AWS re:Invent 2016

In this session, we walk through the simple process of deploying and managing your own Linux-based application in the cloud and also discuss key use-cases and benefits to automated configuration, deployment, and administration of application stacks.

Your enterprise has decided it is exiting the traditional desktop business and migrating to Amazon WorkSpaces. Your challenge: how do you provide end users a high quality experience using DaaS while integrating key enterprise services? Focusing on user adoption and simplified operational management DaaS offers significant benefits over traditional physical desktops and VDI solutions. These benefits include hourly consumption pricing, sizing flexibility, linear scalability, and simplified management.

In this session, you’ll learn how large, scaled organizations control and optimize their AWS costs. You’ll understand how you can grow usage in a cost-effective way across all business units or product teams. Attendees will walk away with new strategies and tools for driving cost-efficient decision-making at every level of the company.

Customers looking to migrate to AWS often ask the following questions at the beginning of their journey “What is the right AWS account structure and VPC design for me?” and “How do I minimize the impact to my IT operations?” This session discusses the different account structures, VPC design patterns and network deployment architectures to align to different Enterprise IT Operating Models. We will also discuss the implications each pattern has with respect to Security, Finance and Operations. Nielsen, a global enterprise providing an understanding of what consumers watch and what consumers buy, will discuss the decision making process for their AWS account and VPC design. Nielsen will also discuss the implications of their decision. This session will benefit IT architects, managers and technology strategists to:

As you begin to move out of your data center and develop a cloud-first strategy, you'll need support for large-scale migrations to AWS. In this session, CSC shares details about the journey to AWS by some of our largest enterprise customers. We provide best practices for planning your large-scale migrations and focus on business processes in addition to technology. We show how CSC used this approach to migrate to AWS as part of our separation last year into two publicly traded companies: CSC and CSRA. In less than six months, CSC took our 56-year-old company and broke it into two companies, one of which was brand new and without any infrastructure or enterprise applications. We explain how we leveraged the AWS Partner ecosystem to achieve this incredible IT challenge.

Every enterprise knows by now that it can save money by simply lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud, but many are missing the larger opportunity to also make money by moving. While quick costs savings are good for the bottom line, they do little to move the top line numbers. To achieve both savings and earnings, corporate thinking about technologies must change in order to enable faster processes leveraged enterprise-wide. In this session we will explore multiple customer success stories where the customers have evolved from leveraging basic compute and storage products (EC2 and S3) to integrating new services into operations by leveraging Lambda, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, etc. Once this is achieved, enterprises are enabled to manage and deploy code rapidly in a programmatic and elastic secure network, ensuring governance and security standards across the globe. We will look at the migration process trusted by hundreds of clients as well as how to cope with the process and people components that are so important to enable agility, while focusing heavily on the technology. The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and 2nd Watch story will dive deep into the technology that allows TCCC to manage hundreds of AWS Accounts, hundreds of workloads, thousands of instances, and hundreds of business partners around the globe. TCCC’s Configuration Management System has Puppet at the core and relies on over a dozen core and emerging AWS products across accounts, availability zones and regions. This complex and globally-available system ensures all of TCCC’s workloads in AWS meet corporate policies but also allows for rapid scale of both consumer and enterprise workloads.

Incumbent enterprises face dramatically competitive landscapes, with threats from almost every direction. Protecting your core business and innovating for the future is a delicate balancing act. Innovating as fast as a startup becomes a core competency, but failed new product innovation wastes time and resources. In this session, IT managers and professionals learn how running a lean enterprise can be a powerful framework for leading enterprise-scale innovation as effectively and fast as a startup.

Organizations where cloud adoption has matured into broader enterprise deployment are facing the need to better manage and control their costs and expenditures. Cost optimization at scale is a process that involves a number of changes across the business, including technical, organizational and cultural transformation. In this session, you will learn the fundamentals of cost optimization and how this can be used to help your organization drive costs down and still being able to meet capacity, demand and organizational requirements. Key topics being discussed are right sizing services, optimizing purchase models and implementing a culture of cost management.

When evaluating and planning migrating your data from on premises to the Cloud, you might encounter physical limitations. Amazon offers a suite of tools to help you surmount these limitations by moving data using networks, roads, and technology partners. In this session, we discuss how to move large amounts of data into and out of the Cloud in batches, increments, and streams.

This sessions is for architects and storage admins seeking simple and non-disruptive ways to adopt cloud platforms in their organizations. You will learn how to deliver lower costs and greater scale with nearly seamless integration into your existing Backup ad Recovery processes to achieve fast, simple wins that demonstrate the scale and flexibility of cloud services for storage. Services mentioned: S3, Glacier, Snowball, 3rd party partners, Storage Gateway, and cloud data migration services.