AWS re:Invent 2016

Defining infrastructure resource policies in an organized manner can help your company better manage its infrastructure resources.

In this session, you learn how to monitor and manage your serverless APIs in production. We show you how to set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms, interpret CloudWatch logs for Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda, and automate common maintenance and management tasks on your service.

Learn how to architect fully available and scalable Microsoft solutions and environments in AWS. Find out how Microsoft solutions can leverage various AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, simplify architecture, provide scalability, introduce DevOps concepts, automation and repeatability. Plan authentication and authorization, various hybrid scenarios with other cloud environment and on premise solutions/infrastructure. Learn about common architecture patterns for Active Directory and business productivity solutions like SharePoint, Exchange and Skype for Business, also common scenarios for SQL deployments and System Center.

Pitney Bowes is reinventing its business based on a SaaS and a cloud-based model to deliver services for their clients globally centered on the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud. The

Edwards Lifesciences partners with clinicians to develop innovative technologies in the areas of structural heart disease and critical care monitoring to help patients live longer, healthier and more productive lives. The Edwards Lifesciences IT team recently embarked on a journey to move many of their business critical corporate IT applications to AWS to better support the Edwards Lifesciences mission to help patients worldwide. In this session, the Edwards Lifesciences team would like to propose a different approach for Corporate IT teams to consider with respect to the cloud that can help fulfill key business outcomes while transforming IT infrastructure quickly… and safely! An approach that starts with business critical applications to take full advantage of the scale and growth that were key requirements for the team. It worked for us and created a new vibe in our IT organization which we are currently enjoying.

Today, we are announcing EC2 Systems Manager. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a management service that helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These capabilities help you define and track system configurations, prevent drift, and maintain software compliance of your EC2 and on-premises configurations. This session provides an overview of these newly announced services and how they work together within the larger AWS ecosystem to provide comprehensive management capabilities.

Running Microsoft workloads on AWS is easy and can save you money. This session will cover how to bring your own Microsoft licenses to AWS, and then demonstrate using PowerShell to import your Windows Server image from Vmware or Hyper-V, configure Windows KMS with your license key, and launch an EC2 Dedicated Host. We will discuss ways you can use AWS Config rules to manage license compliance.

AWS can help you rapidly deploy and scale your Microsoft SharePoint environment to help you collaborate more efficiently and cost-effectively. This session reviews architectural considerations for building a SharePoint deployment on AWS, best practices to ensure optimal performance, how to leverage multiple Availability Zones for high availability and disaster recovery, and how to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. We will also look at new Quick Start guides, AWS CloudFormation templates, and other tools that dramatically reduce the time to deployment.

Active Directory (AD) is essential for Windows workloads in the cloud. AWS offers customers multiple ways to integrate AD with cloud workloads like EC2, RDS, and AWS Enterprise Applications: AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) as a managed service and Active Directory running on AWS EC2 Windows instances. Which option is right for you? This session will discuss the key deployment considerations for each option to help you identify which best meets your project goals, and the effort involved. The session will cover options for integrating with your on-premises directory, port and security considerations, application considerations, and best practices.

This session goes deep on best practices and considerations for running Microsoft SQL Server on AWS. We cover best practices for deploying SQL Server, how to choose between Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, and ways to optimize the performance of your SQL Server deployment for different application types. We review in detail how to provision and monitor your SQL Server databases, and how to manage scalability, performance, availability, security, and backup and recovery in both Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2. In addition, we cover how you can set up a disaster recovery solution between an on-premises SQL Server environment and AWS, using native SQL Server features like log shipping, replication, and AlwaysOn Availability Groups.