Registration – 2024
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Keynote: Why does everyone keep talking about Generative AI?
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Keynote
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Break
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How Not to do a Cloud Migration
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Presenter: Drake Lundstrom
Abstract: Cloud migrations can improve your products while saving your company money, if done well. Unfortunately, they often aren't.
This talk will cover common mistakes on the journey of migrating to the cloud and how to avoid them. It will be covering concepts at a high level, rather than diving deep into any specific services.
AWS Services: It will be covering concepts at a high level, rather than diving deep into any specific services.
Audience: Business Focused
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Exploring Amazon Security Lake for Real Risk Quantification and Prioritization Across Your AWS Environment!!
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Presenter: Dakota Riley
Abstract: Modern cloud security requires tangling with a variety of data sources, from cloud misconfiguration findings, vulnerabilities, threat detection findings, and other types of tooling! Each of these tools tend to provide a piece of your organizations security posture, but often need context from other tools or environments to give the full picture of actual risks. In this talk, we will cover:
The general concept of a Security Data Lake, and what kind of questions can we answer with it
The landscape of security tools both within AWS and typical enterprise cloud environments
Industry challenges with security data, tied in with AWS Security Tooling
An overview of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), the open source security data schema utilized by Amazon Security Lake
A quick overview of the workings of Amazon Security Lake
Applying Amazon Security Lake to risk quantification usecases with real world customizations and examples!
AWS Services: Amazon Security Lake, Athena, Inspector, GuardDuty, SecurityHub
Audience: Advanced
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Learn about the benefits with examples how to create and maintain DEV, QA, and UAT environments using unique domain names
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Presenter: Angelo Mandato
Abstract: Take DEV, QA and UAT environments to another level by using unique domain names for each environment. In this session we will go over two environments organized by unique domain names, go over the benefits of using unique domain names for environments, and provide best practices. Examples will demonstrate how to use Systems Manager Parameter Store with CloudFormation to maintain separate Serverless Lambda environments as well as traditional EC2 instances. We will discuss typical costs and cost savings by organizing your environments by domain names and how to right size each environment.
AWS Services: CloudFormation, Systems Manager Parameter Store, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, EC2, Route53
Audience: Advanced
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User desktops in AWS for low latency and graphically intense applications
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Presenter: Mayur Runwal and Steven David
Abstract: In this session we will review the various approaches to enabling your teams with user desktops in AWS. We will review some common use cases like enterprise scale game testing, cad design and integration with user peripherals like a drawing tablet.
AWS Services: Ec2, Appstream 2.0, Workspaces
Audience: Advanced
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Lunch
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Step Up Your SaaS Game: Serverless Orchestration and Automation for SaaS
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Presenter: Jason Wadsworth
Abstract: Discover the power of Step Functions and AppSync to achieve data isolation without traditional Lambda functions, and orchestrate tenant resource management with AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
Key Takeaways:
- Utilize Step Functions with AppSync for data isolation.
- Orchestrate tenant resource management using Step Functions, CDK, and CloudFormation.
Join me for insights into enhancing your SaaS architecture with serverless orchestration and automation."
AWS Services: Step Functions, AppSync, CDK, CloudFormation, Lambda
Audience: Advanced
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GRC Engineering – Automating Compliance Assessments with Audit Manager
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Presenter: Lloyd Evans
Abstract: Traditional compliance assessments are hard. Most rely on manual, point-in-time checks, especially those in the public sector. Taking these practices and re-engineering them with automated checks significantly reduces compliance burden. To accomplish this, we use a combination of Audit Manager, Config, SecurityHub, and the AWS services our system uses. This approach reduces assessment time and toil and increases data quality.
AWS Services:Audit Manager, Config, SecurityHub, VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail
Audience: Advanced
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Monitor All Your Stuff with OpenTelemetry and AWS
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Presenter: Christopher M. Judd
Abstract: In the vast and complex ecosystem of modern cloud applications, ensuring optimal performance and reliability is paramount. However, monitoring such a diverse array of services and resources can be a daunting task. Enter OpenTelemetry and AWS, a powerful combination that offers comprehensive observability solutions. This talk will explore how OpenTelemetry, with its standardized instrumentation and telemetry data collection, seamlessly integrates with AWS services to provide deep insights into your applications and infrastructure. Join us as we delve into the world of observability, showcasing practical examples and best practices for monitoring all your stuff with OpenTelemetry and AWS.
AWS Services: AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, ECS, Lambdas, CloudWatch and more...
Audience: Advanced
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Leveraging AWS services to streamline compliance
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Presenter: Steve Seaney (Rego Consulting) & Ganesh Prabhu (AWS)
Abstract: The integration of AWS Well-Architected Tool, cost optimization tool, and Security Hub offers a comprehensive framework for organizations aiming to achieve SOC and ISO compliance. These tools facilitate a systematic evaluation of cloud architectures, enabling the identification and implementation of cost-effective solutions while ensuring that security measures meet industry standards. By incorporating these tools into their compliance review processes, organizations can enhance operational efficiency, uphold stringent compliance standards, mitigate risks, and bolster overall performance. This strategic approach not only aligns with best practices for cloud architecture but also provides a clear pathway for continuous improvement in the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing.
AWS Services: Well Architected Tool, Control Tower, Security Hub
Audience: Business Focused
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Tagging Compliance: The Tags are Coming!
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Presenter: Jay Kahlon
Abstract: Why Tagging Compliance is SO Important. How Tagging can be automated, how it can drive efficiencies, enable data driven decision making, and bridge the gap between Finance, IT and the Business.
I'll also go into the successes and failures we've experiencing while enabling Tagging Compliance.
AWS Services: AWS EC2
Audience: Beginner
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Maximize Performance and Savings with Comprehensive FinOps AWS Compute Optimizer
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Presenter: Patrick Davies / Rick Miller
Abstract: Every organization is concerned with getting the most value from their AWS services. A comprehensive FinOps strategy includes discounts, reservations, deleting of dormant resources, and right-sizing existing workloads. Under-provisioned EC2 instances can be a source of poor performance. Over-provisioned EC2 instances incur unnecessary charges. In this talk, I’ll share how Direct Supply is keeping out cloud resources optimized for performance and savings.
AWS Services: AWS Compute Optimizer
Audience: Business / beginner
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We have HOW many Documents? Architecting Modern Document Processing
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Presenter: Drake Pocsatko
Abstract: Even now in the digital age, many industries still rely on human readable documents to operate. Having dedicated teams to review and process documents is both time consuming and expensive, and the people doing the work certainly aren’t having any fun. With cloud tools, you can architect a modern document processing solution that is entirely serverless, allowing you to increase document flow and dedicate your team members to more valuable tasks.
This talk will discuss why document processing is an important automation target, which types of cloud services enable this architecture, cover a real client use cases to show how impactful intelligent processing can be, and end with a short demo processing a document and retrieving relevant data with an API.
AWS Services: Textract, Comprehend, S3, Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, DynamoDB
Audience: Advanced
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Happy Hour
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