Accelerate containerized applications move to AWS (Level 200)
With the increasing popularity of public cloud and cloud-native systems to simplify operations and reduce management overhead, containerization has become one of the fastest-developing IT fields that has received the most attention from the market. In this session, learn how to formulate a container migration strategy, containerize your workload, and migrate these workloads from their source to AWS. Uncover how to complete these migrations successfully and evaluate the methodology to choose specific migration methods and lay the foundation for the subsequent migration at scale.

Speaker: Manikandan Chandrasekaran, Principal Solutions Architect, India and South Asia, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Fast track your Kubernetes adoption with Amazon EKS Blueprints (Level 300)
Containerization has transformed the way modern applications are developed. In this session, learn how Amazon EKS Blueprints, a collection of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules help you to configure complete EKS clusters that are fully bootstrapped with operational software needed to consistently deploy and operate workloads. Find out how to describe the configuration for the desired state of your EKS cluster, such as the control plane, worker nodes, and Kubernetes add-ons, as an IaC blueprint. Once a blueprint is configured, you can use it to deploy consistent environments across multiple AWS accounts and regions using continuous deployment automation.

Speakers:
Samuel Gordon, Senior Cloud Architect, AWS
Frank Fan, Senior Containers Specialist Architect, AWS

Duration: 30mins

Get started with Karpenter – Just-in-time Nodes for your Amazon EKS Clusters (Level 300)
In this session, learn how Karpenter, an open-source high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler simplifies Kubernetes infrastructure with the right nodes at the right time. We cover how to setup Karpenter on Amazon EKS and simplify autoscaling and improve application availability. Learn how Karpenter automatically launches just the right compute resources to handle your cluster's applications. Take full advantage of the cloud with fast and simple compute provisioning for Kubernetes clusters with Karpenter.

Speaker: Joshua Samuel, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Progressive delivery at scale using Argo Rollouts with Amazon EKS and AWS App Mesh (Level 300)
Doing a progressive delivery of software in a containerized environment is becoming the norm. In this session, we cover the importance of Canary or Blue/Green deployment in Amazon EKS, and how you can achieve these deployments using Argo Rollouts in a GitOps environment. We also share how to implement Blue/Green and Canary based deployments in an Amazon EKS and AWS App Mesh environment using Argo Rollouts. Learn how to query and interpret metrics to verify key KPIs and drive automated promotion or rollback during canary or blue/green deployments. Discover how to achieve zero downtime deployments.

Speakers: 
Raja Ganesan, Cloud Architect, AWS Professional Services
Farhan Angullia, Cloud Architect, AWS Professional Services

Duration: 30mins

Best practices for deploying containers (Level 200)
Building applications with containers has become the preferred approach for developers. Twelve-Factor App, a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps has become the most popular and adopted methodology to design and architect applications in the cloud. In this session, we deep dive into how you can implement each factor in the Twelve-Factor App methodology with AWS Copilot to run and operate scalable, reliable, secure, and extensible apps with Amazon ECS. We also tackle how to overcome the lengthy process to run apps in the cloud and make it a non-trivial challenge to get the apps to the market, even if an app is running in localhost.

Speaker: Donnie Prakoso, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Jumpstart Amazon ECS Solution Blueprints (Level 300)
As new customers look to adopt containers and accelerate software delivery, they need to learn multiple aspects to build, deploy, run, monitor, and secure their containerized applications. This session provides a technical deep dive on Amazon ECS solution blueprints for AWS Fargate. With Amazon ECS solution blueprints, Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate users are provided with the Terraform code which gives a simpler starting point to learn by coding while making progress on their container adoption journey. The blueprints encode common architecture patterns and best practices, providing an easy yet proven pattern that is used by many customers.

Speaker: Mai Nishitani, Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Build, run, and manage containerized application on AWS Fargate (Level 300)
Containers have emerged as a new standard for how we package and deploy our applications. Traditionally, in addition to managing our containerized applications, we had to manage and maintain the servers on which these containerized applications run. In this session, learn how to build, run, and manage applications using AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine to run containers in both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and eliminates the need to provision and manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances. Adopt the best practices in DevSecOps, operations and security.

Speaker: Tan Eng Hwa, Principal Containers Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

AWS App Runner: Deploy and run your web applications in minutes (Level 200)
AWS App Runner allows customers to deploy and run scalable and secure web application in minutes. In this session, learn how you can use AWS App Runner for the full application life cycle from development to production. We also cover topics such as getting started, scaling, observability, SSL, and IAM permissions, deploying both node.js from a code base in GitHub, and a Containerized C# .Net Core app from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) leveraging Aurora Serverless RDS databases in a Private VPC.

Speaker: Paul Kukiel, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Deploying containerized applications in a hybrid cloud environment (Level 200)
In this session, learn how to leverage the efficiencies and benefits of containers in a hybrid environment. We discuss how to satisfy compliance, data gravity, and other business requirements by running workloads on infrastructure you own while enjoying simple and familiar container tooling. Uncover how to run containerized data processing workloads at edge locations on your own hardware to allow you to stay close to your end customers as well as maintaining reduced latency. In addition, we also cover machine learning, image processing, big data, among other application workloads, without the need to transfer data to the cloud or manage a third-party orchestration software.

Speaker: Navi Kaur, Senior Technical Trainer, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD in Practice with AWS CDK (Level 200)
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase development velocity to deliver apps. In general, practicing DevOps enable organizations to better serve customers and compete effectively in the market. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and release pipeline with CI/CD are two of best practices in DevOps, and considered the best entry for developers who just getting started with DevOps. In this session, learn how to implement IaC and CI/CD using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and we show you a step-by-step demo to help you get started. This session equips you with the understanding on the overall concept of IaC and CI/CD including the AWS services and developer tools needed for seamless integration with the development workflow.

Speaker: Ben Friebe, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Build resilient applications with chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (Level 300)
With the rise of microservices and distributed cloud architectures, applications have become more complex. Failures have become much harder to predict, leading to costly outages. Chaos engineering is a disciplined approach to identify failures before they become outages. In this session, we demonstrate how to improve application resiliency by setting up and running controlled fault injection experiments across AWS workloads with AWS Fault Injection Simulator. We also cover how AWS Fault Injection Simulator can improve an application’s performance and observability comparing what you think will happen with what actually happens in the systems.

Speaker: Faraz Masood, Senior Cloud Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Building observability platform using Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (Level 300)
In the past, organizations have had to choose between innovating faster and maintaining control over cost, compliance, and security. By building efficient observable systems, it helps you reduce the downtime by detecting, investigating, and remediating failures faster. In this session, we show how you can build a strong observability platform using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon OpenSearch Service observability features.

Speaker: Muhammad Ali, Senior Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Getting started with serverless applications (Level 200)
With serverless computing, you can build and run applications without the need for provisioning or managing servers. Serverless computing means that you can build web, mobile, and IoT backends, run stream processing or big data workloads, run chatbots, and more, without worrying about the infrastructure. In this session, learn how to get started with serverless computing with AWS Lambda which allow you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. We share why serverless is a great toolset for experimenting with new ideas and explain the extensibility and modularity of serverless applications which allows you to start small and quickly add features. We acquaint you with the broader portfolio of AWS services to help you build serverless applications with AWS Lambda, including Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB and more. To conclude, while building the serverless applications, we use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), an open-source framework to deploy our serverless application via code.

Speaker: Gerard Alquezar Artieda, Public Sector Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Best practices for architecting your serverless applications (Level 200)
Serverless technologies have been widely adopted today. They allow developers to create applications faster and with reduced operational overhead. In this session, learn how to get started with your first lambda function. Gain tips and tricks to get the most out of the serverless technologies and build scalable and reliable systems. We also cover the architectural patterns, optimizations and service integrations to build high performance and scalable serverless applications.

Speaker: Katherine Vishnevskaya, Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures (Level 300)
More and more organizations are looking at event-driven architecture and Amazon EventBridge to help with application modernization and building next-gen applications. Amazon EventBridge is helping them build loosely coupled applications that scale independently and make it easier to integrate cloud-based applications and services. But where do you start? This session covers event-driven design concepts, outlines how to deal with Amazon EventBridge event bus topologies and multi-account patterns, and presents recommended practices for building scalable next-gen applications with event-driven architectures.

Speaker: Minh Yie, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Best practices for securing your serverless applications (Level 300)
While serverless model takes away lot of responsibilities from you and lets you focus on creating business value, security is a constantly changing landscape that that should not be neglected and miss out on. This session covers the best practices to ensure a proper security posture for your serverless applications including the right guardrails to have in avoiding potential pitfalls and security breaches.

Speaker: Kapil Gambhir, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Building disaster tolerant serverless applications (Level 300)
Disasters may affect services in a whole region, which is why multi-region failover strategies are an important part of building resilient serverless applications. Automated failover, event data reprocessing and infrastructure replication are key when designing disaster proof distributed systems and should be combined with adequate monitoring, tracing, and disaster testing. In this session, we share the limitations and solutions to help prepare serverless workloads in the event of a disaster strike.

Speaker: Tomas Mihalyi, Serverless Specialist, AWS Enterprise Support
Duration: 30mins

Error handling and retries for event-driven applications and workflows (Level 400)
Event-driven architectures help you decouple services and simplify dependency management when applications grow in complexity. In this session, we dive into the issues and error modes of synchronous coordination and share best practices to manage and log errors. We also illustrate in practice how asynchronous communication and serverless orchestration patterns can help develop modern applications.

Speaker: Calvin Ngo, Developer Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Serverless without AWS Lambda (a.k.a. "Functionless") (Level 300)
Serverless lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. What if we could take it to the next step and stop worrying about our code? In this session, we explain the breadth and depth of our services functionalities without writing an AWS Lambda function. We share the challenges today and how to tackle them. We also cover how to keep your configurations manageable with tools like AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to define the cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.

Speaker: Adriaan de Jonge, Senior Solutions Architect, Digital Native Business, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Building AWS Lambda functions with Java (Level 300)
AWS Lambda is a compute service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. One of the attractive features of using Lambda is its pricing model. You only pay for what you use. In this session, learn how to develop Lambda functions using the Java programming language and incorporate the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) framework into the development workflow to test and debug functions locally and deploy them to AWS when ready. We also cover best practices to run Java based Lambda functions optimally to reduce cost and improve performance. Gain insights from Traveloka as they share their experience in using AWS Lambda to reduce cost, improve application’s performance, and allow their team to focus on the application’s code while Lambda takes care of the rest.

Speakers: 
Jan Tan, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Salvian Reynaldi, Software Engineer, Traveloka

Duration: 30mins

Right serverless deployment model for speed and agility (Level 300)
Development teams building with serverless want to move fast and get features deployed. Security teams in organizations often have existing security pipelines and want to ensure compliance. In this session, we share the prescriptive of serverless deployment models for organizations that want to move fast and stay secure. We cover AWS Lambda, permission boundaries, parameter handling, and integration with AWS first party and third-party deployment tools.

Speaker: Bikram Bora, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Run sub-millisecond Multi-AZ stateful applications on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (Level 200)
An increasing number of customers are evaluating or using Kubernetes to run stateful applications, with nearly 90% of them leveraging cloud-managed services like Amazon EKS. When it comes to stateful applications, there is often a trade-off between the simplicity, performance, scalability, and availability of the external storage layer for container services. For example, customers want highly available applications with multi-AZ architectures as well as high performance with sub-millisecond low latency applications. In this session, we share Amazon EKS, the concept of Kubernetes CSI driver and the different AWS storage options available to Amazon EKS. We demonstrate how to build and run sub-millisecond Multi-AZ applications on Kubernetes with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
 
Speaker: Haofei Feng, Senior Cloud Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Progressively modernize your application with edge services and AWS Lambda (Level 200)
When you start modernizing your legacy application, such as migrating to the cloud or moving to microservices, you have the option in the beginning to route only a portion of the users to new endpoint for smoother user experience. This deployment can be easily supported by using edge services. In this session, we share how to build progressive deployment with Amazon CloudFront, CloudFront Functions, and Lambda@Edge to improve performance and reduce latency
 
Speaker: Etienne Munnich, Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Build modern applications with purpose-built databases (Level 200)
Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. The days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and we 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.

Speaker: Orlando Andico, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

A developer's guide to modern application development (Level 200)
In this session, learn how to improve your workflow when building applications in the cloud. You can use AWS Toolkit within your IDE of choice to access your AWS environment, as well as Amazon CodeWhisperer which provides ML powered coding recommendations when developing your applications. In addition, when submitting your code, Amazon CodeGuru can provide both security and performance analysis. Depending on what you are building, AWS Amplify can make frontend development a breeze and AWS SAM makes serverless easy. To conclude, learn how to use AWS CDK for cloud infrastructure and AWS Copilot for backend applications.

Speaker: Matt Coles, Principal Engineer, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Five design patterns to build more resilient applications (Level 300)
This session reviews the most useful patterns for building resilient applications such as graceful degradation, timeouts, exponential back-off, and circuit breakers. We explore how to test assumptions by injecting failure into the applications and uncover the weaknesses. Gain insights into building more resilient applications with various development patterns and apply them to your software development projects.

Speaker: Derek Bingham, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Think data differently with event sourcing pattern (Level 200)
Event sourcing is an exciting pattern for thinking differently about how to process and store data. With AWS serverless services, it becomes easier for development teams to run and operate applications which are built around event sourcing patterns. In this session, we begin by answering the what and why for event sourcing and how it can benefit you. We share a step-by-step demonstration to implement event sourcing using AWS technologies.

Speaker: Donnie Prakoso, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Modernizing Content Management Systems with Serverless Deployments (Level 200)
When modernizing their applications, customers often use content management systems (CMS), like as WordPress and Drupal, in building scalable digital experiences, such as corporate websites or external websites. These systems are a good place to start in a modernization program as they deliver a lot of value very quickly, without having to change all the underlying systems.  In this session, we focus on how to modernize CMS based applications by deploying them using a modern container-based serverless orchestrator, a serverless database system and using serverless storage.

Speaker: Pierre Semaan, Head of SMB Solutions, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Build full-stack web applications using AWS Amplify Studio (Level 200)
A minimum viable product (MVP) allows organizations to test market demand, iterate quickly, trying new concepts to see what works well for early adopters without investing large amounts of time and money. In this session, learn how to use Amplify Studio, a set of purpose-built tools and features that lets frontend web and mobile developers quickly and easily build full-stack applications on AWS. We share how to visually build data models and create a full-fledged API backend with a persistent store. We demonstrate how to create a React frontend app and integrate it with the backend to build up a MVP. To get to market faster and scale as your business grows, we explore adding features such as authentication and analytics with ease.

Speakers: 
Arun Balaji, Prototyping Architect, AISPL
Sathish Hariharan, Senior Startup Solutions Architect, AISPL

Duration: 30mins

Accelerate Flutter mobile application development with AWS (Level 200)
In this session, learn to build end to end Flutter mobile application development with AWS Amplify Flutter SDK as well as create custom plugins using AWS Amplify Android/iOS SDK. We share with users the experience and features such as Analytics, in-app messaging, and offline capabilities with datastore/AppSync. We demonstrate a complete CI/CD pipeline for both iOS/Android Flutter applications. It includes stages like unit/widget testing, flutter static code analysis with SonarQube which automates build completely for both iOS on Amazon EC2 Mac with SSM and Android on code builds for containers. Uncover how to integrate testing with Appium and use AWS Device Farm for both Android/iOS devices to generate build for APK/IPA files. We also showcase how to build remote mobile application development environments based on Amazon EC2 mac and Ubuntu with NICE DCV along with physical device debugging on Amazon EC2.

Speakers: 
Arun Balaji, Prototyping Architect, AISPL
K V, Sureshkumar, Prototyping Architect, AISPL

Duration: 30mins

Rapidly modernize your .NET applications on AWS (Level 300)
AWS is a great place to run your .NET applications. However, we often encounter customers who are running legacy .NET Framework applications, struggling to move them into containers and .NET. In this session, we explore Porting Assistant for .NET, AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET, and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. These technologies allow you to rapidly modernize, analyze, and convert your older .NET Framework applications into .NET, and run SQL Server applications on Amazon Aurora. We also share the AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment, which helps you save on third-party licensing costs and run your resources more efficiently.

Speaker: Sriwantha Attanayake, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Move and enable business insights through analytics with SAP on AWS (Level 200)
Cloud is transformational for our customers when they can derive new business insights from a combination of both SAP and Non-SAP data. CXOs are analyzing the benefits of SAP RISE on AWS verses native SAP on AWS as a migration approach. AWS provides an SAP-certified cloud infrastructure for running SAP workloads. SAP on AWS customers can leverage AWS analytics, artificial Intelligence and machine learning capabilities to get near real-time insights which move the needle for their business performance. This session demonstrates the art of the possible using AWS AI/ML tools to derive new business insights by: extracting data from SAP using AWS managed services, staging that data in AWS, and then making predictions from that data using AWS ML services.

Speakers: 
Peter Perbellini, ERP on AWS Specialist Solutions Architecture Lead, APJ
Allison Quinn, Senior Analytics Solutions Architect, AWS

Duration: 30mins

Modernize your Oracle applications by adopting well architected design principles (Level 200)
Oracle applications workloads demand the highest levels of availability, performance and security. The AWS cloud platform is the perfect fit for these workloads. The well architected framework is a powerful tool to create modern design patterns and practices into mission critical applications and streamline their migration to the cloud. In this session, we showcase how you can incorporate the power of well architected framework to your most business-critical systems.

Speaker: Matt McClernon, Solutions Architect Leader, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Building scalable & reliable applications with AWS relational databases (Level 200)
Packaged and custom apps help organizations manage core business processes, such as sales, billing, customer service, and HR. For decades, developers have built applications with old-guard commercial databases which are expensive, proprietary, with high lock-in, impose punitive licensing terms, difficult to manage and do not scale. In this session, we share how AWS offers you a better way forward with fully-managed, cloud-native, modern relational database services that makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for you to build mission critical applications. We demonstrate how Amazon Aurora Serverless, an on-demand auto scaling configuration of Amazon Aurora automatically adjusts database capacity based on application demand. With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, you can scale database workloads instantly from hundreds to thousands of transactions per second and adjust capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount of database resources.

Speaker: Surendar Munimohan, Senior Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Duration: 30mins

Migrate and modernize with VMware Cloud on AWS (Level 200)
VMware Cloud on AWS offers one of the fastest ways to migrate on-premises vSphere workloads to the cloud. In this session, learn how to simplify and accelerate cloud migrations with VMware Cloud on AWS while minimizing complexity and risks. In addition, we explore how you can seamlessly integrate VMware Cloud on AWS with native AWS services to reduce operational overhead and costs while improving your workload’s scalability and security. We also cover advanced modernization use cases such as application containerization, as well as data warehousing and business intelligence leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS and cloud native services.

Speakers: 
Sawab Ahmed, Partner Solutions Architect, VMware Cloud on AWS
Sheng Chen, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, VMware Cloud on AWS

Duration: 30mins

Solving business challenges with application modernization (Level 100)
Business impact driven by mission critical application modernization has deeply implicated across industries and organization. Discover the advantages of how Intel’s compute, powers AWS platforms to deliver better price performance for mission critical workloads. Uncover the cloud migration benefits and gain scalability to grow quickly while managing costs and security.

Speaker: Akanksha Balani, AWS APJ Alliance Head, Global AI & HPC GTM Lead, Intel
Duration: 30mins

Confidential computing with AWS Nitro Enclaves (Level 200)
Today, organizations need high-level of security for their data and encryption keys for data protection. Data breaches can cost millions in loss of revenue and downtime, negatively impact consumer trust, and brand reputation in significant ways. Confidential computing isolates sensitive information and puts it in a separate, protected enclave and no one can access the data, except an attested piece of application code. AWS Nitro Enclaves is the solution to modernize application infrastructure. It moves confidential computing from on-premise HSM based devices to the AWS cloud, making them cost effective and scalable. In this demo, we share how AWS Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create modern applications with isolated compute environments to protect and securely process highly sensitive data and private keys. We explain how AWS Nitro Enclaves cryptographic attestation can ensure only authorized code is running, and integration with the AWS Key Management Service, to access sensitive material. Gain a firm understanding of the various application components required to build a confidential computing solution based on AWS Nitro Enclave. The demo also covers use cases for multi-party computation (MPC), blockchain, machine learning (ML), crypto, secure wallet, and banking transactions.

AWS services: AWS Nitro Enclaves, AWS Key Management Service

Speakers:
Sakthi Srinivasan, Prototyping Manager, AISPL
K V, Sureshkumar, Prototyping Architect, AISPL

Serverless Security Remediation Chatbot (Level 200)
Many organizations struggle with the use of cyber security to notify, prevent and manage any potential security incidents. In this demo, we showcase how to build a serverless security remediation chatbot to lower the barriers to entry for those looking to auto-remediate their security incidents through a simple conversation with the chatbot. We share how you can remediate and take preventive measures to better secure your infrastructure on the cloud. We explain how to use Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda to remediate Amazon S3 public access and uncover high risk ports for Amazon EC2. Learn how to check root MFA enablement and list security hub findings to improve your security posture.

AWS services: Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex

Speakers:
Janel Huang, Professional Services, AWS
Verenne Tanara, Associate Solutions Architect, AWS

Intelligent unstructured document processing (Level 200)
Extracting insights from unstructured documents manually is a tedious process and requires lot of time and effort. Learn how to add intelligence to process unstructured documents and extract meaningful information using AWS AI services such as Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend. In this demo, we showcase how easy it is to process unstructured content like product reviews and extract specific details related to the customer requirements, including overall sentiment of the reviews using Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend. To conclude, we also review the pipeline created using AWS Step Functions and AWS AI services.

AWS services: AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, AWS SNS and Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend

Speaker: Santhosh Urukonda, Prototyping Architect, AISPL

Smart interview bot using deep learning (Level 200)
Often enterprises have difficulties shortlisting the right candidates for technical roles as it is as challenging to conduct interviews with consistency and efficiency. It takes lot of manual effort to interview a candidate and assess his/her capabilities. Given the COVID situation, it is equally challenging to find interviewer’s time to schedule and materialize the interviews. In this demo, we showcase a front-end web portal to mimic the interview experience where the candidate, presented with a tech question can provide answer verbally or submit a written answer. This demo then uses a machine learning model with serverless technology to incorporate event-driven compute service to evaluate and assess the candidate’s answers for its correctness, and revert with a score within minutes.

AWS services: AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Amplify, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, Amazon Polly and Amazon Transcribe

Speakers:
Arun Balaji, Prototyping Architect, AISPL
Satheesh Kumar, Senior Solutions Architect, AISPL

Event-driven production line counter and anomaly detection with AWS (Level 200)
Learn how to use computer vision to count products in the production line together with anomaly detection for product defects. This demo demonstrates real-time object detection using custom models trained in Amazon SageMaker and event-driven serverless architecture for anomaly detection and manufacturing workflows.

AWS services: AWS Step Functions, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Lookout for Vision, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon QuickSight

Speaker: Phone Myint Kyaw, Solutions Architect, AWS

Increase fault-tolerance of high-scale applications with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) (Level 200)
In this session, we cover how AWS services can be leveraged to implement fault-tolerance, scalability, and cost optimization in application compute infrastructure. Through the demo, we showcase the use of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for cost optimization, scale and high availability. We use AWS FIS to improve resiliency and application performance. We share how chaos engineering can be used to increase fault-tolerance against spot interruptions. As part of the solution demo, we also demonstrate how auto scaling group features like capacity rebalancing, lifecycle hooks, and dynamic scaling policies can improve capacity management.

AWS services: AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon EC2 Spot

Speakers: 
Ashwini Kumar, Amazon EC2 Spot Specialist Solutions Architect, AISPL
Somnath Chatterjee, Senior Technical Account Manager, AISPL