AWS re:Invent 2018

Deploying Microsoft products on AWS is fast, easy, and cost-effective. Before deploying these applications to production, it's helpful to have guidance on approaches for securing them. In this session, we outline the principles for protecting the environment of Microsoft applications hosted on AWS, with a focus on risk assessment, reducing attack surface, adhering to the principle of least privilege, and protecting data.

In this session, we discuss best practices and approaches for managing your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure on AWS. We describe the AWS services that can help you manage Windows servers at scale and realize the maximum benefit of the cloud. In addition, we show you how to build simple and effective solutions to manage logging, configuration drift, inventory, licensing, and more. Please join us for a speaker meet-and-greet following this session at the Speaker Lounge (ARIA East, Level 1, Willow Lounge). The meet-and-greet starts 15 minutes after the session and runs for half an hour.

In this session, we dive deep on best practices and design considerations for running Microsoft SQL Server on AWS. We cover how to choose between running SQL Server on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. We also cover how to optimize the performance of SQL Server on AWS, how to leverage the new the Optimize CPU feature, and how to deploy SQL Server on Linux. We also review best practices for storage, monitoring, availability, security, and backup and recovery for SQL Server.

In this session, learn how to architect, configure, and deploy an ASP.NET Core microservices application running in containerized AWS Fargate tasks. We cover how to use Amazon DynamoDB for session state and how to use Amazon Cognito for identity management. We also discuss using Amazon ECS for service discovery and AWS CodePipeline to create CI/CD pipelines for each microservice so that each one is individually deployed when an AWS CodeCommit repository is updated. Join us, and learn everything you need to know to start designing and deploying containerized ASP.NET Core applications on AWS.

The World Wide Public Sector Breakfast Keynote will feature Teresa Carlson, VP, World Wide Public Sector for Amazon Web Services. Customers will hear the latest global updates on the public sector business including exciting announcements, program updates, and inspiring customer stories. Don't miss the opportunity to hear directly from AWS customers across the public sector as they share the impact cloud has made on their organizations, people and mission. Breakfast will be provided.

As public sector organizations move to the cloud, they're finding it to be a springboard for innovation. Local and regional organizations around the globe are developing digital services to improve the lives of the citizens they serve, creating platforms where citizens can be heard and increasing engagement within their communities. Join us on this panel as we travel from the Americas to Europe and Singapore and dive into stories of cloud migration and emerging innovations. We hear from Athabasca University, Radio France, the Department for Work and Pensions, and Singapore's Land Transport Authority as they share their individual journeys to the cloud and the learnings they have acquired on the way.

In this session, we look at cloud-ready contracts from around the world. We compare and contrast these contracts through scope identification, end-user eligibility, and primary service offerings (i.e., MSP vs. IaaS resale) to help you determine a contract pathway that meets your mission needs. We discuss considerations for buying cloud services so that end users and organizations can extract the full benefits and power of AWS. Join us and gain an understanding of how to approach shared security, utility pricing, data location, innovative services, governance, and terms and conditions for a successful procurement effort.

In this session, learn how Dr. Julia Lane, Director of the Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF) at NYU, used AWS and AWS Public Sector Partner Earthling Security to build a software-as-a-service (SaaS) research and analysis environment that hosts sensitive U.S. Census Bureau data. The ADRF hosted almost 50 confidential government data sets from 12 different agencies at all levels of government. The ADRF chose AWS to meet strict security and governance requirements such as FedRAMP compliance, ease of implementation, and robust native security. AWS provided NYU a complete set of infrastructure, application, and security services perfectly suited for U.S. government requirements. In addition, AWS discusses how these principles and practices can be applied to an organization's governance, risk, and compliance needs.

On LinkedIn, the #1 skill for three years in a row is cloud and distributed computing. The pressure on our educational system to produce tech-ready employees, and on companies to source talent, is enormous, with ripe opportunities for disintermediation. In this session, hear from the disruptors who are collaborating with AWS Educate in order to rapidly change the trajectory and impact that global skills gap. Meet both the supply and demand side for cloud jobs.

AWS GovCloud (US) is isolated AWS infrastructure and services designed to allow US government agencies and enterprises in highly regulated industries to move sensitive data and regulated IT workloads to the cloud by addressing specific regulatory and compliance requirements. While enterprises and organizations are increasingly integrating software as a service (SaaS) technologies into their IT environments, they often require SaaS products to address the same compliance features of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. In this session, we discuss the opportunities for SaaS in AWS GovCloud (US), how SaaS vendors should approach building products in AWS GovCloud (US), key architecture and operational considerations, and best practices for bringing a SaaS product on AWS GovCloud (US) to market. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Unlock Highly Regulated Enterprise Workloads with SaaS on AWS GovCloud (US) (WPS303)