AWS re:Invent 2014

Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise-sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively. You can leave this session with a good understanding of the migration framework used to assess an enterprise application portfolio and how to move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion.

In this session, we describe the components of Accenture's cloud migration framework, including tools and capabilities provided by Accenture, AWS, and third-party software solutions, and how enterprises can leverage these techniques to migrate efficiently and effectively. The migration framework covers:

- Defining an overall cloud strategy

- Assessing the business requirements, including application and data requirements

- Creating the right AWS architecture and environment

- Moving applications and data using automated migration tools- Services to manage the migrated environment

Producing vaccines is a significant and complex effort that spans manufacturing, biological materials, streaming data, and complex computational challenges. In this session, speakers from Merck and Booz Allen Hamilton discuss how they partnered to leverage AWS and data science techniques, enabling them to pioneer new approaches for analyzing vaccine production yields. The solution they created combines a shared data lake service built on AWS services-such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC-as well as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and R to implement the data science infrastructure and analysis that created models of complex biological processes. As a result of this project, Merck has analyzed 12 years of vaccine manufacturing data from 16 data sources, conducted over 15 billion calculations, and was recognized with the InformationWeek Elite Business Innovation Award for the innovative application of data science towards enhancing vaccine yield rates and saving lives.

A difficult problem for users of Amazon S3 that deal in large-form data is how to consistently transfer ultralarge files and large sets of files at fast speeds over the WAN. Although a number of tools are available for network transfer with S3 that exploit its multipart APIs, most have practical limitations when transferring very large files or large sets of very small files with remote regions. Transfers can be slow, degrade unpredictably, and for the largest sizes fail altogether. Additional complications include resume, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, and efficient updates for synchronization.

Aspera has expertise and experience in tackling these problems and has created a suite of transport, synchronization, monitoring, and collaboration software that can transfer and store both ultralarge files (up to the 5 TB limit of an S3 object) and large numbers of very small files (millions andlt; 100 KB) consistently fast, regardless of region.

In this session, technical leaders from Aspera explain how to achieve very large file WAN transfers and integrate them into mission-critical workflows across multiple industries. EVS, a media service provider to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil explains how they used Aspera solutions for the delivery of high-speed, live video transport, moving real-time video data from sports matches in Brazil to Europe for AWS-based transcoding, live streaming, and file delivery. Sponsored by Aspera.

In this session, we cover what's needed to bring your Android app or game to Fire TV. We walk you through controller support for a game scenario (buttons and analog sticks), controller support for UI (selection, moving between menu items, invoking the keyboard), and how to account for the form factor (overscan, landscape, device and controller detection). By the end of this session, you'll be able to understand what you need to do if you want to build or modify your own app to work on a TV.

Scaling highly available database infrastructure to 100x, 1000x, and beyond has historically been one of the hardest technical challenges that any successful web business must face. This is quickly changing with fully-managed database services such as Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift, as the scaling efforts which previously required herculean effort are now as simple as an API call.

Over the last few years, Twilio has evolved their database infrastructure to a pipeline consisting of Amazon SQS, Sharded MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift. In this session, Twilio cover show they achieved success, specifically:

- How they replaced their data pipeline deployed to Amazon EC2 to meet their scaling needs with zero downtime.

- How they adopted Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift at the same scale as their MySQL infrastructure, at 1/5th the cost and operational overhead.

- Why they believe adopting managed database services like Amazon DynamoDB is key to accelerating delivery of value to their customers.

Sponsored by Twilio.

As your organization increases its AWS usage, budget owners and users demand new levels of cost visibility.

This session explains how scaled organizations control and optimize their AWS spending as usage increases across multiple product teams. Attendees walk away with a strategy for driving cost effective behavior across the entire organization, from engineering to finance. Sponsored by Cloudability.

Topics include:

- Maintaining cost oversight while giving autonomy to individual teams

- Allocating costs across dozens or hundreds of accounts or applications

- Creating accountability around spending habits and waste

- Tying cloud spending to the bottom line

Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your security operations as you move to the cloud. This session for architects and IT administrators covers considerations for optimizing your incident response, monitoring, and audit response tactics to take advantage of built-in capabilities in AWS. This session provides practical advice you can apply today, pulled from industry research, direct experience helping customers migrate to the cloud, and from the speaker's own hard-earned lessons. Sponsored by Trend Micro.

In just two years, Sumo Logic's multitenant log analytics service has scaled to query over 10 trillion more logs each day. Christian, Sumo Logic's cofounder and CTO shares the three most important lessons he has learned in building such a massive service on AWS. Ben Whaley is an AWS Community Hero who works for Anki as an AWS cloud architect. Ben uses hundreds of millions of logs to troubleshoot and improve Anki Drive, the coolest battle robot racing game on the planet. This is an ideal session for cloud architects constantly looking to improve scalability and application performance on AWS.

Sponsored by Sumo Logic.

Are you looking to automate backup and archive of your business-critical data workloads? Attend this session to better understand key use cases, best practices, and considerations to help protect your data with AWS and CommVault. This session will feature lessons learned from CommVault customers that have: migrated onsite backup data into Amazon S3 to reduce hardware footprint and improve recoverability; implemented data tiering and archived data in Amazon Glacier for long term retention and compliance; performed snapshot-based protection and recovery for applications running in Amazon EC2; and provisioned and managed VMs in Amazon EC2. Sponsored by CommVault.

In this session, you learn why Twilio chose to migrate from Amazon EC2-Classic to VPC and how they leveraged features available only in VPC, specifically:

- AWS CloudHSM: Build out a secure key encryption or role-based access control for internal use; also used to securely store and encrypt data for external customers.- Elastic Network Interface (ENI): Allows multiple Elastic IPs per instance and the ability to move network interface between instances.- Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) instances w/SRV-IO: New hardware virtualized instances that allow line-level performance of network interfaces for up to 10g Ethernet speeds. Secure data-in-transit by default, which ensures all machines communicate via a software-defined network and work in the same manner as VLAN tagging for compliance reasons. Sponsored by Twilio.