Learn about AWS – November AWS Online Tech Talks

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.

AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. Join us this month to learn about AWS services and solutions. We’ll have experts online to help answer any questions you may have.

Featured this month! Check out the tech talks: Virtual Hands-On Workshop: Amazon Elasticsearch Service – Analyze Your CloudTrail Logs, AWS re:Invent: Know Before You Go and AWS Office Hours: Amazon GuardDuty Tips and Tricks.

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Note – All sessions are free and in Pacific Time.

Tech talks this month:

AR/VR

November 13, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – How to Create a Chatbot Using Amazon Sumerian and Sumerian Hosts – Learn how to quickly and easily create a chatbot using Amazon Sumerian & Sumerian Hosts.

Compute

November 19, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – Using Amazon Lightsail to Create a Database – Learn how to set up a database on your Amazon Lightsail instance for your applications or stand-alone websites.

November 21, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Save up to 90% on CI/CD Workloads with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances – Learn how to automatically scale a fleet of Spot Instances with Jenkins and EC2 Spot Plug-In.

Containers

November 13, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Customer Showcase: How Portal Finance Scaled Their Containerized Application Seamlessly with AWS Fargate – Learn how to scale your containerized applications without managing servers and cluster, using AWS Fargate.

November 14, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – Customer Showcase: How 99designs Used AWS Fargate and Datadog to Manage their Containerized Application – Learn how 99designs scales their containerized applications using AWS Fargate.

November 21, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – Monitor the World: Meaningful Metrics for Containerized Apps and Clusters – Learn about metrics and tools you need to monitor your Kubernetes applications on AWS.

Data Lakes & Analytics

November 12, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Search Your DynamoDB Data with Amazon Elasticsearch Service – Learn the joint power of Amazon Elasticsearch Service and DynamoDB and how to set up your DynamoDB tables and streams to replicate your data to Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

November 13, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Virtual Hands-On Workshop: Amazon Elasticsearch Service – Analyze Your CloudTrail Logs – Get hands-on experience and learn how to ingest and analyze CloudTrail logs using Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

November 14, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Best Practices for Migrating Big Data Workloads to AWS – Learn how to migrate analytics, data processing (ETL), and data science workloads running on Apache Hadoop, Spark, and data warehouse appliances from on-premises deployments to AWS.

November 15, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – Best Practices for Scaling Amazon Redshift – Learn about the most common scalability pain points with analytics platforms and see how Amazon Redshift can quickly scale to fulfill growing analytical needs and data volume.

Databases

November 12, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – Modernize your SQL Server 2008/R2 Databases with AWS Database Services – As end of extended Support for SQL Server 2008/ R2 nears, learn how AWS’s portfolio of fully managed, cost effective databases, and easy-to-use migration tools can help.

DevOps

November 16, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Build and Orchestrate Serverless Applications on AWS with PowerShell – Learn how to build and orchestrate serverless applications on AWS with AWS Lambda and PowerShell.

End-User Computing

November 19, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM PT – Work Without Workstations with AppStream 2.0 – Learn how to work without workstations and accelerate your engineering workflows using AppStream 2.0.

Enterprise & Hybrid

November 19, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Enterprise DevOps: New Patterns of Efficiency – Learn how to implement “Enterprise DevOps” in your organization through building a culture of inclusion, common sense, and continuous improvement.

November 20, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – Are Your Workloads Well-Architected? – Learn how to measure and improve your workloads with AWS Well-Architected best practices.

IoT

November 16, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM PT – Pushing Intelligence to the Edge in Industrial Applications – Learn how GE uses AWS IoT for industrial use cases, including 3D printing and aviation.

Machine Learning

November 12, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Automate for Efficiency with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Translate – Learn how you can increase efficiency and reach of your operations with Amazon Translate and Amazon Transcribe.

Mobile

November 20, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM PT – GraphQL Deep Dive – Designing Schemas and Automating Deployment – Get an overview of the basics of how GraphQL works and dive into different schema designs, best practices, and considerations for providing data to your applications in production.

re:Invent

November 9, 2018 | 08:00 AM – 08:30 AM PT – Episode 7: Getting Around the re:Invent Campus – Learn how to efficiently get around the re:Invent campus using our new mobile app technology. Make sure you arrive on time and never miss a session.

November 14, 2018 | 08:00 AM – 08:30 AM PT – Episode 8: Know Before You Go – Learn about all final details you need to know before you arrive in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent!

Security, Identity & Compliance

November 16, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – AWS Office Hours: Amazon GuardDuty Tips and Tricks – Join us for office hours and get the latest tips and tricks for Amazon GuardDuty from AWS Security experts.

Serverless

November 14, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Serverless Workflows for the Enterprise – Learn how to seamlessly build and deploy serverless applications across multiple teams in large organizations.

Storage

November 15, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Move From Tape Backups to AWS in 30 Minutes – Learn how to switch to cloud backups easily with AWS Storage Gateway.

November 20, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Deep Dive on Amazon S3 Security and Management – Amazon S3 provides some of the most enhanced data security features available in the cloud today, including access controls, encryption, security monitoring, remediation, and security standards and compliance certifications.