AWS re:Invent 2016

With the widespread and accelerating adoption of mobile devices, delivering high quality mobile experiences became essential for success in today's marketplace In this session, learn how you can deliver top quality apps by using AWS Device Farm for testing and debugging on hundreds of unique Android and iOS devices in the cloud. A Device Farm customer, Gannett, describes their journey from a time-consuming manual activity to fast and repeatable automation activity when using Chef, Scalr, AWS, and Jenkins. The new cloud infrastructure allows Gannett to scale on-demand to build and test 100+ Android native apps on Amazon EC2 instances and Device Farm to speed up their continuous integration pipeline with efficiency.

Join us for a compelling session to learn how technological innovation can save lives. Hear from a customer that uses AWS very differently and has the ability to move rapidly to address pressing societal problems with the aid of AWS. Learn how mobile and IoT technology allows them to scale and accelerate their impact. Speakers talk about why they selected specific AWS services, and how that allowed their teams to be agile and focus more on their solutions instead of undifferentiated plumbing. The ShotSpotter Flex gunfire data service uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots in the field. Data is then transmitted to the AWS Cloud, and further processed to validate signatures and, if necessary, alert emergency dispatch teams.

Amazon Pinpoint, a new AWS service, makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to improve user engagement. Pinpoint helps you understand app user behavior, define who to target, what push notification to send, when to deliver the notifications, and track results.

In this session, we dive deep into how to apply the serverless microservices approach to developing mobile and web applications on AWS, for both business-to-consumer and business-to-employee enterprise applications. We discuss use cases, scenarios, best practices, and design patterns around user authentication, authorization, backend microservices, API management, analytics, user engagement, security, and integration with enterprise apps and data sources. We go into details about how to use AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, and other AWS services to develop mobile applications and backend microservices.

By leveraging 'serverless architectures', startups and enterprises are building and running modern applications and services with increased agility and simplified scalability—all without managing a single server. Many applications need to manage user identities and support sign-in/sign-up. In this session, we dive deep on how to support millions of user identities, as well as how to integrate with social identity providers (such as Google and Facebook) and existing corporate directories. You learn the real-world design patterns that AWS customers use to implement authentication and authorization. By combining Amazon Cognito identity pools and user pools with API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and AWS IAM, you can add security without adding servers.

Amazon Echo and Alexa have shown that voice interfaces provide significant benefits to users – interactions are easy, fast, and context-driven. In this hands-on session, you’ll see how to add compelling voice and chat interfaces to your mobile apps, using Amazon Lex for processing conversations and triggering corresponding actions in your backend systems, all without having to manage any infrastructure. You’ll leave knowing how to build apps that can “Find me a nearby hotel” or “Reorder supplies for the copier”.

Secure user sign-up and sign-in is critical for many mobile and web applications. Amazon Cognito is the easiest way to secure your mobile and web applications by providing a comprehensive identity solution for end user management, registration, sign-in, and security. In this product deep dive, we will walk through Cognito’s feature set, which includes serverless flows for user management and sign-in, a fully managed user directory, integrations with existing corporate directories, and many other features. In addition, we will cover key use cases and discuss the associated benefits.

Insurance processes are fragmented and manual in nature. For the next generation of digitally savvy consumers, New York Life Labs uses modern technology and analytics to engage with and provide best-in-class customer service. This session will discuss how New York Life Labs is mobilizing key insurance technology components including customer service, underwriting, policy administration, and claims processing. This session will focus on how New York Life Labs is taking a mobile-first approach in redesigning claims processing with responsive design, automated workflows, and AWS mobile services. Some of the services discussed will be Amazon Cognito, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon SWF, and how they all come together.

In this deep-dive session, we outline how to leverage the appropriate AWS services for sending different types and sizes of data, such as images or streaming video. We'll cover common real-world scenarios related to authentication/authorization, access patterns, data transfer and caching for more performant Mobile Apps. You learn when you should access services such as Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, or Amazon Kinesis directly from your mobile app, and when you should route through Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda instead. Additionally, we cover coding techniques across the native, hybrid, and mobile web using popular open-source frameworks to perform these actions efficiently, and with a smooth user experience.

In this session, we walk through the fundamentals of Amazon VPC. First, we cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPC, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We then transition into different approaches and use cases for optionally connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This mid-level architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks that AWS makes available with Amazon VPC and how you can connect this with your offices and current data center footprint.