AWS re:Invent 2016

You have decided to shut down a data center and move your applications to AWS, and you know you’ll need some help. Whether you need just tools, boots on the ground to move those applications, or someone to teach you how, you can find help among the group of elite partners that the AWS Partner Network has assembled to assist customers with meeting their business objectives. In this session, you will discover the variety of services our partners provide, learn how to select the appropriate partner for your needs, and hear about the experiences of customers who used partners to accomplish big objectives on AWS.

Learn about the 6 Rs of migrating, migration patterns, and how to map your portfolio to the patterns. Discover how your business drivers and overall IT strategy determine the migration patterns you need, and learn best practices for selecting the appropriate Rs.

Learn about some of the most useful and popular tools that you can leverage at various stages of a migration project. These tools will allow your teams to focus on coordinating the migration and automating as many migration activities as possible.

Large-scale enterprise migration can be a complex undertaking, especially for organizations that re-architect solutions to leverage the benefits of the Cloud. FINRA, which regulates US equities and options markets, recently completed a 2.5-year migration and re-architecture of its Big Data platform. Their platform consumes billions of market events every day. FINRA has developed scalable platforms and services on AWS that enable migrating enterprise applications and business functions to the Cloud quickly. Their data management platform takes advantage of AWS storage and compute products. In this session, IT influencers and decision makers will learn lessons from FINRA’s migration, including how to create an enterprise-class Cloud architecture and which technology skills are required for transitioning to the Cloud. We also share examples of the business value FINRA has realized.

Migrating regulatory workloads can be complex and time consuming. Come learn how Guardian Life Insurance migrated their regulated workloads to the AWS Cloud. Guardian Life's hybrid cloud journey started with moving web and application tiers into AWS, while keeping legacy repositories on premises. Key planning activities included vendor selection, migration planning, hybrid architecture design, compliance ensurance, and AWS and partner tools selection. Guardian Life shares how they defined security, compliance, and data management controls and solutions, which enabled them to migrate entire applications to AWS. The session also covers lessons learned and key considerations for hybrid cloud architectures.

How do you optimize costs when migrating user-facing services from a proprietary data center to the Cloud? When Intuit faced this thorny question, they formed a cost-optimization team, built visibility into cost and usage data, decided when to use automation, and developed a culture of cost consciousness. Who do you select for this cross-functional team? How do you empower the team to reach across business units? Which metrics should you focus on first? How do you align your organization with this cause? Which roadblocks and issues could you face along the way? How will you create an internal chargeback model? Hear from the Intuit team about their journey, learn from the challenges that they overcame, and hear about the results they've achieved.

brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to Amazon’s public cloud, delivered as an on-demand, elastically scalable, cloud-based VMware sold, operated and supported service for any application and optimized for next-generation, elastic, bare metal AWS infrastructure. This solution enables customers to use a common set of software and tools to manage both their AWS-based and on-premises vSphere resources consistently. Further virtual machines in this environment have seamless access to the broad range of AWS services as well. This session will introduce this exciting new service and examine some of the use cases and benefits of the service. The session will also include a VMware Tech Preview that demonstrates standing up a complete SDDC cluster on AWS and various operations using standard tools like vCenter.

Continuous delivery can be challenging, especially for enterprises that deal with strict compliance requirements, like those in the financial services sector. AWS and Stelligent frequently work together with many large financial services enterprises to build solutions that enable customers to run their business faster and more safely on AWS. Together, we help customers ensure the security of the source code used to trigger builds, insert strict business controls at run time, and continuously inspect running infrastructure to ensure compliance. In this session, we share highly effective techniques that you can incorporate into your continuous delivery system to provide bank-level controls and security, and faster deployments. We explore a strong encryption pattern for handling build artifacts in a continuous delivery pipeline, a simple process for inspecting AWS CloudFormation templates to ensure that business rules are in compliance before a template makes AWS API calls, and a runtime inspector that uses AWS Lambda and AWS Config rules to ensure that running infrastructure is always in compliance.

AstraZeneca is a global science-led biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines used by millions of patients worldwide. With AWS, AstraZeneca processed more exomes in 20 days than during the previous 3 years, enabling scientists to receive results more quickly, develop medicines faster, and treat more patients sooner. AstraZeneca was able to identify ~20% more patients with actionable variants of major cancer types by using VarDict, an internally developed, open source contributed variant caller, at scale in the Cloud. Learn how AstraZeneca used the AWS Cloud Services to rapidly develop and scale an asynchronous architecture to meet an urgent business opportunity, accelerating the speed of scientific discovery in a cost effective manner.

Join Broadspectrum as they share how they achieve their business goals using a cloud-first IT strategy and AWS for 'as a Service' deployments. To support new customer projects, Broadspectrum frequently needs to set up new sites or offices. This often requires setting up infrastructure for a specific site for only the duration of the project. Learn how Broadspectrum leverages AWS and Wipro's Boundary Less Data Center Solution to enable on-demand provisioning of 'site-in-a-box'. Gard Little, analyst from IDC, Stephen Orban, AWS Head of Enterprise Strategy, and Ramesh Nagarajan, SVP of Integrated Services at Wipro, join the discussion. Session sponsored by Wipro.