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!
Remember to complete
your evaluations!