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AWS Online Tech Talks – February 2017

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The New Year is underway, so there is no better time to dive into learning more about the latest AWS services. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices and new service features in AWS Cloud.

 

February Online Tech Talks (formerly known as Monthly Webinar Series)

I am excited to share the webinars schedule for the month of February. Remember all webinars noted are free, but they may fill up quickly so be sure to register ahead of time. Webinars are typically one hour in length and scheduled times are in Pacific Time (PT) time zone.

 

Webinars featured this month are as follows:

Tuesday, February 14

Mobile

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Test your Android App with Espresso and AWS Device Farm

 

Wednesday, February 15

Big Data

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Amazon Elasticsearch Service with Elasticsearch 5 and Kibana 5

Mobile

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Deep Dive on AWS Mobile Hub for Enterprise Mobile Applications

 

Thursday, February 16

Security

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: DNS DDoS mitigation using Amazon Route 53 and AWS Shield

 

Tuesday, February 21

Databases

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Best Practices for NoSQL Workloads on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Consolidate MySQL Shards Into Amazon Aurora Using AWS Database Migration Service

IoT

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Getting Started with AWS IoT

 

Wednesday, February 22

IoT

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Best Practices with IoT Security

Databases

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Migrate from SQL Server or Oracle into Amazon Aurora using AWS Database Migration Service

 

Wednesday, February 23

Enterprise / Training

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: How to Prepare for AWS Certification and Advance your Career

Storage

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Elastic File System

Databases

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Optimize MySQL Workloads with Amazon Elastic Block Store

 

Wednesday, February 24

Big Data

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Deep Dive of Flink & Spark on Amazon EMR

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon Redshift

 

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These technical sessions are led by AWS solutions architects and engineers and feature live demonstrations & customer examples. You can check out the AWS online series here and the AWS on-demand webinar series on the AWS YouTube channel.

– Tara W.

Tara Walker

Tara Walker

Tara was a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, dedicating her time to help developers build apps, games, and technical solutions in the AWS cloud. Tara worked on evangelizing AWS cloud computing architectures and development for various technologies like Mobile, Gaming, IoT, AI, Serverless just to name a few. Tara’s background is as a software engineer & developer who has worked on wide-ranging development platforms and systems while leveraging a myriad of development languages across her various technical and engineering roles. Over her 20+ year career, she has been employed by Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner, Georgia Pacific, and various other Fortune 500 companies. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University, and currently working on her Master’s degree in Computer Science (MSCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Tara's passion is to continue spreading the “good news” to diverse audiences about a plethora of technologies, development languages, and frameworks with a focus and proficiency in: - Cloud computing and Serverless architectures - IoT (Internet of Things) development - Mobile, Game, and Web development - Artificial Intelligence services and frameworks - NUI (Natural User Interfaces) & Biometric Interface service frameworks - Cross-Platform development frameworks You can find Tara on Twitter at @taraw.