Architecting for success with cloud foundations (Level 200)
When planning a cloud adoption strategy, the number of decisions required to make and stand up a production-ready cloud environment is significant. Decisions that are made early on can affect your organization’s ability to enhance and/or scale your environment in the future. This complexity has led to many looking for prescriptive guidance to create a foundational environment. After working with thousands of customers, AWS has determined a minimum baseline that customers need to have in their environment as they mature through their cloud journey. In this session, we outline the correct cloud foundations that can support your workloads and scale as needed. Learn the guided approach you can use to effectively deploy, operate, and secure your workloads while ensuring they are ready for on-going operations in the cloud. We explain what AWS services and solutions to setup the right foundations and integrate into your overall technology environment. We also walk through examples of these capabilities and demonstrate how you can establish it in your environment to accelerate the deployment of a production-ready environment.

Speaker: Siddhesh Jog, Senior Solutions Architect SMB APJ, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Scaling from one to million users on AWS (Level 200)
If you want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, "Where do I start?" Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale on demand. Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from zero to millions of users. We explain patterns and techniques a business should be using in building your infrastructure on the cloud to handle rapid growth and architect for success. From leveraging highly scalable AWS services, to architecting best patterns, there are a number of smart choices you can make early on to help you overcome some typical infrastructure issues. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure in the cloud.

Speaker: Ameth Achar Venkatramana, Solutions Architect, AWS India
Duration: 30mins

Moving data to AWS; Find the right tool and process (Level 200)
Finding the right approach of moving data workloads to the cloud can be daunting, but it is critical to ensure organizations can quickly reap the benefits such as increased agility, flexibility, and develop the ability to innovate faster. In this session, we walk you through how to select the right tools, protocols and mechanisms available to move your data efficiently and securely to AWS. We showcase the use of online and offline data transfer methods including AWS DataSync and the AWS Snow Family to accelerate moving your data, from on-prem, edge, and other environments to AWS. The session explores practical use cases, guidance on how to select the suitable methods for your requirements. The session concludes with a demo on how to use AWS DataSync and AWS Snow together.

Speakers:
Lily Jang, Storage Business Development Manager, AWS
Ameen Khan, Storage Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Duration: 30mins

Choosing the right file service for your workload (Level 200)
Organizations of all sizes are looking to migrate their on-premises file-data to the cloud to increase agility, improve security, and reduce costs. Today, many of these organizations store their data using on-premise file storage built on commodity hardware or purpose-built network-attached storage. This is for latency, bandwidth, or commercial reasons organizations have decided, by adopting a status quo strategy is a future-proof strategy. In this session, learn how AWS next-generation file-services have allowed customers to take advantage of improved performance, agility, security, and cost through the latest innovation within the AWS FSx family.

Speaker: Sandeep Aggarwal, Storage Solutions Architect, AWS India
Duration: 30mins

Build data protection strategy on AWS (Level 200)
Organizations are finding it more challenging to configure and monitor backups for individual resources as they grow and sprawl. While cloud-based backup solutions offer a number of benefits, including improved scalability, creating a successful cloud-based backup solution requires careful consideration of existing IT investments, recovery objectives, and architectural frameworks. In this session, we share how to use AWS Backup to centrally manage and automate data protection across your organization whether it is on the cloud or on premises. The session also covers how AWS Backup ensures business continuity and meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. We demonstrate how to configure backup policies and monitor activity for your resources in one place. Understand how to automate and consolidate backup tasks that were previously performed service-by-service, and remove the need to create custom scripts and manual processes.

Speaker: Gaurav Singh, Solutions Architect, AWS India
Duration: 30mins

Choose the right databases for application modernization (Level 200)
The idea of one-size-fits-all monolithic database no longer fit today, as more organizations are building highly distributed applications using many purpose-built databases. The world is evolving and the categories of databases continue to grow. We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. In response to these needs, we offer the choice of key-value, wide column, document, in-memory, graph, time-series, and ledger databases. Each solves a specific problem or group of problems. In this session, learn more about AWS purpose-built databases that meet the scale, performance, and manageability requirements of modern applications.

Speakers:
William Wong, Principal Database Solutions Architect, AWS
Surendar Munimohan, Senior Database Solutions Architect, AWS

Duration: 30mins

Migrate and modernize commercial databases on AWS (Level 200)
As data continues to grow, organizations are increasingly burdened with challenges on scalability, reliability, and cost associated with running these database instances. Join this session to learn how to migrate and modernize your databases to solve these challenges, ensure application availability, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). We discuss the key considerations that you need to be aware prior to taking your first step in migrating your commercial database to AWS. We dive deep into the migration approaches, tools, and services available to help you migrate your database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server or Oracle, and the approaches on how to modernize your database to open source database on Amazon Aurora. The session also features common use cases to further optimize your database to achieve agility, performance, and, scalability for your modern-day applications.

Speakers:
Barry Ooi, Senior Database Solutions Architect, AWS
Jay Shin, Senior Database Migration Specialist, AWS

Duration: 30mins

Why cloud infrastructure matters (Level 300)
The unique global cloud infrastructure offered by AWS helps customers build reliable, available, secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications. AWS has more experience operating global cloud infrastructures that enables customers to run business-critical workloads in the public cloud than any other cloud provider. In this session, learn how AWS is continuously enhancing and expanding the AWS global infrastructure through more Regions and Availability Zones, custom hardware, purpose-built global network backbone, and innovative energy management systems. We share key concepts on how AWS is delivering lower latency, greater reliability, scalability, and operational efficiencies to our customers.

Speaker: Vijay Menon, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Multi-region design patterns and best practices (Level 300)
Do you need your applications to extend across multiple regions? Whether for disaster recovery, data sovereignty, data locality, or extremely high availability, organizations are looking to deploy services across regions. Join this session as we explore how to design and succeed with active-active multi-region architectures. We share the different ways to implement such architectures, discuss what is included from a cost, operations, and engineering perspective. The session also covers the AWS service features that can help you build multi-region solutions, including Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, Amazon CloudFront Functions, Amazon Aurora Global Database, Amazon DynamoDB global tables, and more.

Speaker: Chandra Munibudha, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS India
Duration: 30mins

Simplify your hybrid cloud migration strategy with AWS (Level 200)
Globalization and digitalization require companies to comply with data protection rules in the limitless world of the internet. Organizations need to establish checks and controls to comply with regulations relating to data privacy. With exponential data growth, many are struggling to analyze and respond quickly to analyze for data driven insights as meeting this requirement requires maximum data agility and availability along with minimal data latency. To add complexity, they also need to mitigate regulatory liability around compliance with regulations on data confidentiality and data sovereignty. In this session, we outline the different options to deploy your applications wherever they need to run on AWS infrastructure, from the cloud to on-premises and at the edge. Understand the use cases that can be solved with AWS Outposts and Local Zones versus an AWS Region. This session covers how you can manage sensitive data sets with data sovereignty requirements for regulated industries.

Speakers: Blair Layton, Principal Transformation Business Development Manager, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Accelerate your journey to Zero Trust with AWS Verified Access (Level 200)
Zero Trust is a security model that centered on the idea that access to data should not be made solely based on network location. It requires users and systems to strongly prove their identities and trustworthiness, and enforces fine-grained identity-based authorization rules before allowing them to access applications, data, and other systems. However, there are several questions about Zero Trust that have organizations’ Zero Trust efforts at or near the starting line. In this session, we share how AWS Verified Access (AVA), which is built on Zero Trust guiding principles validates every application request before granting access. Understand how AVA removes the need for a VPN, which simplifies the remote connectivity experience for end-users and reduces the management complexity.

Speaker: Sanjeev Gopal, Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Simplify application networking using Amazon VPC Lattice (Level 200)
Many builders are looking at ways to simplify application networking. In this session, learn how Amazon VPC Lattice provides a consistent way to connect, monitor, and secure communication between your services. We walk through how to define and apply policies for network access, traffic management, and monitoring for applications across virtually any compute type. We also demonstrate key features and functionalities of Amazon VPC Lattice, and show how context-specific authentication and authorization improves your application security posture.

Speaker: Fabian Lee, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

How to improve application security using AWS WAF labels and bot management (Level 200)
Traffic from bots result in poor user experience by competing with legitimate user traffic for website access to high-demand inventory, increasing business risk through chargebacks from fraudulent transactions, and increasing costs. In this session, we showcase how to build an end to end solution with Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF to identify relevant meta data of end users, and recognize malicious and non-targeted users. Understand how Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF signals, and the latest bot mitigation features enables you to detect real users versus bots more accurately and in a cost-efficient manner, and protect your web applications.

Speaker: Vivek Anurag, Senior. Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS India
Duration: 30mins

Move fast and secure - Scaling security into product teams (Level 200)
As organizations grow, security does not scale unless it’s everyone's job. To enable this, you can optimize your security capabilities such that product teams own their own security, and evolve the central security team’s role to enable product teams to deliver securely. Join this session to learn key optimizations on how to scale your organizations’ security and deliver workloads faster.

Speaker: Tony Fendall, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins