AWS re:Invent 2016

Traditional broadcast infrastructures had to be built with on-premises architectures to provide five nines of reliability and to ensure the quality of service expected by premium content owners. However, robust live linear streaming services built on AWS are now feasible and in fact can be 100% available. Learn how broadcast media workflows with Elemental Cloud can provide ingest of heterogeneous video sources, fault tolerance across multiple Availability Zones, time synchronization of video streams, and sustained peak workloads in 24/7 applications.

The flexibility of AWS provides many advantages in the processing and delivery of bursty video applications such as video on demand and live events. However, full channel playout and advanced monetization have been the domains of traditional on-premises workflows. Learn how Elemental and AWS are architecting media-centric playout, monetization, and delivery services on top of AWS with live and file playlist integration, static and motion graphic overlays, ad content transcoding, and personalized, server-side ad insertion to bring additional video center operations to the cloud.

In this session, you’ll hear different customers’ experiences bringing video workloads to AWS. Customer speakers from both traditional broadcasters and cloud-first technology companies will discuss what was same and what was different as they moved both video on demand asset creation and live feed production to AWS for the first time, and how their platforms have evolved with experience using Elastic Transcoder and Elemental Cloud.

Whether you are building a secure ecommerce application or developing games, security is a key consideration when architecting your application. In this session, you will learn about edge termination of your end user requests and will dive deep into advanced protocols and ciphers, enforcing end-to-end HTTPS connections with AWS Certificate Manager, access control with AWS WAF.

End users expect to be able to view static, dynamic, and streaming content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Amazon CloudFront is a web service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets to end users around the globe with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. In this session, learn what a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon CloudFront is and how it works, the benefits it provides, common challenges and needs, performance, recently released features like HTTP/2 and IPV6 support, pricing, and examples of how customers are using CloudFront.

This session introduces Lambda@Edge, a new AWS Lambda feature that allows developers to perform simple computations at AWS edge locations in response to CloudFront events. This will be of interest to developers who want to build low-latency, customized web experiences. We cover product functionality and details of the programming model, and we walk through potential use cases.

In this series of 15-minute technical flash talks you will learn directly from Amazon CloudFront engineers and their best practices on debugging caching issues, measuring performance using Real User Monitoring (RUM), and stopping malicious viewers using CloudFront and AWS WAF.

In this session, we dive deep into how you can integrate Amazon CloudFront and related services into your application, be agile in developing and adapting the application, and follow best practices when configuring the services to improve security and performance, all while reducing costs. Attend this session and learn how to avoid needless forwarding of headers and cookies, test your application when making changes to the origin, version your configuration changes, monitor usage and automate security, create templates for new distributions, configure SSL/TLS certificates, and more.

At AWS, the availability of our services is non-negotiable. While building our own services, such as Amazon CloudFront, we learn from and develop our own design patterns for high availability. In this session, we review several of these design patterns, and we show how you can implement the patterns in your own services or applications built on top of AWS using services such as Amazon Kinesis, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or AWS Lambda.

Ian Ward, Platform and Security Engineer from Mapbox, discusses how the AWS global edge network helps improve the availability and performance of delivering hundreds of billions of map tiles to hundreds of millions of end users across the globe on mobile devices, in cars, and over the web. In this session, Ian shares insights on how Mapbox manages day-to-day edge operations using Amazon CloudFront logs, dashboards, and ad hoc queries, and how Mapbox has configured CloudFront with dozens of behaviors and origins to customize their content delivery. Mapbox has grown from using a single AWS region to using several regions, so Ian also explains how his team uses Amazon Route 53 and open source tools to simplify complexity around regional failover, and how Mapbox leverages AWS WAF to deter attacks and abuse.