AWS re:Invent 2018

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of Amazon S3, introduces the latest innovations across all AWS storage services. In this keynote address, we announce new storage capabilities, and we talk about features and services that make AWS storage unique. We focus on new innovations in object storage, file storage, block storage, and data transfer services. You also hear from executives from companies that are major AWS storage customers, Sony and Expedia, about how they're using AWS storage to create a competitive advantage in their businesses.

In this session, we explore the world's first cloud-scale file system and its targeted use cases. Learn about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), its features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate to use with Amazon EFS, and details about its performance and security models. The target audience is security administrators, application developers, and application owners who operate or build file-based applications.

You've designed and built a well-architected data lake and ingested extreme amounts of structured and unstructured data. Now what? In this session, we explore real-world use cases where data scientists, developers, and researchers have discovered new and valuable ways to extract business insights using advanced analytics and machine learning. We review Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, and Amazon EFS, the foundation for the analytics clusters and data engines. We also explore analytics tools and databases, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora; and we review the AWS machine learning portfolio and AI services such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Deep Learning AMIs, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Lex. We discuss how all of these pieces fit together to build intelligent applications.

In this session, learn best practices for data security in Amazon S3. We discuss the fundamentals of Amazon S3 security architecture and dive deep into the latest enhancements in usability and functionality. We investigate options for encryption, access control, security monitoring, auditing, and remediation.

IT infrastructure teams with on-premises applications have to manage storage arrays throughout their never-ending lifecycle, including capacity planning guesswork, hardware failures, system migrations, and more. There are cloud-enabled alternatives to buying more and more storage arrays. With AWS Storage Gateway, you can start using Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, and Amazon EBS in hybrid architectures with on-premises applications for storage, backup, disaster recovery, tiered storage, hybrid data lakes, and ML. In this session, learn how to use AWS Storage Gateway to seamlessly connect your applications to AWS storage services with familiar block-and-file storage protocols and a local cache for fast access to hot data. We demonstrate our latest capabilities and share best practices from experienced customers.

Data lakes are transforming the way enterprises store, analyze, and learn insights from their data. While data lakes are a relatively new concept, many enterprises have already generated significant business value from the insights gleaned. In this session, AWS experts and technology leaders from Sysco, a Fortune 50 company and leader in food distribution and marketing, explain why Sysco decided to evolve its data management capabilities to include data lakes and how they customized them to support diverse querying capabilities and data science use cases. They also discuss how to architect different aspects of a data lake-ingestion from disparate sources, data consumption, and usability layers-and how to track data ingestion and consumption, monitor associated costs, enforce wanted levels of user access, manage data file formats, synchronize production and non-production environments, and maintain data integrity. Services to be discussed include Amazon S3 and S3 Select, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

In this session, we explore the persistent local disk storage service for Amazon EC2 and its targeted use cases. Learn about Amazon EBS features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate to use with Amazon EBS, and details about its performance and security models. The target audience is security administrators, application developers, application owners, and infrastructure operations personnel who build or operate block-based applications or SANs.

Migrating enterprise applications to the cloud requires thorough planning and consideration for a number of variables. Should you move your application to a similar infrastructure in the cloud (in a lift-and-shift scenario)? Or should you refactor your application to take advantage of cloud-native services for object storage, serverless, auto-scaling, and so on? In this session, an AWS expert walks through the ten commandments that enterprises should follow when moving applications to the cloud and refactoring them for optimal performance. Then, a representative of Sysco Corporation, a Fortune 50 company, shares how the company migrated mission-critical legacy business systems and modernized them to take advantage of the AWS Cloud. Learn how the company moved its enterprise purchasing system, which processes millions of dollars in sales daily, to the AWS Cloud while achieving a 60% decrease in run costs. Also discover the lessons learned and highlights of the migration, which resulted in 30% increase in performance, 3x improvement in user accessibility, and a significant decrease in order backlogs and outages.

AWS offers fully managed file system services that enable you to quickly and simply lift and shift or build new applications that access file data in the AWS Cloud. In this session, join Wayne Duso, the leader of file storage, hybrid-edge storage, and data transport services, to learn about our full set of file services and latest launches. Learn all about file storage, and get firsthand input on how you can accelerate your journey to AWS as you move from on-premises or do-it-yourself implementations to fully managed file storage solutions. Hear how AWS file storage solutions enabled LoanLogics to migrate its applications to the cloud, enabling better scalability, performance, and availability. Also discover why customers choose AWS file systems for migrating their mission-critical enterprise applications and compute-intensive workloads to deliver the performance they need in a cost-effective way, saving time and money.

An introduction of Amazon FSx for Lustre, a new service that provides a fully managed parallel file system that enables compute-intensive applications to process large data sets at up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput, millions of IOPS, and consistent low latencies. Learn how Amazon FSx is seamlessly integrated with Amazon S3, making your in-cloud data sets available to your compute-intensive applications. In this introductory session, we will provide a deep dive on this new service, discuss performance capabilities, AWS integrations, and highlight use cases for this high-performance file storage offering.