AWS re:Invent 2018

In this session, learn about Amazon Linux 2, the next generation Amazon Linux operating system that now comes with five years of support. See what's new with Amazon Linux 2, how it's different from other distributions of Linux, and understand why it's rapidly becoming the go-to operating system for AWS customers. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Amazon Linux 2: A Stable, Secure, High-Performance Linux Environment (CMP203-R1)

Although the AWS Cloud provides a new level of durability and resiliency, no workload is immune to disasters-be it due to accidental reasons or malicious intent. Even in the cloud, you have to ensure continuity. Traditional disaster recovery (DR) solutions are not optimized for the cloud and often result in higher costs, increased complexity, and operational challenges. To maintain compliance and business continuity service-level agreements, AWS DR planning requires a completely different approach to deal with cross-account, cross-region workload testing and failover. In this session, learn how you can set up an effective DR plan for your AWS environments. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Druva.

Learn how DXC helped a Fortune 1000 client drive digital transformation with AWS. An APN Premier Consulting Partner, DXC illustrates through customer testimonials, use cases, and architectures how enterprise clients have transformed their business with the AWS Cloud. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, DXC Technology.

Matt Garman, VP of AWS Compute Services, introduces the latest innovations in the compute space. In this keynote address, we announce new compute capabilities, and we share insights into what makes the AWS compute business unique. We also announce new capabilities for Amazon EC2 instances, EC2 networking, EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon Lightsail, Containers, and Serverless. Matt is joined by executives from our customers and partners who share valuable success stories of how Amazon EC2 has helped their journey to digital transformation.

Amazon EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and makes web-scale computing easier for customers. It offers a wide variety of compute instances well suited to every imaginable use case, from static websites to high-performance supercomputing on-demand, all available through highly flexible pricing options. This session covers the latest Amazon EC2 features and capabilities, including new instance families available in Amazon EC2, the differences among their hardware types and capabilities, and their optimal use cases. We also cover some best practices on how you can optimize your expenditure on Amazon EC2 to make the most of your EC2 instances, saving time and money.

In this session, you will learn how to utilize low cost T2 and T3 instances while still having access to sustainable high performance when needed. Designed for applications with variable CPU usage that experience occasional spikes in demand, T instances enable customers' applications to burst seamlessly to meet temporary traffic peaks and then scale back down to operate at typical traffic levels. The next generation T3 instances provide up to 30% better price performance over T2 instances and include unlimited bursting by default, making it a cost-effective choice for general-purpose computing.

With Amazon EBS, you can easily create a simple point-in-time backup for your Amazon EC2 instances. In this deep dive session, you learn how to use Amazon EBS snapshots to back up your Amazon EC2 environment. We review how snapshots work, and we share best practices for tagging snapshots, cost management, and snapshot automation.

In today's environment of increasingly large data sets and resource-intensive algorithmic processing, the challenge of HPC includes keeping pace with the demands of researchers, scientists, engineers, and creative professionals so they can rapidly produce high-value answers to complex questions. AWS HPC solutions deliver significant leaps in compute performance, memory capacity and bandwidth and I/O scalability. The highly customizable computing platform and robust partner ecosystem enable your staff to imagine new approaches so they can fail forward faster, delivering more answers to more questions without the need for costly, on-premises upgrades. This session provides an overview of HPC capabilities on AWS, describes the newest generations of accelerated computing instances, as well as highlighting customer and partner use-cases across industries. Attendees will also learn how the steadily increasing interest in running HPC workloads on the cloud can be combined with the advances in AI/ML to make it a catalyst for sustained innovation in these industries. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] High Performance Computing on AWS: Driving Innovation without Infrastructure Constraints (CMP302-R1)

The Nitro system is a rich collection of building block technologies that include hardware offload and security components built on AWS. It is powering the next generation of EC2 instances with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. In this session, we deep dive into the Nitro system, explore its design and architecture, discover how it enables innovative new EC2 instances, and understand how it has made the seemingly impossible, possible.

Dive deep into VMware Cloud on AWS-an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware. It delivers a highly scalable, secure, and innovative service that enables organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud. In this session, we cover the cloud challenges addressed by VMware Cloud on AWS, its architecture, its integration with AWS services, its unique benefits, and some popular use cases. We also explore consumption options, pricing, value-add services, total cost of ownership versus other alternatives, and customer success stories. Finally, we show some demonstrations of the service in action.