AWS Webinars for November 2015 – Learn About New Services and Best Practices

As we did last month, we are running a series of webinars 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 free but “seating” is limited and you should definitely sign up ahead of time if you want to attend (all times are Pacific):

Tuesday, November 17
AWS Device Farm allows you to test your mobile apps on real devices in an automated fashion.

• Webinar: Automated Mobile App Testing with AWS Device Farm (9 – 10 AM).
• Blog Post: AWS Device Farm – Test Mobile Apps on Real Devices.

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence tool. You can build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and get business insights from your data.

• Webinar: Introducing Amazon QuickSight (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
• Blog Post: Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions.

CloudWatch Dashboards lets you to build customized metrics dashboards that display Amazon CloudWatch metrics from one or more AWS regions.

• Webinar: Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards (Noon – 1 PM).
• Blog Post: CloudWatch Dashboard – Create & Use Customized Metrics Views.

Wednesday, November 18
The Amazon ECS CLI gives you command-line access to Amazon EC2 Container Service. You can create clusters, list container instances, create and manage tasks, and more.

• Webinar: Introducing Amazon ECS CLI (9 – 10 AM).
• Blog Post: EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware Scheduling, and More.

AWS Config Rules give you the ability to create compliance-checking rules that look for desirable or undesirable configurations of AWS resources.

• Webinar: Introducing Config Rules (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
• Blog Post: AWS Config Rules – Dynamic Compliance Checking for Cloud Resources.

Amazon S3’s Standard – Infrequent Access storage class is an economical way to store data that is rarely accessed.

• Webinar: Introducing a new storage class for Amazon S3: Standard-Infrequent Access  (Noon – 1 PM).
•  Blog Post: AWS Storage Update – New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option & Glacier Price Reduction.

Thursday, November 19
Over the past couple of years we have identified and refined a set of best practices for designing and building big data application that run on AWS.

• Webinar: Architectural Patterns and Best Practices for Big Data on AWS (9 – 10 AM).
• AWS Big Data Blog.

Amazon Aurora is a fast and highly scalable relational database designed to be compatible with MySQL.

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

Amazon Redshift lets you build cost-effective data warehouses that can store well over a petabyte of data. Amazon Machine Learning helps you to perform predictive analytics on your data.

• Webinar: Advanced Analytics with Amazon Redshift and the Amazon Machine Learning Service (Noon – 1 PM).
• Blog Posts: Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale and Amazon Redshift – The New AWS Data Warehouse.

— Jeff;