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AWS Webinars – August, 2016

Everyone on the AWS team understands the value of educating our customers on the best ways to use our services. We work hard to create documentation, training materials, and blog posts for you! We run live events such as our Global AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent where the focus is on education. Last but not least, we put our heads together and create a fresh lineup of webinars for you each and every month.

We have a great selection of webinars on the schedule for August. As always they are free, but they do fill up and I strongly suggest that you register ahead of time. All times are PT, and each webinar runs for one hour:

August 23

August 24

August 25

August 30

August 31

— Jeff;

PS – Check out the AWS Webinar Archive for more great content!

 

AWS Webinars – July, 2016

We have some awesome webinars lined up for next week! As always, they are free but do often fill up, so go and and register. Here’s the lineup (all times are PT and each webinar runs for one hour):

July 26

July 27

July 28

July 29

— Jeff;

 

AWS Webinars – April 2016

Our 2016 series of webinars continues with a strong set of 200-level topics in April. The webinars are free, but space is limited and you should sign up ahead of time if you would like to attend. Here’s what we have on the calendar for the last week of April (all times are Pacific):

Tuesday, April 26
Are you ready to launch and connect to your first EC2 instance? Do you want to learn how to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store and share files? Our getting started webinar will show you how to do both.

Webinar: Getting Started with AWS (9 – 10 AM).

Do you want to learn how to use Apache Spark to analyze real-time streams of data on an Amazon EMR cluster? Do you want to know how to use Spark as part of a system that includes Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and other big data tools? This webinar will show you how to use Spark to address common big data use cases.

Webinar: Best Practices for Apache Spark on AWS (10:30 – 11:30 AM).

Are you interested in running a commercial relational database in the cloud? Do you want to know more about best practices for running single and multiple database instances, or do you have questions about costs and licensing? Attend this webinar to learn more about Amazon RDS running Oracle.

Webinar: RDS for Oracle: Quick Provision, Easy to Manage, Reduced Cost (Noon – 1 PM).

Wednesday, April 27
In today’s real-time world, going from raw data to insights as quickly as possible has become a must. Fortunately, a number of AWS tools can help you to capture, store, and analyze real-time streaming data. Attend this webinar to learn about Amazon Kinesis Streams, Lambda, and Spark Streaming on Amazon EMR.

Webinar: Getting Started with Real-Time Data Analytics on AWS (9 – 10 AM).

As you move your business and your applications to the cloud, you should also look at modernizing your development and deployment practices. For example, many AWS customers use tools like AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy to implement continuous delivery. Attend this webinar to learn more about what this means and how to put it in to practice in your own organization.

Webinar: Getting Started with Continuous Delivery on AWS (10:30 – 11:30 AM).

Now that Amazon S3 is a decade old, we have a wealth of experience to share about the best ways to use it for backup, compliance, archiving, and many other purposes. This webinar will share best practices for keeping your data safe, and will also provide an overview of several different transfer services.

Webinar: S3 Best Practices: A Decade of Field Experience (Noon – 1 PM).

Thursday, April 28
AWS Lambda brings some new flexibility to the development and deployment process. When used in conjunction with AWS Storage Gateway, it can be used as the basis for an automated development workflow that easily supports distinct development, staging, and production environments. Attend this webinar to learn more.

Webinar: Continuous Delivery to AWS Lambda (9 AM – 10 AM).

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that can boost performance, reliability, and availability while reducing the total cost of ownership. Join this webinar to learn more about Aurora and to better understand how to migrate your existing on-premises or cloud-based databases to it.

Webinar: Migrating Your Databases to Amazon Aurora (10:30 – 11:30 AM).

Containers and microservices are both a natural fit for the cloud. Attend this webinar to learn more about the challenges that might arise and the best practices to address them.

Webinar: Running Microservices on Amazon ECS (Noon – 1 PM).

— Jeff;

 

AWS Webinars for February & Early March 2016

Last month I challenged you to learn something new in 2016 and offered up our January webinar series as a starting point. We’ve put together another strong lineup for February and I’d like to share it with you now. As always, the webinars are free but space is limited and you should sign up ahead of time if you would like to attend.

Here’s what we have in store for February and early March (all times are Pacific):

Tuesday, February 23
Many developers are using containers to simplify the packaging, deployment, and operation of their applications. This deep-dive webinar will show you how to use Amazon EC2 Container Service to simplify the use of Docker in production.

The AWS Database Migration Service will help you to migrate your existing relational data to the cloud. This webinar will tell you how:

Do you want to allow your on-premises applications to take advantage of cloud storage? Learn more about some hybrid storage models in this webinar:

Wednesday, February 24
Are you eager to get business value from your Big Data projects? Attend this webinar to learn how your peers and competitors are doing it!

Are you puzzled by the term NoSQL? Learn about what it is and what it can do for you in this webinar:

Building mobile apps? Learn how to use AWS Device Farm to test them!

Thursday, February 25
New environments bring new security challenges! If you are building IoT (Internet of Things) applications, this webinar is a must!

AWS Lambda gives you the power to build serverless applications that require no administration and can scale with no effort. Join our webinar to learn how Lambda can now access functionality within a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud):

Handling Big Data requires some architectural considerations and design patterns that might not be obvious at first. Learn more at this webinar:

Tuesday, March 1 & Thursday, March 3
Migrating your Windows-based applications to the cloud does not necessarily entail stepping out of a familiar and comfortable environment. During our virtual hands-on labs an instructor will guide you through the process of configuring, launching, and securing a Windows virtual machine in the AWS Cloud:

Jeff;

PS – Your suggestions for future webinars are welcome! Leave me a comment and I will share it with the team.

 

 

AWS Webinars for January, 2016

Did you resolve to learn something new in 2016? If so, you should attend an AWS webinar!

Each month, we run 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). Here’s what we have in store this month:

Tuesday, January  26
There are several different ways to deploy your applications on AWS including AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodeDeploy, and Amazon EC2 Container Service. This webinar will help you to understand the strengths of each service and provide you with a framework to help you to decide which one to use.

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices interact with cloud applications and other devices. This webinar will show you how constrained devices can send data to the cloud and receive commands back to the device.

AWS provides many options and tools that are a great fit for your big data needs. This webinar will provide you with an overview of the options including Hadoop, Spark, and NoSQL databases.

Wednesday, January 27
Amazon Aurora is a fast and cost-effective relational database designed to be compatible with MySQL.

Do you have existing data that you want to bring to the cloud? Our data migration webinar will review the options and help you to choose the one that fits your use case:

Many developers are using containers to simplify the packaging, deployment, and operation of their applications. This webinar will show you how to use Amazon EC2 Container Service to simplify the use of Docker in production.

Thursday, January 28
Machine Learning helps you to extract value from data. This webinar will show you how to build machine learning models and use them to make predictions.

I am always happy to see ways that two or more AWS services can be combined to create something cool. This webinar will show you how to use AWS Lambda and the new AWS IoT service to do just that:

The phrase “infrastructure as code” has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years. This webinar will show you how do implement this new practice using AWS:

— Jeff;

 

 

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.

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

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

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.

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

Thursday, December 10
Many popular games run on AWS.

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

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

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

— Jeff;

 

 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

— Jeff;

 

 

Learn About the newest AWS Services – Attend our October Webinars

If you attended AWS re:Invent, you were among the first to know about Amazon QuickSight, AWS IoT, Kinesis Firehose, and our other new offerings. Perhaps you had time to attend a session to learn more about the new service or services that were of interest to you. If you didn’t attend re:Invent or missed a session or two and are ready to learn more, I’ve got you covered. We will be running nine new-product webinars later this month. Each webinar is designed to provide you with the information that you need to have in order to be up and running as quickly as possible.

Here’s what we have for you! 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, October 27
QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence tool. You can build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and get business insights from your data.

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS.

Wednesday, October 28
Spot Blocks allow you to launch Spot instances that will run for a finite duration (1 to 6 hours).

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common exploits.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch in the AWS Cloud.

Thursday, October 29
AWS Lambda lets you run code in the cloud without provisioning or managing servers.

AWS Mobile Hub provides an integrated console that helps you build, test, and monitor your mobile apps.

AWS Import/Export Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS.

— Jeff;

 

 

AWS Webinars – September, 2015

I have always advised my family, friends, colleagues, and audiences to plan to spend some time learning something new every day. If you don’t take responsibility for your own continued education, you can soon find that you have fallen far behind your peers!

If you are interested in staying current with AWS, I have a couple of recommendations. You can read this blog, follow me (and @awscloud) on Twitter, check in with the AWS What’s New page from time to time, and make use of our self-paced labs.

When you are ready for a more in-depth look at a certain topic or service, I would strongly advise you to attend one or more of our webinars!

Every month my colleagues assemble a lineup of sessions that are hand-selected to provide you with a detailed look at a subject that they believe will be of value to you. The webinars are presented by senior members of the team including evangelists, product managers, and solution architects.

With that said, I would like to introduce you to our September 2015 webinars (all times are Pacific).

There’s no charge and no obligation, of course! Please feel free to sign up, and to share this post wiht your friends and colleagues.

— Jeff;

PS – Please feel free to suggest new topics by leaving a comment on this post.

New AWS Webinar Series – Introductions, Best Practices, and More


We have set up a new AWS Webinar Series.

In March you can attend a webinar and Get started with AWS or a specific AWS Service (OpsWorks or WorkSpaces), master an AWS service (EC2), learn AWS best practices (content delivery, availability, or security), deploy enterprise workloads (SAP), or optimize for cost and performance (RDS).

The webinars are free but space is limited and preregistration is a must.

— Jeff;