Monday, 4 May 2015

AWS Summit Sydney - Presentations

http://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/

Session Sponsored by Cloudability:
Creating a Culture of Cost Management in Your Organization
As your organization increases its AWS usage, budget owners and users demand new levels of cost visibility.
This session explains how scaled organizations control and optimize their AWS spending as usage increases across multiple product teams. Attendees walk away with a strategy for driving cost effective behavior across the entire organization, from engineering to finance.
Topics include:
• Maintaining cost oversight while giving autonomy to individual teams
• Allocating costs across dozens or hundreds of accounts or applications
• Creating accountability around spending habits and waste
• Tying cloud spending to the bottom line
Speaker: J.R. Storment, Chief Customer Officer, Cloudability


Session Sponsored by Trend Micro: 
Using Security To Build With Confidence in AWS
You don’t need to be a security expert to protect your organisations data in the cloud. You don’t need to be a security expert to protect your workloads on AWS. You just need to be informed of the many security tools available in AWS, and learn how to use them.
Taking a highly automated approach to security, you can use key features of the AWS Cloud to transform security in your organisation. As with infrastructure as an API, security as an API allows you to move rapidly & stay secure. From AWS security groups, to virtual private networks, to security tools, you need to learn how to automate and accelerate.
In this talk, you’ll see how various AWS features and cloud-aware security controls can work together to protect your deployments. Using real-world examples, you’ll come away with an understanding of steps you can take to ensure that you maximise the security of your deployment while minimising the work it takes to keep it secure.
You will learn a logical approach to modern security that you can immediately apply to your own AWS deployments. You will learn how to use security tools and techniques to help you build with confidence.

Speaker:
Justin Foster, Director of Product Management, Cloud & Data Center Security, Trend Micro


Session Sponsored by Datacom: 
Cloud and Enterprise Tools
Many Enterprises are now seeing AWS as a viable alternative for core Enterprise applications. The long term vision for these customers is to move from a traditional on premise infrastructure to a dynamic, on demand, agile platform that enables business growth and innovation. In this Session, Rob Purdy will cover the migration frameworks Enterprises can use to transform their core systems. The session will also cover a customer case study revealing both the technical and business challenges that need to be overcome when moving to the next generation of cloud solutions.
Speaker:
Rob Purdy, General Manager, Datacom


Session Sponsored by Accenture: 
Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale
At the end of this session participants will learn how to assess their enterprise application portfolio and move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion. Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively to ensure a strong ROI.
After many large organizations have started their cloud programs, they quickly realize the benefits of AWS but they need to scale their migration quickly to ensure a sizable ROI. There is no single process change, tool, or number of resources that can achieve this. Enterprise customers have to look across-the-board at everything from their cloud strategy and architecture to their cloud management capabilities. Based on our experiences in this space, Accenture and AWS have collaborated on a new end-to-end cloud migration and management approach that we believe addresses many of the challenges that enterprise customers face.
In this session we will describe the components of our migration framework and how enterprises can leverage these techniques to migrate efficiently.
The migration framework covers:
• identifying how to define an overall cloud strategy,
• assess the portfolio of applications,
• create the right AWS architecture and environment,
• ways to move applications and data using automated migration tools, and
• services to manage the migrated environment.
We have wrapped this framework with tools from Accenture, AWS, and third parties in order for enterprises to focus on their core competencies rather than time and money on migrating and running their applications on AWS.
Utilizing this migration methodology can reduce the costs of migrating application to AWS in large organizations by more than 20% vs. the manual migration techniques that we have evaluated.
Speaker:
Chris Wegmann, Managing Director, Amazon Web Services Practice & Programs Lead, Accenture


Session Sponsored by Intel: 
Accelerating Cloud Services and How to Match your Workload to the Right Intel Technology
This presentation will take you through the underlying Intel technologies available in AWS EC2 Instances, what benefits these technologies can provide and how to use these technologies to maximise your use case workloads AWS EC2 Instances provide a wide selection of instance types, optimised to fit a broad and diverse set of use cases, all supported by the latest Intel Xeon processors and technologies providing you with confidence to choose an AWS EC2 instance type that best meet your performance needs for compute intensive, memory intensive, or IOPS intensive applications.
So, if you are interested in how to maximise your existing code optimisations and investments or thinking about migrating workloads to AWS come to this session.
Speaker: Peter Kerney, Lead Enterprise Architect, Cloud, SDI and NFV, Intel


12:15 - 13:15Breakout 2
Business 101: 
Introduction to the AWS Cloud
AWS platform has developed rapidly over the past few years through through continuous iteration and innovations. In this session we provide a high level overview of the AWS platform and how customers leverage this to create highly available and scalable infrastructure. This presentation covers the broad AWS value proposition and benefits of moving to the cloud. We run through the AWS pricing models to explain how AWS provides cost savings and flexibility to customers. Using local cases studies, we discuss the most common workloads customers initially deploy. This session provides the required knowledge on how to get started with AWS.

Speaker:
Russell Hall, Territory Sales Manager, Amazon Web Services


Technical 201: 
Big Data and Analytics - End to End on AWS
Organisations produce data in all different shapes and sizes, from highly structured transactions through to log files and streaming data. All of this information can now be captured, stored and analysed using an array of tools and techniques but the challenge for many organisations is which technology to deploy for which use case.
In this session we will look at the common patterns for the ingest, storage, processing and analysis of different types of data on the AWS platform and illustrate how you can harness the power and scale of the cloud to drive innovation in your own business.
Speaker:
Russell Nash, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, APAC


Technical 201: 
Common Application Architecture Patterns
With many thousands of applications in use today, there a number of common architecture patterns that solution architects need to be across. The cloud design patterns introduced in this session are a collection of solutions for using AWS cloud technology to solve common systems design problems. These patterns have scale, availability, durability and financial implications for an organization. In this session we explore common architectural Cloud Design Patterns and map these patterns to common commercial and custom applications.
Speaker:
Daniel Zoltak, Consultant, and Cam Maxwell, Consultant, Amazon Web Services


Technical 301: 
Modernising your Applications on AWS: AWS SDKs and Application Web Services
AWS provides feature-rich integration with IDEs and tools that enable rapid development and deployment of all types of application workloads. In this session, you learn about the easy-to-use abstractions included in the AWS SDK for .NET and the AWS SDK for Java. We demonstrate how the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio and Eclipse help streamline the application development process. You also see how to make use of AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS and S3 in your applications running on AWS. We deep-dive on Amazon DynamoDB to showcase the features of the SDKs and how you can build advanced applications on top of DynamoDB, using the AWS SDKs.
Speaker:
Clayton Brown, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Technical 401: 
Managing Your Application Lifecycle on AWS: Continuous Integration and Deployment
AWS offers a number of services that help you easily develop, build, deploy and run applications in the cloud. In this session you’ll learn best practices for managing your application lifecycle with these tools with a particular focus on development speed and release agility. Through interactive demonstrations, this session shows you how to get an application running using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation and CodeDeploy. You will also see how advanced techniques such as blue/green deployment, AMI baking, customer resources and in-place deployment reduce deployment friction and rapid change in your environment.

Speaker:
Adrian White, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


14:15 - 15:15Breakout 3
Technical 101: 
Your First Hour on AWS: Building the Foundation for Large Scale AWS Adoption

Building an architecturally sound foundation is a common theme in every AWS success story. The repeatable delivery of applications and services depends on standardising your infrastructure design patterns. To arm you with best practices from day one, this session presents field-tested and reusable designs that'll set you up for long-term success in the AWS cloud. From account creation and access configuration, through security considerations and VPC design, to the use of VPC peering, ELBs and Internet Gateways, we'll walk you through the common infrastructure elements and recommended design patterns that lead to AWS cloud adoption success.

Speaker:
Craig Dickson, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Technical 101: AWS Innovation at Scale

This session, gives an insider view of some the innovations that help make the AWS Cloud unique. He will show examples of AWS networking innovations from the interregional network backbone, through custom routers and networking rotocol stack, all the way down to individual servers. He will show examples from AWS server hardware, storage, and power distribution and then, up the stack, in high scale streaming data processing. Rodney will also dive into fundamental database work AWS is delivering to open up scaling and performance limits, reduce costs, and eliminate much of the administrative burden of managing databases. Join this session and walk away with a deeper understanding of the underlying innovations powering the cloud.
Speaker:
Rodeny Haywood, Manager Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services


Technical 201: 
Revolutionising Cloud Operations with AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail and AWS CloudWatch


The rate of change is typically higher within AWS than you would experience in an on-premises environment. Automation becomes standard, and the metric and logs you need to track will change. The AWS Operational Checklist provides a blueprint to increase the likelihood of successful deployments and frustration- free operations. This session dives deep into several patterns from the checklist and shows how to apply and extend these patterns to support the Hybrid Cloud using AWS services such as AWS Config, AWS Cloudtrail and AWS Cloudwatch. Practical examples will demonstrate how these services can be combined with other AWS tools such as the AWS CLI and PowerShell in order to maximize the benefit to your organisation.

Speaker:
Matt House, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Technical 301: 
Mobile Applications and The Internet of Things: AWS Lambda & Amazon Cognito


AWS Lambda is a new compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you. AWS Lambda enables powerful application architectures that simplify and accelerate development of connected applications. Together with AWS Cognito, AWS SNS Push Notifications and AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda is a powerful tool in your arsenal for developing IoT/mobile apps, and beyond. This session will show you how to get started quickly by covering key architectural design concepts and demonstrating the use of the AWS SDKs to simplify creating powerful applications for the always-on world that connects beyond the desktop.

Speaker:
Adam Larter, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Business 101: 
Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy
Taking a cloud first approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You’ll be deploying hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organisational design. Through our experience in helping enterprises navigate this change, AWS has developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to assist with planning, creating, managing, and supporting the shift. In this session, we cover how the CAF framework offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organisations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency. This session also shares some of the secrets for a successful migration.

Speaker:
Chris Merrigan, Enterprise Sales Manager, Amazon Web Services


15:30 - 16:30Breakout 4
Business 101: 
Enterprise Customer Cloud Consumption – Operating in a hybrid model


Since launching the Sydney region in Nov 2012 AWS has had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of customers regarding their approach and consumption of AWS.
This session aims to share with you our insights & learnings from working with customers on Bi-Modal IT models, cloud service management layers, building repeatable cloud artefacts, and the role of tactical & strategic activities.

Speaker:
Alex Nemeth de Bikal, Enterprise Sales Manager, Amazon Web Services


Technical 201: 
Automating your Infrastructure Deployment with AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks


When you’re building a new application you need to get new features out fast. Managing your application’s infrastructure as well as responding to changing conditions can be cumbersome and error prone if you rely on manual processes. Treating your infrastructure as code allows you to provision and update complex environments in a predictable manner. You can also offer a pre-defined catalogue of environments for development, testing and experimentation, unlocking your ability to innovate.
This session will walk through practical examples and live demonstrations using AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, orchestration engines and source control systems to automate your infrastructure deployment and maintenance.
Speaker:
Richard Busby, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Technical 401: 
AWS Blackbelt NINJA Dojo


40, 1173 & 516. What do these numbers mean? Since inception AWS has introduced more than 40 major new services, released over 1173 new services and features, with 516 new features and services announced in 2014 alone. How you use the AWS platform last year may be very different to how you utilise it today to maximize innovation, outcomes and remaining competitive. In this advanced technical session an AWS Solution Architect will address technical requirements for successfully deploying and managing applications on the AWS platform, how solutions were potentially architected previously, both off-cloud and on-cloud, and some of the best practice recommendations on AWS today.

Speaker:
Dean Samuels, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Technical 301: 
Running Business Critical Workloads on AWS


Enterprises, mid-market, and SMBs all have one thing in common: their business applications are critical. Companies of all sizes are running SAP, Oracle, Exchange, and many other business applications in the cloud to simplify infrastructure management, deploy more quickly, and lower cost. AWS offers a reliable and flexible cloud infrastructure platform that enables customers to run any type of Windows or Linux based business application, from small departmental solutions to world-wide mission-critical production ERP (remove) systems in a secure, scalable and robust environment. Come along to this session to learn how large scale systems like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others are being used by enterprise customers of all shapes and sizes. In this session you will discover some of the challenges and approaches that will make you successful in deploying and operating these systems on AWS. This is a must session for enterprise customers that are looking at moving material workloads into the cloud.

Speaker:
Nam Je Cho, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


Technical 201: 
Moving Enterprise Windows Workloads to AWS


The cloud is the new norm for organizations of all sizes. In this session you will learn how to create an entire Microsoft Enterprise environment in AWS that includes AWS Active Directory Service, Simple System Management (SSM) service, MS Exchange and SharePoint. These will further integrate with new end user productivity services such as AWS WorkSpaces, AWS WorkDocs, and AWS WorkMail.

Speaker:
Dr Peter Stanski, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services


16:30 - 17:00Afternoon Break - Solutions Pavilion
17:00 - 18.00Closing Keynote
18:00 - 19:00Cocktail Party - Solution Pavilion
Session Sponsored by Symantec: 
Business Continuity for Mission Critical Apps with AWS
Your mission critical Tier-1 applications and information need to be 100% available and accessible. With this requirement business continuity solutions have evolved from a ‘nice-to-have’ to a non-negotiable essential. Moving from an entirely on-premises environment to a hybrid cloud operation can bring many cost and operational efficiencies – but this change also brings a diverse range of new business continuity challenges.
Experts from Symantec provide a technical overview of two key business continuity solutions - NetBackup and Disaster Recovery Orchestrator. We’ll show you how these solutions and their tight integration with the AWS Cloud can: improve operational and cost efficiencies; add flexibility, predictability and scalability; and improve business resilience via non-disruptive ‘fire-drill’ testing and fully automated disaster recovery.
Be fully confident in the cloud with Symantec and AWS!

Speakers: Marc De Frontignac, Solutions Systems Engineer and Stuart McCarthy, Solutions Systems Engineer, Symantec


Session Sponsored by Bulletproof: 
The Trials and Triumphs of Re-Architecting for AWS and Implementing DevOps - The InLoop Story
InLoop, the creators of FlexiSchools, and Bulletproof take a honest look at their technical and strategic journey into AWS. Chris from InLoop, presents alongside Bjorn and Mark from Bulletproof, to share InLoop’s experience in re-architecting the FlexiSchools software application for the Cloud, all while laying down the foundations for a DevOps culture.
The trio review best-practice considerations, success points and reveal learning points, providing CTOs, CIOs and technology decision makers alike with a candid view of InLoop’s journey to success

Speakers: Chris Simon, Chief Technology Officer, InLoop, Bjorn Schliebitz, Director Professional Services and Mark Randall,Chief Customer Officer, Bulletproof


Session Sponsored by CommVault: 
Automating Backup & Archiving with AWS and CommVault
Are you looking to automate backup and archiving of your business-critical data workloads? Attend this session to understand key use cases, best practices, and considerations for protecting your data with AWS and CommVault. This session will feature lessons learned from CommVault customers that have: migrated onsite backup data into Amazon S3 to reduce hardware footprint and improve recoverability; implemented data-tiering and archived data in Amazon Glacier for long term retention and compliance; performed snapshot-based protection and recovery for applications running in Amazon EC2; and, provisioned and managed VMs in Amazon EC2.

Speaker: Chris Gondek, Principal Architect, CommVault Australia and New Zealand


Session Sponsored by DiUS: 
Drinking from the Fire Hose: The Jump to Real Time Analytics.
DiUS is an Australian technology services crew with a DNA that's cloud-first, human-powered, and "small-a" agile. To us, the revolution in information analytics is not so much about Big Data - it's about Fast Data.
We are working with Vix Technologies, an international electronic ticketing infrastructure company, and the Melbourne Storm - one of Australia's most successful rugby league clubs. Their mission is to re-imagine the stadium experience for sports fans by using real-time analytics to drive personalised messaging and in-game incentives to their members.
To achieve their goals, we've prototyped a solution using AWS Kinesis and Redshift to drive dynamic, real time visualisations of what is happening at the stadium, while also capturing every last drop of the data stream in S3 for later retrieval and transformation via Elastic
MapReduce.
Along the way, we'll also share:
  • The target architecture - why we chose it, what it includes and how we are implementing it.
  • Example data visualisations driven by Kinesis applications and React JS.
  • Simple techniques for achieving redundancy in Kinesis applications using EC2 AutoScaling and AWS CodeDeploy.
We will also have a designated area setup that will continuously demonstrate the data fire hose throughout the day. Make sure you drop
in and say hi!
Speakers: Cam Smith, Principal Consultant and AWS Lead - DiUS, Steve Gallagher, CEO - Vix Technologies, Raefe Winstanley, Strategy - Melbourne Storm


Session Sponsored by Megaport: 
Orchestrating Network with Web Services
AWS Direct Connect and VPCs allow for a fully private and stable backhaul between your private assets and cloud services without the need for significant encryption, tunneling, or other methods. While these components can be created on the fly with an API, the network component itself cannot. Megaport demonstrates a method of creating the network components in tandem with your AWS components so that the full solution is created in a single API call to a group of endpoints.
Speaker: Cameron Daniel, Founding Engineer, Megaport


Session Sponsored by NetApp: 
How to Accelerate the Adoption of AWS and Reduce Cost and Risk with a Data Fabric Enabled by NetApp
Join Jon Kissane, Chief Strategy Officer, and John Martin, Principal Technologist to learn how enterprises can adopt AWS Cloud faster by deploying the data fabric enabled by NetApp to:
  • Accelerate the pace of innovation allowing organisations to be more responsive to rapid changes in the business environment
  • Optimise the use of the right resources for efficiency and business impact while reducing costs; and
  • Control valuable data and address the broadest range of compliance and sovereignty requirements – securing data at rest and in motion to and from the cloud
Learn about customer use cases and the latest innovations from NetApp that allow organisations to create a data fabric that enables seamless and secure movement of data in hybrid IT environments.

Speakers: Jon Kissane, Chief Strategy Officer, and John Martin, Principal Technologist, NetApp


Session Sponsored by Cognizant: 
Infrastructure as Code Continuous Integration: A Delivery Pipeline Journey
The aim of this presentation is to provide a technical overview of how we built a Continuous Delivery pipeline for one of our key clients. More broadly, we’ll discuss the path we took to get to our current state – including the successes, the surprises and the shifts along the way – because as is so often the case, it is the journey that yields the greatest insight rather than the destination.

Speakers: Peter Hall - Lead DevOps Operations Engineer, Anthony Scata - Senior DevOps Engineer, Cognizant


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