Re:Invent 2017 recap presented by CloudHesive at AWS Meetup at Ultimate Software

1. Amazon AWS Re:Invent Recap

2. Who is CloudHesive?
• Consulting
– Cloud Strategy
– Migration planning
– Cloud Support
– Professional services
– Architect Design
• DevOps
– Assist with DevOps strategy
– Manage CI/CD/CM environments
– Provide the automation and scripting
• Managed Security Services (SecOps)
– Encryption as a Service (EaaS)
– End Point Security
– Encryption for data in-flight
– Threat Management
• Managed Services
– Environments wrapped in security controls
– Governance on Release/Change management processes
– End to end monitoring and management
– 24 x 7 Support

3. What is Re:Invent?
• Yearly learning conference hosted by
Amazon Web Services for the global
cloud computing community
– Keynote Announcements
– Training
– Certification opportunities
• By the numbers
– 43,000+ attendees
– 1000+ technical sessions
– 75% First time attendees, 25%
returning
– 70 new significant features during the
week
– Breakout Sessions on youtube

4. Top “Themes” Discussed
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
– AWS Is focused on bringing AI and ML to the masses
• Make it easier to develop for NON data scientists
– Alexa for Business
• Alexa experience integrated into your enterprise business
productivity workflows
• Server-less
– Services Expanding upon AWS Lambda
• Fargate and serverless Aurora (relational database)
• Server-less application repository – collection of applications in the
server-less community
• Cloud Workloads Platforms
– Addition of compute instances
• Bare metal instances
– ECS to include Kubernetes support
– Server Migration Service to include Hyper-V to AWS

5. Additional prevalent themes
– Analytics
• S3 Select, Glacier Select
• Kinesis video analytics
– Architectural, Operational, and Global Improvements –
• AWS cross-region use of workloads and better visibility /
automation into your AWS environment.
• Time Sync Service
– IoT
• Expanded suite of services
• Deep Lens
– Security
• AWS GuardDuty,-managed threat intelligence service.
– Media suite
• Elemental product line

6. AWS PrivateLink
Share services privately between
VPCs and on-premises networks
• Secure and private access to any
supported services
• Accessible from both VPC and on-premises
networks
• Simplified management without multiple
security devices or IP space planning
Service VPC
Network
Load-
Balancer
AWS
Direct ConnectOn Premises
Resources
Client VPC 1
Client VPC 2
Client VPC 3
VPC Endpoint
VPC
Endpoint
VPC
Endpoint

7. Compute - Introducing Amazon Elastic Container Service
for Kubernetes (EKS)

8. • Secure
– Launched on your own Amazon EC2 instances, and no compute
resources are shared with other customers
– Manage using standard Kubernetes tools (kubectl CLI)
– Connecting to Master
• IAM authentication integration
– Public endpoints
– PrivateLink to access from your own VPC
– Fully compatible with Kubernetes Community Tools
• runs the latest version of the open-source Kubernetes
software

9. • Control Plane only responsible for orchestration of containers
• Need an underlying pool or resources to run on
• EC2
– Self manage
– RI and Spot
• Fargate

10. Compute – Introducing Amazon Fargate

11. Compute – Amazon Fargate Cont‘d

12. Developer: Introducing AWS Cloud9

13. Developer: Introducing AWS Cloud9
• Auto-hibernate feature
• Serverless Development
– Edit, test and debug locally
– Creates a Serverless Application
Model template
• Collaboration
– can invite an IAM user to your
environment

14. 1 2 3 4
I I I I
Notebooks Service Algorithms Training Service Hosting Service
AI & ML
Amazon SageMaker
A fully managed service that enables data scientists and developers to quickly and
easily build machine-learning based models into production smart applications.

15. AI & ML
Amazon SageMaker: Example Use
CasesMedia and Advertising
• Ad Targeting
• Recommendation Systems
• Customer Segmentation
• Video Analytics: people detection
Financial Services
• Credit card default detection
• Portfolio management
• Algorithmic trading
• Customer service
• Attrition prediction
Computer Vision
• Medical imaging
• Imaging captioning
• Neural Art
• Facial biometrics
Cognitive Systems
• Driver assistance
• Factory automation
• Vehicle autonomy and navigation
• Robots
• Scene understanding
• Surveillance systems
• Object tracking

16. AI & ML
AWS DeepLens
A deep-learning enabled, fully programmable video camera,
designated to bring deep learning into the real world
• Incorporates a HD video camera
• Local processing enables (local Lambda)
• Pre-trained models incorporated
• Integrates with Amazon SageMaker to build models
• Can stream data to the cloud using Amazon Kinesis Video
Example projects included: Object Recognition, Facial
Detection, License Plate Recognition, Artistic Style Transfer

17. AI & ML
AWS DeepLens

18. Databases – Aurora Updates
• Aurora Multi-Master:
• Scales both reads and writes
Aurora Serverless
On-demand Autoscaling DB

19. Databases – DynamoDB Updates
• Global Tables
• First Multi-master, multi-
region
Backup and Restore
On-demand, continuous backups
• On-demand, continuous
backups (GA)
• Point in time restore (PITR)
– coming soon
• NO performance impact

20. Databases - Amazon Neptune (Preview)
Fully managed graph database for highly connected data

21. Storage: Introducing……
Amazon S3 Select and Amazon Glacier Select

22. Amazon S3 Select: Accelerating Big Data
Up to 400% Faster
Up to 80% Cheaper
Amazon S3
Before:
Amazon S3
S3 Select
After:

23. Glacier Select makes Big Data Analytics of Archive Data
possible
App
Glacier Select
Amazon Glacier
Billing Inquiries Auditing/Compliance Building Training Models

24. AWS Media Services
Deliver compelling media
without managing
broadcast-grade video
processing infrastructure
Set up live video streams
in minutes at scale
Package streaming content
for any combination of end
user devices as needed
(just in time)
Customers can focus on their
Work rather than managing
their storage infrastructure.
Content providers can produce
personalize content and ads,
Customers can manage and
monetize ads

25. Summary: What‘s available in which regions today
Service Name Availability Regions Preview Signup Link
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams GA IAD, PDX, DUB, FRA, NRT
Amazon Aurora Serverless Public Preview IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-aurora-serverless-preview.html
Amazon Multi-Master Public Preview IAD https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-aurora-multimaster-preview.html
Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables GA IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB, FRA,
DynamoDB Backup and Restore Backup GA, Restore 2018 IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB
Amazon Neptune Public Preview IAD (+ PDX, CMH, DUB @ GA) https://pages.awscloud.com/NeptunePreview.html
Amazon Sagemaker GA IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB
Amazon DeepLens Pre-Announcement amazon.com April 28th https://www.amazon.com/AWS-DeepLens-learning-enabled-developers/dp/B075Y3CK37
Amazon Rekognition Video GA IAD, PDX, DUB
Amazon Transcribe Public Preview IAD https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-transcribe-preview.html
Amazon Translate Public Preview IAD, PDX, CMH https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-translate-preview.html
Amazon Comprehend GA IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB
S3 Select and Glacier Select S3 Preview, Glacier GA
S3 Select: IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB, SIN
Glacier all public regions
https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-s3-select-preview.html
Amazon MQ GA IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB, FRA, SYD
AWS AppSync Public Preview https://pages.awscloud.com/awsappsyncpreview.html
Amazon Time Sync GA All public regions
AWS Cloud9 GA IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB
Amazon EC2 M5 GA IAD, PDX, DUB
Amazon EC2 H1 GA IAD, PDX, CMH, DUB
Amazon EC2 I3.metal Pre-Announcement https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-preview.html
Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited GA All public regions
AWS Fargate GA IAD
Amazon EKS Public Preview https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-eks-preview.html
AWS IoT Device Management GA All public regions
AWS IoT Device Defender Pre-Announcement
AWS IoT Analytics Public Preview https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-iot-analytics-product-preview.html
AWS IoT 1-Click Public Preview https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-iot-1-click-preview.html
Amazon FreeRTOS GA
Amazon GuardDuty GA All public regions
AWS Systems Manager GA All public regions
Amazon Sumerian Public Preview https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-sumerian-preview.html
Alexa for Business GA (Devices in US only) IAD
Private Link Individual VPC Endpoints GA All public regions

26. More Information
• External: Announcement Summary:
https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/?nc1=h_ls
• External: Videos (Keynotes and Breakouts):
https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
• Internal: What New Wiki:
https://w.amazon.com/index.php/AWS-Sales-BD/AWS-Services-
BD/What%27s_New
• Internal: EMEA Platform BD:
https://w.amazon.com/bin/view/AWS/Teams/Sales-BD/AWS-
Services-BD/EMEA-Services-BD/

27. Questions???