AWS re:Invent 2016

Gree is a gaming company with the distinction of launching the world’s first mobile social game in 2007 and later went on to develop a rich portfolio of original games. With an active acquisition and development strategy, Gree is transforming the way games are built. Learn how Gree leveraged Amazon VPCs and Aviatrix Enterprise cloud-defined networking in AWS Marketplace to rapidly integrate acquisitions and develop new games to maintain competitive differentiation in this fast moving segment. Hear about the use case, requirements and lessons learned. Learn how you can transitioned to Amazon VPCs in the middle of the development process.

In this session, we walk through the Amazon VPC network presentation and describe the problems we were trying to solve when we created it. Next, we walk through how these problems are traditionally solved, and why those solutions are not scalable, inexpensive, or secure enough for AWS. Finally, we provide an overview of the solution that we've implemented and discuss some of the unique mechanisms that we use to ensure customer isolation, get packets into and out of the network, and support new features like VPC endpoints.

As enterprises move to the cloud, robust connectivity is often an early consideration. AWS Direct Connect provides a more consistent network experience for accessing your AWS resources, typically with greater bandwidth and reduced network costs. This session dives deep into the features of AWS Direct Connect and VPNs. We discuss deployment architectures and demonstrate the process from start to finish. We show you how to configure public and private virtual interfaces, configure routers, use VPN backup, and provide secure communication between sites by using the AWS VPN CloudHub.

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, we go into detail about Elastic Load Balancing configuration and day-to-day management, as well as its use in conjunction with Auto Scaling. We explain how to make decisions about the service and share best practices and useful tips for success.

Many applications are network I/O bound, including common database-based applications and service-based architectures. But operating systems and applications are often untuned to deliver high performance. This session uncovers hidden issues that lead to low network performance, and shows you how to overcome them to obtain the best network performance possible.

Launched in June of 2015, s2n is an AWS open-source implementation of the TLS and SSL network security protocols, which focus on security, simplicity, and performance. With development led by engineers from Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS security and cryptography services, s2n is a unique opportunity to observe how we develop and test security and availability for critical software at AWS. Learn how we iterate and code, how we automate software verification beyond the usual code reviews, and how open source works at Amazon.

Does meeting stringent compliance requirements keep you up at night? Do you worry about having the right audit trails in place as proof?

Are you interested in learning how to control access to your AWS resources? Have you ever wondered how to best scope down permissions to achieve least privilege permissions access control? If your answer to these questions is 'yes', this session is for you. We take an in-depth look at the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy language. We start with the basics of the policy language and how to create and attach policies to IAM users, groups, and roles. As we dive deeper, we explore policy variables, conditions, and other tools to help you author least privilege policies. Throughout the session, we cover some common use cases, such as granting a user secure access to an Amazon S3 bucket or to launch an Amazon EC2 instance of a specific type.

In a rapidly changing IT environment, detecting and responding to new threats is more important than ever. This session shows you how to build a predictive analytics stack on AWS, which harnesses the power of Amazon Machine Learning in conjunction with Amazon Elasticsearch Service, AWS CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs to perform tasks such as anomaly detection and log analysis. We also demonstrate how you can use AWS Lambda to act on this information in an automated fashion, such as performing updates to AWS WAF and security groups, leading to an improved security posture and alleviating operational burden on your security teams.

Is your IT environment getting bigger and more complex than your compliance team can handle? Get a peek under the hood of how the AWS Compliance team manages and automates security assurance and compliance in the AWS environment. We’ll tell you what we’re doing to automate controls, match up huge data sets to validate compliance, how we perform game day simulations of entire region outages, and how we manage our ever-present external audits. With each example, we’ll give you some ideas on how to use AWS services to manage the security and compliance of your AWS and on-prem environments. In this session, Chad Woolf, Director of Risk and Compliance for AWS, and Sara Duffer, Director of Security Assurance Automation discusses how the AWS Compliance team uses AWS services like Amazon Inspector, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config to manage risk, compliance, and audit in the massive scale of the AWS IT environment.