AWS re:Invent 2014

Security postures in the cloud can take different forms, depending upon your specific business and IT requirements. Hear from customer panelists representing the energy industry, IT services, and government about how they have successfully delivered projects on AWS using Trend Micro solutions, while meeting or exceeding their security requirements. Focus is on the practical considerations and options for improving your overall IT security posture with the AWS shared responsibility security model. Sponsored by Trend Micro.

The US government has built hundreds of applications that must be refactored to task advantage of modern distributed systems. This session discusses EzBake, an open-source, secure big data platform deployed on top of Amazon EC2 and using Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS. This solution has helped speed the US government to the cloud and make big data easy. Furthermore this session discusses critical architecture design decisions through the creation of the platform in order to add additional security, leverage future AWS offerings, and cut total operations and maintenance costs.

Sponsored by CSC

Join Cloudnexa (an AWS Premier Consulting Partner) and electronic personal identity innovator, CLEAR, as they discuss CLEAR's innovative service offering that gets clients through airport security with predictable speed, while addressing a diverse set of compliance requirements ranging from security to point-of-sale to online commerce. Find out how this commercial business built its solution using a multiregion architecture, including AWS GovCloud (US) to deliver this Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act approved service for its clients. In this session you learn about CLEAR's migration from an on-premises data center to AWS; the differences between AWS GovCloud (US) and other AWS regions; how they optimized for AWS post-migration; how they managed their training and IT knowledge gaps; and their roadmap ahead.

Sponsored by Cloudnexa.

In this session, Datapipe's Chief Technology Officer, John Landy, will lead a conversation with Datapipe Solution Architects around the steps taken to architect and manage an end-to-end hybrid infrastructure. This session will cover real world hybrid use-cases including migration, disaster recovery, governance, compliance and redundancy with multi-zone, multi-region deployments through discussion of three common challenges organizations face when moving to the cloud:

Architecting a Secure and Compliant Hybrid Solution

Staging Migrations: Getting from point A to point B to point AB

Ongoing management and optimization

Sponsored by Datapipe

More organizations are embracing DevOps to realize compelling business benefits, such as more frequent feature releases, increased application stability, and more productive resource utilization. However, security and compliance monitoring tools have not kept up. In fact, they often represent the largest single remaining barrier to continuous delivery. Learn how to integrate security controls in your DevOps program from experts at Alert Logic and George Miranda, engineer and evangelist at Chef. Sponsored by Alert Logic.

In this session, learn how the Intel team of software engineers and data scientists, in collaboration with the Michael J Fox Foundation, built a big data analytics platform using Hadoop and other IoT technologies. The solution leverages wearable sensors and smartphone application to monitor PD patient's motor activities, 24/7. The platform collects and processes large stream of data, and enables different analytics services such as activity recognition and different PD related measurements to researchers. These machine learning algorithms are used to detect patterns in the data that can help researchers understand the progression of the disease and develop effective treatments. You leave with a comprehensive view of the tools and platforms from Intel that you can use in building your own applications on AWS. In addition there will be a deeper dive to explain the way this platforms enables near real time analytics as part of the ingestion process.

Parkinson's Disease-a neuromuscular disease that causes gradually worsening symptoms such as tremors, difficulty in movement, and sleep loss affects over 5 million people worldwide. Because the symptoms vary from individual to individual, research into the disease is hampered by the lack of objective data. As is typical of many healthcare applications, the collection, storage, and analysis of data is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. Intel is tackling this challenge by building a solution that uses wearable devices to collect data from patients anonymously and store it securely.

Sponsored by Intel.

As an AWS Direct Connect partner, Level 3 Communications delivers the ability to establish rapid, flexible and private connectivity from your on-premises environment to AWS for increased control and performance. This session covers enterprise use cases related to disaster recovery and migration from on-premises environments to the cloud. The session also addresses best practices and considerations for designing your architecture to include multiple virtual private clouds and global deployments with AWS Direct Connect. Sponsored by Level 3 Communications.

If you have tried Docker but are unsure about how to run it at scale, you will benefit from this session. Like virtualization before, containerization (a la Docker) is increasing the elastic nature of cloud infrastructure by an order of magnitude. But maybe you still have questions: How many containers can you run on a given Amazon EC2 instance type? Which metric should you look at to measure contention? How do you manage fleets of containers at scale?

Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, operations, and development teams who write and run applications at scale. In this session, the cofounder of Datadog presents the challenges and benefits of running containers at scale and how to use quantitative performance patterns to monitor your infrastructure at this magnitude and complexity. Sponsored by Datadog.

Suncorp is Australia's largest insurance provider and leading regional bank, with 15,000 employees, $96 billion in assets, and 9 million customers across Australia and New Zealand. Last year, the company announced intentions to move its entire infrastructure to AWS.

In this session, a Suncorp cloud architect discusses the hybrid IT approach that allows Suncorp to use AWS while satisfying strict IT compliance requirements. He shares the thinking, challenges and roadmap related to Suncorp's use of NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for AWS for enterprise-wide disaster recovery, dual data centers for redundancy and compliance, and plans for enterprisewide production workloads in phase two of the company's cloud transition. Learn why making application architecture changes and moving workloads to AWS is quicker and easier when your on-premises storage platform is consistent with your cloud storage platform. Session includes a demo of the NPS for AWS solution used by Suncorp as well as a discussion of the latest public and hybrid cloud developments available to customers. Sponsored by NetApp.

Managing a large portfolio of reservations across an ever-changing infrastructure requires a sophisticated and systematic approach. Attendees in this session walk away with a strategy for maximizing Reserved Instance (RI) coverage in their organization, as well as an understanding of specific tools and tactics to put that strategy into action. Sponsored by Cloudability.

Topics include:

- Reducing cycle times on the RI buying process

- Building a RI-friendly architecture

- Implementing a buy-measure-learn methodology that adapts to change