AWS re:Invent 2018

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances enable you to use spare EC2 computing capacity- capacity that is often 90% less than On-Demand prices. In this session, learn how to effectively harness Spot Instances for production workloads. We explore application requirements for using Spot Instances, best practices learned from thousands of customers, and the services that make it easy to use. Finally, we run through practical examples of how to use Spot for the most common production workloads, the common pitfalls customers run into, and how to avoid them.

Amazon EC2 provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. In this session, we provide an overview of the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 Instances & Performance Optimization Best Practices (CMP307-R1)

Many customers are using Amazon EC2 instances to run applications with high performance networking requirements. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon EC2 network performance features- including enhanced networking, ENA, and placement groups-and discuss how we are innovating on behalf of our customers to improve networking performance in a scalable and cost-efficient manner. We share best practices and performance tips for getting the best networking performance out of your Amazon EC2 instances.

EC2 High Memory instances offer 6 TB, 9 TB, and 12 TB of memory in a single instance. These instances are purpose-built to run large in-memory databases, including production deployments of the SAP HANA in-memory database, in the cloud. Join this session for a detailed look into these high-memory instances, and learn how you can use these EC2 instances in your Amazon VPC together with Amazon EBS to run mission-critical SAP HANA workloads to realize greater speed and agility. Hear how Whirlpool was able to leverage the agility and flexibility of this platform to move quicker with its own SAP workload needs. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Scale Your SAP HANA In-Memory Database on Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances with up to 12 TB of Memory (CMP309)

Application portability has always been the goal that operators aspire towards. The deployment simplicity in Kubernetes has made this goal attainable, especially when using Kubernetes-as-a-Service like VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE), built natively on AWS. In this talk, using an application running in the data center, we show how easy it is to implement a hybrid cloud strategy and deploy the same application onto a VKE-managed Kubernetes cluster using Helm. We share best practices on how to implement end-to-end network configuration automation and application monitoring with open-source tooling like Prometheus and Grafana. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, VMware, Inc.

Cloud services built on compute-optimized EC2 instances can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Learn how to utilize the Rescale platform on AWS to meet the ever-increasing demands on compute resources while avoiding costly capex investments. Custom Intel Xeon processors enable you to meet your HPC needs by taking advantage of the newest technologies in the cloud. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Intel.

Netflix's container management platform, Titus, powers critical aspects of the Netflix business, including video streaming, recommendations, machine learning, big data, content encoding, studio technology, internal engineering tools, and other Netflix workloads. Titus offers a convenient model for managing compute resources, enables developers to maintain just their application artifacts, and provides a consistent developer experience from a developer's laptop to production by leveraging Netflix container-focused engineering tools.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling removes the complexity of capacity planning to help customers improve application availability and reduce costs. In this session, we will deep dive on how EC2 Auto Scaling works to simplify health checking, security patching, continuous deployments, and automatic scaling with changing load. Netflix is spending over $8 billion on programming this year, with shows like Lost In Space, Altered Carbon and Money Heist, and plenty more in the future. They will share how Auto Scaling allows their infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep their audience entertained and their costs on target.

Amazon EC2 offers a comprehensive set of instances targeted at a variety of customer workloads optimized across compute, storage, memory, network, as well as accelerators, such as GPUs. For the first time, Amazon EC2 is introducing instances that are powered by CPUs custom built by Amazon on the Arm architecture. In this session, we will deep dive into Amazon EC2 A1 instances and learn about the key capabilities, target usages, benefits, and the overall ecosystem.

AWS License Manager is a new service that makes it easy to bring your existing licenses to the AWS cloud and reduce licensing costs. This service offers a one-stop solution for managing licenses from a variety of software vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and others, and helps you benefit from the existing investments in enterprise agreements. In this session, we take you through a deep dive of the service capabilities and how to use them. We cover topics such as how to manage your operating system and database licenses using this service, and how to track and report usage on cloud, on-premise and across your organizational accounts.