AWS re:Invent 2018

You don't have to be a big media company to build your own OTT video workflow. Learn how Ravensbourne University created a live-streaming workflow using solutions from AWS Elemental to reach hundreds of schools with educational events featuring the Royal Shakespeare Company. Within months, students and staff from Ravensbourne were able to build, test, and successfully broadcast high-quality video streams to thousands of students.

Learn how TV New Zealand and France Televisions broadcast the Commonwealth Games and a major cycling event using AWS Media Services. Broadcasting live events is unpredictable. Reliability, agility, and scale all play important roles in ensuring a broadcast takes place without issues. Learn how to create channels on the fly for live events and how to seamlessly handle a fluctuation or influx of viewers using AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Broadcasting the World's Largest Sporting Events: AWS Media Services When It Matters Most (CTD206)

Disney Streaming Service is a Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) video streaming service, part of Disney and TrueCar is a digital automotive marketplace. You will learn about their different perspectives on how they built global applications for scale, performance and availability. TrueCar will share how they moved internet operations off premises from their datacenters to the cloud in AWS. Disney Streaming Service will dive deep into how they are leveraging Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge to enable their content APIs to perform at scale through dynamic original selection, latency reduction through the usage of edge caching, and guaranteeing high availability.

AWS Lambda enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers in an AWS Region. Lambda@Edge provides the same benefits, but runs closer to your end users, enabling you to assemble and deliver content, on-demand, to create low-latency web experiences. Come and join us for examples of how customers can move significant workloads they previously managed with server fleets to truly serverless website backends. Sentient Technologies, an artificial intelligence technology company, will share how they use Lambda@Edge for solving various use cases such as leveraging AI to improve customer engagement and uplift website conversions, and many more.

Learn how the BBC and Nine Network have enhanced the user experience and created new business models and opportunities, giving audiences more choices with more features, all while maintaining broadcast-grade service. When your business is providing live content to viewers, you know that there are no second chances. Audiences have come to expect a faultless live broadcast, and providers know they must ensure reliability with failover and redundancy plans. Learn how migrating to the cloud offers a new way to architect live-streaming workflows while maintaining the highest standards of resilience.

The way viewers expect to consume sports is completely changing, so Pac-12 Networks is completely changing the core of its video delivery infrastructure by shifting from on-premises to AWS. This move enables Pac-12 Networks to get more content than ever to more fans in more locations and on more devices. AWS is helping the network quickly set up new workflows at scale, such as live-to-VOD and OTT monetization, with thousands of hours of live content added annually. Learn how Pac-12 Networks is using AWS media and machine learning services to delight fans and accelerate innovation.

Reddit is one of the world's most trafficked websites with over 330 million monthly active users. They've built the vast majority of the infrastructure on AWS to support the increasing growth. As the world shifts to video-first, Reddit has redesigned their site and launched a new video platform. In this talk, we'll go over design paradigms, tradeoffs made, and lessons learned from rearchitecting one of the internet's top sites. See how this infrastructure operates at scale and how the team leverages ETS, Serverless, and Compute to serve over one billion videos a month.

Increase your organization's agility by diving deep and discovering how Amazon CloudFront integrates with other services to accelerate your DevOps workflows. In this session, which is jointly presented with Realtor.com, we cover four main areas of DevOps with customer success stories. Build: Programmatically launch and configure your CloudFront distributions by using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform templates as infrastructure as code (IaC). Test: Confirm that your updates deliver the intended result with A/B testing before moving all your traffic by using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge. Release: Continuously manage and deploy your application to the Amazon CloudFront Global Edge Network with AWS CodeStar. Monitor: Uncover actionable insights hiding in your CloudFront logs by leveraging Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Athena, or AWS Marketplace partners for intelligent monitoring and alerting.

This is the general what's-new session for Amazon DynamoDB in which we cover newly announced features and provide an end-to-end view of recent innovations. We also share some customer success stories and use cases. Come to this session to learn all about what's new for DynamoDB.

This session covers the features and enhancements in our Redis-compatible service, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. We cover key features, such as Redis 5, scalability and performance improvements, security and compliance, and much more. We also discuss upcoming features and customer case studies.