AWS re:Invent 2016

Hear Geneia's design principles for using multiple technologies like Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling in end-to-end solutions to meet regulatory requirements. Explore how to meet HIPAA regulations by using native cloud services like Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS volumes, encryption services, and monitoring features in addition to third-party tools to ensure end-to-end data protection, privacy, and security for protected health information (PHI) data hosted in the AWS Cloud. Learn how Geneia leveraged multiregion and multizone backup and disaster recovery solutions to address the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements. Discover how automated build, deployment, provisioning, and virtual workstations in the cloud enabled Geneia's developers and data scientists to quickly provision resources and work from any location, expediting the onboarding of customers, getting to market faster, and capturing bigger market share in healthcare analytics while minimizing costs. Session sponsored by Cognizant.

Continuous delivery can be challenging, especially for enterprises that deal with strict compliance requirements, like those in the financial services sector. AWS and Stelligent frequently work together with many large financial services enterprises to build solutions that enable customers to run their business faster and more safely on AWS. Together, we help customers ensure the security of the source code used to trigger builds, insert strict business controls at run time, and continuously inspect running infrastructure to ensure compliance. In this session, we share highly effective techniques that you can incorporate into your continuous delivery system to provide bank-level controls and security, and faster deployments. We explore a strong encryption pattern for handling build artifacts in a continuous delivery pipeline, a simple process for inspecting AWS CloudFormation templates to ensure that business rules are in compliance before a template makes AWS API calls, and a runtime inspector that uses AWS Lambda and AWS Config rules to ensure that running infrastructure is always in compliance.

Learn how AWS processes millions of records per second to support accurate metering across AWS and our customers. This session shows how we migrated from traditional frameworks to AWS managed services to support a large processing pipeline. You will gain insights on how we used AWS services to build a reliable, scalable, and fast processing system using Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, and Amazon EMR. Along the way we dive deep into use cases that deal with scaling and accuracy constraints. Attend this session to see AWS’s end-to-end solution that supports metering at AWS.

In gaming, low latencies and connectivity are bare minimum expectations users have while playing online on PlayStation Network. Alex and Dustin share key architectural patterns to provide low latency, multi-region services to global users. They discuss the testing methodologies and how to programmatically map out a large dependency multi-region deployment with data-driven techniques. The patterns shared show how to adapt to changing bottlenecks and sudden, several million request spikes. You’ll walk away with several key architectural patterns that can service users at global scale while being mindful of costs.

AstraZeneca is a global science-led biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines used by millions of patients worldwide. With AWS, AstraZeneca processed more exomes in 20 days than during the previous 3 years, enabling scientists to receive results more quickly, develop medicines faster, and treat more patients sooner. AstraZeneca was able to identify ~20% more patients with actionable variants of major cancer types by using VarDict, an internally developed, open source contributed variant caller, at scale in the Cloud. Learn how AstraZeneca used the AWS Cloud Services to rapidly develop and scale an asynchronous architecture to meet an urgent business opportunity, accelerating the speed of scientific discovery in a cost effective manner.

Did you know that AWS enables builders to architect solutions for price? Beyond the typical challenges of function, performance, and scale, you can make your application cost effective. Using different architectural patterns and AWS services in concert can dramatically reduce the cost of systems operation and per-transaction costs. This session uses practical examples aimed at architects and developers. Using code and AWS CloudFormation in concert with services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, CloudFront, and more, we demonstrate the financial advantages of different architectural decisions. Attendees will walk away with concrete examples, as well as a new perspective on how they can build systems economically and effectively.

Join Broadspectrum as they share how they achieve their business goals using a cloud-first IT strategy and AWS for 'as a Service' deployments. To support new customer projects, Broadspectrum frequently needs to set up new sites or offices. This often requires setting up infrastructure for a specific site for only the duration of the project. Learn how Broadspectrum leverages AWS and Wipro's Boundary Less Data Center Solution to enable on-demand provisioning of 'site-in-a-box'. Gard Little, analyst from IDC, Stephen Orban, AWS Head of Enterprise Strategy, and Ramesh Nagarajan, SVP of Integrated Services at Wipro, join the discussion. Session sponsored by Wipro.

Nike+ is at the core of the Nike digital product ecosystem, providing services to enhance your athletic experience through quantified activity tracking and gamification. As one of the first movers at Nike to migrate out of the datacenter to AWS, they share the evolution in building a reactive platform on AWS to handle large, complex data sets. They provide a deep technical view of how they process billions of metrics a day in their quantified-self platform, supporting millions of customers worldwide. You’ll leave with ideas and tools to help your organization scale in the cloud. Come learn from experts who have built an elastic platform using Java, Scala, and Akka, leveraging the power of many AWS technologies like Amazon EC2, ElastiCache, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, DynamoDB, Amazon ES, Lambda, Amazon S3, and a few others that helped them (and can help you) get there quickly.

To keep pace with today’s hybrid IT landscape, enterprises have to innovate faster while ensuring compatibility with legacy IT systems. They also need to reduce costs and increase business value through responsive infrastructure backed by flexible, intelligent, and context-aware agile IT processes. To do this, they need service assurance in four distinct areas:

In this session, we provide programmatic guidance on building tools and applications to detect and manage fraud and unusual activity specific to financial services institutions. Payment fraud is an ongoing concern for merchants and credit card issuers alike and these activities impact all industries, but are specifically detrimental to Financial Services. We provide a step-by-step walkthrough of a reference solution to detect and address credit card fraud in real time by using Apache Apex and Amazon Machine Learning capabilities. We also outline different resource and performance optimization options and how to work data security into the fraud detection workflow.

What happens when you give 6,000 developers access to the cloud? Introducing Cloud Custodian, an open source project from Capital One, which provides a DSL for AWS fleet management that operates in real-time using CloudWatch Events and Lambda. Cloud Custodian is used for the gamut of compliance, encryption, and cost optimization. What can it do for you?

Modern financial services organizations rely heavily on technology and automated systems to run business-as-usual. However, if this technology were interrupted by natural disasters or other events, there could be a devastating impact on investors and market participants, and in turn your reputational brand. In this session, we provide a step-by-step disaster recovery solution employed by a major exchange. This solution leverages Amazon EC2 Container Service to provide Docker containers, Weave Net to support a multicast overlay network that enables high volume multicast feeds in a cloud environment, and AWS CloudFormation for the ability to easily create and manage AWS assets. The session also covers the importance of redundancy (not just operationally, but for SEC compliance reasons as well) and how financial services organizations can increase geographical diversification of their primary and disaster recovery data centers. We dive deep into each major component of the solution.

Whether you’re a cash-strapped startup or an enterprise optimizing spend, it pays to run cost-efficient architectures on AWS. This session reviews a wide range of cost planning, monitoring, and optimization strategies, featuring real-world experience from AWS customers. We cover how to effectively combine Amazon EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot instances to handle different use cases; leveraging Auto Scaling to match capacity to workload; choosing the optimal instance type through load testing; taking advantage of Multi-AZ support; and using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor usage and automatically shut off resources when they are not in use. We discuss taking advantage of tiered storage and caching, offloading content to Amazon CloudFront to reduce back-end load, and getting rid of your back end entirely by leveraging AWS high-level services. We also showcase simple tools to help track and manage costs, including Cost Explorer, billing alerts, and AWS Trusted Advisor. This session is your pocket guide for running cost effectively in the Amazon Cloud.

With customers migrating workloads to AWS, we are starting to see a need for the creation of a prescribed landing zone, which uses native AWS capabilities and meets or exceeds customers' security and compliance objectives. In this session, we will describe an AWS landing zone and will cover solutions for account structure, user configuration, provisioning, networking and operation automation. This solution is based on AWS native capabilities such as AWS Service Catalog, AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Config Rules, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Lambda. We will provide an overview of AWS Service Catalog and how it be used to provide self-service infrastructure to applications users, including various options for automation. After this session you will be able to configure an AWS landing zone for successful large scale application migrations. Additionally, Philips will explain their cloud journey and how they have applied their guiding principles when building their landing zone.

Continuous Delivery can be challenging, especially for enterprises that deal with strict compliance requirements like those in the financial services sector. AWS and Stelligent frequently work together with many large Financial Services Enterprises to help incorporate their capabilities securely on the Cloud. From security of the source code used to trigger builds, to the insertion of strict business controls at run time, and out to the continuous inspection of the running infrastructure to ensure compliance, we are helping to build capabilities that are enabling them to run their business faster and safer on AWS.

Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane!

In this session, we explain how Financial Services organizations can leverage AWS grid computing capabilities to perform large-scale calculations for risk management purposes. Numerous financial services companies face the same basic challenge: modeling multiple scenarios with different risk factors simultaneously or in quick succession in order to make informed decisions that maximize gains and minimize financial loss. Some examples of these workloads include Monte Carlo simulations, price model validation and back-testing, and risk calculations for hedging and capital optimization strategies. We provide programmatic guidance around what AWS services to use when running a grid computing cluster that requires thousands of cores and specific industry use cases and key benefits around speed and costs that the AWS platform, auto-scaling capabilities, and various compute services can help achieve.

This session demonstrates how customers can leverage hybrid IT as a transitional step on the path to going all-in on AWS. We provide a step-by-step walk-through focusing on seamless migration to the cloud, with consideration given to existing data centers, equipment, and staff retraining. Learn about the suite of capabilities AWS provides to ease and simplify your journey to the cloud.

When D2L first moved to the cloud, we were concerned about being locked-in to one cloud provider. We were compelled to explore the opportunities of the cloud, so we overcame our perceived risk, and turned it into an opportunity by self-rolling tools and avoiding AWS native services. In this session, you learn how D2L tried to bypass the lock but eventually embraced it and opened the cage. Avoiding AWS native tooling and pure lifts of enterprise architecture caused a drastic inflation of costs. Learn how we shifted away from a self-rolled 'lift' into an efficient and effective 'shift' while prioritizing cost, client safety, AND speed of development. Learn from D2L's successes and missteps, and convert your own enterprise systems into the cloud both through native cloud births and enterprise conversions. This session discusses D2L’s use of Amazon EC2 (with a guest appearance by Reserved Instances), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon ElastiCache.

In this session, learn about efforts to diversify IT, from programs in high schools all the way up to diversity among top-level executives. Regardless of where you are in your career, this session dives deep to speak to you about the changing tech landscape. Through successes and failures, speakers candidly discuss how everyone can help in changing the ratio to attract a more diverse workforce and create a culture of inclusion. Bring your questions, network with peers, and be inspired by both women and men making an impact in non-profit, enterprise and government sectors.

For an IT organization to be successful in rapid cloud assessment or iterative migration of their infrastructure and applications to AWS, they need to effectively plan and execute on a strategic cloud strategy that focuses not only on cloud, but also big data, DevOps, and security.

As serverless architectures become more popular, AWS customers need a framework of patterns to help them deploy their workloads without managing servers or operating systems. This session introduces and describes four re-usable serverless patterns for web apps, stream processing, batch processing, and automation. For each, we provide a TCO analysis and comparison with its server-based counterpart. We also discuss the considerations and nuances associated with each pattern and have customers share similar experiences. The target audience is architects, system operators, and anyone looking for a better understanding of how serverless architectures can help them save money and improve their agility.

In November 2015, Capital Games launched a mobile game accompanying a major feature film release. The back end of the game is hosted in AWS and uses big data services like Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Data Pipeline. Capital Games will describe some of their challenges on their initial setup and usage of Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR. They will then go over their engagement with AWS Partner 47lining and talk about specific best practices regarding solution architecture, data transformation pipelines, and system maintenance using AWS big data services. Attendees of this session should expect a candid view of the process to implementing a big data solution. From problem statement identification to visualizing data, with an in-depth look at the technical challenges and hurdles along the way.

Warner Bros’ Turbine team shares lessons learned from their enhanced microservices game platform, which uses Docker, Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon ElastiCache to scale up in anticipation of massive game adoption. Learn about their Docker-based microservices architecture, tuned and optimized to support the demands of the massively popular [Batman: Arkham Underworld and other franchises]. Turbine invent and simplify microservices persistence services – consolidating their previous NoSQL database solution with highly performant PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS. Turbine also describes other innovative strategies, including integrated analytic techniques to anticipate and predict their scaling operations.

In this session, we share how an Amazon.com team that owns a document management platform that manages billions of critical customer documents for Amazon.com migrated from a relational to a non-relational database. Initially, the service was built as an Oracle database. As it grew, the team discovered the limits of the relational model and decided to migrate to a non-relational database. They chose Amazon DynamoDB for its built-in resilience, scalability, and predictability. We provide a template that you can use to migrate from a relational data store to DynamoDB. We also provide details about the entire process: design patterns for moving from a SQL schema to a NoSQL schema; mechanisms used to transition from an ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) model to an eventually consistent model; migration alternatives considered; pitfalls in common migration strategies; and how to ensure service availability and consistency during migration.

As systems and user bases grow, a once abundant resource can become scarce. While scaling out PlayStation services to millions of users at over a 100,000 requests/second, network throughput became a precious resource to optimize for. Alex and Dustin talk about how the microservices that power Playstation achieved low latency interactions while conserving on precious network bandwidth. These services powered by Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon DynamoDB benefitted from soft-state optimizations, a pattern that is used in complex interactions such as searching through a user’s social graph in sub 100 ms, or a user’s game library in 7 ms. As a developer utilizing Amazon Web services, you will discover new patterns and implementations which will better utilize your network, instances, and load balancers in order to deliver personalized experiences to millions of users while saving costs.

From servers to workstations, AWS provides the best place to run your Windows workloads. In this session, we'll discuss the ease of deploying Windows workloads on AWS, and architecting for performance, scalability, security, and cost savings. We will explore the use of AWS Directory Service, the Amazon EC2 Run command, and Windows PowerShell to bootstrap your instances for seamless Microsoft Active Directory integration, application installation, and management. We will walk through an architecture that includes Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, and Amazon WorkSpaces, and discuss the secure relationships among these services. You will learn how you can use native AWS services as well as the tools you are already familiar with to manage your Windows environment.

This session focuses on the cloud-connected features of Amazon Lumberyard. We introduce Amazon GameLift core concepts, complete a step-by-step walkthrough of deploying a multiplayer game to the cloud, and demonstrate how to rapidly scale a game based on player demand. We also cover Amazon Lumberyard’s Cloud Canvas, which empowers developers to leverage services such as databases, data storage, and methods to execute game logic within AWS without needing to configure or maintain servers. Finally we discuss integrating Twitch to your Lumberyard game with Twitch ChatPlay and JoinIn.

The advent of 4K video has resulted in a huge uptick in resource requirements, which is difficult to scale in a traditional environment. The cloud is a perfect environment for handling problems of this scale; however, there are many unanswered questions around best practices and suitable architectures for dealing with massive, high-quality assets. In this session, we will define problem cases and discuss practical architectural patterns for dealing with these challenges by using AWS services such as Amazon EC2 (graphical instances), Amazon EMR, Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, Amazon Glacier, AWS Snowball, and the new magnetic EBS volumes. The best practices that we'll discuss will also be helpful to architects and engineers who are dealing with non-video data. Amazon Studios will present how, powered by AWS, they solved many of these problems and are able to create, manage, and distribute Emmy Award-winning content.

This session covers how the data team at Riot Games utilizes ECS to consolidate and improve disparate deployment and hosting strategies across a wide range of applications deployed via Docker containers. The team will share how cluster management and container orchestration through ECS enables the team to quickly adopt and evolve shared service hosting solutions as Riot continues its journey towards becoming a multi-game studio.

OK, so you have your SaaS application up and running on AWS and now the real fun begins. The adoption of SaaS and a shared multi-tenant infrastructure brings with it a unique set of challenges that require developers to find new and creative ways to optimize their SaaS applications. For many engineers, this means tackling a whole new realm of questions. How do you optimize tenant experience by tiers? How do you perform real-time performance tuning or centralized tenant policy management? How do you collect and aggregate tenant analytics? How do you implement scalable policy-driven configuration of tenant experience? These and many other challenging topics will be covered in this technical deep dive. Tod Golding, an AWS Solutions Architect specializing in helping AWS partners build SaaS systems, will explore a collection of strategies that can be leveraged to increase the performance, flexibility, and agility of SaaS environments. You will learn how to identify areas where services, tools, and design strategies can be combined to enrich the agility of your SaaS architecture.

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Deploy, scale, and manage the Microsoft servers on AWS supporting 100K users. This session covers the AWS and Microsoft architectures to stand up Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, SQL Server, and Active Directory for enterprises. We focus on the architecture, automation, and management of Windows resources on AWS, including cloud-first technologies like AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager, and Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

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This session will demonstrate how to embrace DevSecOps to improve your security and compliance agility and posture within the highly regulated HIPAA environment. We will cover compliance frameworks, data decoupling strategies to fully utilize AWS, and best practices learned from the industry most active cloud adopters.

Organizations today are striving to provide a more flexible environment for their end users, allowing them access to corporate resources from any device, anytime. At the same time, securing corporate information remains a top priority for CIOs. Traditional solutions such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offer worker flexibility and security benefits, but they are expensive to purchase, complex to deploy, and they don’t scale well. In this session, you’ll learn how Amazon WorkSpaces combines the benefits of VDI with the economics of the cloud to deliver better value for organizations. We’ll show you just how easy it is to get started, and talk through how customers are using Amazon WorkSpaces today.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now supports both monthly and hourly billing. In this session, we help you determine the right billing method for your use cases, show you how to provision Amazon WorkSpaces for monthly or hourly billing, and work through a real-world example. News UK, a media organization that owns a stable of news and media brands, describes how they use Amazon WorkSpaces to solve a unique business need.

Alexa, what is the Internet of Things? Now that technology is small enough to be embedded in everyday devices, Healthcare has an opportunity to exploit the extraordinary potential of connecting ordinary devices. In this presentation, we explain how to rapidly build an IoT system and how to drive the Cloud with your voice on an Amazon Echo. In addition to describing how to use Alexa, we explore using AWS IoT, Lambda, Amazon SNS, and DynamoDB.

Join leaders in higher education in this panel discussion as they share how they use Amazon WorkSpaces to move to desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) to provide faculty, staff, and students, access to applications and information they need in classrooms, research labs, and across campus. Amazon WorkSpaces enables major educational institutions be more agile, improve their security posture, and offer end users a more flexible experience, while meeting stringent compliance requirements and remaining cost effective. Hear directly from the world of higher education about their projects to deliver the next generation of end-user computing in their organizations.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is an application streaming service that provides users instant access to their applications from anywhere, on any connected device. Enterprises can use Amazon AppStream 2.0 to securely deliver the latest versions of their desktop apps to their users. ISVs can reach more users across more devices, without rewriting applications, by streaming their desktop apps from the cloud to their users’ browsers. In this session, we show you how easy it is to upload your apps to Amazon AppStream and start delivering them to thousands of users. We’ll also learn from Siemens PLM how they are moving their desktop apps to the cloud with Amazon AppStream 2.0, and enabling their enterprise customers greater flexibility and productivity through streamed applications.

AWS has launched AWS Greengrass, a platform that extends the AWS Cloud onto your devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still taking advantage of the cloud. In this session we will talk about how Greengrass works and what you can do with it. You will also hear from early customers who will discuss their use cases for Greengrass and how it fits into their overall IoT strategy.

Amazon WorkMail is a secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email clients. Amazon WorkMail enables users to access email, calendars, and contacts using the Amazon WorkMail web app, Microsoft Outlook, or native iOS or Android email applications. In this session, we’ll show you how to quickly create an Amazon WorkMail organization, take a look at the encryption model employed by Amazon WorkMail for data at rest, set up interoperability between existing on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers and Amazon WorkMail and dive into a host of new features that are now available on Amazon WorkMail.

File sync and share applications have become a cornerstone of collaboration in modern organizations; securing and managing content is an ongoing challenge. Amazon WorKDocs is a fully managed, secure file storage and sharing service with strong administrative controls and feedback capabilities. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can use Amazon WorkDocs to manage files and secure content, and show you how we’re shaping Amazon WorkDocs to be a full-fledged productivity tool for users. We'll also present a technical overview of the WorkDocs SDKs, and how they allow you to use existing IT tools for antivirus protection, data loss prevention, analystics, and more.

AWS IoT edge and device services make it easy to get started and scale quickly along with your business needs. Medical equipment, industrial machinery, building automation, and simple device to trigger services, are just a few physical-world use cases that are benefiting from elastic cloud computing while meeting the local execution requirements and real time responsiveness. This session covers the intersection between the device and cloud industries, and the way AWS and our customers will shape the future of those industries together. We will showcase how our customers are using AWS IoT Button, the IoT Device SDKs, and other AWS services to improve the existing business models, invent new way of working, and balance the benefits of the cloud services with the need for local execution.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now offers GPU configurations to support design and engineering applications and three-dimensional modeling. We show you how running these applications on Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, in close proximity to data you already store on AWS, can help you process and visualize the results you need. We discuss the economics of running Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, and demonstrate the experience of running a graphics-intensive application on a GPU-enabled Amazon WorkSpace. We also invite Autodesk (or TRC or ESRi) to discuss how they are using Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles in their business.

Enterprises can use the AWS IoT button to provide unique innovative experiences to their consumers, simplifying the customer interface, and increasing engagement and brand loyalty. Enterprises and developers alike can use this single-purpose device to build fully customized IoT applications, or select from a list of predefined “blueprints” to instantly configure the device for unique use cases.

Your developers are the most important part of transforming your customer interactions into engaging experiences. Salesforce App Cloud, which brings together Heroku, Force.com and Lightning, abstracts away infrastructure and devops complexity, so you can focus on what matters most: building differentiated experiences through apps. Reducing time to market and letting you iterate fast helps you rise above the competition and build lasting customer relationships. In this session, you hear from Zayo, a leading global communications infrastructure services provider, and how they are leveraging the power of integrating the Salesforce and AWS platforms to deliver highly engaging customer experiences, enhancing developer productivity and driving faster innovation cycles. We spotlight Heroku Connect, which makes it easy to extend and synchronize your customer data between Salesforce and AWS and enhance it in ways that empower your developers to do what they do best: innovate. Session sponsored by Salesforce.

You’ve bet big with Amazon WorkSpaces to remove challenges managing your physical fleet of Macs and PCs. Now what? In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can deploy a rich cloud-based Windows experience on lightweight hardware to reign in management issues, improve TCO, and be at parity with your traditional environment. We’ll take you through the client device ecosystem – from Zero to thin to Google Chrome and Chromium OS clients – and strengthen your ability to determine the right client device strategy moving forward. Live product demonstrations will be provided as we journal how customers are moving to lightweight devices, and what best practices we’ve learned along the way.

What’s new with AWS IoT? This is an Introduction to the AWS IoT Platform and an overview of new features. Join us for a discussion on the features launched over the last year, and the best practices on how to use the AWS IoT Platform to get your device data into the cloud.

Amazon WorkSpaces is an enterprise desktop computing service that runs in the cloud. In this deep-dive session, we discuss advanced topics and best practices for deploying Amazon WorkSpaces in your organization. We discuss Amazon VPC design and public endpoints, AWS Directory Service, integrating with your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory, using multi-factor authentication, and monitoring and logging with Amazon CloudWatch metrics. We walk through how to do all this using a combination of the AWS Command Line Interface, the AWS Management Console, and AWS CloudFormation templates.

Establishing connectivity between devices and the cloud is the first step to building great IoT applications. Generating insights with these data streams, and acting on it in real-time, that creates value for your business. Join us and learn how to expand the operational picture of your IoT solution with AWS IoT. We will show you how to use metrics to enable new possibilities in generating insights and decision making engines. And we will connect to Salesforce to leverage your CRM data and empower service agents in this IoT context, using a solar panel monitoring and maintenance as a demonstration of AWS IoT features paired with Salesforce IoT Cloud.