AWS re:Invent 2017

Linden Lab has spent over a decade optimizing the production operations for Second Life, an online 3D virtual world created by its users. With our new social VR platform, Sansar, we wanted to take our vision of virtual experiences to a whole new level of innovation in which AWS played a vital role. We'll dive into Sansar's AWS tech stack, an infrastructure built not only for technical robustness but also extreme scalability. We will discuss what the different use cases were between EC2 and Containers and how Lambda worked as a positive enabler for customization. Lastly, we'll cover IAM, Security Groups and VPC, which we refer collectively as the "Great Wall of Preventing Unfortunate Design Decisions.”.

The pace of technology innovation is relentless, especially at AWS. Designing and building new system architectures is a balancing act between using established, production-ready technologies while maintaining the ability to evolve and take advantage of new features and innovations as they become available.  In this session, learn how Amazon Game Studios built a flexible analytics pipeline on AWS for their team battle sport game, Breakaway, that provided value on day one, but was built with the future in mind. We will discuss the challenges we faced and the solution we built for ingesting, storing and analyzing gameplay telemetry and dive deep into the technical architecture using AWS many services including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, and Amazon Redshift.  This session will focus on game analytics as a specific use case, but will emphasize an overarching focus on designing an architectural flexibility that is relevant to any system.

In this session, we provide an overview of the artificial intelligence/machine learning landscape, discuss the current state of the industry, and identify new market opportunities. Partners will come away with a better understanding of the investment that AWS is making in this space, as well as our unique value proposition.

Join this session to learn more about 2018 AWS Partner Network Program launches and how to prepare for the upcoming changes.

Join us in this session to learn more about the evolving landscape for AWS Partners capable of providing a full lifecycle experience for their customers, from plan and design to build and migrate to run, operate, and optimize. We share in-depth information about the investment, revenue, and margin opportunities for these next-gen MSPs. We also dive into AWS services and third-party tooling to help partners along this journey. Partners leave this session with a clear view of new ways to optimize their AWS business, expand their customer offerings, and improve their profitability.

In this session, learn about Amazon Connect and how your organization can benefit from its capabilities, extensibility, and scalability. We explain how it's designed to use AWS natural language understanding to provide enterprise and consumer interactions that replicate the experiences consumers have at home with their Echo products. Learn how to combine Amazon Connect with leading CRM, analytics, and workforce optimization/quality management platforms to provide a complete system of engagement and system of record for enterprises across all verticals and size ranges.

In this session, we walk through an overview of AWS database services. We discuss why customers choose to adopt AWS database services and how APN Partners can help customers by building a database practice using AWS services such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB. We share best practices for APN Partners to start building a successful database practice on AWS. We also talk about how APN Partners can use various resources offered by APN to accelerate their practice-building process.

The availability of the latest Windows upgrades is intersecting with the "Cloud as the New Normal" market trend, forcing customers to face a crossroad in how best to deliver end user services as the digital work space evolves. In this session, learn about the solutions for desktop and application streaming from AWS and our leading technology partners that can empower customers to focus on end user service innovation, while improving ongoing security and operations. We highlight best practices of customers and APN Consulting Partners who turn their latest Windows upgrade cycle into an opportunity for work space transformation.

It's not always straightforward for our customers to go through DevOps transformation while they migrate their workloads into AWS. DevOps partners can help customers transform their workloads during their migration journey. This creates a unique opportunity for our DevOps partners to expand their business beyond DevOps to Cloud Migration. We will discuss various opportunities DevOps consulting and Technology partners can leverage to help customers, and grow their business. We will also share compelling business reasons for customers to consider DevOps transformation while migrating specific workloads to AWS. We also explain unique situations where it is not beneficial to do both at the same time.

With recent reports that banks face a regulatory change every 12 minutes, it's no wonder firms increasingly look to automate compliance and reduce operational risk. By leveraging the latest technology advances—including cognitive computing, enhanced analytics, digital identities, big data, and the cloud—they hope to reduce their compliance burdens and free human and financial capital for more productive uses. Today's cutting-edge approaches offer advantages for agility, speed, and ease of integration. In this session, we dive deeper into the cloud-based RegTech solutions that are available on AWS.