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AWS Online Tech Talks – July 2018
Join us this month to learn about AWS services and solutions featuring topics on Amazon EMR, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon EC2 Fleet and more! We also have our third episode of the “How to re:Invent” where we’ll dive deep with the AWS Training and Certification team on Bootcamps, Hands-on Labs, and how to get AWS Certified at re:Invent. Register now! We look forward to seeing you. Please note – all sessions are free and in Pacific Time.
Tech talks featured this month:
Analytics & Big Data
July 23, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – Large Scale Machine Learning with Spark on EMR – Learn how to do large scale machine learning on Amazon EMR.
July 25, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM PT – Introduction to Amazon QuickSight: Business Analytics for Everyone – Get an introduction to Amazon Quicksight, Amazon’s BI service.
July 26, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – Multi-Tenant Analytics on Amazon EMR – Discover how to make an Amazon EMR cluster multi-tenant to have different processing activities on the same data lake.
Compute
July 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT – Accelerate Machine Learning Workloads Using Amazon EC2 P3 Instances – Learn how to use Amazon EC2 P3 instances, the most powerful, cost-effective and versatile GPU compute instances available in the cloud.
August 1, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Technical Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 Fleet – Learn how to launch workloads across instance types, purchase models, and AZs with EC2 Fleet to achieve the desired scale, performance and cost.
Containers
July 25, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – How Harry’s Shaved Off Their Operational Overhead by Moving to AWS Fargate – Learn how Harry’s migrated their messaging workload to Fargate and reduced message processing time by more than 75%.
Databases
July 23, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Purpose-Built Databases: Choose the Right Tool for Each Job – Learn about purpose-built databases and when to use which database for your application.
July 24, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – Migrating IBM Db2 Databases to AWS – Learn how to migrate your IBM Db2 database to the cloud database of your choice.
DevOps
July 25, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Optimize Your Jenkins Build Farm – Learn how to optimize your Jenkins build farm using the plug-in for AWS CodeBuild.
Enterprise & Hybrid
July 31, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Enable Developer Productivity with Amazon WorkSpaces – Learn how your development teams can be more productive with Amazon WorkSpaces.
August 1, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – Enterprise DevOps: Applying ITIL to Rapid Innovation – Innovation doesn’t have to equate to more risk for your organization. Learn how Enterprise DevOps delivers agility while maintaining governance, security and compliance.
IoT
July 30, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Using AWS IoT & Alexa Skills Kit to Voice-Control Connected Home Devices – Hands-on workshop that covers how to build a simple backend service using AWS IoT to support an Alexa Smart Home skill.
Machine Learning
July 23, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Leveraging ML Services to Enhance Content Discovery and Recommendations – See how customers are using computer vision and language AI services to enhance content discovery & recommendations.
July 24, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Hyperparameter Tuning with Amazon SageMaker’s Automatic Model Tuning – Learn how to use Automatic Model Tuning with Amazon SageMaker to get the best machine learning model for your datasets, to tune hyperparameters.
July 26, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT – Build Intelligent Applications with Machine Learning on AWS – Learn how to accelerate development of AI applications using machine learning on AWS.
re:Invent
July 18, 2018 | 08:00 AM – 08:30 AM PT – Episode 3: Training & Certification Round-Up – Join us as we dive deep with the AWS Training and Certification team on Bootcamps, Hands-on Labs, and how to get AWS Certified at re:Invent.
Security, Identity, & Compliance
July 30, 2018 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM PT – Get Started with Well-Architected Security Best Practices – Discover and walk through essential best practices for securing your workloads using a number of AWS services.
Serverless
July 24, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM PT – Getting Started with Serverless Computing Using AWS Lambda – Get an introduction to serverless and how to start building applications with no server management.
Storage
July 30, 2018 | 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM PT – Best Practices for Security in Amazon S3 – Learn about Amazon S3 security fundamentals and lots of new features that help make security simple.