The following is a curated list of noteworthy sessions taking place on Thursday, December 2nd, that are particularly relevant for media and entertainment professionals at re:Invent. For a comprehensive overview, check out this curated M&E Attendee guide, and learn more about the AWS for M&E points of presence in this post.
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12:15 – 1:15 PM
AIM309-R2 Tips and Tricks for Building Your Computer Vision Application (Chalk Talk)
As the volume and complexity of visual cues continue to grow, this session will teach you how to develop computer vision applications that automate visual analysis using Amazon Rekognition—no prior machine learning experience required. Discover new and improved APIs and features for face detection, moderation, celebrity recognition, video segmentation, custom labeling, and text detection.
Location: Level 1, Alliance 305, Caesars Forum
12:15 – 2:30 PM
MDS301 Build an Interactive Live Streaming Platform (Workshop)
Want to engage fans worldwide with live streaming? In this workshop, you’ll create a fictional streaming platform that connects and entertains audiences everywhere. Learn to utilize AWS Amplify to build an interactive live video streaming application, incorporating real-time GraphQL APIs backed by AWS AppSync and video streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service. Hosted by experts in application development and streaming media, this workshop dives into the forefront of cloud-enabled interactive web video.
Location: Level 2, Venetian B, Venetian
1:00 – 2:00 PM
MKT304 Build End-to-End Data Pipelines with Third-Party Data and AWS Analytics (Builders’ Session)
Internal data may not always provide the critical insights needed for strategic decisions. This builders’ session will show you how to leverage third-party marketplace intelligence data to fill these gaps and generate impactful reports. Learn to consume and construct feature-rich data pipelines using third-party data from AWS Data Exchange alongside the AWS analytics stack.
Location: Level 1, Academy 417, Caesars Forum
GAM303 Extend Your Global Game Architecture to the Edge with AWS (Chalk Talk)
Players expect high-speed, low-latency gameplay as standard. Join us to learn how to enhance your global game server strategy without incurring excessive costs. This chalk talk will cover how to deliver a faster, high-performance networking and game server strategy regardless of device or genre, using AWS edge computing. Ensure a global presence by relocating infrastructure closer to your players, thereby providing a seamless experience without sacrificing costs or operational overhead. Accelerate content delivery with Amazon CloudFront, extend your architecture to the edge with AWS Outposts, and optimize user traffic to minimize packet loss.
Location: Level 4, Lando 4206, Venetian
AIM205 How Zillow and Genesys are Transforming Customer Conversations (Breakout)
Enhancing your call center with intelligence can personalize customer interactions, deepen understanding, and boost overall satisfaction. In this session, Zillow and Genesys will discuss their implementation of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions for self-service automation, real-time call analytics, and post-call analytics. Witness how AWS CCI helps them comprehend the customer journey, equip agents with necessary knowledge, and provide effective responses to inquiries.
Location: Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
COP402-S Optimizing AWS Workflows with the CDK for Terraform (Breakout, Sponsored by HashiCorp)
Explore the myriad ways to provision and manage the extensive AWS services. This session will reveal how the CDK for Terraform simplifies managing your Kubernetes cluster and overall AWS infrastructure without affecting your applications. A consistent workflow has never been more crucial—from AMIs to Amazon EKS and IAM roles to security groups. Speakers from HashiCorp, an AWS Partner, will lead this presentation.
Location: Level 1, Summit 214, Caesars Forum
NET212 Securing Non-Cacheable End-User Workloads at the Edge (Chalk Talk)
This chalk talk will teach you how to safeguard your applications from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks at the edge using AWS Global Accelerator and AWS Shield. You’ll consider best practices for utilizing AWS resources to handle non-cacheable user traffic while protecting your applications, maintaining availability, and optimizing performance.
Location: Level 1, Summit 217, Caesars Forum
1:45 – 2:45 PM
NET319 Migrating Large-Scale Websites to Amazon CloudFront (Breakout)
Examine large-scale content-delivery network migrations in 2021 and discover why customers are transitioning workloads to Amazon CloudFront. This session will delve into migration strategies, lessons learned, and the business impact during and after migration. Gain insights from real-world case studies and explore sample architectures using edge compute features like CloudFront Functions and AWS Lambda@Edge. Learn how AWS technology and teams can facilitate your migration, mitigate operational risks, and accelerate the process.
Location: Level 4, Delfino 4002, Venetian
2:30 – 4:45 PM
Configuring Multi-Region Applications Using Amazon S3 (Workshop)
If you’re running applications across multiple AWS Regions to be closer to users or to ensure maximum availability for mission-critical applications, this workshop will guide you in utilizing the latest Amazon S3 features to create robust, fault-tolerant applications capable of handling demanding workloads. Review Amazon S3 replication features that support building multi-Region applications with low latency for global clients.
Location: Upper Level, Cristal 3, Wynn
3:15 – 4:15 PM
SEC309-R2 Adversary Emulation for Incident-Response Readiness (Chalk Talk)
AWS and Discovery+ will address your questions about employing real-world threat simulations to understand adversary tactics and techniques. From these use cases, you’ll learn how to utilize AWS security services for detecting, triaging, scoping, investigating, and responding to security incidents. Discover ways to operationalize AWS security services through automation patterns or by refining existing playbooks.
Location: Level 1, Montrachet 2, Wynn
3:15 – 5:30 PM
Build a Statically Generated Website with Amazon CloudFront (Workshop)
In this workshop, you will start with a sample statically generated website, then enhance it using Amazon CloudFront, CloudFront Functions, Lambda@Edge, and AWS WAF Bot Control to boost its SEO and security. First, accelerate your site with CloudFront, then improve security and performance by adding static headers like content security policy and cache-control using native CloudFront features. Also, learn how to enhance SEO through URL rewriting and device-based image customization. Finally, implement A/B testing on your page to evaluate how it performs.
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