ARC316: Hybrid IT: A Stepping Stone to All-In

In 2004, approximately 400 billion fax pages were sent. Twelve years later, it’s about 4% of that number. The pace of technological change is rapid, but most devices live in the field for 10 to 15 years. It’s hard to maintain competitive value in the face of constant technology improvement, but IoT is changing that. We’ll examine the architectures that allows AWS IoT customers like Pitney Bowes to connect devices to the cloud and enrich the client experience though personalized analytics and recommendations, automated supplies replenishment, and just-in-time self-service.

Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton

Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane!

This session demonstrates how customers can leverage hybrid IT as a transitional step on the path to going all-in on AWS. We provide a step-by-step walk-through focusing on seamless migration to the cloud, with consideration given to existing data centers, equipment, and staff retraining. Learn about the suite of capabilities AWS provides to ease and simplify your journey to the cloud.

For an IT organization to be successful in rapid cloud assessment or iterative migration of their infrastructure and applications to AWS, they need to effectively plan and execute on a strategic cloud strategy that focuses not only on cloud, but also big data, DevOps, and security.

In today’s world, technology changes at a breakneck speed. What was new this morning is outdated at lunch. Working in the AWS Cloud is no different. Every week, AWS announces new features or improvements to current products. As AWS technologists, we must assimilate these new technologies and make decisions to adopt, reject, or defer. These decisions can be overwhelming: we tend to either reject everything and become stagnant, or adopt everything and never get our project out the door. In this session we will discuss the attitude of iteration. The attitude of iteration allows us to face the challenges of change without overwhelming our technical teams with a constant tug-o-war between implementation and improvement. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, developer, or AWS newbie, prepare to laugh, cry, and commiserate as we talk about overcoming these challenges.

CTO Werner Vogels discusses the latest AWS news and announcements.

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 (enhanced networking, ENA, placement groups, etc.), 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.

The growing popularity and breadth of use cases for IoT are challenging the traditional thinking of how data is acquired, processed, and analyzed to quickly gain insights and act promptly. Today, the potential of this data remains largely untapped. In this session, we explore architecture patterns for building comprehensive IoT analytics solutions using AWS big data services. We walk through two production-ready implementations. First, we present an end-to-end solution using AWS IoT, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Lambda. Next, Hello discusses their consumer IoT solution built on top of Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

Gree is a gaming company with the distinction of launching the world’s first mobile social game in 2007 and later went on to develop a rich portfolio of original games. With an active acquisition and development strategy, Gree is transforming the way games are built. Learn how Gree leveraged Amazon VPCs and Aviatrix Enterprise cloud-defined networking in AWS Marketplace to rapidly integrate acquisitions and develop new games to maintain competitive differentiation in this fast moving segment. Hear about the use case, requirements and lessons learned. Learn how you can transitioned to Amazon VPCs in the middle of the development process.