AWS Webinars for December 2015

Every month, we set up a series of webinars that are designed to bring you up to speed on the latest AWS services & features, and to make sure that you are aware of the best ways to put them to use. The webinars are conducted by senior AWS Product Managers and Solution Architects and often include a guest speaker from our customer base.

The webinars are free but “seating” is limited and you should definitely sign up ahead of time if you want to attend (all times are Pacific):

Tuesday, December 8
AWS allows you to save money, optimize costs, and reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) in several different ways. This webinar will help you to learn more about the economics of the cloud and how they can positively impact your organization.

• Webinar: Strategies to Quantify TCO and Optimize Costs using AWS (9 – 10 AM).

Amazon Aurora is a fast and cost-effective relational database designed to be compatible with MySQL.

• Webinar: Amazon Aurora: Introduction and Migration (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
• Blog Post: Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS.

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps to improve the security and compliance of apps deployed on AWS.

• Webinar: Amazon Inspector (Noon – 1 PM).
• Blog Post: Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service.

Wednesday, December 9
Amazon EC2 Container Service simplifies the task of software delivery by making it easy to set up a Continuous Delivery (CD) process.

• Webinar: Continuous Delivery to Amazon EC2 Container Service (9 – 10 AM).
• Blog Post: EC2 Container Service in Action.

Do you need a sweeping overview of the entire set of AWS services? Join me for the AWS Services Overview!

• Webinar: AWS Services Overview (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
• AWS Blog.

Thursday, December 10
Many popular games run on AWS.

• Webinar: Game Developers – Create Great User Experiences (9 – 10 AM).
• AWS Gaming.

Several new AWS services can help you to build fast, responsive backends for your mobile apps.

• Webinar: Build Mobile Backends with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
• Blog Posts: AWS Lambda – Run Code in the Cloud and Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends.

EC2 Dedicated Hosts are physical servers with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated for your use.

• Webinar: Dedicated EC2 Hosts (Noon – 1 PM).
• Blog Post: Now Available – EC2 Dedicated Hosts.

Friday, December 11
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and highly scalable NoSQL database.

• Webinar: Design Patterns Using Amazon DynamoDB (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
• Blog Posts: Amazon DynamoDB.

— Jeff;