature AWS experts, partners, and customers, presenting informative demonstrations. Learn the techniques used to build specific solutions, overcoming technological challenges faced by enterprises and startups alike.

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© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. Breakout Sessions

ROVIO

GAM301

Supercell – Scaling Mobile Games

FEATURED SPEAKER: Heikki Verta,Services Team Lead, Supercell

In this session, learn how Supercell architected their analytics pipeline on AWS. In particular, we dive deep into how Supercell leverages Amazon EC2, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, and Spark to ingest, process, store, and query petabytes of data. We also dive deep into how Supercell's games are architected and how the data that was modeled evolved to accommodate new games, growing user volumes and new technology as they become available. We explain how Supercell's teams are organized into small and independent cells and how this affects the technology choices they make to produce value and agility in the development process

Link to session | Breakout session

FEATURING

SUPERCELL

GAM302

Activision Blizzard: Giving Call of Duty Gamers an Edge with Alexa and AWS

Activision Blizzard provides a real-time, immersive, second screen Alexa experience for Call of Duty WWII players in a first-to-market major title integration. In this session, we illustrate how Activision Blizzard leverages AWS services to power the Call of Duty Alexa skill, providing real-time, 1:1 personalized interactive answers and coaching. Participants gain an understanding of how AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon Polly, and Alexa skills and management are used to deliver AI-generated, customized responses to user requests at scale, giving Call of Duty Alexa users a competitive and fun advantage.

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FEATURED SPEAKERS: Dhruv Thukral –Principal Solutions Architect; Mike Bleske – Sr. Manager, Marketing Tech, Activision; Diego Toledo – Associate Software Architect, Activision Blizzard

FEATURING

ACTIVISION

Breakout session

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GAM304

How Rovio Uses ML to Acquire, Retain, and Monetize Users for Their Games

FEATURED SPEAKER: Vesa Siivola –Senior Analytics Engineer, Rovio

Breakout session

FEATURING

ROVIO

Understanding gamer behavior is critical in acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users effectively. The cycle requires constant fine-tuning through expensive and complex live operations to offer fresh, fun, and challenging experiences. In this session, learn how Rovio uses machine learning (ML) to make this process faster, more efficient, and more accurate. Learn how to leverage AWS compute, analytics, and database services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift, to build an ML workflow that predicts the future interests and behaviors of gamers to better serve your needs and theirs.

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© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. Breakout Sessions

GAM305

Dynamic Encounters for Veteran Players Using Machine Learning

Are you trying to keep your game fresh for long-time players but don't have the resources to keep building new handcrafted content? Join this session to learn how to launch dynamic content for groups of players without relying on static techniques like instancing or spawn points. We dive into Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for real-time data collection and hotspot detection, and machine learning for encounter-building based on observed player behavior.

Link to session | Workshop

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Chris Finch – Sr. Gaming Specialist SA; Curd Zechmeister –Amazon Web Services

FOCUS ON

MACHINE LEARNING

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GAM303

Building a DDoS-Resilient Architecture for Your Games

Games are a large target for DDoS attacks, and outages can be costly and damaging for a game's reputation and a player’s experience. Traditionally, mitigating DDoS attacks has been an expensive process, requiring many people to manage and support it. In this session, we look at how to design your backend architecture to automatically identify and mitigate DDoS attacks. We explore ways to incorporate services such as AWS Shield to help manage attacks and AWS WAF to deflect unwanted traffic. For game servers, we learn how Amazon GameLift can help minimize the attack surface and blast radius of your multiplayer games.

Link to session | Chalk Talk

FOCUS ON

GAME LIFT & SHIELD

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Peter Chapman –Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS; Arni Birgisson – Solutions Architect, AWS

GAM310

Detect Anomalies & Fraud in Your Games Using Amazon SageMaker & ML

Game studios build specialized tools and processes to detect fraud and anomalies in their games. In addition to increasing development costs per game, it also impacts player experience, and processing time to resolve player issues. In this chalk talk, we review how studios could use a trained machine learning (ML) system to improve anomalies and fraud detection.


FEATURED SPEAKERS: Nirav Doshi – Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS

FOCUS ON

SAGEMAKER & ML














Midnight Madness

AWS style pep rally to kick off the week, complete with swag, drinks, and snacks. Open to the first 6,000 fans.

Sunday, November 25: 10:00pm-1:00am

Tatonka Challenge

Join us as we attempt to break our 2017 Guinness World Record of the largest chicken wing eating competition.

Sunday, November 25: 10:30pm-Midnight

4K and 8K Run

This year, we’re doubling the fun of the 4K and adding an 8K distance for those who want a longer run.

Tuesday, November 27: 6:00amStarts at the MirageSign up when you log into your account

Welcome Reception

Where attendees and partners come together to connect and learn.

Monday, November 26: 4:00pm-7:00pmThe Venetian & The Quad at ARIA

re:PLAY

Not just an EDM concert and interactive extravaganza, the re:PLAY party is the ultimate playground.

Thursday, November 29: 8:00pm-Midnight

Broomball

Played at our annual company picnic, our homegrown variant of broomball combines aspects of traditional broomball and soccer.

Thursday, November 29: 7:30pm-9:00pmSign up at [email protected]

Pub Crawl

Game Tech and Twitch staff will have VIP bracelets to distribute to Game Development customers. Ask your account manager how to get one! Learn more about the Pub Crawl prizes that will be given away!

Tuesday, November 27: 6:00pm-8:00pmLagasse’s Stadium – Twitch | LAVO Restaurant – Game Tech

Harley Ride

Kick off your AWS re:Invent experience. Board a bus that will transfer attendees to Las Vegas Eagle Rider. There will be two scenic route options this year.

Sunday, November 25: 12:00pm-5:30amStarts at the Venetian Tour LobbyTo reserve your seat, register here

(Click on the titles to go to the respective event pages.)

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AWS Game Tech / Fortnite Gaming Alcove

AWS Game Tech is partnering with Epic Games to bring Fortnite to AWS re:Invent attendees. re:Invent attendees will have the chance to stop and play at one of the 16 Fortnitegaming stations Monday – Friday. AWS Game Tech Business Development, Sales and Marketing will be on hand to answer questions.

The Venetian Level 4 West Alcove

Monday, November 26: 10:00am-7:00pm

Tuesday, November 27: 8:00am-6:00pm

Wednesday, November 28: 10:00am-6:00pm

Thursday, November 29: 10:00am-5:00pm

Friday, November 30: 8:00am-12:00pm











Executive Summit Keynote Speakers

KEYNOTE: Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS

Wednesday, November 288:00am-10:30am

The Venetian, Level 2


KEYNOTE: Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon

Thursday, November 298:30am-10:30am


KEYNOTE: Global Partner Summit

Tuesday, November 278:30am–10:30am










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Campus shuttle


The campus shuttles run continuously, on direct routes, to and from our campus venues – Aria, Bellagio, Encore, MGM, Mirage, Venetian, and the re:Play venue – during the posted schedule. Plan ahead for peak travel times before and after major events such as Midnight Madness, Meals, Welcome Reception, Keynotes, Pub Crawl, and re:Play.

Your re:Invent badge is required to ride campus shuttles.

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A list of tasks to check off as you’re getting prepared for re:Invent 2018.

Your re:Invent checklist

o Registered for re:Invent

o Booked my hotel

o Booked travel reservations

o Uploaded my badge photo

o Connected with account team

o Favorited sessions

o Reserved seats to the sessions I want

o Reviewed list of open bootcamps

o Reviewed the Expo & Quad maps

o Downloaded the mobile app

o Familiar with the shuttle & walking routes

o Watched all 7 How-to-re:Invent videos on YouTube

o Marked my calendar with critical dates

o Familiarize myself with sponsors in the Expo & Quad

o Signed up for quirky programs (Harley Ride,

Tatonka Challenge, 4k/8k Run, Broomball, etc.)

o Read the Know-Before-You-Go info

o Attended Know-Before-You-Go webinar


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AWS Game Tech Sessions


Want to connect with an expert?

If you’d like to arrange a meeting with AWS Game Tech subject matter experts, please reach out to your account teams to coordinate. You can click on the photos to access team member LinkedIn profiles.

Rob SchoeppeHead of Worldwide Business Development, Gaming

Tim BradleeAmericas Games Sales Leader

John GriffinHead of Games, EMEA

Nari GopalaTech Leader, Gaming

David HolmesHead of Product, Amazon Gamelift


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AWS Game Tech Sessions


Want to connect with an expert?

If you’d like to arrange a meeting with AWS Game Tech subject matter experts, please reach out to your account teams to coordinate. You can click on the photos to access available team member LinkedIn profiles.

Royal O’BrienGame Tech Chief Evangelist

Barry DorfSr. Manager of BD, Lumberyard


Chris FinchSr. Gaming Specialist Solutions Architecture

Peter ChapmanSr. SpecialistSolutions Architect, Gaming

Yahav BiranSr. Gaming Specialist, Solutions Architecture

Emiko YamamotoAWS Head of Games Japan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrydorf/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/obwando/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterchapmanarchitect/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/finch/


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ALEXA »

Index: Other Recommended Sessions

ANALYTICS »

ARCHITECTURE »

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING »

AR/VR »

COMPUTE »

CONTAINERS AND CONTENT DELIVERY »

DATABASES »

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT »

SECURITY, IDENTITY, & COMPLIANCE »

STORAGE AND SERVERLESS »


ELEMENTAL »

DIGITAL MARKETING & DIGITAL USER ENGAGEMENT »









ALX313 Use Alexa to Reach Millions of New Customers by Developing for Multiple Screens

FEATURED SPEAKER: Arunjeet Singh, Sr. Product Manager, Amazon; Steven Arkonovich, Alexa Champion

Repeat available

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ALX306 Everything You Wanted to Know about Developing for Voice Using Alexa

ALX312 Three Lessons from “Escape the Room” That Apply to Making Money with Your Alexa Skills

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Amit Jotwani -Alexa Evangelist; German Viscuso, Alexa Technical Evangelist

FEATURED SPEAKER: Gal Shenar, Founder, Stoked Skills; Max Amordeluso, EU Lead Evangelist Alexa

In this chalk talk, we review the common challenges developers face when building voice experiences for Alexa. We provide an overview of the history of design in technology, highlighting what we learned over the years in developing for a screen. By the end, expect to understand the similarities and differences between developing for voice and developing for screen-oriented mediums.Link to session | Chalk talk

Join Gal Shenar, founder of Stoked Skills, in this talk about designing and implementing Alexa in-skill purchasing for “Escape the Room” and “Escape the Airplane” game skills. Learn about optimizing the user experience by soft launching with live updates and implementing a premium content in-skill purchase gate while monitoring user experience flow to increase conversion rates by using AWS Lambda.Link to session | Breakout session

Repeat available

Repeat available

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ALX301How to Train Your Alexa Skill Language Model Using Machine Learning

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Fawn Draucker, Research Manager; Nate LaFave, Data Specialist

In order to create an engaging Alexa skill, you must have a well-thought-out language model for your voice UI. In this session, learn how to make your Alexa skill more delightful to customers by optimizing your language model, providing the correct training data for your custom intents, and using specific strategies to improve new and existing language models. Come prepared for an interactive conversation. Link to session | Chalk Talk

Repeat available

ALX305 Voice Assistants Beyond Smart Speakers – Integrate Alexa into Your Unique Product

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Donn Morrill, Solutions Architect

Device makers can use the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to add conversational AI to a variety of products from smart speakers to headphones, screen-based devices to smarthome, and more. Learn how to choose the right hardware and software tools, ensure great customer experience with test and certification guidelines, and leverage qualified solution providers to get your products to market faster.Link to session | Breakout Session

Repeat available

Learn how the new Alexa Presentation Language makes it easy to develop interactive voice and touch experiences that are portable to any Alexa enabled device with a screen—tablets, TVs, Echo Show, Echo Spot, and more. Learn how to use the new APL file format, reusable UI components, and device groupings to create rich, interactive multimodal experiences that automatically adapt to target devices.Link to session | Breakout session

ALX402 Make Money with Alexa Skills

FEATURED SPEAKER: Jeff Blankenburg, Senior Alexa Evangelist

Repeat available

In this session, developers learn how to leverage Alexa in-skill purchasing APIs, Amazon Pay, and developer reporting tools to help unlock premium digital content in a custom voice experience. Discover how in-skill purchasing gives customers and developers the flexibility of making payments through consumables, subscriptions, and one-time entitlements. Dive deep, and leave this session with everything you need to know to make money with Alexa skills.Link to session | Breakout session

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ANT201 Big Data Analytics Architectural Patterns and Best Practices ANT206

Under the Hood: How Amazon Uses AWS Services for Analytics at a Massive Scale

ANT208 Serverless Video Ingestion & Analytics with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

ANT215 What Can Your Logs Tell You? ANT323 Build Your Own Log Analytics Solutions on AWS

ANALYTICS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Siva Raghupathy, Sr. Manager; Ben Snively, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Aditya Krishnan, Head of Kinesis Video; Ameet Vaswani

FEATURED SPEAKER: Pranav Nambiar, Senior Manager (Product Management)

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Pranav Nambiar, Senior Manager (Product Management); Tommy Li, Senior Software Architect, Autodesk

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Analytics Sessions »

In this session, we’ll apply principles to various stages of big data processing: collect, store, process, analyze, and visualize. We'll discuss how to choose the right technology in each stage based on criteria such as data structure, query latency, cost, request rate, item size, data volume, durability, and so on. Finally, we provide reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices for assembling these technologies to solve your big data problems at the right cost. Link to session | Breakout session

As Amazon's consumer business continues to grow, so does the volume of data and the number and complexity of the analytics done in support of the business. In this session, we talk about how Amazon.com uses AWS technologies to build a scalable environment for data and analytics.

Link to session | Breakout session

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to capture live video, play it back, and store it for real-time and batch-oriented ML-driven analytics. In this session, we demonstrate a streaming video from a standard USB camera connected to a laptop, and we perform a live playback on a standard browser within minutes. We also have members of Amazon Go, who are building the next generation of physical retail store experiences powered by their "just walk out" technology. Link to session | Breakout session

Everyone has logs. They’re not the most exciting data that your systems generate, but often, they are the most useful. Across the board, we see customers using Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) to ingest, analyze, and search their log data. In this chalk talk, we discuss how to get your data into Amazon ES, and how to use Kibana to best effect to pull the information you need from the logs you’re generating.Link to session | Chalk Talk

There are many opportunities to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service as a backend for real-time application and infrastructure monitoring. Developers in your organization are deploying Amazon ES for many different workloads and many different purposes. In this session, we explore whether, when, and how to centralize logging across your organization to minimize costs and maximize value. We also discuss how Autodesk built a unified log analytics solution using Amazon ES. Link to session | Breakout Session

Repeat available

Repeat available

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Naveen Yajaman; Craig Woods














ARC314Globalizing Player Accounts at Riot Games While Maintaining Availability

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Tyler Turk, Infrastructure Engineer, Riot Games

The Player Accounts team at Riot Games migrated hundreds of millions of player accounts into a consolidated, globally replicated composite database cluster in AWS. This provided higher fault tolerance and lower latency access to account data. In this talk, we discuss this effort to migrate eight disparate database clusters into AWS as a single composite database cluster replicated in four different AWS regions, provisioned with terraform, and managed and operated by Ansible.Link to session | Breakout Session

ARC204 Incorporating the AWS Well-Architected Framework into Your Architecture

ARC207 Design Your Architecture for Latency-Intolerant Games ARC212 Trends in Digital Transformation

ARC215 Which Database is Right for Your Serverless Application ARC306 Breaking up the Monolith

ARCHITECTURE

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Julio Faerman, Technical Evangelist, AWS; John Ewart, Performance Lead, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Peter Chapman, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS; Rani Lian, Technical Consultant, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Adrian Cockcroft, VP Cloud Architecture Strategy, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Tapodipta Ghosh, Marketplace Solutions Architect, AWS; Mike Deck, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Architecture Sessions »

In this session, we discuss how to incorporate the AWS Well-Architected Framework into your architecture. Find out how to ensure that you are well-architected from the outset.Link to session | Chalk talk

In this session, we discuss designing end-to-end architecture to create the lowest latency experience for your players around the world and how to make use of Amazon Route 53, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon GameLift to build a low maintenance, globally distributed multiplayer infrastructure. We explore ways to connect players to low latency game servers using geolocation routing and matchmaking, and we discuss how to use metrics on player latency, wait times, and dropouts in order to quickly adjust and improve.Link to session | Chalk Talk

As industries digitally transform their existing business models to fend off competitors or disrupt new markets, they find their IT to be a limiting factor. In this session, we cover the trends of disruptions and opportunities of digital transformation, and the evolution of IT monoliths to microservices and now cloud native services. We also explore dependency management, or “lock in,” through a “choosing, using, and losing” mental model. Finally, we explore chaos architecture as an evolving method for exposing weaknesses before they become real problems.Link to session | Breakout Session

Choosing the right persistence layer for your serverless application is important. In this session, we walk you through the available choices for serverless databases and compare their pros and cons. Expect to walk away with a simple flowchart that can help you decide on the right database for your serverless applications.Link to session | Chalk Talk

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Xavier Hutchinson - Solutions Architect; Tom Whateley - Solutions Architect

Legacy applications are everywhere. When should you begin to refactor to a microservices approach, and what are the best ways to approach this challenge? In this chalk talk, we walk through a real-world example of breaking up a monolith.Link to session |

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AIM301 Deep Learning for Developers: An Introduction

AIM303 Create Smart and Interactive Apps with Intelligent Language Services on AWS

AIM307 Deep Dive on Amazon Rekognition

AIM317 Scalable Text Mining for ETL Solutions

AIM318 Create the Voices You Want with Amazon Polly

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Jon Turow, Head of Product, Amazon Rekognition; Ranju Das, GM, Amazon Rekognition; Rudi De Sousa, Director of Engineering & Architecture, News UK & Ireland Ltd

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Nino Bice, Product Manager

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Maciej Chmielarz – SDET, Amazon Text-to-Speech; Remus Mois - Sr. Manager, Amazon Text to Speech

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all AI/ML Sessions »

Deep learning has the potential to enable extremely advanced AI applications. In this session, understand how deep learning works, and learn key concepts such as neural networks, activation functions, and optimizers. We show you how deep learning models improve through complex pattern recognition to produce more accurate insights and predictions. Also learn how to get started using popular deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.Link to session | Breakout Session

Amazon brings natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech services, and neural machine translation technologies within the reach of every developers. In this session, learn how to add intelligence to any application with machine learning services that provide language and chatbot functions. See how others are defining and building the next generation of apps.Link to session | Breakout Session

Join us for a deep dive on the latest features of Amazon Rekognition. Learn how to easily add intelligent image and video analysis to applications in order to automate manual workflows, enhance creativity, and provide more personalized customer experiences. We share best practices for fine-tuning and optimizing Amazon Rekognition for a variety of use cases, including moderating content, creating searchable content libraries, and integrating secondary authentication into existing applications. Link to session | Breakout Session

While many ETL tools can handle structured data, very few can reliably process unstructured data and documents. In this session, learn how you can use Amazon Comprehend to address unstructured data extraction and transformation at scale so that key information can be extracted and used downstream for data integration and analytics.Link to session | Builders Session

Many of today's text-to-speech systems limit your choices to a few voices. If these voices aren't right for your needs, the process of adding more voices is usually costly and time consuming. Learn how you can use Amazon Polly for speech production and to modify voices for a range of uses, from game development and telephony to web publishing.Link to session | Builders session

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FEATURED SPEAKER: Vikram Anbazhagan - Sr. Manager, Product Management –Amazon Lex; Niranjan Hira, Solutions Architect

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AVR202 Create and Publish AR, VR, and 3D Applications Using Amazon Sumerian

AVR305 Creating a Chatbot AVR302 The State Machine: Create Dynamic, Interactive AR, VR, & 3D Experiences

AR/VR

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Derek Pai, Principal Product Manager; Preston Tamkin, Senior SW Engineer, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Jillian Munson, SW Engineer, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Chris Azer - IoT Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all AR/VR Sessions »

In this session, learn how Amazon Sumerian can help you create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. Learn how you can use Sumerian to build highly immersive and interactive scenes that run on popular hardware, such as Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Google Daydream, and HTC Vive as well as on Android and iOS mobile devices.Link to session | Workshop

In this hands-on training session, we show you how to create a chatbot using Sumerian Hosts integrated with Amazon Polly and Amazon Lex. Bringing voice and conversation transforms the way in which scenes are developed and how customers interact with an app. Learn how to create a chatbot using both verbal and typed inputs and responses.Link to session | Builders Session

In this session, learn to use the state machine to bring behaviors and interactivity to objects within their scene. Together, we create an interactive 3D scene using primitive shapes and basic objects. Learn how to import assets, change their position within a scene, and creative interactive behaviors using the state machine.Link to session | Builders session

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CMP202 Scale Your Studio: Rendering with Spot and Deadline on AWS CMP422

Hands-On: Deploy Remote Graphics Desktops for Content Production

COMPUTE – MEDIA

FEATURED SPEAKER: Chris Bond, Director of Product, Founder AWS Thinkbox

FEATURED SPEAKER: Mark Stephens, Partner, SA; Mike Owen, AWS Thinkbox, SA

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Compute Sessions »

This session focuses on rendering workloads combining Deadline (an AWS rendering pipeline management tool) and Spot for scalable cost-effective computing. Find out how real customers working on Hollywood productions are integrating their pipelines with AWS to realize the elasticity and scale provided by Amazon EC2, as well as how they intend to leverage AWS in the future to scale their superpowers.Link to session | Breakout Session

Traditionally, companies requiring high-quality graphics desktops for their users have been forced to invest heavily with on-premises infrastructure. Enable on-demand 'graphics and video editing' users on the desktop as easily as burst EC2 cloud compute. Hire the best talent, regardless of location or time zone, while only streaming secure pixels to a user's desktop. In this session, attendees will explore this solution and then individually build a working Windows and Linux graphics desktop based on the NVIDIA powered G3 EC2 instance type. Link to session | Workshop











CMP303 Powering Next-Gen EC2 Instances: Deep Dive into the Nitro System CMP305 VMWare Cloud on AWS:

Deep DiveCMP306 Run Production Workloads on Spot,

Save up to 90%

CMP308 Optimizing Network Performance for Amazon EC2 Instances CMP310 Application Portability with

Kubernetes

COMPUTE

FEATURED SPEAKER: Anthony LiguoriFEATURED SPEAKER: Andy Reedy, Partner Solutions Architecture, AWS; Jin Zhang – Director, Product Management

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Boyd McGeachie Sr. Product Manager, AWS; Scott Donovan, Sr. Cloud Engineer, Citadel; Gabriel Eisbruch, Sr. Manager, Mercadolibre.com

FEATURED SPEAKER: Vishvesh Sahasrabudhe, Sr. Product Manager; Nick Matthews, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Dan Illson, Cloud Solutions Architect, VMWare; Art Fewell, VMWare, Bahubali, Shetti, Director of Public Cloud Solution Architects, VMWare

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Compute Sessions »

The Nitro system is a rich collection of building block technologies that include hardware offload and security components built on AWS. It is powering the next generation of EC2 instances with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. In this session, we deep dive into the Nitro system, explore its design and architecture, discover how it enables innovative new EC2 instances, and understand how it has made the seemingly impossible, possible.Link to session | Breakout Session

VMware Cloud on AWS—an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware – delivers a highly scalable, secure, and innovative service that enables organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud. In this session, we cover the cloud challenges addressed by VMware Cloud on AWS, its integration with AWS services, its unique benefits, some popular use cases, consumption options, pricing, value-add services, total cost of ownership, and customer success stories. Link to session | Breakout Session

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances enable you to use spare EC2 computing capacity— capacity that is often 90% less than On-Demand prices. In this session, learn how to effectively harness Spot Instances for production workloads. We explore application requirements for using Spot Instances, best practices learned from thousands of customers, and the services that make it easy to use. Finally, we run through practical examples of how to use Spot for the most common production workloads, the common pitfalls customers run into, and how to avoid them.Link to session | Breakout Session

Many customers are using Amazon EC2 instances to run applications with high performance networking requirements. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon EC2 network performance features— including enhanced networking, ENA, and placement groups—and discuss how we are innovating on behalf of our customers to improve networking performance in a scalable and cost-efficient manner. Link to session | Breakout Session

Application portability has always been the goal that operators aspire towards. The deployment simplicity in Kubernetes has made this goal attainable. In this talk, we show how easy it is to implement a hybrid cloud strategy and deploy the same application onto a VKE-managed Kubernetes cluster using Helm. We share best practices on how to implement end-to-end network configuration automation and application monitoring with open-source tooling like Prometheus and Grafana. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, VMware, Inc. Link to session | Breakout Session

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CON203 From the Data Center to the Cloud with Containers CON204 Managing Docker Images with

Amazon CON303 Container Security and Avoiding the 2 A.M. Call

CONTAINERS AND CONTENT DELIVERY

FEATURED SPEAKER: Jessica Chen, Product Manager, Technical

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Containers Sessions »

By packaging software into standardized units, containers give code everything it needs to run. This ensures consistency from your laptop all the way to production. In this session, we describe how to use the portability of containers to build applications that run both on-premises and in the cloud. We cover common architectural patterns and tools to build, deploy, and run applications from your data center in the cloud.Link to session | Breakout Session

In this session, learn how to use Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) to securely manage and distribute your Docker container images.Link to session | Builders Session

One of the challenges that customers encounter is how to secure their applications running in containers. Traditional security practices and tools are designed for applications running directly on the hosts, whereas containers are virtualized and multi-tenant. In this session, we show you techniques that you can use to secure hosts, containers themselves, and the applications hosted in individual containers.Link to session | Breakout Session

FEATURED SPEAKER: Ryan Malecky, Solutions Architect; Len Henry, Sr. Solutions Architect

CTD315How Rovio Uses Amazon CloudFront for Secure API Acceleration

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Achraf Souk, Solutions Architect, AWS; Mika Linnanoja, Sr. Cloud Engineer, Rovio Entertainment

In this session, learn how gaming company Rovio Entertainment Corporation uses Amazon CloudFront to accelerate their API globally, and how it gives them flexibility to apply various security measures at the edge. Join the engineers at Rovio for an in-depth and interactive discussion.Link to session | Chalk Talk

FEATURED SPEAKER: Brent Langston, Sr. Developer Advocate; Max Blaze, Staff Operations Engineer, Duolingo













DAT205 Databases on AWS: The Right Tool for the Right Job DAT210 Optimize Your SQL Server

Licenses on Amazon Web Services DAT211 Optimize Your Oracle Licenses on Amazon Web Services

DAT314 Migrating Your NoSQL Database to Amazon DynamoDB DAT318

Migrating Your Oracle & SQL Server Databases to Amazon Aurora

DATABASES

FEATURED SPEAKER: Shawn Bice, VP Non-Relational Databases; Joseph Idziorek, Product Manager, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Lance Spratt, Windows Licensing Lead

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Kwesi Edwards, Sr. Business Development Manager; Nathan Biggs, CEO, House of Brick Technologies

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Arun Thiagarajan, Product Manager, Technical

FEATURED SPEAKER: John Winford, Global Lead, Database Freedom; Chris Tersteeg, VP of Architecture, Dow Jones and Company

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Databases Sessions »

Shawn Bice, VP of Non-Relational Databases at AWS, discusses why your application should drive the requirements of a database, not the other way around. Learn why you should select different database services to solve different aspects of an application, and watch a demonstration in which application use cases lend themselves well to specific data services.Link to session | Breakout Session

Before you migrate your SQL Server workloads to AWS, you should have a clear understanding of SQL Server licensing and how to employ cloud licensing best practices for optimized TCO. In this session, we discuss licensing and support options and explore ways to optimize your database usage. AWS recently introduced new instance types and configurations that support your ability to optimize the cost of running SQL Server on AWS. Link to session | Chalk Talk

Many organizations want to consider a cloud strategy for their business-critical Oracle workloads. For most, however, the concern about licensing Oracle in AWS seems like a showstopper. In this session, we discuss your licensing and support options for running Oracle on AWS, and explore ways to cost optimize your Oracle workloads in the cloud. AWS recently released technical innovations that support your ability to optimize the cost of running Oracle on AWS. Link to session | Chalk Talk

AWS 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.Link to session | Breakout Session

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 talk about the latest advances in migration tooling and automation, and we explain how many of the common legacy features of Oracle and SQL Server map to modern cloud variants. We also hear from Dow Jones about its migration journey to the cloud..Link to session | Breakout Session

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ADT202Use Amazon Rekognition to Power Video Creative Asset Production

ADT301 Create a Serverless Web Event Pipeline

DIGITAL MARKETING & DIGITAL USER ENGAGEMENT

FEATURED SPEAKER: Karl Bunch, WW Tech Leader, Digital Advertising

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Digital Marketing Sessions »

In this session, hear from an AWS customer about how they leveraged Amazon Rekognition deep learning-based image and video analysis to power a data-driven decision system for creative asset production. See a demonstration of the solution, and hear about media- and advertising-specific use cases. Learn from the customer's experiences implementing their architecture, the challenges, and the pleasant surprises along the way.Link to session | Breakout Session

In this session, learn how to design and deploy serverless pipelines for collecting events at web scale, such as advertising pixels, site visits, site interaction, and e-commerce. We work together to build a serverless collection pipeline utilizing Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Lambda@Edge, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Amazon Redshift. At the end of this session, you will understand ways you can deploy a serverless pipeline in your architectures. Link to session | Builders Session

ADT303Machine Learning for Real-Time Self-Service Trend Detection & Root Cause Analysis: A Hands-On Lab

FEATURED SPEAKER: Jose Noriega, Global Alliance Manager, ML, AWS

In this session, get hands-on with a range of datasets across use cases like product and customer experience analytics from ecommerce, web analytics, telco, ad tech, gaming, ride sharing, and IoT manufacturing. Learn how a new class of self-learning AI/ML tools is enabling autonomous analytics with trend and root cause detection services in real time. Anodot's SaaS analytics platform offers a simple self-service model with no data science expertise required, powered by AWS, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Redshift. Link to session | Builders Session

DIG204Enable Your Marketing Teams to Engage Users with Relevant & Personalized Content

FEATURED SPEAKER: Zach Barbitta, Sr. Product Manager

This chalk talk is delivered by the innovation team from Claro, a major Brazilian telecommunications company that serves over 50 million customers with broadband, mobile, cable TV, and video-on-demand services. The team describes how they enable their marketing departments to engage customers through campaigns that send personalized messages, such as billing reminders, updates on internet credits, and upcoming program alerts. They share how they then measure customer engagement and user behaviors, all using Amazon Pinpoint.Link to session | Chalk Talk

FEATURED SPEAKER: Karl Bunch, WW Tech Leader, Digital Advertising; James Kupernik, CTO, VidMob; Joline McGoldrick, SVP Data & Insights, VidMob













CTD204“All the World’s a Stage” –Enriching Mind and Body with Educational OTT Videos

CTD401 Who’s That Lord? Build Your Own Royal Wedding Celebrity Finder

CTD406 Monetizing Live OTT Streams Made EasierCTD403

Personalized Ad Targeting Using Real-Time, Content-Aware Machine Learning

CTD317Speed and Performance: How to Manage and Originate Live Video at Scale

ELEMENTAL

FEATURED SPEAKER: Vivek Bhat – AWS; Kevin Moore – AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Chris Kuthan – Bus Dev Lead, Media Industry Solutions; Leah Siddall – Tech Marketing Manager, AWS Elemental; Lee Atkinson –Principal SA, Media & Entertainment; Mike Callahan, Sr. Director of Marketing, AWS Elemental

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Joan Morgan, Tech Marketing Manager, AWS Elemental; Alex Zhang – AWS; Mike Callahan, Sr. Director of Marketing, AWS Elemental

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Khawaja Shams – VP of Engineering, AWS Elemental; Stephanie Lone – VP of Engineering, CBS Sports Brands

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View more Elemental Sessions »

Learn how a university created a live streaming workflow using AWS Elemental to reach hundreds of schools with educational events. Within months, students and staff from the university were able to build, test and successfully broadcast in high quality to thousands of students. And learn how a home-exercise video company provides millions of customers on-demand video, with scalable, resilient, pay-as-you-go transcoding and delivery from AWS.Link to session | Breakout session

In this chalk talk, we explain how to put together a serverless "Content-Aware Clipping" video workflow, and we identify technology choice trade-offs using Amazon Rekognition for celebrity identification as the backdrop.


Monetizing live video streams can be a challenge. AWS Elemental MediaTailor can help make that challenge easier to overcome. For best returns, streaming video solutions should use server-side ad insertion, target different devices, personalize ads for each viewer, and be able to scale for the most popular events, like live sports. In this chalk talk, learn the important questions to ask when building a dynamic ad insertion solution for live video streaming, and how to successfully serve billions of ad impressions across a range of playback devices. Link to session | Chalk Talk

Harnessing the power of machine learning (ML) services such as Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Translate, and Amazon SageMaker we can extract information about the content of video. With ML, this metadata can be auto-generated and combined with viewers' self-identified interests for personalized advertising within video streams. In this session, we feature a demo of matching objects in real time, and an ML application suggesting relevant advertisements based on identified objects.Link to session | Chalk Talk

Sports fans demand the best when it comes to live-streaming experiences. In this session, CBS Sports Digital shares how it is using AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaStore to give viewers high quality, live-streamed sports coverage. Learn how CBS Sports Digital layers MediaLive, MediaStore, and other AWS services to build an architecture that scales for growing audiences, exacting performance requirements, and increasing redundancy.Link to session | Session

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Mike Callahan, Sr. Director of Marketing, AWS Elemental; Bryan Samis – SA, AWS Elemental; Leah Siddall and Joan Morgan – Tech Marketing Managers, AWS Elemental

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AIM343 Build Automated Video Social Posts for Player Records and Highlights AIM404

Build, Train, and Deploy ML Models Quickly and Easily with Amazon SageMaker, ft. 21st Century Fox

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

FEATURED SPEAKER: Lidio Ramalho, M&E Solutions Architect, AWS; Samir Araujo, AI Solutions Architect, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Leo Dirac, Principal Engineer, AI Platforms; Lluis Canet, Vice President, 21st Century Fox

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Media & Entertainment Sessions »

In this session, learn how machine learning can combine internal statistics feeds with image player recognition to log when new player records are set. See how this solution uses Amazon Rekognition to identify the player, AWS Lambda to determine if the play is a new record for the particular athlete, and then automatically creates an image to share on social media that highlights the player in action.Link to session | Chalk Talk

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. In this session, we'll dive deep into the technical details of each of the modules of Amazon SageMaker to showcase the capabilities of the platform. We also discuss the practical deployments of Amazon SageMaker through real-world customer examples.Link to session | Breakout Session

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SEC201 SEC206 GDPR Readiness and Management SEC312 The Perimeter is Dead. Long Live the Perimeters.

SEC306 Moving 400 Engineers to AWS: Our Journey to Secure Adoption

SECURITY, IDENTITY, & COMPLIANCE

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Max Ramsay, Sr. Manager, Security Assurance, AWS; Chris Gile, Sr. Mgr. Security Assurance, AWS; Oliver Bell, Head of Security Regulatory Affairs, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKER: Roy Feintuch, Co-founder and CTO

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Tim Jefferson, VP Public Cloud, Barracuda Networks; Fleming Shi, SVP Advanced Technology Engineering, Barracuda Networks

© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Security, Identity, & Compliance Sessions »

In this session, compliance leads discuss the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and share experiences and details on AWS readiness for GDPR, as well as considerations for your environment.Link to session | Chalk Talk

Traditional data center environments have regarded the network boundary as a stable perimeter of defense. The public cloud, however, is exposing a plethora of hosted services directly to its users, bypassing traditional network filtering technologies, and effectively creating new perimeters around the various services and data element. Examples of these new perimeters include Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon EBS snapshots, and AWS Lambda functions. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Dome9 Security Inc.Link to session | Breakout session

In this session, we walk you through some of the unexpected security challenges we faced. Discover what security issues you need to address, how to avoid costly unused instances in your deployments, and why your current security tools won’t help. We show you how a major transformation landed us on AWS, and we share how we overcame challenges and advanced our business while innovating in a new direction. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Barracuda Networks Inc. Link to session | Breakout session

Security Framework Shakedown: Chart Your Journey with AWS Best Practices

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Steven Laino, Security Architect, AWS; Ben Potter, Security Lead Well Architected, AWS

Featuring the AWS Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks, we will walk you through a complete security journey. We'll start with identification of requirements, then move through a series of how-tos from classifying your data, automating controls, to running fun incident response game days. There will be code giveaways and more! Link to session | Breakout session














STG201 Tape is a Four Letter Word: Back Up to the Cloud in Under an Hour

FEATURED SPEAKER: Mohamed Adly, Global Solutions Architect; Erik Durand, Global Business Development, Storage Services; Bhavin Patel, Sr. Product Mgr

STG210 Realize the Promise of Hybrid Cloud with Pure Storage

STG303 Deep Dive on Amazon S3 Security and Management

STG325Using Cloud File Storage to Accelerate Your Software Development Pipeline

FEATURED SPEAKER: PD Dutta, Sr. Product Manager, AWS; Christopher Schultz, Director Software Engineering, Capital One

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Geert Jansen, Sr. Product Manager, AWS; Pete Goldberg, Sr. Partner Development Manager, AWS; Jeff Fry, Sr. BD Engineer, CloudBees

STORAGE & SERVERLESS© 2018 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. View all Storage Sessions »

If you want to stop using tapes but need to store immutable backups for compliance or operational reasons, attend this session to learn how to make an easy switch to a cloud-based virtual tape library (VTL). AWS Storage Gateway provides a seamless drop-in replacement for tape backups with its Tape Gateway. It works with the major backup software products, so you simply change the target for your backups, and they go to a VTL that stores virtual tapes on Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier. Link to session | Breakout session

Technology and architecture must facilitate using on premises and public cloud together. Data is the “heart” of the application, and if you can’t easily bridge and move data between on premises and cloud, making applications portable between the two is nearly impossible. In this session, learn how you can unify on premises and cloud with Pure Storage, making it possible to truly run a hybrid cloud storage architecture. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Pure Storage.Link to session | Breakout session

In this session, learn best practices for data security in Amazon S3. We discuss the fundamentals of Amazon S3 security architecture and dive deep into the latest enhancements in usability and functionality. We investigate options for encryption, access control, security monitoring, auditing, and remediation.Link to session | Breakout session

Developers building their applications using a microservices strategy have a need for persistent container storage that is highly available, easy to provision, and can scale up and down without storage admin intervention. In this session, we discuss CloudBees Core (formerly Enterprise Jenkins) and how it is using Amazon EFS for simple, scalable, on-demand persistent container storage to support customer CI/CD workflows.Link to session | Chalk Talk


SRV212Accelerate Innovation and Maximize Business Value with Serverless Applications

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Linda Lian, Product Marketing Manager; Chris Dixon, VP Product Development, Comcast

In today's tech-driven world, an organization's architecture is a competitive differentiator. A key piece of this advantage lies in the ability to move—fast. In this session, we dive into how serverless is changing the way businesses think about speed and cost of innovation. We hear from Comcast on why they made the decision to reinvent with serverless, and the learnings and benefits they've gained along their journey to modern application development.Link to session | Breakout Session

FEATURED SPEAKER: Storage Specialist

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