AWS re:Invent 2017

Desktop and Application Streaming solutions provide the "last mile” between users and their applications and data. In this session, we will review the elements and benefits of the layered desktop image, application dependencies, and lifecycle management of desktops. Liquidware Labs, a APN partner, will showcase their toolset that helps customers deploy on AWS with ease. This deep dive on desktop image management for Amazon WorkSpaces will focus on enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud and will benefit engineers and system administrators that are new to this space as well as experienced architects with existing deployments on AWS.

AWS Greengrass provides a wide range of opportunities from IoT gateway applications to building systems like those with microservice architectures. In this session, we first evaluate how AWS Greengrass fits into OEM, ODM, and IT service delivery models. We then wade into a gentle overview of AWS Greengrass and how it interoperates with AWS IoT and other AWS services. We walk through several key AWS Greengrass distributed architectures. Next, to help you accelerate your solution using AWS Greengrass, we discuss how AWS Greengrass fits into the AWS Cloud development and delivery model. The talk wraps up with a demonstration of AWS Greengrass facilitating communication between a closed machine to machine (M2M) network and AWS IoT.

The threat model for IoT devices is very different from the threat model for cloud applications. Customers must understand what these threats are, prioritize them effectively, and navigate the growing ecosystem of partners that give customers tools to build secure IoT solutions. We showcase how to leverage partner solutions to mitigate threats, explain how to avoid common pitfalls, and make it clear that all IoT solutions must incorporate end-to-end security from the start. We begin with the steps to take in the manufacturing process, how to provision and authenticate devices in the field, and we cover solutions that can help customers comply with IT requirements in the maintenance phase of the product lifecycle.

This session explains how to build reusable, maintainable AWS CloudFormation–based automation for AWS Cloud deployments. We have built over 50 Quick Start reference deployments with partners and customers, and will share this expertise with you. We explore the anatomy of a typical AWS CloudFormation template, dive deep into best practices for building Quick Start automation across Linux and Windows and explore useful design patterns. This expert-level session is for partners interested in building Quick Starts or other AWS CloudFormation–based automation. It requires familiarity with Git, shell scripting, Windows PowerShell, and AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and AWS CloudFormation.

You want to go to the cloud, but you are blocked by legacy technical debt. In this session, we guide you into the cloud using trusted application platforms like OpenShift and CloudFoundry. Come learn how to unblock your migration and unwind an otherwise complicated transformation.

Do you know that customers can seamlessly migrate on-premises applications to VMware Cloud on AWS? Come learn the compute, network, and storage architecture of the VMware Cloud on AWS solution. In this session, we use practical, real-world customer use cases to dive deep on hybrid cloud network connectivity, data protection, and security best practices. Additionally, we highlight how to use native AWS services with VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) workloads. Expect to walk away with practical guidance and tips on helping customers with their VMware and AWS hybrid cloud journey.

In this session, we walk through the fundamentals of Amazon VPC. First, we cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPC, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We then transition into different approaches and use cases for optionally connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This midlevel architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks that AWS makes available with VPC. Learn how you can connect your VPC with your offices and current data center footprint. This session adds a focus on AWS Partners and where they are relevant in AWS networking.

Identity is a foundational element of SaaS design, and getting it right can be challenging. You need a strategy that allows you to connect users to tenants, roles, and policies in a seamless model that doesn't handcuff developers. Fortunately, identity providers and OpenID Connect give us a model that equips SaaS providers with the tools they need to address all the moving parts of SaaS identity. In this session, we dive into the details of how you can use these solutions to build a robust identity solution—a solution that covers binding identities to tenants, supports tenant and system roles, and isolates tenant access. The goal here is to provide a concrete example of how to orchestrate all of these elements of the SaaS identity model on AWS.

Unprecedented computational power for massively parallel applications creates unprecedented storage requirements. Learn about coherent storage clusters processing millions of IOPS at submillisecond latency, how to architect storage for HPC in the cloud, and how to do it all without breaking the bank. This session incorporates live demonstrations, including APN Competency Partner solutions.

Dive deep into storage solutions for enterprise applications, debunk performance and availability perceptions, and learn about anti-patterns. Focusing on consulting and technology partner use cases, this session incorporates live demonstrations, including APN Competency Partner solutions. Attendees learn about reference architectures for enterprise storage solutions and how to incorporate components into new solutions for enterprise workloads.