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AWS Online Tech Talks – May 2017

Spring has officially sprung. As you enjoy the blossoming of May flowers, it may be worthy to also note some of the great tech talks blossoming online during the month of May. This month’s AWS Online Tech Talks features sessions on topics like AI, DevOps, Data, and Serverless just to name a few.

May 2017 – Schedule

Below is the upcoming schedule for the live, online technical sessions scheduled for the month of May. Make sure to register ahead of time so you won’t miss out on these free talks conducted by AWS subject matter experts. All schedule times for the online tech talks are shown in the Pacific Time (PDT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are:

Monday, May 15

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Integrate Your Amazon Lex Chatbot with Any Messaging Service

 

Tuesday, May 16

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 F1 Instance

IoT

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: How to Connect Your Own Creations with AWS IoT

Wednesday, May 17

Management Tools

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: OpsWorks for Chef Automate – Automation Made Easy!

Serverless

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Serverless Orchestration with AWS Step Functions

Enterprise & Hybrid

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Moving to the AWS Cloud: An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

 

Thursday, May 18

Compute

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Scaling Up Tenfold with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Building Analytics Pipelines for Games on AWS

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Serverless Big Data Analytics using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

 

Monday, May 22

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: What’s New with Amazon Rekognition

Serverless

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Building Serverless Web Applications

 

Tuesday, May 23

Hands-On Lab

8:30 – 10:00 AM: Hands On Lab: Windows Workloads on AWS

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Streaming ETL for Data Lakes using Amazon Kinesis Firehose

DevOps

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Deep Dive: Continuous Delivery for AI Applications with ECS

 

Wednesday, May 24

Storage

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Moving Data into the Cloud with AWS Transfer Services

Containers

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Building a CICD Pipeline for Container Deployment to Amazon ECS

 

Thursday, May 25

Mobile

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Test Your Android App with Espresso and AWS Device Farm

Security & Identity

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Advanced Techniques for Federation of the AWS Management Console and Command Line Interface (CLI)

 

Tuesday, May 30

Databases

9:00 – 10:00 AM: DynamoDB: Architectural Patterns and Best Practices for Infinitely Scalable Applications

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs

Security & Identity

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Securing Your AWS Infrastructure with Edge Services

 

Wednesday, May 31

Hands-On Lab

8:30 – 10:00 AM: Hands On Lab: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server in AWS

Enterprise & Hybrid

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Best Practices in Planning a Large-Scale Migration to AWS

Databases

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Convert and Migrate Your NoSQL Database or Data Warehouse to AWS

 

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These sessions feature live demonstrations & customer examples led by AWS engineers and Solution Architects. Check out the AWS YouTube channel for more on-demand webinars on AWS technologies.

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Tara Walker

Tara Walker

[October 4, 2018, 1:42 PM] Park, Robin: 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.