Rochester AWS Meetup Group

Re:Invent Update and Recap

Aaron C. NewmanFounder, CloudCheckr

Aaron.Newman@CloudCheckr.com

December 4, 2013

Agenda:

• Overview of Re:Invent 2013

• What Happened

• Recap videos – Jeff Barr

Overview of Re:Invent 2013

High level details

• Roughly 5000 people last year 9000 this year

• Sold out on Oct. 21 – 3 weeks before open

• Venetian Hotel – overflowed into Wynn and Encore.

• 200+ Sponsors – from around the world

• According to Gartner, AWS has 5 times more deployed cloud infrastructure as their next 14 competitors have...in aggregate

• In a day, AWS adds as much new infrastructure as they had used to run the entire Amazon business when it was a $7B business

• AWS supports over 600 government agencies and 2400 educational institutions

Sessions

• Nearly 200 sessions split into 13 tracks and 4 experience levels

• • Architecture (ARC)

• • Application Services (SVC)

• • Big Data + HPC (BDT)

• • Compute + Networking (CPN)

• • Databases (DAT)

• • Deployment + Management (DMG)

• • Enterprise IT (ENT)

• • Digital Media (MED)

• • Mobile (MBL) + Gaming (GMG).

• • Partners

• • Security (SEC)

• • SDK + Tools (TLS)

• • Storage (STG)

What Happened?

Hackathon

• The re:Invent Hackathon – http://reinvent.awsevents.com/files/aws-hackathon.pdf

• 1-day challenge (Nov 12th, 2013)

• Charities provide “IT Challenges”

• early team forming (to save time)

• hacking

• judging

• prizes

Training and Certification

• AWS Certifications designate individuals who demonstrate technical knowledge, skills and proficiency with AWS services. To help you validate your expertise with AWS, we will be offering certification exams at this year’s conference.

• Registration for certification exams at AWS re:Invent is now open. You can click on the links below to learn more and register for the exam of your choice.– AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level– AWS Certified Developer – Associate Level (Beta) – AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Level (Beta)

Events

• Day 1 Key Note– Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, AWS– http://bit.ly/IGgDN4

• Day 2 Key Note– Dr. Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon Web Service– http://bit.ly/18p7kwM

• Day 2 Party– Dead Mau5 (DJ wearing a Mouse head)

CloudTrail (beta)

• AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you

• With CloudTrail, you can get a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and higher-level AWS services (such as AWS CloudFormation).

• Compliance – Continuous monitoring (huge for the government)

Demo:

CloudTrail

Amazon Workspaces

• Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud

• http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

• Pricing

• Desktop as a Service

– “The WorkSpaces announcement took the financial markets by surprise, leaving them wondering about the future of Citrix’s andVMware’s positions in the DaaS marketplace”

RDS PostgreSQL Support

• Amazon RDS supports PostgreSQL open source database

• Free Tier & Multi-AZ/Provisioned IOPS support

• Version 9.3.1

• Live Demo

• Other– RDS enforces full encryption – this greatly improves the security of data

at rest– RDS automatically backs up databases across regions – huge

improvements to disaster recovery and availability

Recap Videos from Jeff Barr

Day 1 Recap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOTZc2P85M

Day 2 Recap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfp6qfsPjY

Day 3 Recap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfp6qfsPjY

Questions?

Questions on:• AWS Re:Invent• AWS In General

• Suggestions for next meeting

Thank You for Attending

NEED YOU TO SPREAD THE WORDBring 2 or 3 more people next time

Aaron Newman is the Founder of CloudCheckr (www.cloudcheckr.com)

Please contact me with additional questions at:aaron.newman@cloudcheckr.com