Modern applications are built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, serverless operational models, and agile developer processes. They allow organizations to innovate faster while reducing risk, time to market, and total cost of ownership. Learn about the benefits and wide range of options available with application modernization on AWS using the broad portfolio of container and serverless technologies.

Speaker: Cameron Senese, Container Services Lead ANZ, AWS

Containers are a powerful way for developers to package and deploy their applications. They are lightweight and provide a consistent, portable software environment for applications to easily run and scale anywhere. However, deploying our containers still creates another layer of complexity, and that's where Amazon ECS can help you. Amazon ECS makes it easy to use containers as a building block for your applications by eliminating the need for you to install, operate, and scale your cluster management infrastructure. It provides a simple yet powerful way to deploy modern applications in the AWS Cloud. Join us in this session packed with demos to learn together how you can easily deploy, release and run containerized applications using Amazon ECS, integration with Amazon ECR, and using AWS CoPilot to streamline the process.

Speaker: Donnie Prakoso, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Containers have emerged as the new standard for how we package and deploy our applications. However, orchestrating containers with Kubernetes does create another layer of complexity. In this session, learn how Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes deploying Kubernetes on AWS simple and scalable. We show you a simple method to create your first EKS Kubernetes cluster using the AWS CDK. We then demonstrate how to containerize a traditional Spring Boot Java application, and deploy it to your EKS cluster.

Speaker: Cameron Senese, Container Services Lead ANZ, AWS

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 lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. We show you why serverless is a great toolset for experimenting with new ideas, and hear how the extensibility and modularity of serverless applications allow us to start small and quickly add features. We introduce you to the broader portfolio of AWS services that help you build serverless applications with AWS Lambda, including Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB and more. Lastly, while building the serverless applications, we leverage the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) tool, which is an open-source framework and deploy our serverless application via code.

Speaker: Suman Debnath, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS

Event-driven architectures are becoming increasingly popular as companies modernize their applications. This is because event-driven design is a great way to capitalize on microservices architectures, controlled decoupling of services and align closely to the way that a business behaves rather than the way it’s structured. It also gives you the ability to focus on the molecules of the application when considering topics like resource allocation and business logic. In this session, we define event-driven design, show you why it’s important to application modernization and when to make use of the AWS services such as Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).

Speaker: Paul Stafford, Senior GTM Specialist, Serverless, AWS

From serving content for static websites and single-page applications, to scaling up server-side web applications, AWS has the right tools to get the job done quickly and securely. In this session, we explain how to get started and host your first web application on AWS in a matter of minutes. Learn more about the various options available on AWS and how each option is appropriate for the different use cases. With each option we will show you how to deploy your site with the use of illustrative demos.

Speaker: Derek Bingham, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Performance monitoring is an important part of any application. By understanding the health of your application, you know whether it’s functioning as expected and can proactively react when it becomes unhealthy. To provide access to critical resources when needed and also limit the potential financial impact of an application outage, a highly available application design is critical. We show you how to add monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing to your applications, using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to increase the availability of your applications. Join this session to learn how AWS observability solutions can help you proactively detect, efficiently investigate, and quickly resolve operational issues. All of which help you manage and improve your application’s availability.

Speaker: Rohini Gaonkar, Senior Developer Advocate, AISPL

Organizations are learning how to effectively work and learn remotely by having access to a set of purpose-built tools that the AWS Cloud provides to help them connect. AWS End User Computing (EUC) services provide secure access to the applications and desktops the workforce needs to get their job done. With AWS EUC services, employees can be productive from any supported device while improving IT agility and organizational security. In this session, learn how you can leverage Amazon Workspaces, Amazon WorkDocs, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Chime, and Amazon Connect to provide a fully managed and secure work experience for your teams and call centers.

Speaker: Eshaan Anand, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

Just because it’s complex, it doesn’t have to be difficult. Whether you know what a video encoder, just-in-time packager or content distribution is or not, this session is for you. We discuss basic principles of live streaming and show how, within a few clicks, you can deploy a professional grade live streaming platform within minutes.

Speaker: Christer Whitehorn, Sr. Elemental Solutions Architect, AWS

Amazon SageMaker helps data scientists and developers to prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality machine learning (ML) models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML. In this session, we provide an overview for one of the fastest growing services in AWS history. Amazon SageMaker is built on Amazon’s two decades of experience developing real-world machine learning applications, including product recommendations, personalization, intelligent shopping, robotics, and voice-assisted devices. Learn how to prepare, build, train, tune, deploy, and manage your first machine learning model on AWS.

Speaker: Tapan Hoskeri, Solutions Architect, AISPL

Demand for AI workloads increases worldwide as do requirements for greater training efficiencies—for time and cost-to-train. Discover the business advantage of Intel compute on AWS platform helping drive better performance for AI needs with fastest time to data insight.

Speakers: 
Akanksha Balani, AWS APJ Alliance head, Intel
Eitan Medina, Chief Business Officer, Habana Labs

Organisations are being challenged by an unprecedented scale of data as the amount of data under analysis increases from terabytes to petabytes and exabytes. In this session we cover the current state of analytics on AWS, focusing on the latest service innovations. Learn about the importance of a modern data architecture and what’s to come in terms of scale, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness, and importantly, how to get started.

Speaker: Melody Yang, Sr Specialist Solutions Architect, Analytics, AWS

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 highly distributed applications are using many purpose-built databases. The world is changing, 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 now have the choice of relational, 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 how AWS purpose-built databases meet the scale, performance, and manageability requirements of modern applications.

Speaker: Thiago Dolabella, Principal Technical Account Manager, AWS

Containerizing applications that require data persistence is often challenging since containers are ephemeral. You can scale containers in and out dynamically and typically clear any saved state when terminated. Amazon EFS is a natural choice for persistent container storage. As it's a fully managed service that is simple to set up and elastically scales as you add or remove data, just like your container infrastructure. In this session, learn the fundamentals of Amazon EFS, and why we need persistent storage for the containers, and how you can utilize Amazon EFS or container workload (Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate).

Speaker: Kumar Nachiketa, Storage Partner Solutions Architect APJ, AWS

Begin your startup journey with AWS and get to know the benefits provided by our startup team. The AWS Activate program is designed for startups and early stage entrepreneurs that offers the resources needed to get started on AWS. Building a minimum viable product (MVP) is something all startups do, but it's an unusual process. Unlike a prototype, MVPs focus your build on the necessary features first so you can get to market quickly and then return to add features as you scale. We share some of the tools and methodologies for building your MVP on AWS. Find out how to pick the right technologies and use pre-configured architectures to speed up your development. Get an overview of how startups use services like Amazon API Gateway, AWS Amplify, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Lightsail and database options to help launch your product.

Speakers: 
Fannie Soubiele, Startup Business Development Manager, AWS
Andrew Wangsanata, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS

There are a variety of popular, modern approaches to automating software deployment on AWS. With options like blue/green, canary, rolling, and other deployment strategies, how do you choose the right one for your workload? Once you have decided, what is the best method to actually implement the deployment strategy? In this session, we will explore the options to help you choose and see how to implement some of the popular deployments strategies on AWS.

Speaker: Teddy Aryono, Developer Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Transactions are essential to maintaining data consistency in modern applications. When using the microservices architecture pattern, each service will have its own data store, which makes managing data consistency more challenging than a monolithic architecture. In this session, we introduce you to the saga pattern, a common and powerful approach to managing transactions across multiple services. We show you how to use AWS Step Functions to implement the saga orchestration pattern to build data-consistent workflows with microservices.

Speaker: Calvin Ngo, Developer Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

A developer's integrated development environment (IDE) is a critical software application choice impacting your productivity and developer workflow. When working on multiple machines and across projects, any differences in the setup of your development environment and differences in IDEs can have a big impact your productivity and effectiveness. In this session, we look at how easily you can migrate from VSCode to AWS Cloud9 to achieve consistency across the projects you’re working on. We cover how to set up an AWS Cloud9 instance and explore how this setup can simplify your development workflow to achieve improved efficiency, flexibility and convenience.

Speaker: Nelli Lovchikova, Solutions Architect, AWS

Many organizations are realising the benefits of modernizing their workloads using serverless, event-driven architectures. Infrastructure-as-Code tools like the AWS CDK allow developers to deploy their infrastructure and application in a consistently repeatable manner, implemented in their development language of choice. In this session, we cover how we can deploy a typical microservice architecture based on Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB using the AWS CDK for .NET.

Speaker: Anitha Deenadayalan, Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS