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The AWS Summit brings together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate and learn about AWS. In this action-packed event, you can choose from numerous breakout sessions covering a broad range of topics and technical depth. Attend introductory sessions on new and existing AWS solutions or participate in sessions that go deep into architecture and code. All sessions will be delivered by subject matter experts from AWS or expert customers who can share their real world experiences and lessons learned.

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Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that targeted the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held the positions of Research Engineer, VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. 


Session: Keynote

Catherine Lewis
Executive VP - Technology

Session: Keynote

Ryan Birkin
Director

Session: Keynote

Johan Bosini
Managing Director

Session: Keynote


Timothy Stranex
CTO

Session: Getting started with AWS - Security and Networking best practices

Cobus Bernard
DevOps

Session: DevOps on AWS


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8:00 - 9:00 Registration  
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome to AWS Summit Cape Town
Attila Narin, Director of Solutions Architecture & Business Development AWS EMEA
 
9:15 - 10:45 Keynote
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com
Customer Testimonials: MiX Telematics, Simfy Africa, JUMO
 
10:45 - 11:30 Break  
11:30 - 12:15 Getting started with AWS - Security and Networking best practices
Ian Massingham, Sr. Manager Technical Evangelism AWS
Customer Testimonial: BitX
 
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 - 14:15
DevOps on AWS - Deep Dive on Continuous Delivery and AWS Developer Tools
Michael Needham, Sr. Manager Solutions Architecture
Customer Testimonial: HealthQ
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14:15 - 14:30 Break
 
14:30 - 15:15 Getting started with AWS Lambda and the Serverless Cloud
Ian Massingham, Sr. Manager Technical Evangelism AWS
 
15:15 - 15:30 Break
 
15:30 - 16:15 Getting Started with AWS IoT
Denis Batalov, Solutions Architect AWS
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16:15 - 16:30 Break  
16:30 - 17:00 Closing Keynote - 10 lessons from 10 years of AWS
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com
 

AWS and its partners offer a wide range of tools and features to help you to meet your security objectives. These tools mirror the familiar controls you deploy within your on-premises environments. AWS provides security-specific tools and features across network security, configuration management, access control and data security. In addition, AWS provides monitoring and logging tools to can provide full visibility into what is happening in your environment. In this session, you will get introduced to the range of security tools and features that AWS offers, and the latest security innovations coming from AWS. 


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 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 that Amazon’s engineers use to practice DevOps and discuss how you can bring these processes to your company by using a new set of AWS tools (AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeDeploy). These services were inspired by Amazon's own internal developer tools and DevOps culture.


With AWS Lambda, you can easily build scalable microservices for mobile, web, and IoT applications or respond to events from other AWS services without managing infrastructure. In this session, you’ll see demonstrations and hear more about newly launched features. We’ll show you how to use Lambda to build web, mobile, or IoT backends and voice-enabled apps, and we'll show you how to extend both AWS and third party services by triggering Lambda functions. We’ll also provide productivity and performance tips for getting the most out of your Lambda functions and show how cloud native architectures use Lambda to eliminate “cold servers” and excess capacity without sacrificing scalability or responsiveness.


AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. In this session, we will discuss how constrained devices can leverage AWS IoT to send data to the cloud and receive commands back to the device using the protocol of their choice. We will discuss how devices can connect securely using MQTT and HTTP protocols, how developers and businesses can leverage the AWS IoT Rules Engine, Thing Shadows, and how they can accelerate prototype development using AWS IoT Device SDKs and AWS IoT Starter Kits including those by Arduino, Marvell, Dragonboard and MediaTek.


The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to the business. There is no compression algorithm for experience. With over a million active customers, who in turn may serve hundreds of millions of their own customers, there is no lack of opportunities to gain more experience and perhaps no better environment for continuous improvement in the way AWS serves its customers. Dr. Vogels has selected a few of these lessons to share in the hope they may be of use for you as well.