AWS AMER Summit May 2021
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Solve common business problems with AI and ML | Suchitra Sathyanarayana | 29m |
AWS shows applying specific services to concrete problems: Amazon Kendra for natural-language enterprise search, Amazon Textract and Comprehend plus A2I for… | ||
| Use AutoML to create high-quality models with just a few clicks | Kate Zimmerman | 31m |
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot takes a CSV or table, inspects features, trains hundreds of models with automated feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning, and… | ||
| Build, train, and deploy ML models using Amazon SageMaker | Shelbee Eigenbrode | 33m |
Overview of concrete SageMaker capabilities, not theory: Ground Truth auto labeling cuts labeling cost up to 70% and supports 30+ workflows; Data Wrangler… | ||
| Automate data extraction & analysis with intelligent document processing | Ashish Khare, Saumin Patel | 32m |
Broadridge automates extraction from SEC filings using Amazon Textract for tables, Amazon Comprehend plus custom models for free‑text, and AWS Step… | ||
| Get rolling with machine learning on AWS DeepRacer | Pallavi Nargund | 27m |
Hands-on ML using a 1/18‑scale WiFi car that trains in a 3D simulator and uploads models to a physical vehicle, claiming it’s the fastest way to start… | ||
| Improve customer service w/intelligent call routing in your call center | Dr. Andrew Kane, Christoph Knibbe | 31m |
Vanguard implements an AWS Contact Center Intelligence self-service pipeline that uses Amazon Lex (intents, slots, aliases) integrated with Genesys PureCloud… | ||
| Bring the power of machine learning to your developer operations | Nikunj Vaidya, Edwin Nikoi | 35m |
Machine learning services analyze CloudWatch metrics, correlate CloudTrail events and CloudFormation scopes to surface a single Amazon DevOps Guru insight with… | ||
| Accelerating COVID-19 insights for clinical use with intelligent search | Udi Hershkovich, James Kinross | 26m |
PanSurg builds a living systematic review called REDASA that pipes targeted web crawls into S3 and Amorphic, uses MirrorWeb for capture, SageMaker for… | ||
| Implement MLOps practices with Amazon SageMaker | Mark Roy | 34m |
Shows how SageMaker Pipelines and a model registry automate end-to-end MLOps: project templates spin up repos and CI/CD, pipelines run preprocessing… | ||
| Shift your ML model into overdrive with AWS DeepRacer analysis tools | Don Barber | 28m |
AWS DeepRacer adds Open and Pro divisions (Pro requires top 10% in a monthly virtual race) and shows concrete ways to improve lap times: use progress over… | ||
| The need for speed: Data streaming architectures | Rajeev Chakrabarti | 29m |
Modernize a lakehouse by ingesting high‑velocity sources into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or Amazon MSK, retain streams up to one year and process with Lambda… | ||
| Becoming a data-driven enterprise | Ishit Vachhrajani | 29m |
Claims concrete steps and tools for scaling data use across a company: cloud storage on Amazon S3 plus SageMaker models and Redshift/QuickSight analytics… | ||
| Reinventing business intelligence with Amazon QuickSight and Q | Chirag Dhull | 26m |
Amazon positions Amazon QuickSight as a serverless architecture BI that scales to tens of thousands of users, uses the SPICE in-memory engine, and charges on a… | ||
| Embed apps with scalable BI dashboards & visualizations using QuickSight | Scott D. Epter, PhD | 28m |
Amazon QuickSight claims serverless, auto-scaling embedded dashboards with namespaces for tenant isolation, row-level security and a demoed author/reader flow… | ||
| Bringing AWS benefits to Apple developers with Amazon EC2 Mac instances | Stephanie Shyu, Colin Caufield | 23m |
AWS now runs macOS on EC2 using Intel 2018 Mac Minis exposed as a Bare Metal Dedicated Host called Mac1.metal with 6 physical cores, 12 threads, 32 GB RAM, up… | ||
| HPC on AWS: Innovation without infrastructure constraints | Arun Subramaniyan | 34m |
AWS shows specific HPC stacks: EFA-enabled C5n delivers near-linear scaling and >75% parallel efficiency up to ~1,200 cores versus large degradation without… | ||
| Adopt AWS Graviton2 instances for best price-performance in EC2 | Arthur Petitpierre | 25m |
AWS Graviton2-based EC2 instances claim up to 40% better price-performance versus comparable x86 sizes and about 20% lower cost per size, with SPEC results… | ||
| Reinventing hybrid: Extending AWS to where customers need it | Rohan Mathews | 29m |
AWS claims hybrid is now the same cloud everywhere: fully managed Outposts run as another AZ (42U racks or new Outposts Servers 1U/2U), extend your VPC, and… | ||
| Selecting and optimizing Amazon EC2 instances | Boyd McGeachie | 34m |
AWS recommends matching workload attributes to instance families and then automating selection and purchase for price and capacity. Key claims: over 400 EC2… | ||
| Amazon Connect and the future of cloud contact centers | Elaine Mah, Erin Hall | 29m |
Amazon Connect claims rapid real-world scale—5,000 new contact centers in under two months (about 81 per day), a 10‑day deploy for Rhode Island that handled… | ||
| Migrate to an AWS database: The freedom to save, grow, and innovate | Paul Mouradian | 25m |
AWS claims fully managed options (Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Keyspaces, RDS on Outposts/VMware) and says customers cut costs and increase performance by… | ||
| Introduction to AWS databases: Modernize your data infrastructure | Barry Morris, Mike Welch | 26m |
AWS presents a catalog of purpose-built managed databases and migration tooling with concrete outcomes: Aurora: MySQL 5x, Postgres 3x, Samsung cuts monthly DB… | ||
| Build modern applications with purpose-built AWS databases | Seayoung Rhee | 24m |
Modern apps break monoliths into microservices and pick specialized databases per need: relational for strong consistency, DynamoDB for massive key‑value… | ||
| Deep dive on cross-Region DR with Amazon Aurora global databases | Anuja Malik | 31m |
Amazon Aurora global databases replicate at the storage layer across up to six regions (primary + five secondaries) using physical replication and support up… | ||
| Managing infrastructure with Git: First principles of GitOps | Craig Lefkowitz | 29m |
Argues that Git must be the single source of truth and shows concrete tooling and workflows: use CloudFormation drift detection (demo changes DynamoDB read… | ||
| Continuous everything: Moving to DevOps on AWS | Robert Zhu | 28m |
Argues that continuous delivery raises velocity and quality together and shows concrete AWS wiring: use CodeCommit → CodeBuild → CodePipeline to produce S3… | ||
| Toward continuous resilience | Adrian Hornsby | 34m |
Practical steps for making systems recover faster: use ML code review (Amazon reports applying it to 30,000 apps in 2017–2018 and seeing 325% CPU efficiency… | ||
| AWS prescriptive transformation for enterprises | Steve Brodie, Ryan Seaman | 30m |
AWS lays out a prescriptive three‑phase transformation focused on business outcomes, not buzzwords, with concrete examples: 75 apps moved to AWS enabling quote… | ||
| Transformation and agility: Key enablers of competitive advantage | Miriam McLemore | 33m |
Argues that cloud adoption yields speed, cheaper experiments, and clearer data by enabling autonomous cross‑functional teams and a performance orientation… | ||
| Overcoming bureaucracy to succeed at digital transformation | Mark Schwartz | 29m |
Claims a real shift: release cycles drop from ~18 months to about three releases a day, and a heavy approval process of 87 documents and 11 gate reviews is… | ||
| CIOs and CFOs: Partners in digital transformation | Mark Schwartz | 34m |
Argues that cloud value is operational, not just TCO: machine learning for predictive maintenance reduces downtime and increases revenue, pay‑as‑you‑go lets… | ||
| Cloud-native desktop and application virtualization | Jeff Ferris | 30m |
Cloud virtual desktops and app streaming are positioned as fully managed, pay‑as‑you‑go alternatives that promise security, scale and cost control: Amazon… | ||
| How financial services companies derive greater value from data with AWS | Mojgan Ahmadi | 29m |
Claims that financial firms can centralize siloed data on an S3 data lake and run serverless, event driven pipelines that cut cost and accelerate analytics… | ||
| Build full-stack web and mobile apps with AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync | Stephen Johnson | 29m |
Live demo builds a React Native app from the Amplify Admin UI, creating three GraphQL models product order and lineItem, deploying an AppSync API plus DynamoDB… | ||
| Power real-time serverless applications with GraphQL and AWS AppSync | Brice Pellé | 34m |
AWS AppSync provides a GraphQL runtime that connects multiple data sources with single WebSocket with multiple subscriptions and supports CPU-less resolvers… | ||
| Best practices for advertising and marketing technology on AWS | Gerry Louw | 25m |
Cloud patterns and hard numbers: EKS with isolated Spark workers plus Lambda dispatches handle spiky ingestion and avoid queuing, yielding a reported 55%… | ||
| Innovate with AWS: Enabling industrial ops at Amazon fulfillment centers | Doug Bellin | 26m |
Amazon runs 300+ fulfillment centers (about 180 robotic-enabled) with ~200,000 robots, 150M Prime members and 500,000+ employees; a sortable FC handles ~1M… | ||
| Future-proofed microcontroller designs with FreeRTOS | Richard Barry | 29m |
FreeRTOS has an 18‑year history and targets tiny MCUs with an 10–15 KB footprint and only tens of bytes of RAM for the kernel, and the ecosystem supports 20+… | ||
| Customer centricity in manufacturing with operational improvements | Michel Putnik | 30m |
Cloud services and partner solutions are presented as the tools to digitize factories and supply chains: AWS IoT SiteWise for asset data at scale, Edge options… | ||
| Migrating 20K nodes and scaling to production on EKS & MSK in 8 months | Andrew Hartnett, Colin Bookman, Scott Webber | 29m |
New Relic migrates over 20,000 servers in eight months, refactors from self‑managed EC2 Kubernetes to Amazon EKS, and shifts Kafka to MSK with about 40 MSK… | ||
| How Genesys reinvents contact centers with serverless | Glenn Nethercutt, Jean Malha | 26m |
Genesys Cloud runs on AWS with a serverless‑first design: thousands of Lambdas, many thousands of DynamoDB tables, and 400 microservices across 12 regions… | ||
| Move to managed analytics | Damon Cortesi | 32m |
Shows how to replace self‑managed Kafka, Elasticsearch and Hadoop stacks with concrete AWS services and outcomes, not just promises. Migrating Kafka uses… | ||
| Building blockchain applications with Ethereum and Hyperledger | Carl Youngblood | 24m |
Amazon Managed Blockchain runs Hyperledger Fabric 1.4 and managed Ethereum Geth nodes with faster sync, auto-scaling storage and KMS-backed keys, and… | ||
| Accelerating innovation in the healthcare and life sciences industry | Wilson To, PhD | 26m |
AWS showcases concrete tools and outcomes: Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon Transcribe Medical, Amazon Textract, SageMaker, FHIR Works, Service Workbench… | ||
| How Asana serves millions of customers using Amazon EKS | Prabhat Sharma, Eldar Bogdanov | 23m |
Asana runs 80+ EKS clusters with about 15,000 pods total and largest clusters hosting ~3,500 and ~3,000 pods; each service gets one service per cluster… | ||
| SaaS head start: Using ready-made solutions to accelerate adoption | Tod Golding | 29m |
Three ready-made AWS reference solutions are presented: an EKS sample that implements namespace-per-tenant isolation using an NGINX ingress, Cognito, DynamoDB… | ||
| Partner Summit: Latin America Keynote | Jaime Vallés, José Antonio Morales, Marcia Weiser, Carolina Tartaro, Juan Pablo Segura | 52m |
In this keynote, local senior leadership members share AWS and AWS Partner results from 2020 as well as the 2021 AWS strategy, which includes the pivotal role… | ||
| Containers and AWS Lambda: Choosing optimal compute for modern apps | Peder Ulander | 35m |
Compares concrete tradeoffs: Lambda is event-driven with millisecond scaling, integrated with EventBridge/SNS and SQS for buffering, while containers use… | ||
| Building serverless applications with infrastructure as code | Eric Johnson | 30m |
Shows how to go from console to repeatable deployments using AWS SAM and CloudFormation: use sam init / sam build / sam deploy -g to scaffold, build artifacts… | ||
| Get up and running with containers and Amazon ECS | Adam Keller | 26m |
Demonstrates taking a local Flask Docker image through build, test, and automated deployment to Amazon ECS using the AWS Copilot CLI, which creates an ECS… | ||
| Application integration patterns for microservices | Julian Wood | 30m |
Explains concrete messaging choices for microservices using AWS: SQS queues (standard supporting nearly unlimited TPS, FIFO with lower throughput), SNS topics… | ||
| Engage your customers with live streaming built on AWS | Cheng Cheng, Matt Vegas | 16m |
Amazon IVS and AWS Elemental Link plus MediaLive give a ready live-video pipeline that claims 3–5 second latency, handles hundreds of thousands of broadcasts… | ||
| Disruption and reinvention of media and entertainment | Samira Bakhtiar, Eric Iverson | 34m |
AWS describes how studios and broadcasters migrate full workflows to cloud using specific tools: the Media2Cloud template for bulk archive ingestion and AI… | ||
| Preparing for downtime when all you want is uptime | Dave Cliffe, Oren Nachman | 31m |
AWS adds Incident Manager to Systems Manager to automate response plans tied to CloudWatch/EventBridge alarms, run actual or manual Systems Manager runbooks… | ||
| Cloud compliance and assurance | Andres Silva | 29m |
Cloud compliance focuses on automating what 80% of orgs still do manually and reducing the 60% who spend heavy time gathering audit evidence. It maps concrete… | ||
| What’s new with observability at AWS? | Greg Eppel | 35m |
Amazon now offers serverless Prometheus (AMP) with RemoteWrite and query endpoints so existing Prometheus clients can ingest metrics without cluster sizing and… | ||
| How Cimpress accelerates procurement in the cloud | Eric Webb, Jeremy Potash | 20m |
Cimpress Technology, owner of 20+ brands including Vistaprint, needed to enable distributed teams and manage partner commitments, so they turned to AWS to… | ||
| Manage your software licenses across AWS governance tools | Shu He, Kenneth Walsh | 23m |
Central administrator subscribes once in AWS Marketplace and uses Managed Entitlements in AWS License Manager to decouple subscriptions from usage rights then… | ||
| Migrating Windows workloads to AWS | Marcio Morales | 22m |
Three concrete migration patterns for Windows workloads with tool names and outcomes: extend on‑prem AD by promoting EC2 instances as domain controllers, or… | ||
| Choosing your SAP migration path | Steven Jones | 25m |
AWS claims 5,000+ SAP customers and says over 80% of SAP shops use cloud while two thirds haven’t started S/4HANA moves and 80% of large firms haven’t hit POC… | ||
| Architectural best practices for VMware Cloud on AWS | Aarthi Raju | 27m |
Covers concrete VMware Cloud on AWS patterns: SDDC with NSX Edge for VPN, ENI for VPC connectivity, and Direct Connect at 1/10/100 G with recommendation to… | ||
| Journey through the center of migrations | Kiran Kuppa | 29m |
Step-by-step migration blueprint that emphasizes concrete actions: run dependency mapping, do a TCO that factors BYOL (example: BYOL on dedicated EC2 cuts cost… | ||
| Networking foundations: Establish VPC connectivity | Tom Adamski | 29m |
Covers concrete VPC choices: pick IPv4/IPv6 blocks (/16 ≈ 65k addresses, /28 ≈ 16 addresses; IPv6 /56 one block), create AZ-scoped subnets, use ENIs, and… | ||
| Optimizing the end user experience & security with AWS edge networking | Tirth Vyas | 30m |
AWS edge services and exact numbers: 24 regions, 77 AZs, 225+ edge locations power Route 53, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, WAF, Shield and Firewall Manager… | ||
| Amazon VPC design and new VPC capabilities | Matt Lehwess | 29m |
Amazon VPC now supports 99+ PrivateLink services so many AWS and partner services appear as elastic network interfaces inside a VPC, Gateway Load Balancer uses… | ||
| AWS and open source: The cloud and open source are better together | Rikki Endsley | 23m |
Outlines concrete AWS open-source work and outcomes, not just rhetoric: Firecracker underpins Lambda and Fargate and is production-proven; AWS runs more than… | ||
| Getting started with identity on AWS | Mark Szalkiewicz | 23m |
Recommendation: adopt AWS SSO as the single entry point, link an external IdP or the native directory, and assign role-oriented permission sets across… | ||
| Web application protection on AWS | Justin Kurpius | 29m |
AWS describes a concrete stack: Shield Advanced includes AWS WAF and Firewall Manager and adds 24/7 Shield Response Team support, L3/L4 adaptive detection, L7… | ||
| Continuously assess controls for risk and compliance | Kajal Deepak, Sireesh Pachava | 32m |
AWS Audit Manager, launched December 2020, continuously collects and organizes evidence from CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub and API calls, stores reports in… | ||
| Best practices for data discovery with the new Amazon Macie | Ryan Holland | 22m |
Amazon Macie now centralizes S3 inventory and sensitive-data scanning using Delegated Administrator and auto-enable across Organizations, with jobs up to 500… | ||
| Advanced threat detection and response on AWS | Himanshu Verma | 32m |
AWS shows a concrete pipeline that enables automated threat detection and response across accounts using Amazon GuardDuty (auto-ingests VPC flow logs, DNS… | ||
| Patterns for scalable security detections on AWS | Andrew J Krug, Justin Massey | 28m |
Shows how Datadog ingests AWS logs (CloudTrail plus app logs), remaps fields into a standard schema (example: network.client.ip), enriches with GeoIP and… | ||
| Monitoring serverless applications | Rachel White | 23m |
Builds a Node.js generative-art Twitter bot that fetches palettes from the ColorLovers API, renders PNGs with canvas, saves originals to S3 and posts every 12… | ||
| An EdTech’s journey to transforming its security practices | Diego Magalhães, Alex Dougherty | 23m |
D2L runs Brightspace across 63 AWS services in five regions and centralizes alerts with AWS Security Hub, AWS Config and GuardDuty, then codifies runbooks and… | ||
| FINRA's knowledge graphs improve regulatory investigations | Blayze Stefaniak | 32m |
FINRA builds a nightly pipeline that turns thousands of paper and digital records into graph triples using Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend and S3… | ||
| Building the cloud workforce of tomorrow with AWS | Nick Lee-Romagnolo, Antonio Delgado | 22m |
Miami Dade College builds an AWS-backed pipeline: the college enrolls 100,000 students annually (91% minority), trains faculty into eight AWS Certified… | ||
| Advancing the future of space in the cloud | Shayn Hawthorne, Dr. Walter Scott | 28m |
Maxar runs a 100 petabyte imagery library in S3/Glacier, ingests data via AWS Ground Station into processing pipelines (DeepCore) that train and score AI… | ||
| Agile governance on AWS GovCloud (US) | Kaushik Mohanty, Diane Kozobolis | 32m |
Claim: AWS Service Catalog plus CloudFormation lets a GovCloud environment be governed and self‑serviced at scale. Lockheed Martin builds a hub-and-spoke… | ||
| Integrate architectural best practices into enterprise IT governance | Bryan Stokes | 25m |
AWS exposes Well-Architected Tool APIs that mirror console actions and enable automation across hundreds or thousands of workloads, letting teams create… | ||
| VMware Cloud on AWS: Fast yet cost-effective migration to AWS Cloud | Andrew Nielsen | 20m |
Claims a 46% faster migration path to AWS and cites TCO studies showing 59% recurring savings for 3,000 VMs and up to 57% savings by avoiding refactoring… | ||
| Reimagining digital services to improve customer experience | Casey Burns, Abby McQuade | 30m |
Rhode Island replaces a COBOL-era UI system and handles over 900,007 claims (avg ~17,000/week) after a Spike Model predicts a 240k–250k job loss, building a… | ||
| Operations support systems and business support systems on AWS | Antonello Arpino | 29m |
Cloud-first OSS/BSS deployments claim concrete results: more than 25 industry partners contribute ~95% of telco OSS/BSS workloads, AWS reports >100 live… | ||
| What’s new with Amazon S3 | Sean White | 32m |
Amazon S3 announces concrete 2020–2021 additions: S3 Intelligent‑Tiering gains two archive access tiers that can cut storage costs up to 95%, S3 Object Lambda… | ||
| Accelerating innovation with Amazon EBS | Ashish Palekar | 30m |
GP3 cuts storage price 20% to $0.08/GB-month while giving a consistent 3,000 IOPS baseline and up to 1,000 MB/s decoupled from capacity; IO2 Block Express… | ||
| Future-proof your file-based workloads with FSx for Windows File Server | Darryl Osborne | 29m |
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server claims fully managed SMB storage built on Windows Server with multi‑AZ synchronous replication, HDD tier at 1.3 cents per GB… | ||
| Modernize your applications with serverless, containers, and Amazon EFS | Will Ochandarena | 27m |
Shows how Amazon EFS attaches to AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and Fargate to give unlimited mountable storage, with EFS access points enforcing POSIX… | ||
| Benchmark your cloud maturity: A best practices framework | George Hamilton | 29m |
CloudHealth by VMware presents a four‑phase cloud maturity framework (visibility, optimization, governance/automation, business integration) and a CCoE pattern… | ||
| End-to-end visibility in the cloud w/OpenTelemetry | Morgan McLean | 27m |
OpenTelemetry captures traces (trace spec is GA), metrics (prototype), and experimental logs, via language SDKs (Java, Go, Python, JavaScript), an intermediary… | ||
| Analytics-based investigation & automated response | Wissam All-Ahmad | 24m |
Shows end-to-end integration of AWS security sources into Splunk: GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs and Security Hub flow via EventBridge or Kinesis… | ||
| Realize price-performance advantage for AI | Akanksha Balani | 31m |
AWS EC2 adds instances with up to eight Gaudi accelerators claiming 40% better price-performance than current GPU instances for training, accessible via… | ||
| ML and analytics addressing nationwide COVID-19 impact and recovery | Nivrutti Rai, Srikanth Velamakanni | 34m |
A cloud platform deployed on AWS in five days aggregates hundreds of thousands of anonymized state and public records, runs ML transmission models and mobility… | ||
| AIOps-driven cloud automation with Dynatrace observability platform | Safia Gourani | 33m |
Dynatrace claims a single-platform observability stack that auto-discovers 500+ techs with a OneAgent install (no code changes), captures metrics/traces/logs… | ||
| New normal or not normal? Observability that will change the way you work | Dave Anderson | 28m |
Claims that Dynatrace deploys as a single-agent deployment and auto-discovers topology with the Davis AI engine, automatically baselines behavior and surfaces… | ||
| Building robots to make hospitals smarter and safer | Pulkit Kapur | 29m |
AWS describes AWS RoboMaker as a managed ROS/Gazebo platform with an open-source hospital world and CI-friendly tooling that lets teams run hundreds of… | ||
| Turn Data Into Insights | Roy Hasson | 28m |
AWS outlines a practical lake house built on Amazon S3 with Lake Formation for governance, AWS Glue (Studio, DataBrew) for ETL, Kinesis/MSK for streaming, and… | ||
| Modernize Your Data Warehouse | Gal Barnea | 27m |
Cloud migrations use concrete tools and measurable wins: AWS shows customers moving 10 PB with NTT DOCOMO and getting 10x queries faster, Intuit scaling 7x… | ||
| Build for Scale, Performance With Feature-packed Amazon DynamoDB | Robert McCauley | 30m |
Amazon DynamoDB claims enterprise scale with examples: production peaks above 10 million requests per second and tables over a trillion records; partitions are… | ||
| Data-driven Transformation With AWS IoT | Mark Relph | 29m |
AWS claims AWS IoT connects half a billion active endpoints and transmits half a trillion payload messages per month while nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 use… | ||
| Migrate and Modernize to Achieve Your Business Outcomes | Faraz Shafiq | 29m |
AWS packages a six‑dimension Migration and Modernization Acceleration Program with a three‑step assess, mobilize, migrate flow, Migration Hub and partner… | ||
| AWS Well-Architected Framework lenses: An introduction & a look ahead | Mandus Momberg | 18m |
Explains that the AWS Well‑Architected offering combines pillar-based content, interactive labs, and a free Well-Architected Tool in the Console that surfaces… | ||
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