AWS re:Invent 2017

In this session, you learn how to enable governance, compliance, operational, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Approaches discussed include a combination of continuous monitoring and assessing, auditing, and evaluating your AWS resources. With AWS management tools, you can view a history of AWS API calls for your various accounts, review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines, and give developers and systems administrators a secure and compliant means to create and manage AWS resources.

Amazon.com enables all of its developers to be productive on AWS by operating across tens-of-thousands of team-owned AWS accounts, all while raising the bar on security, visibility and operational control. Amazon has been able to achieve these seemingly conflicting ideals by automating setup and management of these accounts at scale using AWS Management Tools such as CloudFormation, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch and EC2 Systems Manager. In this session, discover more about how Amazon.com built ASAP using AWS Management tools, and understand some of the decisions they made as their usage of AWS evolved over time. You will learn about the design, architecture and implementation that Amazon.com went through as part of this effort.

DevOps is everywhere, but too often, people think they can buy “DevOps in a box” and just sprinkle some tools and automation over your broken or slow (or even super-fast AWS) stack. But we all know that software delivery is still hard. So what is this crazy DevOps thing, and why and how does it make things better? In this session, Jez and Nicole talk about what they've found working with dozens of organizations and conducting the largest DevOps research studies to date, covering over 23,000 data points across 2,000 organizations around the world. We start with the outcomes that companies care about: organizational performance, software delivery performance, and software quality. We then define what DevOps is, how you measure it, and how the best, most innovative teams and organizations are using it to drive improvements in performance and quality.

Are you using the AWS X-Ray service to gather insights into your distributed applications and want to learn how to do more? Or are you still learning about the service and want to understand its full power and potential? This session is a deep dive into the AWS X-Ray service and how the API's can be used to derive new and interesting insights. The session will walk through the creation of a custom analytical application, and show code samples that will be available to all attendees. An initial short overview of the service will be provided, but is recommended that for those unfamiliar with the AWS X-Ray service they attend an introductory session.

In this session, Verizon and Stelligent demonstrate techniques and approaches on how to validate your security infrastructure during the development process through Continuous Security, and keep it that way through AWS Lambda auto-remediation. Verizon and Stelligent present a hands-on demo of these techniques, and a deep dive into the code that enables these technologies.

Did you know that there are over 300 AWS User Groups worldwide?  Join this panel discussion featuring AWS community leaders from around the world, and learn the value of attending community-led AWS Meetups in your region. Community leaders share their experiences, talk through how local communities help developers solve problems and achieve their goals, and discuss the benefits of participating in peer-to-peer AWS knowledge sharing and networking activities. This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities.

The Open Guide to AWS is an open source writing project, which over the past year has become one of the most popular AWS resources on the web. It's both a written resource on GitHub, with over 100 contributors, and a large Slack group. Each has become a forum for trading practical knowledge not covered in standard documentation. In this session, we talk about the Guide and how it started, share lessons on seeding initial content, the editorial process, and how to foster a healthy extended community and encourage social engagement. This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities.

Interest in serverless technologies and architectures has been on an incredible upward swing since the introduction of AWS Lambda in 2014, and there has been an extraordinary amount of work done within the community to understand, explain, and evolve serverless architectures. This talk covers the evolution of serverless from the perspectives of the community. We discuss notable serverless trends developers ought to know about to be effective, share important advice and tips, and give examples from our experience building A Cloud Guru—a completely serverless learning management system. We also present a short case study on how CityWallet, a startup, went from 500 to 5,000 users by migrating to serverless architectures, and at the same time made their software faster, more secure, and more resilient. This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities.

When is the last time you explored the nooks and crannies of Amazon EC2? While you weren't looking, AWS leveled it up with more features and capabilities than you can shake a shell at. This talk explores the newest, shiniest Amazon EC2 features, including the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager and the Application Load Balancer, served with a fine selection of pro tips sourced from experts throughout the AWS community. This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities.

Developers and management can seem at cross purposes when one group looks at technologies and the other looks at organizational issues. Both groups are looking for ways to deliver value faster, leaner, and at less cost. There are technological avenues for accomplishing these goals, including DevOps and serverless architectures. However, these approaches also have organizational implications, as they change the nature and content of communication between teams. In this session, we cover the technology benefits and organizational transformations involved in DevOps and serverless architectures. This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities.