AWS re:Invent 2017

Image recognition is a field of deep learning that uses neural networks to recognize the subject and traits for a given image. In Japan, Cookpad uses Amazon ECS to run an image recognition platform on clusters of GPU-enabled EC2 instances. In this session, hear from Cookpad about the challenges they faced building and scaling this advanced, user-friendly service to ensure high-availability and low-latency for tens of millions of users.

If you've ever considered moving part of your application stack to containers, don't miss this session. Amazon ECS Software Engineer Uttara Sridhar will cover best practices for containerizing your code, implementing automated service scaling and monitoring, and setting up automated CI/CD pipelines with fail-safe deployments. Manjeeva Silva and Thilina Gunasinghe will show how McDonalds implemented their home delivery platform in four months using Docker containers and Amazon ECS to serve tens of thousands of customers.

As containers become more embedded in the platform tools, debug tools, traces and logs become increasingly important. Nare Hayrapetyan, Senior Software Engineer and Calvin French-Owen, Senior Technical Officer for Segment will discuss the principals of monitoring and debugging containers and the tools Segment has implemented and built for logging, alerting, metric collection, and debugging of containerized services running on Amazon ECS.

AWS Fargate makes running containerized workloads on AWS easier than ever before. This session will provide a technical background for using Fargate with your existing containerized services, including best practices for building images, configuring task definitions, task networking, secrets management, and monitoring.

If you ask 10 teams why they migrated to containers, you will likely get answers like ‘developer productivity', ‘cost reduction', and ‘faster scaling'. But teams often find there are several other ‘hidden' benefits to using containers for their services. In this talk, Franziska Schmidt, Platform Engineer at Mapbox and Yaniv Donenfeld from AWS will discuss the obvious, and not so obvious benefits of moving to containerized architecture. These include using Docker and ECS to achieve shared libraries for dev teams, separating private infrastructure from shareable code, and making it easier for non-ops engineers to run services.

Deep dive into how Amazon ECS can enable secure, natively addressable, and highly performant network interfaces for containers using the recently launched the awsvpc task networking mode. In this session, we focus on how CNI plugins were integrated with the Amazon ECS container agent and discuss the backend changes necessary to enable elastic network interface provisioning for tasks. Shakeel Sorathia, VP of engineering at FOX Digital, discusses best practices for working with Amazon ECS to enable such use cases as network isolation and IP-based routing for service discovery.

Scaling a microservice-based infrastructure can be challenging in terms of both technical implementation and developer workflow.  In this talk, AWS Solutions Architect Pierre Steckmeyer will be joined by Will McCutchen, Architect at BuzzFeed, to discuss Amazon ECS as a platform for building a robust infrastructure for microservices. We will look at the key attributes of microservice architectures and how Amazon ECS supports these requirements in production, from configuration to sophisticated workload scheduling to networking capabilities to resource optimization.  We will also examine what it takes to build an end-to-end platform on top of the wider AWS ecosystem, and what it's like to migrate a large engineering organization from a monolithic approach to microservices.

As your application's infrastructure grows and scales, well-managed container scheduling is critical to ensuring high-availability and resource optimization. In this session, we will deep dive into the challenges and opportunities around container scheduling, as well as the different tools available within Amazon ECS and AWS to carry out efficient container scheduling. We will discuss patterns for container scheduling available with Amazon ECS and the Blox scheduling framework

While organizations gain agility and scalability when they migrate to containers and microservices, they also benefit from compliance and security, advantages that are often overlooked. In this session, Kelvin Zhu, lead software engineer at Okta, joins Mitch Beaumont, enterprise solutions architect at AWS, to discuss security best practices for containerized infrastructure. Learn how Okta built their development workflow with an emphasis on security through testing and automation. Dive deep into how containers enable automated security and compliance checks throughout the development lifecycle. Also understand best practices for implementing AWS security and secrets management services for any containerized service architecture.

End users expect to be able to view static, dynamic, and streaming content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Amazon CloudFront is a web service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets to end users around the globe with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. In this session, learn what a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon CloudFront is and how it works, the benefits it provides, common challenges and needs, performance, recently released features and examples of how customers are using CloudFront. You will also learn about recustomizing content delivery through AWS Lambda@Edge - a serverless compute service that lets you execute functions to customize the content delivered through CloudFront.