Global Partner Keynote

Developers start your engines! This breakout session will provide an introduction to the newly launched AWS DeepRacer. Learn about the basics of reinforcement learning, what's under the hood and your opportunities to experience AWS DeepRacer for yourself.

Modern application development is not a buzzword-it's an innovation strategy that organizations of all sizes can use to increase revenue, lower costs, and outpace the competition. In this session, learn how you can unblock digital product and service innovation for your own organization. Putting technology details aside, we explain what modern application development really is, why it matters to the business, what success metrics you should expect, and how to navigate your own transition.

Join this Leadership Session to learn about AWS's strategy, the latest features, and best practices from customers on how to run Microsoft workloads like Windows, SQL Server, Active Directory, and .NET applications on AWS. Sandy Carter, Vice President for Enterprise Applications, discusses the evolution of AWS as the leading platform for hosting business-critical applications, and dispels the myths around running Microsoft workloads on AWS using real customer examples. In this session, we showcase how many organizations are benefitting by running Windows on AWS, from migrating legacy applications helping lower TCO, to building new innovative solutions to drive growth, in areas such as Machine Learning, Containers, and Serverless. Sandy shares the company's vision for continuing to innovate in this space to make AWS the premier place for customers to run Microsoft workloads in the cloud.

Genomic sequencing is growing at a rate of 100 million sequences a year, translating into 40 exabytes by the year 2025. Handling this level of growth and performing big data analytics is a massive challenge in scalability, flexibility, and speed. In this session, learn from pioneering genomic sequencing company WuXi NextCODE, which handles complex and performance-heavy database and genomic sequencing workloads, about moving from on premises to all-in on the public cloud. Discover how WuXi NextCODE was able to achieve the performance that its workloads demand and surpass the limits of what it was able to achieve previously in genomic sequencing. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, NetApp, Inc.

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.

As companies employ DevOps practices to push applications faster into production through better collaboration and automated testing, security is often seen as an inhibitor to speed. The challenge for many organizations is getting applications delivered at a fast pace while embedding security at the speed of DevOps. In this session, learn how AWS Marketplace products and customers help make DevSecOps a well-orchestrated methodology to ensure the speed, stability, and security of your applications.

Serverless computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. Serverless applications don't require you to provision, scale, and manage any servers. However, under the hood, there is a sophisticated architecture that takes care of all the undifferentiated heavy lifting for the developer. Join Holly Mesrobian, Director of Engineering, and Marc Brooker, Senior Principal of Engineering, to learn how AWS architected one of the fastest-growing AWS services. In this session, we show you how Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability

Amazon Mechanical Turk operates a marketplace for crowdsourcing, and developers can build human intelligence directly into their applications through a simple API. With access to a diverse, on-demand workforce, companies can leverage the power of the crowd for a range of tasks, from ML training and automating manual tasks to generating human insights. In this session, we cover key concepts for Mechanical Turk, and we share best practices for how to integrate and scale your crowdsourced application. By the end of this session, expect to have a general understanding of Mechanical Turk and know how to get started harnessing the power of the crowd.

In this session, learn how AWS is helping enterprises adopt the DevOps model and automation in their journey to the cloud. By using the DevOps principle to treat your infrastructure environments as code, you can automate and easily scale your lifecycle environments. Learn how services like AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks enable you to automate your instance provisioning and configurations as code, ensuring consistent, compliant, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Understand how OpsWorks is enabling enterprises to accelerate their migration to the cloud, leveraging popular tools like Chef or Puppet and their respective communities. 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 recent years, MySQL has become a top database choice for new application development and migration from overpriced, restrictive commercial databases. In this session, we provide an overview of the MySQL and MariaDB options available on AWS. We also do a deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a fully managed MySQL service, and Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database with up to 5X the performance, and many additional innovations.