AWS re:Invent 2016

Today’s cutting edge companies have software release cycles measured in days instead of months. This agility is enabled by the DevOps practice of continuous delivery, which automates building, testing, and deploying all code changes. This automation helps you catch bugs sooner and accelerates developer productivity. In this session, we’ll share the processes followed by Amazon engineers and discuss how you can bring them to your company by using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy, services inspired by Amazon's internal developer tools and DevOps culture.

AOL originally provided dial-up service to millions of people. Today, AOL powers advertising and media experiences for the web’s top destinations. How do you maintain observability and reliability to both business and technical teams for high-traffic services in a dynamic infrastructure? Join us as we discuss AOL’s DevOps journey. We will dive into its engineering culture, automation, and monitoring best practices that have allowed AOL to successfully reinvent their infrastructure, as they moved from globally distributed data centers to the AWS Cloud. Session sponsored by Datadog.

In this session, you’ll hear from GitHub and Accenture Federal Services, a trusted advisor to the US government, on why they have continued to invest in the adoption of and transition to cloud services. After migrating to AWS cloud, one agency deployed GitHub, the cloud-hosted, distributed version control and collaboration platform, as the backbone of its DevOps program.

Just as we got a hang of monitoring our server-based applications, they take away the server. How do you monitor something that doesn’t exist? Which metrics matter most in a serverless world? In this session, we will look at how applications are different in an AWS Lambda-based world and how to monitor them. Join us as we work our way through the stack and demonstrate how to capture the health and performance of your services.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides an easy way for you to quickly deploy, manage, and scale applications in the AWS Cloud. Through interactive demos and code samples, this session will teach you how to deploy your code using Elastic Beanstalk, provision and use other AWS services (Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and Amazon DynamoDB), use your application’s health metrics to tune performance, scale your application to handle millions of requests, perform zero-downtime deployments with traffic routing, and keep the underlying application platform up-to-date with managed updates. Code samples for demos will be available to all session attendees.

Just as serverless application development is rapidly becoming the most popular way to bring highly scalable applications to the cloud, .NET has undergone radical changes with .NET Core to become a premier development platform for the cloud. In this session, you will learn how to use the newly launched C# support for .NET Core with AWS Lambda to create highly scalable serverless applications that target platforms from the traditional desktop to mobile devices. We will demonstrate how to write, test, and deploy C# code to AWS Lambda and see how we can leverage our serverless back end from mobile applications.

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In the digital economy, the fast development and deployment of applications is critical to success. To thrive in this application-oriented business environment, IT organizations are acting now to change their tools and processes to better support agile development methodologies. This session will cover performance benchmarking, benefits of migrating existing workloads, use of key services like Amazon RDS and AWS CloudHSM, and demonstrate how to deploy applications securely and at scale. Session sponsored by Cisco.

In this session, we cover three common scenarios that include Amazon CloudWatch Logs and AWS Lambda. First, you learn how to build an Elasticsearch cluster from historical data using Amazon S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch Logs. Next, you learn how to add details to CloudWatch alarm notifications using Amazon SNS and Lambda. Finally, we show you how to bring Elastic Load Balancing logs to CloudWatch Logs using S3 bucket triggers from Lambda.

AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch Events, AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), Trusted Advisor, AWS Config Rules, other services? In this session, we will help you use existing and recently launched services to automate configuration governance so that security is embedded in the development process. We outline four easy steps (Control, Monitor, Fix, and Audit) and demonstrate how different services can be used to meet your governance needs. We will showcase real-life examples and you can take home a blog post with code examples and the full source code for scripts and tooling that AWS professional services have built using these services.