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AWS Monthly Online Tech Talks – March, 2017

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Unbelievably it is March already, as you enter into the madness of March don’t forget to take some time and learning more about the latest service innovations from AWS. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices and new service features in the AWS Cloud.

I have shared below the schedule for the live, online technical sessions scheduled for the month of March. Remember these talks are free, but they fill up quickly so register ahead of time. The online tech talks scheduled times are shown in Pacific Time (PT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are as follows:

Tuesday, March 21

Big Data

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Deploying a Data Lake in AWS

Databases

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Optimizing the Data Tier for Serverless Web Applications

IoT

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: One Click Enterprise IoT Services

 

Wednesday, March 22

Databases

10:30 – 11:30 AM: ElastiCache Deep Dive: Best Practices and Usage Patterns

AI

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: A Deeper Dive into Apache MXNet on AWS

 

Thursday, March 23

IoT

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Developing Applications with the IoT Button

Compute

10:30 – 11:30 AM: Automating Management of Amazon EC2 Instances with Auto Scaling

 

Friday, March 24

Compute

10:30 – 11:30 AM: An Overview of Designing Microservices Based Applications on AWS

 

Monday, March 27

AI

9:00 – 10:00 AM: How to get the most out of Amazon Polly, a text-to-speech service

 

Tuesday, March 28

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Getting the Most Out of the New Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances Enhancements

Getting Started

12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM: Getting Started with AWS

 

Wednesday, March 29

Security

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Best Practices for Managing Security Operations in AWS

Storage

10:30 – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon S3

Big Data

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Log Analytics with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Kinesis

 

Thursday, March 30

Storage

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Active Archiving with Amazon S3 and Tiering to Amazon Glacier

Mobile

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon Cognito

Compute

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Building a Development Workflow for Serverless Applications

 

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These technical sessions are led by AWS solutions architects and engineers and feature live demonstrations & customer examples. You can also check out the AWS on-demand webinar series on the AWS YouTube channel.

– Tara

Tara Walker

Tara Walker

Tara was a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, dedicating her time to help developers build apps, games, and technical solutions in the AWS cloud. Tara worked on evangelizing AWS cloud computing architectures and development for various technologies like Mobile, Gaming, IoT, AI, Serverless just to name a few. Tara’s background is as a software engineer & developer who has worked on wide-ranging development platforms and systems while leveraging a myriad of development languages across her various technical and engineering roles. Over her 20+ year career, she has been employed by Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner, Georgia Pacific, and various other Fortune 500 companies. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University, and currently working on her Master’s degree in Computer Science (MSCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Tara's passion is to continue spreading the “good news” to diverse audiences about a plethora of technologies, development languages, and frameworks with a focus and proficiency in: - Cloud computing and Serverless architectures - IoT (Internet of Things) development - Mobile, Game, and Web development - Artificial Intelligence services and frameworks - NUI (Natural User Interfaces) & Biometric Interface service frameworks - Cross-Platform development frameworks You can find Tara on Twitter at @taraw.