AWS Summit Online – Americas 2021
2021-08-24..2021-08-26
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as the organisers put it
The AWS Summit Online - Americas brings the cloud community together from across the Americas to hear keynotes from industry leaders, dive deep into educational sessions, engage in workshops, and chat with AWS experts. Whether you are just getting started on the cloud or are an advanced cloud user, come and learn something new at the AWS Summit Online - Americas.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to advertising and marketing technology on AWS | Gerry Louw | 21m |
AWS examples show concrete wins: Salesforce uses DynamoDB, Auto Scaling and Spot to cut costs by 62%, Merkle builds a privacy clean room with Redshift data… | ||
| Best practices for advertising and marketing technology on AWS | Gerry Louw | 25m |
Advice: run real experiments not slides. Swap MapReduce text to ORC and cut EC2 by 69%, isolate Spark in containers on EKS and use Lambda for dispatch with… | ||
| Solve common business problems with AI and ML | Suchitra Sathyanarayana | 29m |
Learn how you can use AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services to address specific business outcomes. In this session, learn how to… | ||
| Transform your bug bash into an AWS BugBust | Adnan Bilwani | 17m |
AWS launches AWS BugBust, a hosted workflow that imports CodeGuru findings from Java/Python repos or Profiler profiling groups, assigns point values (e.g… | ||
| Use AutoML to create high-quality models with just a few clicks | Kate Zimmerman | 31m |
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically explores feature engineering, trains hundreds of models with hyperparameter tuning, and outputs runnable EDA notebook… | ||
| Get rolling with ML on AWS DeepRacer | Naomi Teng | 29m |
AWS DeepRacer is a 1/18th scale autonomous car that trains via a 3D simulator using AWS SageMaker for training, RoboMaker for the environment and… | ||
| Bring the power of machine learning to your developer operations | Nikunj Vaidya, Edwin Nikoi | 35m |
Shows how Amazon DevOps Guru and Amazon CodeGuru run inside AWS to cut time to root cause and shift quality left: DevOps Guru ingests CloudWatch metrics… | ||
| Build, train, and deploy ML models using Amazon SageMaker | Shelbee Eigenbrode | 31m |
Amazon SageMaker helps data scientists and developers prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality machine learning (ML) models quickly by bringing together… | ||
| Automate data extraction & analysis with intelligent document processing | Ashish Khare, Saumin Patel | 32m |
Broadridge automates extraction from SEC filings by building serverless, event-driven pipelines that process HTML filings at scale, turning millions of pages… | ||
| Accelerating COVID-19 insights for clinical use with intelligent search | Udi Hershkovich, James Kinross | 26m |
PanSurg builds REDASA, a living systematic-review pipeline that crawls targeted sources with MirrorWeb into S3, labels in SageMaker, and indexes with Amazon… | ||
| Shift your ML model into overdrive with AWS DeepRacer analysis tools | Don Barber | 28m |
Explains concrete ways to shave seconds off DeepRacer laps: reward on progress over steps (steps ≈ 15 Hz, episodes = laps), use waypoint-conditioned logic to… | ||
| Implement MLOps practices with Amazon SageMaker | Mark Roy | 34m |
Shows how SageMaker Pipelines automates end-to-end ML CI/CD with project templates, cross-account artifact access, and a visual pipeline UI; builds a demo… | ||
| Reference architectures for Amazon Redshift data warehouses | Asser Moustafa | 22m |
Shows how Amazon Redshift queries S3 data in place with Redshift Spectrum to keep warm data local and cold data in a lake house, uses Federated Query to run… | ||
| Analytics at scale: Migrating Intuit to AWS with cloud-native tools | Denise McInerney, Neal Cauley | 33m |
Intuit moves hundreds of sources from on‑prem to S3, lifts its MPP to EC2, then modernizes by shifting ETL left onto Amazon EMR and AWS Glue, and exposes the… | ||
| Operational analytics with AWS | Muthu Pitchaimani | 28m |
Amazon OpenSearch Service claims to ingest and index high‑velocity, disparate machine data for interactive search and aggregations, supports 3 petabytes per… | ||
| Delivering seamless, embedded analytics for your data applications | Kareem Syed-Mohammed | 30m |
As businesses are becoming more data driven, data analytics and business intelligence are becoming pervasive. By moving information closer to the primary user… | ||
| Delivering business intelligence at hyperscale | Neal Cauley | 33m |
Claims that Amazon QuickSight scales serverless from tens to hundreds of thousands of users with no capacity planning, pay‑per‑session pricing (examples: $1.20… | ||
| What’s new in Amazon Managed Blockchain | Emile Baizel | 27m |
Managed Blockchain runs fully managed Geth nodes for Ethereum (new nodes <1 hour, auto-patching, faster sync, auto-scaled storage) and managed Hyperledger… | ||
| Amazon Connect and the future of cloud contact centers | Kaustubh Khanke | 20m |
Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use, cloud-based contact center that makes it easy for businesses to deliver better customer service at lower cost. Amazon Connect… | ||
| Real-time ML analytics with Contact Lens for Amazon Connect | Kaustubh Khanke | 20m |
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect applies real‑time ML to live calls, tagging conversations with semantic matching, exact and pattern matching rules and… | ||
| Embedding customer communications into applications | Joe Trelli | 18m |
Embeds real‑time audio, video, SMS, email and push by wiring Amazon Chime SDK and Amazon Pinpoint into existing apps, using CreateMeeting/join tokens, Voice… | ||
| What's new in Amazon EC2 | Tiffany Wissner | 28m |
AWS lists concrete new offerings and performance claims: 400 EC2 instances across varied CPUs and accelerators, networking to 400 Gbps, instances with up to 24… | ||
| Reinventing hybrid services: In-depth customer profiles | Rohan Mathews | 32m |
Enterprises are adopting AWS Cloud solutions at a rapid pace to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. In this session, learn about customers who… | ||
| The convergence of machine learning and high performance computing | Angel Pizarro | 27m |
Cloud HPC on AWS claims bare-metal performance via the Nitro system and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) with a new Scalable Reliable Datagrams protocol… | ||
| Accelerate your ML innovation with AWS ML infrastructure services | Chetan Kapoor | 35m |
AWS reports that P4d A100 instances cut training cost ~60% vs prior GPUs and deliver ~3x throughput; a T5 run on 2,000 A100s drops from ~12+ days to under 6… | ||
| Using the cloud operations model to improve operational efficiency | Pratul O. Chakre, Will Bengtson | 19m |
AWS lays out a concrete operations model that ties outcomes to tools and numbers: use AWS Organizations plus AWS Config and CloudTrail for central policy… | ||
| Observability with AWS | Rich McDonough | 24m |
AWS shows how a production observability stack built on CloudWatch metrics, CloudWatch Logs and X‑Ray traces reduces Mean Time to Identification by letting… | ||
| How to implement compliance at scale with the Three Lines of Defense model | Andres Silva, Craig Edwards | 30m |
Provides a concrete implementation: a GitHub “cloud compliance and assurance jumpstart” repo with CloudFormation templates and CloudFormation StackSets that… | ||
| Migrate to an AWS database: The freedom to save, grow, and innovate | Vlad Vlasceanu | 32m |
Frustrated with high costs, poor scalability, and other performance issues, many companies are looking to save, grow, and innovate by moving self-managed… | ||
| Build for scale with Amazon DynamoDB developer features | Sean Shriver | 33m |
Highlights practical, actionable details: DynamoDB hits 89M RPS on Prime Day and supports adaptive capacity so hot keys don’t throttle other tenants; global… | ||
| Maximize database price performance with Aurora and Graviton2 instances | Nitesh Mehta | 19m |
Amazon Aurora separates compute and storage (auto-scaling to 128 TB, 4-of-6 quorum across AZs) and runs on AWS Graviton2 Arm cores that claim 20% performance… | ||
| Purpose-built for performance: Amazon MemoryDB for Redis | Barry Morris | 29m |
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a fully managed, Redis-compatible in-memory database that claims microsecond reads and single-digit millisecond writes while… | ||
| Distributed DevOps | Emily Freeman | 31m |
The DevOps industry has fundamentally changed over the last decade. Monolithic architectures have evolved into microservices. Applications are distributed on… | ||
| Using the cloud to reach your digital potential | Miriam McLemore | 27m |
Argues that cloud shortens delivery and feedback cycles to grow revenue, control costs and manage risk, and lists concrete organizational practices that enable… | ||
| Data-driven best practices to help you maximize cloud value | Calvin Wu | 22m |
Quantitative research combines 30 in‑depth interviews and a global survey of 700 respondents to test 45 recommended behaviors; adoption maturity across 45 best… | ||
| Architecting for workforce agility with AWS End User Computing (EUC) | Jeff Ferris | 30m |
AWS shows concrete outcomes: Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 power remote desktops and nonpersistent apps with a 99.9% SLA, cross-region redirection… | ||
| Transforming culture: Enable a competitive advantage | Miriam McLemore | 28m |
CIO practice shifts from projects to a product over project mindset, organizing work into small autonomous cross-functional teams that use KPIs and data to… | ||
| Getting traction on your digital transformation | Mark Schwartz | 27m |
Claims that organizations can show measurable progress in two weeks or fewer by adopting cloud and DevOps, starting with a minimal security posture at least as… | ||
| Amazon’s approach to sustainability | Neil Harris, Sarah Sleyman | 34m |
Amazon commits to net zero by 2040 and reports 10 gigawatts of renewable capacity across 232 projects, claims the world’s largest corporate renewables… | ||
| Monolith to microservices transformation at Broadridge Advisor Solutions | Deepak Elias, Leon Shklar, Kenneth Jackson | 29m |
Broadridge breaks a monolithic .NET stack into a microservice platform using AWS services—Cognito for app auth, API Gateway, S3 + CloudFront + Lambda@Edge for… | ||
| Build secure, location-based applications on AWS | Fernando Rocha | 26m |
Organizations are building location-based applications across myriad use cases, from geomarketing to asset tracking and delivery. For example, a fire… | ||
| Promote diversity and inclusion through nontraditional tech career paths | Esther F Mendez, Julie Elberfeld, Christine Stoffel-Moffett | 29m |
Companies face 400,000 open tech jobs while universities graduate about 75,000 CS majors a year, so panelists argue firms must stop requiring four‑year CS… | ||
| Unite your data to personalize customer interactions with AI/ML | Ross McWalter | 29m |
Today, companies are challenged with anticipating customers’ needs and proactively engaging with them in more meaningful ways that personalize every… | ||
| Innovate with AWS: Enabling industrial ops at Amazon fulfillment centers | Doug Bellin | 26m |
Amazon runs over 300 fulfillment centers with 180 robotic-enabled sites and 200,000+ robots moving pods across 65% of ~1M ft² facilities to process about a… | ||
| Utilizing IoT data to deliver better customer experiences | Adrian Valenzuela | 23m |
AWS IoT and partners power real examples: 120,000 grills migrated in six months with a 90% cost reduction for Traeger, Vizio manages millions of TVs with… | ||
| AWS powers edge-to-cloud solutions | Bill Vass | 30m |
Overview of what AWS actually builds and how it’s used: device OS and runtimes like FreeRTOS and Greengrass for on-device ML and over‑the‑air updates… | ||
| A sneak peek into the future with quantum computing | Michael Brett | 26m |
Prediction that 2021 sees quantum computing blossom leads to a live demo of Amazon Braket with hardware access to Rigetti IonQ and D‑Wave, plus simulators: SV1… | ||
| Use AWS Application Cost Profiler to capture SaaS cost-per-tenant metrics | Tod Golding | 32m |
Capturing and analyzing tenant costs is essential to SaaS organizations, but teams often struggle to find an approach and model that allows them to… | ||
| Scaling ML to the next level: Hosting thousands of models on SageMaker | Syed Jaffry, Chaitanya Hazarey, Chris Hausler | 27m |
Explains how Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints host thousands of models from S3 on a single endpoint, lazy-loading models on first invoke and evicting by… | ||
| Building serverless applications with infrastructure as code | Talia Nassi | 24m |
Shows how to stop click‑building in the console and instead use AWS SAM templates plus CloudFormation to version, parameterize and deploy serverless stacks… | ||
| Containers and AWS Lambda: Choose the optimal compute for applications | Scott Sanchez | 33m |
AWS compares Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, App Runner and Proton with concrete claims and examples: Lambda has over 200 event sources and bills by the… | ||
| Getting started with containers on AWS | Adam Keller | 27m |
Compares three AWS container paths: Amazon ECS for a simple managed orchestrator with AWS Fargate serverless compute or EC2 hosts, Amazon EKS for upstream… | ||
| Disruption and reinvention of media and entertainment | Eric Iverson | 26m |
Overview of concrete moves and tools for media transformation starts with AWS building purpose‑built services like Amazon Nimble Studio that stitches 50 AWS… | ||
| Accelerate your cloud migration with third-party solutions | Mona Chadha | 24m |
AWS Marketplace packages buy-to-deploy paths for third-party software and data with 10,000 transactable listings, 1,600 ISVs and 200+ data providers, billing… | ||
| Best practices to jump-start your migration to AWS | Jonathan Shapiro-Ward, Erico Penna | 31m |
Migration Evaluator collects inventory and performance data (flat file, agentless collector, or partner/ADS agents), produces Quick Insights in 24 hours and… | ||
| Migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS | Jerroll Harewood, Siavash Irani | 27m |
Overview of concrete migration choices: run Active Directory on EC2 or use AWS Managed Microsoft AD with cross‑region replication; run SQL Server on EC2 or… | ||
| Dive into technical decisions from successful migrations | Kiran Kuppa | 32m |
Walks through concrete choices: pick discovery tools that map server‑to‑server, DB versions, licenses and container dependencies or incur manual work; one… | ||
| Connect your network to AWS with hybrid connectivity solutions | Sidhartha(Sid) Chauhan | 31m |
AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated fiber with up to 100 Gbps per connection and private/transit/public VIFs (private: up to 10 VPCs; transit: up to 3 TGWs… | ||
| Get started with AWS networking: Set up, secure, & monitor global networks | James Wenzel | 32m |
Covers concrete AWS networking steps: choose IP blocks, create VPCs and subnets, use security groups (stateful) vs NACLs (stateless), give public subnets… | ||
| Migrating content distribution to Amazon CloudFront: Best practices | Ted Middleton, Jibril Touzi | 31m |
Migrates CDN workloads to Amazon CloudFront using CloudFront Functions for viewer-request logic and Lambda@Edge for origin-response processing, showing a… | ||
| The top five things to know about OpenSearch | Kyle J Davis | 28m |
OpenSearch is a fork of Elasticsearch 7.10.2 and Kibana 7.10.2 released under Apache 2.0 licensing, packaged with OpenSearch Dashboards, k-NN, built-in… | ||
| MAP 2.0: How AWS SI and ISV Partners can use the updated MAP program | Ivan Coimbra | 30m |
MAP 2.0 restructures migration into three phases and 14 workstreams and ties hands‑on assets to outcomes: APN Navigate reports 5,440 individuals trained and… | ||
| Accelerate migrations with the ISV Workload Migration Program | Hitesh Kumeria | 17m |
AWS’s ISV Workload Migration Program builds a prescriptive migration methodology and Quick Start and automation to move on‑prem customers to cloud or SaaS… | ||
| How to sell in AWS Marketplace | Matthew Girdharry | 43m |
AWS Marketplace claims concrete results: listing reaches 1,600 ISVs and ~300,000 active customers monthly, and deals close up to 50% faster. It provides APIs… | ||
| How to deliver effective customer workshops and webinars virtually | Sandra L.W. Woods | 24m |
Practical checklist for a virtual workshop: target a single persona, state a clear learning objective (example: Amazon Transcribe — learn to transcribe mp3)… | ||
| Build smart robots and operate them easily with AWS Robotics | Vaibhav Phadnis | 28m |
Shows concrete stacks and outcomes: uses AWS IoT Greengrass with a Stream Manager component to ingest sensor data into Kinesis and S3, deploys… | ||
| Getting started with AWS Identity Services | Mark Szalkiewicz | 25m |
Explains the concrete AWS identity model: “who can access what” implemented with IAM policies (identity and resource-based), deny-by-default evaluation, and… | ||
| Network and application protection on AWS | Justin Kurpius | 33m |
Overview of concrete defenses and outcomes: AWS Firewall Manager centrally enforces WAF and Shield Advanced policies across CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway and… | ||
| Layering AWS security services to automate incident response | Himanshu Verma | 34m |
Layered AWS services ingest telemetry automatically at the account level—GuardDuty one‑click enables VPC/DNS/CloudTrail data, generates findings stored 30… | ||
| Patterns for scalable security detections on AWS | Andrew J Krug, Justin Massey | 28m |
Argues that tiny, deliberate changes to log fields plus a lightweight normalization layer let you detect high‑value threats across AWS and app logs. Shows… | ||
| Automate security for FedRAMP compliance in the cloud | David Huie, Phil Shea | 22m |
FedRAMP compliance for a software as a service (SaaS) vendor can be challenging at scale. One way to increase your security effort is to use cloud-native… | ||
| New normal or not normal? Observability that will change the way you work | Sohan Maheshwar, Dave Anderson | 30m |
Claims that automated AI observability (Dynatrace Davis) analyzes massive telemetry — the demo cites 27,586,796,160 dependencies — and finds precise root… | ||
| AIOps-driven cloud automation with Dynatrace observability platform | Safia Gourani | 33m |
Dynatrace claims a single-platform observability stack that automatically collects metrics, traces and logs, supports over 500 technology stacks and scales… | ||
| Optimize workload performance with Intel-based Amazon EC2 instances | Rebecca Weekly, JD Koos | 25m |
Many enterprises depend on AWS to keep their businesses running. In this session, Intel and AWS present an overview of the latest Intel-based Amazon EC2… | ||
| Realize price-performance advantage for AI | Akanksha Balani | 31m |
Amazon EC2 instances arrive with up to eight Gaudi accelerators and claim 40% lower cost-to-train versus current GPU instances, targeting training for… | ||
| Analytics-based investigation & automated response | Wissam Ali-Ahmad | 24m |
Shows concrete integrations: GuardDuty, VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail and Security Hub feed via EventBridge or Kinesis Firehose into Splunk Enterprise Security… | ||
| Murphy’s Laws for observability | Dave McAllister | 30m |
Claims that observability fails when you under-sample and lose rare but critical events, showing sampled traces can appear 1–2s while full capture reveals… | ||
| How to “do FinOps” with CloudHealth by VMware | Amber Gregorio | 27m |
CloudHealth claims management of over $13 billion in multi‑cloud spend and more than 10,000 customers, and shows concrete FinOps steps: find and terminate… | ||
| VMware Cloud on AWS: Fast yet cost-effective migration to AWS Cloud | Andrew Nielsen | 20m |
Claims a fast path to AWS using VMware Cloud on AWS with measurable outcomes: migrate 46% faster than other public clouds, 700+ VMs in under three months… | ||
| Modernizing your workloads with serverless, containers, and Amazon EFS | Abrar Hussain | 31m |
Describes moving CMS, CI/CD, and ML workloads onto Amazon EFS with containers and Lambda, showing a WordPress-on-AWS Fargate reference and customer cases… | ||
| Managing Amazon EBS snapshots & AMIs with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager | Ashish Palekar | 20m |
Automates EBS snapshot and AMI lifecycle using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies that target volumes or instances by tags, schedules creation and… | ||
| What’s new with Amazon S3 | Souvik Bhattacharya | 17m |
Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. With Amazon S3, organizations of… | ||
| Create a cloud-ready environment | Belinda Quick | 32m |
States measurable outcomes: customers see a typical 19% IT spend reduction after moving to AWS and up to 42% reduction in spend per user as they scale… | ||
| Plan for a resilient tomorrow | Grace Kitzmiller, Lic. Alejandro Muguerza Limón, Mary Rochelleau | 21m |
Relief organizations describe concrete results: Mexican Red Cross connects 48,000 volunteers across 32 states with cloud-hosted training, real-time updates and… | ||
| Reimagining digital services to improve customer experience | Casey Burns, Abby McQuade | 30m |
Rhode Island moves a COBOL-era unemployment system into the cloud after 900,007 claims in a year (about 17,000/week) and a Spike Model projecting 240–250k job… | ||
| Enable processing capacity and scale up with AWS Lambda | Ryan Peterson, Jason Ergle | 28m |
PowerSchool migrates a paper-scan benchmark pipeline from datacenter servers and NAS to S3, Aurora, AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions, replacing 300+ scan… | ||
| Applying AI to skin lesions diagnosis in telemedicine | Andre Santos, Melissa Ravanini | 28m |
Join this session to learn how Albert Einstein Hospital partnered with the government of Sao Paulo to bring innovation to the Brazilian population. They… | ||
| FINRA's knowledge graphs improve regulatory investigations | Blayze Stefaniak | 32m |
FINRA builds a nightly-updated investigative knowledge graph that turns stacks of documents into quads by extracting text with Amazon Textract, detecting… | ||
| Building a plane in flight to immunize a province during a pandemic | Erin O’Halloran, Shannon Malovec, Corrie Barclay | 36m |
British Columbia builds a provincial vaccine system in nine weeks on Deloitte Health Connect and Salesforce, uses AWS (including Amazon Pinpoint SMS) and… | ||
| Amtrak's cloud adoption is riding the high-speed rail | Shrikant Ektare, Brett McMillen | 28m |
Cloud migration starts with a 2013 SAP nonprod pilot and grows into 150 applications moved off-premise, a data center sunset in 2019–2020, and mission‑critical… | ||
| Designing an AWS Well Architected Framework for AI/ML | Eric Greene | 25m |
Shows how to build a production ML pipeline on AWS using SageMaker notebooks, S3, Athena and Glue for discovery, CodeCommit/CodeBuild/CodePipeline for… | ||
| State and local governments innovate using the cloud | Morgan Reed, Mike Hussey, Tanya Hannah | 25m |
State and local governments describe concrete wins: Utah runs sentiment analysis with AWS Comprehend to surface service issues, moves a tax system to the cloud… | ||
| Powered by purpose: Imagine Grant winners | Lauren Stovall, Kristina Kaufmann, Catherine Stihler, Hope Wohl | 40m |
Three nonprofits describe concrete results not slogans: Breastcancer.org uses AWS Personalize to recommend treatment and fertility content and plans to ingest… | ||
| Using AWS GovCloud (US) to perform public policy research at speed | Scott Glasser, Marcelo Sant'Anna | 29m |
MDRC migrates a staged workload from colocation to AWS GovCloud, using CloudFormation plus ECR/ECS and vetted offerings from the GovCloud Marketplace to… | ||
| Accelerate space traffic management in the cloud | Shayn Hawthorne, Dan Ceperley | 32m |
LeoLabs runs a space-traffic platform on AWS HPC and serverless services that processes half a million radar measurements per day, updates 13,000 orbit… | ||
| One EdTech’s journey to transforming its security practices | Diego Magalhães, Alex Dougherty | 24m |
D2L moves from hundreds of unmonitored AWS accounts across five regions and 63 services to a centralized regime using Security Hub, AWS Config and GuardDuty… | ||
| Build cloud skills for the digital economy | Maria Luisa Hayem, Hilary Foster | 18m |
Cloud Skills for El Salvador partners with AWS tools to train talent at scale, using AWS Educate and AWS Academy curricula, labs and a job board, plus a 50%… | ||
| Build trustworthy ML detection and monitor bias | Aaron Sengstacken | 33m |
Shows how Amazon SageMaker Clarify runs a Clarify processing job (no extra cost) to detect pre/post/deployed bias on a census UCI income classifier (predicts… | ||
| Use lessons learned from the field to build for security | Brad Dispensa | 25m |
Common field mistakes and concrete fixes: enable GuardDuty everywhere and wire each finding to a CloudWatch event rule that triggers a Lambda or SNS (there are… | ||
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