Everyone appreciates the power of the global Internet while still understanding its performance and latency limitations as a best-effort system. Although many organizations understand that direct connectivity into the public cloud helps ensure network consistency, it's not always clear how integrated combinations of backbone, routing, and orchestration can optimize cloud applications. In this session, CenturyLink presents a number of innovative approaches to optimizing application deployment through control of the underlying network infrastructure. Join CenturyLink for a demonstration of emerging workloads, and the difference your cloud connection can make when milliseconds matter. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, CenturyLink.