AWS re:Invent 2016

Whether you’re running a simple website, a mobile app, or a suite of business applications, DNS is a fundamental part of any architecture in the cloud. In this mid-level architecture session, we’ll cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS’s highly-available DNS service. You’ll learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS; how to configure DNS failover using health checks; how and when to use private DNS within your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC); and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2’s DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network.

Capital One began moving to AWS just two years ago. Every day, the amount of traffic we serve from the cloud continues to grow. With development teams having the freedom to choose their own technology stacks, many teams have quickly started moving applications to Docker. In this session, learn how Capital One uses a combination of the Elastic Load Balancing service along with Application Load Balancer features to increase deployment speed and reliability.

Recently, AWS announced support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for several AWS services, providing significant capabilities for applications and systems that need IPv6. This session provides an overview of IPv6 and covers key aspects of AWS support for the protocol. We discuss Amazon S3 and S3 Transfer Acceleration, Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF, Amazon Route 53, AWS IoT, Elastic Load Balancing, and the virtual private cloud (VPC) environment of Amazon EC2. The presentation assumes solid knowledge of IPv4 and those AWS services.

You can leverage the agility and scale of cloud services and consolidate your data centers, but performance and security are only as good as your WAN. Is this session, learn best practices for connecting cloud, data center, and branch sites through public and private networking to maximize performance, minimize costs, and simplify security.

Learn how the AT&T MPLS VPN with the network of tomorrow’s virtualized network functions and Software Defined Networking (SDN) will help you create and deliver agile workloads for your Enterprise. You’ll also learn how AT&T combines trending viability of open standards-based software for broader network applications. Additionally, you’ll see how the AT&T NetBond API integration with AWS Direct Connect removes the complexity and enables on-demand, private connection within minutes via a self-service portal. AT&T NetBond connects your people, your data, and your business directly to your AWS services. This fast, highly secure, scalable, private network connection increases performance, while improving control and delivering a better ROI for your enterprise applications. Join us for an informative session on how you can enhance your cloud connectivity with AT&T and AWS.

As companies grow and expand their global footprint, it becomes increasingly critical to make systems highly available while also improving responsiveness to end-users. Companies are choosing to place their applications closer to end-users to improve performance, which introduces the complications of how to route end-user traffic to the most appropriate endpoints and how to most efficiently route traffic within internal systems.

Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and gives you complete control over your virtual networking environment. Amazon VPC continues to evolve with new capabilities and enhancements. These features give you increasingly greater isolation, control, and visibility at the all-important networking layer. In this session, we review some of the latest changes, discuss their value, and describe their use cases.

Netflix was one of the earliest very large AWS customers. By 2014, we were running hundreds of applications in Amazon EC2. That was great, until we needed to move to VPC. Given our scale, uptime requirements, and the decentralized nature of how we manage our production environment, the VPC migration (still ongoing) presented particular challenges for us and for AWS as it sought to support our move. In this talk, we discuss the starting state, our requirements and the operating principles we developed for how we wanted to drive the migration, some of the issues we ran into, and how the tight partnership with AWS helped us migrate from an EC2-Classic platform to an EC2-VPC platform.

Many enterprises on their journey into the cloud require consistent and highly secure connectivity between their existing data center and AWS footprints. In this session, we walk through the different architecture options for establishing this connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and VPN. With each option, we evaluate the considerations and discuss risk, performance, encryption, and cost. As we walk through these options, we try to answer some of the most common questions that typically arise from enterprises that tackle design and implementation. You'll learn how to make connectivity decisions that are suitable for your workloads, and how to best prepare against business impact in the event of failure.

In this session, we explore AWS support for IPv6 for full end-to-end connectivity for EC2 instances inside of a VPC. IPv6 on EC2 instances introduces new capabilities and interesting new wrinkles into the VPC model. Customer VPCs receive IPv6 addresses from an Amazon address block, and existing features such as security groups, network ACLs, route tables, peering, and gateways have been enhanced to support IPv6. Finally, we look at some future capabilities planned for IPv6 in VPC.