aws re:invent 2016: workshop: addressing your business needs with aws (arc210)

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Kevin Volk

Dana Sindona

AWS Solutions Builder Team

November 29, 2016

Workshop: Addressing Your

Business Needs with AWS

ARC210

What to Expect from the Session

• Share your experiences and expertise

• Learn from other AWS customers

• Collaborate and strategize, with input from AWS

facilitators

• Give direct feedback to AWS

Workshop Format

“Unconference”

• Collaborative, participant-driven discussion

• Questions are encouraged

Chatham House Rule applies

• All topics are welcome

• Everything stays in this room

When a meeting, or part

thereof, is held under the

Chatham House Rule,

participants are free to

use the information

received, but neither the

identity nor the affiliation

of the speakers, nor that

of any other participant,

may be revealed.

Workshop Timeline

• Introductions – 10 minutes

• Group Icebreaker – 15 minutes

• Presentation – 25 Minutes

• Group Activity – 50 minutes

• Group Lightning Talks – 40 minutes

• Closing Thoughts – 10 minutes

AWS Solutions Definition

AWS vetted, automated, turnkey

reference implementations that

address common customer

business needs

Platform (Horizontal) Solution Categories

Account Management

Logging

Networking

Configuration Management

Migration

Security

Infrastructure Management

Mobile

Web Applications

Industry Vertical Solution Categories

Gaming

Financial Services

Energy & Utilities

Gaming

Media & Entertainment

Travel & Hospitality

Healthcare & Life

Sciences

Telecommunications

Group Icebreaker

Group Icebreaker – by Table

1. Choose a table representative (scribe)

2. Individual introductions (~ 1 minute each)

• Who are you?

• Why are you here?

• What is your use case?

• Why is it cool?

3. Scribe captures proposed table topics (industry,

business problem, functional category)

4. Categorize and consolidate use cases, form teams

AWS Solutions Collateral

Solutions Contents

Automation

Implementation Guide

Get Answers:

aws.amazon.com/answers

Solutions Follow Well-Architected Principles

Security Performance

Reliability Cost Optimization

Transit VPC Solution

• Deploys a Cisco-based transit VPC

• Connects multiple, geographically

dispersed VPCs and remote networks

• Leverages Cisco offering from AWS

Marketplace for ease of deployment

Amazon EC2 Scheduler

Start and stop EC2 instances on a schedule

AWS WAF Security Automations

Deploys customizable AWS WAF rules designed to filter

common web-based attacks

Additional Solutions

Data Lake on AWS*

Cross Account Manager*

ClassicLink Mirror

VPN Monitor

AWS Limit Monitor

Enterprise Accelerator for Microsoft Servers

EBS Snapshot Scheduler

Centralized Logging

Cost Optimization: EC2 Right Sizing

Cost Optimization Monitor

Group Activity

Solution Walkthrough

• Review workshop objectives

• Work in teams (feel free to float)

• Choose a scribe

• Refer to the handout for suggested guidelines

• Use materials given (whiteboards, flip charts, etc.)

Group Activity

• What problem did you tackle?

• What solution did you create?

• What tools, resources, technology did you use?

• What was helpful, unhelpful, unknown?

• What could have made your journey

better/easier?

We will reconvene in ~45 minutes...

Activity Wrap-Up

• What tools, resources, technology did you use?

• What was helpful, unhelpful, unknown?

• What could have made your journey

better/easier?

• What do you know now that you wish you had

known before?

Lightning Talks

Closing Thoughts

Thank you!

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your evaluations!