AWS re:Invent 2014

Fire is the first phone designed by Amazon. We show you the new customer experiences it enables and how top developers have updated their Android apps to take advantage of Fire phone. Learn more about the hardware, the services, and the development SDK including Enhanced Carousel, Firefly and Dynamic Perspective, Appstore Developer Select, submitting to the Amazon Appstore, and Best Practices for developing great Fire apps.

Fire phone's Dynamic Perspective adds a whole new dimension to UI and customer interaction, combining dedicated hardware and advanced algorithms to enable real-time head-tracking and 3D effects. This session goes behind the scenes with the Dynamic Perspective team, diving into the unique technical challenges they faced during development. Afterward, we explore the Dynamic Perspective SDK together so you leave the session knowing how to add innovative features like Peek, Tilt, 3D controls, and Parallax to your own apps.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides an easy way for you to quickly deploy, manage, and scale applications in the AWS cloud. This session shows you how to deploy your code to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, easily enable or disable application functionality, and perform zero-downtime deployments through interactive demos and code samples for both Windows and Linux.

Are you new to AWS Elastic Beanstalk? Get up to speed for this session by first completing the 60-minute Fundamentals of AWS Elastic Beanstalk lab in the self-paced Lab Lounge.

AWS offers a number of services that help you easily deploy and run applications in the cloud. Come to this session to learn how to choose among these options. Through interactive demonstrations, this session shows you how to get an application running using AWS OpsWorks and AWS Elastic Beanstalk application management services. You also learn how to use AWS CloudFormation templates to document, version control, and share your application configuration. This session covers application updates, customization, and working with resources such as load balancers and databases.

Running an IT department in a large organization is not easy. To provide your internal users with access to the latest and greatest technology so that they can be as efficient and as productive as possible needs to be balanced with the need to set and maintain corporate standards, collect and disseminate best practices, and provide some oversight to avoid runaway spending and technology sprawl. Introducing AWS Service Catalog, a service that allows end users in your organization to easily find and launch products using a personalized portal. You can manage catalogs of standardized offerings and control which users have access to which products, enabling compliance with business policies. Your organization can benefit from increased agility and reduced costs. Attend this session to be one of the first to learn about this new service.

AWS OpsWorks helps you deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes. With AWS OpsWorks, you can model your application stack with layers that define the building blocks of your application: load balancers, application servers, databases, etc.

But did you know that you can also extend AWS OpsWorks layers or build your own custom layers? Whether you need to perform a specific task or install a new software package, AWS OpsWorks gives you the tools to install and configure your instances consistently and help them evolve in an automated and predictable fashion.

In this session, we dive into the development process including how to use attributes, recipes, and lifecycle events; show how to develop your environment locally; and provide troubleshooting steps that reduce your development time.

Docker is an open platform for developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications in Linux containers. In this session, Nathan LeClaire, a Solutions Engineer at Docker Inc., will be demonstrating workflows that can dramatically accelerate the development and deployment of distributed applications with Docker containers.

Through in-depth demos, this session will show how to achieve painless deployments that are both readily scalable and highly available by combining AWS's strengths as an infrastructure platform with those of Docker's as a platform that transforms the software development lifecycle.

With AWS CloudFormation you can model, provision, and update the full breadth of AWS resources. You can manage anything from a single Amazon EC2 instance to a multi-tier application.

If you are familiar with AWS CloudFormation or using it already, this session is for you. If you are familiar with AWS CloudFormation, you may have questions such as ''How do I plan my stacks?', ''How do I deploy and bootstrap software on my stacks?' and ''Where does AWS CloudFormation fit in a DevOps pipeline?' If you are using AWS CloudFormation already, you may have questions such as ''How do I manage my templates at scale?', ''How do I safely update stacks?', and ''How do I audit changes to my stack?' This session is intended to answer those questions.

If you are new to AWS CloudFormation, get up to speed for this session by completing the Working with CloudFormation lab in the self-paced Labs Lounge.

With AWS CloudFormation you can model, provision, and update the full breadth of AWS resources. You can manage anything from a single Amazon EC2 instance to a multi-tier application.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) uses AWS and CloudFormation to help deliver a range of services, including BBC iPlayer. Learn straight from the BBC team on how they developed these services with a multitude of AWS features and how they operate at scale. Get insight into the tooling and best practices developed by the BBC team and how they used CloudFormation to form an end-to-end deployment and management pipeline.

If you are new to AWS CloudFormation, get up to speed for this session by completing the Working with CloudFormation lab in the self-paced Labs Lounge.

Minimizing customer impact is a key feature in successfully rolling out frequent code updates. Learn how to leverage the AWS cloud so you can minimize bug impacts, test your services in isolation with canary data, and easily roll back changes. Learn to love deployments, not fear them, with a blue/green architecture model. This talk walks you through the reasons it works for us and how we set up our AWS infrastructure, including package repositories, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, Auto Scaling groups, internal tools, and more to help orchestrate the process. Learn to view thousands of servers as resources at your command to help improve your engineering environment, take bigger risks, and not spend weekends firefighting bad deployments.