AWS re:Invent 2017

Across the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector, we're working to support better consumer and business decisions with innovative technologies. Many factors lead to improved patient outcomes. Ease of access to health information via voice, improved connectivity between disparate health data repositories, infusion of real-world data into R&D for new medical products—these are just a few examples where customers and partners innovate with AWS. Come learn from our partners as they share both their business insights and the design patterns that make these solutions work.

The Internet of Things (IoT) keeps evolving, and there's a critical need for high-speed data processing, analytics, and reduced latency at the edge. Meeting the needs of these systems that leverage a distributed architecture to bring compute resources to the edge and the cloud is essential. A cloud-only model might not be applicable for time-sensitive operations or where network connectivity is poor. Also, connecting every device to the cloud and sending raw data over the internet can have privacy, security, and legal implications, especially for sensitive data. Learn how AWS extends AWS Greengrass to devices, so they can act locally on data and use the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage.

The AWS Migration tooling segment team has invented migration tool packages that serve three key business objectives. First, technology choice, using competent tools from our ecosystem and AWS migration platform, with a tool recommender that help customers identify the right tools to achieve their business objectives. Next, speed of procurement, with "Single click" to procure the tools right from AWS Marketplace. Finally, the cost of migration, with highly discounted tools that reduce the cost of migration by 25 - 30%. In this session, we explain how our customers and SI partners can leverage these packages to enable the frictionless migration of thousands of workloads into AWS.

Interested in developing your AWS Partner Network (APN) partner business with government, education, and nonprofit customers? Join us to learn more about partner opportunities in the public sector. Hear best practices and success stories, and learn about available APN tools, training, and benefits.

Interested in understanding best practices for cloud procurement in the public sector? We cover how AWS partners can guide and educate public sector organizations to effectively access the full benefits of the cloud. Topics include best practices for pricing, governance, security, terms and conditions, and buying frameworks.

Partners increasingly look to a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model for products to respond to customer demand, improve operational efficiency, increase agility, and expand market and global reach. AWS provides a low-cost, reliable, and secure foundation to use as you build and deliver SaaS solutions to your customers. The AWS Partner Network (APN) helps you build a successful AWS-based business by providing valuable business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM) support. In this session, we discuss what a typical journey to SaaS on AWS looks like, and all of the AWS and APN resources and benefits available to you in every stage.

Security is about visibility and control. It starts with getting visibility (collecting as much data as possible about your environment), then deciding what is worth alarming versus what is a distraction. A classic case of finding needles in the haystack. AWS Partners can leverage highly scalable, machine learning (ML) services to process large amounts of log, event, flow, and other data to build AWS–specific security solutions that scale. Pass the undifferentiated heavy lifting to AWS so you can focus on your core value proposition! This session helps AWS Partners understand what services are available and applicable for building security solutions, and provides use cases to help accelerate adoption.

Data shows that APN Partners who invest in AWS Training drive incremental revenue and accelerate customer adoption of AWS. In this session, learn how investments in AWS Training can help you drive more business, while solving customer challenges quicker. Learn about improvements we're making to AWS Partner Training, including new learning paths for technical and business roles. In addition, hear from APN Partners on how AWS Training benefits them and their customers. We provide training resources and best practices that you can take back to your partner organization.

AWS Certification builds personal and partner credibility and provides value to customer engagements. Partners earn multiple AWS certifications to differentiate themselves, which drives substantially more revenue. In this session, learn about the types of certifications offered, the path to getting certified, and the benefits you can earn after passing an exam. Hear best practices on aligning certifications with your goals. Get tips for achieving AWS Certification and get your questions answered.

Developers and architects migrating Microsoft enterprise applications to AWS can leverage new tools and services to implement DevOps best practices identified and developed by AWS solution architects and service teams. Learn about architectural best practices and AWS services such as AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy, focusing on the .NET environment. Get examples of using the latest SQL Server release on Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS, or on other database offerings native to AWS, like Amazon Aurora or serverless environments. Hear how an APN Partner took a global retail customer's ecommerce engine and SQL Server–based data platform from on premises to the AWS Cloud in just weeks.