Flexibility is key when building and scaling a data lake, and by choosing the right storage architecture, you will have the agility to quickly experiment and migrate to AWS. This session explores best practices for building a data lake on Amazon S3, which allows you to leverage industry-leading AWS, open-source, and third-party analytics and ML tools and gain insights from your data. This session also explores how to optimize your storage on Amazon S3 for data lakes, including information on storage classes, S3 access points, and running HPC workloads with Amazon FSx for Lustre.

Speaker: Ademola Sanusi, Associate Solutions Architect AWS

Organizations need a data strategy to succeed, but there’s no one-size fits all approach. Every organization will have unique objectives and obstacles. Join this session to learn how to modernize, unify, and innovate your way to a modern data strategy with AWS.

Speaker: Louis De Gouveia, Data Competency Manager, IOCO

Teams building micro-service architecture often find integration with other applications and external services can make their workloads more monolithic and tightly coupled. Event-driven serverless architectures with Amazon EventBridge enable your applications to seamlessly scale to burst to handle virtually any demand with minimal operational overhead. Join this session to learn about how you can build event-driven applications.

Speaker: Asif Hamza, Sr Solutions Architect AWS

AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. Users can further customize their AWS Control Tower landing zones with the Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CfCT) solution. In this session, discover best practices for deploying a scalable CfCT pipeline that allows you to test your customizations in a lower environment before promoting them to a production landing zone. Learn about some of the most common CfCT customizations you should consider for your landing zone, including identity and network management and governance.

Speaker: Nicolas David, Sr Startup Solutions Architect

With thousands of new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) are discovered every month, customers have told us that they struggle to keep on top of their security using traditional, on-premises patching solutions. The shift to containers only adds complexity to the already diverse IT environment. Join this session to take a deep dive into patch management across a hybrid landscape with scenarios played out for containers and virtual machines and a special nugget on how Canva has built a container patching solution using AWS.

Speaker: Cheikh Mahaman, Solutions Architect AWS

Teams building micro-service architecture often find integration with other applications and external services can make their workloads more monolithic and tightly coupled. Event-driven serverless architectures enable your applications to seamlessly scale to burst so they can handle virtually any demand with minimal operational overhead.Join this session to learn architecture patterns and best practices for composing end-to-end architectures with queues, publish/subscribe topics and event buses paired with AWS Lambda-based serverless event processing.

Speaker: Lunga Zonke, Solutions Architect AWS

Business analysts are increasingly expected to apply machine learning to improve predictions quality and increase business outcomes. However, developing data sciences and data engineering skills to create and maintain ML models can be time consuming and out of the scope of business intelligence teams. In this session, you will be introduced to the recently announced Amazon SageMaker Canvas service, which will enable you to easily build high quality ML models using Amazon SageMaker and AutoML capabilities without having to write any code.

Amazon VPC gives you complete control over your AWS virtual networking environment. Have you ever wondered how new Amazon VPC features affect the way you design your AWS networking infrastructure or change existing architectures that you use today? This session explores the answers to these questions and more.

Speaker: Kaveer Harie, Sr Solutions Architect AWS

Lending loans to ‘risky’ applicants is the largest source of financial loss (called credit loss). The credit loss is the amount of money lost by the lender when the borrower refuses to pay or runs away with the money owed. In other words, borrowers who default cause the largest amount of loss to the lenders. In this session I will show how you can pre-process data in SageMaker DataWrangler, and how you can use that data to generate a SageMaker model using Autopilot. In the same session I will do something similar with SageMaker Canvas.

Speaker: Jason Nicholls, Principal Solutions Architect AWS

In this session, learn how native AWS security services can be layered together to automate incident response workflows and cloud security posture assessment. Learn about account-level considerations, best practices, and guidance to help you structure and manage security across multiple AWS accounts. Learn the benefits of aggregating, parsing, and remediating security findings at scale using services such as Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Detective, and learn how to respond to incidents.

Speaker: Elton Paka, Solutions Architect AWS

Well-architected applications are designed and built to be secure, high-performing, and resilient. You need to test your application and validate that it operates as designed and is resilient to failures. In this session, you will learn how to apply chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Simulator, stress your application, simulate disruptive events, and observe how the system responds. This will enable you to iteratively improve the resiliency and performance of your system using architecture best practices.

Speaker: Mirabela Dan, Solutions Architect AWS

With Vodacom's Cloud Acceleration Suite, the goal is to provide customers with specific services or a combination of AWS products that will help position them on their journey to the Cloud. We have developed a methodology based on our in‑house learnings as well as our customers learnings that we follow which allows for successful Cloud adoption no matter where you are in your Cloud journey. 

Speaker: Luke Holderness, Senior Business Architect AWS Cloud, Vodacom Business 

AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. Users can further customize their AWS Control Tower landing zones with the Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CfCT) solution. In this session, discover best practices for deploying a scalable CfCT pipeline that allows you to test your customizations in a lower environment before promoting them to a production landing zone. Learn about some of the most common CfCT customizations you should consider for your landing zone, including identity and network management and governance.

Speaker: Daniel Mutale, Sr Consultant CIA AWS

Operating highly available systems includes the capability of quickly and effectively responding to incidents. This session guides you through preparing for incidents, including defining incident types and responsive actions, building a plan, executing that plan, and retrospective/continuous improvement activities.

Speaker: Grant Brown, Sr Solutions Architect AWS

Lending loans to ‘risky’ applicants is the largest source of financial loss (called credit loss). The credit loss is the amount of money lost by the lender when the borrower refuses to pay or runs away with the money owed. In other words, borrowers who default cause the largest amount of loss to the lenders. In this session I will show how you can pre-process data in SageMaker DataWrangler, and how you can use that data to generate a SageMaker model using Autopilot. In the same session I will do something similar with SageMaker Canvas.

Speaker: Jason Nicholls, Principal Solutions Architect AWS

SaaS architecture varies across domains, stacks, and customer requirements. However, there are well-defined patterns that must be addressed by SaaS solutions. Identity, onboarding, tenant isolation, data partitioning, tiering—these are among the patterns that, while implemented differently on AWS stacks and services, are core to most SaaS solutions. In this session, take a detailed dive into the landscape of these SaaS patterns. For each one, we’ll move from concept to implementation, looking at the permutations of architecture and code that are used to bring these patterns to life with different compute, storage, identity, networking, and management constructs.

Speaker: Lee Moodley, Sr Solutions Architect AWS

In this session, learn how native AWS security services can be layered together to automate incident response workflows and cloud security posture assessment. Learn about account-level considerations, best practices, and guidance to help you structure and manage security across multiple AWS accounts. Learn the benefits of aggregating, parsing, and remediating security findings at scale using services such as Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Detective, and learn how to respond to incidents.

Speaker: Elton Paka, Solutions Architect AWS

Were you nervous every time you released a new version of your application? In this session, you will learn how to automate integration tests to release software with more confidence. You will be more comfortable every time you push your release to production. Our examples use AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to deploy our application and we write our tests in TypeScript. However, you can apply the concepts with any Infrastructure-as-a-Code tools. We will cover the whole life cycle of integration testing from design, implementation, techniques to optimize deployment speed, and how to avoid flaky tests.

Speaker: Cheikh Mahaman, Solutions Architect AWS

In this session, we will cover and demonstrate several patterns and processes that contribute to continuously improving the security posture of your AWS workloads, suitable for companies of any size. We will touch upon general security best practices, implementing least privilege for applications and data, and how to create central governance with autonomous and decentralized developer operations while increasing visibility into controls’ compliance state.

Speaker: Eric Mhlongo, Sr Solutions Architect AWS

Organizations are increasingly focusing on building a modern data strategy to deliver insights to the people and applications that need it, securely and at scale. In this session, you will learn how you can leverage AWS database services, teams, and partners, to start your journey towards data modernization that include (1) migrating data infrastructure to the cloud and gaining security, agility and elasticity; (2) reduce license fees; (3) automate the undifferentiated heavy lifting by adopting managed database services; and (4) adopting purpose-built databases for different types of applications.

Speaker: Vuyisa Maswana, Sr Solutions Architect AWS

As your organization develops next-gen cloud-native applications and modernizes existing workloads by migrating to the cloud, you need to extend your visibility and controls to improve your security posture with maintaining operational efficiency. In this session, you will learn how to use native AWS security services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, AWS SecurityHub, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Detective, and Amazon Macie, to achieve continuous threat detection, route workflows, and minimize remediation time.

Speaker: Craig Mullins, Solutions Architect AWS

Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to deliver on their business outcomes of cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and carbon savings. However, it is not always easy to find prescriptive guidance that help you move quickly to the cloud while efficiently managing risks. In this session, you will learn how to build a successful Cloud Operating Model that delivers innovative, cost effective, reliable, and secure solutions for the consumption and acceleration of business outcomes.

Speaker: Alpana Goolab, Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture in AWS

Teams building micro-service architecture often find integration with other applications and external services can make their workloads more monolithic and tightly coupled. Event-driven serverless architectures enable your applications to seamlessly scale to burst so they can handle virtually any demand with minimal operational overhead.Join this session to learn architecture patterns and best practices for composing end-to-end architectures with queues, publish/subscribe topics and event buses paired with AWS Lambda-based serverless event processing.

Speaker: Temitope Oyenuga, Sr. Technical Acct Manager AWS

There are currently billions of connected devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places that are fueling digital transformation, generating huge volumes of data and imposing multiple challenges related to device management and data processing. In this session, you will learn how to use AWS IoT services to securely connect and manage billions of devices and to unlock your data through analytics and machine learning services.

Speaker: Jabu Sibanyoni, Manager, Solutions Architecture in AWS

Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes service. This session covers recent enhancements to EKS and dives deep into the latest features. Learn how EKS gives you the flexibility to start, run, and scale Kubernetes applications in the AWS Cloud or on premises and how customers trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission-critical applications.

Speaker: Joseph Mutua, Sr Solutions Architect AWS