AWS re:Invent 2017

As organizations move their workloads to the cloud, companies must take steps to protect and audit their private and confidential information. This session focuses on Amazon S3 best practices and using AWS CloudTrail Data Events to help better protect data residing within Amazon S3. The session includes a demonstration to show how CloudTrail, in combination with other AWS services, can help with Amazon S3 governance and compliance requirements.

“Infrastructure as Code” has changed not only how we think about configuring infrastructure, but about the infrastructure itself. AWS has been at the core of this movement, enabling your infrastructure teams to benefit from software engineering best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and repeatable deployments. Now that you have mastered the art of managing your infrastructure as code, it's time to leverage these same lessons for monitoring and metrics. In this session, we dive into how you can leverage tooling such as AWS, Terraform, and Datadog to programmatically define your monitoring so that you that you can scale your organizational observability along with your infrastructure, and attain consistency from local development all the way through production. Session sponsored by Datadog, Inc.

AWS Lambda has emerged as a powerful and cost-effective way for enterprises to quickly deploy services without the need to provision and manage virtual servers. This session includes a hands-on demo of how to use GitHub as the core of a DevOps toolchain. Learn how to leverage AWS integrations with Jenkins, the AWS CLI, and open source software to build, test, and deploy a service to AWS Lambda. We also explore key product updates to GitHub and GitHub Enterprise that are designed to make serverless development easier and more efficient. Session sponsored by GitHub, Inc.

AWS CloudFormation enables software and DevOps engineers to harness the power of infrastructure as code. As organizations automate the modeling and provisioning of applications and workloads with CloudFormation, repeatable processes and reliable deployments become more critical.  This session guides you through various techniques to improve your infrastructure automation, including protecting your AWS resources and stacks with safety guardrails while monitoring infrastructure changes.  In addition, we'll cover efficient ways to provision resources across accounts and regions, as show you how to test and improve the reliability of your deployments.

Managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) successfully within an organization is a challenge. Regardless of team size, it can turn into a patchwork of solutions causing difficulties collaborating among individuals and teams. Intuit has faced and learned from these challenges, while coordinating among different teams running workloads that provide solutions for different business units.  We developed a system that improved our development process for IaC using AWS CloudFormation. In this session, we demonstrate how to move away from an inconsistent development of infrastructure by complementing common development practices with a solution using the serverless technologies from AWS. We walk through our journey and help you discover an approach to assemble a similar solution for your organization.

Over the last decade AWS has launched more than 90 services. Even today, we continue to innovate at a rapid pace and are adding new features and services. We see backwards compatibility not as a goal to strive for, but as a necessity to maintain our most important asset: customer trust. It's not just the service API that needs to be backwards compatible, client-side libraries need to be able to handle service changes as well. Over the years we've learned how to design API's in a way that preserves backwards compatibility, while continuing to evolve. In this session you will learn: ·       What backwards compatibility means and what forms it may take ·       What impact breaking changes may have on consumers of an API or library ·       How to design to prevent breaking changes while allowing for future enhancements Through this session, you will also pick-up concrete design patterns that you can use and anti-patterns that you can recognize so that your service API or library can continue to grow without breaking the world. Using the AWS client-side SDKs as a case study we'll look at actual code examples of specific strategies that you can employ to keep your library backwards compatible without painting yourself into a corner.

Come learn all about AWS Cloud9, AWS's newly announced integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud. In this session, we'll give an overview of Cloud9 and do a live demo of exciting features and use cases.   With Cloud9 you can write, run, and debug code with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Cloud9 comes pre-packaged with essential tools for popular programming languages including JavaScript, Python, PHP, and more, so you don't need to install files or configure your development machine to start new projects. Since your Cloud9 IDE is cloud-based, you can work on your projects from your office, home, or anywhere using an internet-connected machine. Cloud9 also provides a seamless experience for developing serverless applications allowing you to easily define resources, debug, and switch between local and remote execution of serverless applications. With Cloud9, you can quickly share your development environment with your team, allowing you to pair program and track each other's inputs in real-time.

Today, more teams are adopting continuous integration (CI) techniques to enable collaboration, increase agility, and deliver a high-quality product faster. Cloud-based development tools such as AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodeBuild can enable teams to easily adopt CI practices without the need to manage infrastructure. In this session, we showcase a Crawl, Walk, and Run approach to CI. In Crawl, we showcase how to use AWS CodeBuild with your master code branch for running a basic CI workflow. In Walk, we add team collaboration capabilities to the previously developed CI workflow and showcase feature branches and pull requests. In Run, we showcase how to optimize the CI workflow for speed and quality with caching, code analysis, and integration testing.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. In this session, we introduce the AWS CLI and how to use it to automate common administrative tasks in AWS. We cover several features and usage patterns including Amazon EBS snapshot management and Amazon S3 backups. We show how to combine AWS CLI features to create powerful tools for automation. See how to develop, debug, and deploy these examples in several live, end-to-end examples.

Continuous delivery (CD) enables teams to be more agile and quickens the pace of innovation. Too often, however, teams adopt CD without putting the right safety mechanisms in place. In this talk, we discuss opportunities for you to transform your software release process into a safer one. We explore various DevOps best practices, showcasing sample applications and code. We discuss how to set up delivery pipelines with nonproduction testing stages, failure cases, rollbacks, machine and Availability Zone redundancy, canary testing and deployments, and monitoring. We'll use AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, and both Amazon CloudWatch alarms and events.