CloudCheckr Founder Aaron Newman reports and discusses the key announcements made by AWS at re:Invent.

1. Re:Invent
Update and Recap
Rochester AWS Meetup Group
Aaron C. Newman
Founder, CloudCheckr
Aaron.Newman@CloudCheckr.com
December 4, 2013

2. Agenda:
• Overview of Re:Invent 2013
• What Happened
• Recap videos – Jeff Barr

3. Overview of Re:Invent 2013

4. High level details
•
Roughly 5000 people last year 9000 this year
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Sold out on Oct. 21 – 3 weeks before open
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Venetian Hotel – overflowed into Wynn and Encore.
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200+ Sponsors – from around the world
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According to Gartner, AWS has 5 times more deployed cloud infrastructure
as their next 14 competitors have...in aggregate
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In a day, AWS adds as much new infrastructure as they had used to run the
entire Amazon business when it was a $7B business
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AWS supports over 600 government agencies and 2400 educational
institutions

5. Sessions
• Nearly 200 sessions split into 13 tracks and 4 experience levels
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• Architecture (ARC)
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• Application Services (SVC)
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• Big Data + HPC (BDT)
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• Compute + Networking (CPN)
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• Databases (DAT)
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• Deployment + Management (DMG)
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• Enterprise IT (ENT)
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• Digital Media (MED)
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• Mobile (MBL) + Gaming (GMG).
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• Partners
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• Security (SEC)
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• SDK + Tools (TLS)
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• Storage (STG)

6. What Happened?

7. Hackathon
• The re:Invent Hackathon
–
http://reinvent.awsevents.com/files/aws-hackathon.pdf
• 1-day challenge (Nov 12th, 2013)
• Charities provide “IT Challenges”
• early team forming (to save time)
• hacking
• judging
• prizes

8. Training and Certification
• AWS Certifications designate individuals who
demonstrate technical knowledge, skills and proficiency
with AWS services. To help you validate your expertise
with AWS, we will be offering certification exams at this
year’s conference.
• Registration for certification exams at AWS re:Invent is
now open. You can click on the links below to learn more
and register for the exam of your choice.
– AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level
– AWS Certified Developer – Associate Level (Beta)
– AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Level (Beta)

9. Events
• Day 1 Key Note
– Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, AWS
– http://bit.ly/IGgDN4
• Day 2 Key Note
– Dr. Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon Web Service
– http://bit.ly/18p7kwM
• Day 2 Party
– Dead Mau5 (DJ wearing a Mouse head)

10. CloudTrail (beta)
• AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API
calls for your account and delivers log files to you
• With CloudTrail, you can get a history of AWS API calls
for your account, including API calls made via the AWS
Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line
tools, and higher-level AWS services (such as AWS
CloudFormation).
• Compliance – Continuous monitoring (huge for the
government)

11. Demo:
CloudTrail

12. Amazon Workspaces
• Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop
computing service in the cloud
• http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
• Pricing
• Desktop as a Service
– “The WorkSpaces announcement took the financial markets by
surprise, leaving them wondering about the future of Citrix’s
andVMware’s positions in the DaaS marketplace”

13. RDS PostgreSQL Support
• Amazon RDS supports PostgreSQL open source database
• Free Tier & Multi-AZ/Provisioned IOPS support
• Version 9.3.1
• Live Demo
• Other
– RDS enforces full encryption – this greatly improves the security of
data at rest
– RDS automatically backs up databases across regions – huge
improvements to disaster recovery and availability

14. Recap Videos from Jeff Barr

15. Day 1 Recap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOTZc2P85M
Day 2 Recap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfp6qfsPjY
Day 3 Recap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfp6qfsPjY

16. Questions?
Questions on:
• AWS Re:Invent
• AWS In General
• Suggestions for next meeting

17. Thank You for Attending
NEED YOU TO SPREAD THE WORD
Bring 2 or 3 more people next time
Aaron Newman is the Founder
of CloudCheckr (www.cloudcheckr.com)
Please contact me with additional questions at:
aaron.newman@cloudcheckr.com