Announcing New Services and Features Launched at AWS re:Invent 2016

Throughout January, we’ll cover the new services and features that were launched at re:Invent 2016. These sessions will help you quickly learn about our new capabilities and how you can apply them to your applications. These tech talks will be led by AWS solutions architects and engineers and feature live demonstrations and Q&A with AWS experts.

The sessions below are categorized. You can click on the "learn more" drop down arrow to view the detailed description of each session.

Compute

Deep Dive on New Compute Instances: Featuring New Instances

Presenter:

Adam Boeglin, Solutions Architect, AWS

Time: January 19, 2017 l 9:00 - 10:00 AM Pacific Time

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Amazon EC2 provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. In this session, we provide an overview of the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We will also provide an overview of the newest instances announced at re:Invent, including the latest generation of Memory and Compute Optimized Instances R4 and C5 instances, new Storage Optimized High I/O I3 instances, and new larger T2 instances. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances.

Learning Objectives:

  • Get an overview of the EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations
  • Learn about the latest generation of Amazon EC2 Instances
  • Learn best practices around instance selection to optimize performance  

Who Should Attend:  

  • Developers, Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Technical Decision Makers

Desktop & App Streaming

Announcing Amazon AppStream 2.0: Stream Desktop Applications from AWS without Rewriting Them

Presenter:

Deepak Suryanarayanan, Principal Product Mgr, AWS

Time: January 20, 2017 l 10:30 - 11:30 AM Pacific Time

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Amazon AppStream 2.0 allows you to stream desktop applications securely from the AWS cloud directly to users on the device of their choice, and eliminates the need to rewrite them for the cloud.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about the benefits, capabilities, and features of Amazon AppStream 2.0
  • Learn how you can use Amazon AppStream 2.0 in your organization
  • Learn how to get started using Amazon AppStream 2.0

Who Should Attend:

  • Technical Decision Makers, IT Developers, Software Developers, Engineers

Developer Tools

Announcing AWS CodeBuild: Accelerating Software Delivery with AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeDeploy

Presenter:

Chris Munns, BDM, DevOps, AWS

Time: January 20, 2017 l 12:00 - 1:00 PM Pacific Time

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Today’s cutting edge companies have software release cycles measured in days instead of months. This agility is enabled by the DevOps practice of continuous integration and delivery, which automates building, testing, and deploying all code changes. This automation helps you catch bugs sooner and accelerates developer productivity. In this session, we’ll share the processes followed by Amazon engineers and discuss how you can bring them to your company by using a set of application lifecycle management tools from AWS: the newly announced AWS CodeBuild service, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeDeploy.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the concepts of DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
  • Learn about Amazon’s DevOps practices
  • Hear an overview of how to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery workflow using the combination of CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy

Who Should Attend:

  • Developers, Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Technical Decision Makers

IoT

Announcing AWS Greengrass: Use AWS Lambda and AWS IoT on Your Devices

Presenter:

Jon Turow, Principal Product Mgmt, AWS

Time: January 19, 2017 l 10:30 - 11:30 AM Pacific Time

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AWS Greengrass is a new software platform for running local compute, data caching and messaging on connected devices. You can process device data locally, even if a device is temporarily disconnected.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about the capabilities, features and benefits of AWS Greengrass
  • Learn about the different use cases
  • Learn how to get started using AWS Greengrass

Who Should Attend:

  • Developers, Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Technical Decision Makers

Mobile

Announcing Amazon Pinpoint: Targeted Push Notifications for Mobile Apps

Presenter:

Georgie Mathews, Sr. Product Manager, AWS

Time: January 20, 2017 l 9:00 - 10:00 AM Pacific Time

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Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted push notification campaigns to improve user engagement in mobile apps. You can use Pinpoint to define your target segments, run your campaign, and measure results.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about the capabilities, features and benefits of Amazon Pinpoint
  • Learn about the different use cases
  • Learn how to get started using Amazon Pinpoint

Who Should Attend:

  • Developers, Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Technical Decision Makers

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