June 2017 Denver AWS Users' Group intro slides
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The document provides updates from the June AWS Users' Group meeting, including new resources for the group's Slack channel and sponsorship. It discusses potential workshop topics on migrating workloads and building applications on AWS. Recent AWS announcements are listed, and sponsorship by CloudAcademy is announced, which will provide AWS credits for workshops and free online courses. The next meeting's topic will be on Amazon Redshift and a word of the day is provided.
June 2017 Denver AWS Users' Group intro slides
- 1. AWS Users’ Group June Updates David “Mac” McDaniel Sr. Solution & Cloud Architect - Independent Consultant david@mobile-360.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbmcdaniel Twitter: @CloudKegGuy, @ServerlessJava Twitter list: https://twitter.com/CloudKegGuy/lists/aws/members
- 2. Thanks to our Host, machineLogic! Thanks Nathan for hosting us tonight! WiFI: machineLOGIC-guest Pass: logicalguest
- 3. New AWS Users’ Group Items Slack Channel: https://DenverAWSUsersGroup.slack.com You will need an invitation to join, please email me: david@mobile-360.com. We are now listed on AWS UG site: https://aws.amazon.com/usergroups/americas/ We are also sponsored and a member of the official Global AWS Communities! See them at https://awsug.support We are also working on monetary sponsorships as well! This will enable us to do more things!
- 4. Thoughts? Thinking about creating a workshop series - where participants get to go hands-on! Our sponsor would enable us to provide AWS usage credit. Topic ideas include: ● Migrating a workload from on-prem to AWS Cloud ● Hosting a web application ● Building an API application
- 5. Recent AWS Announcements! ● Amazon WorkSpaces free (up to 2 mos.) ● Great Resource - Online Webinars (Live or Recorded): AI, Compute, Big Data, DevOps, IoT etc etc ● Amazon LightSail - 9 More Regions ● AWS Batch available in Oregon and Ireland ● Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 TA, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield are now HIPAA eligible ● Amazon Aurora Can Export Data into Amazon S3 ● Amazon RDS Supports Stopping and Starting of Database Instances ● Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports PostgreSQL Minor Versions 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11 and 9.3.16 ● AWS Server Migration Service is now available in new regions ● AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) Now Supports AWS X-Ray ● Introducing AWS Certificate Manager ● Amazon Cognito Launches Public Beta of a Built-in User Experience for Sign in and SAML Federation for User Pools ● New AWS Certification Specialty Exams and Benefits
- 6. Update on Sponsorship We have been $ponsored by CloudAcademy! This will help greatly with AWS credits that I can give out and: 1. They have many free webinars at https://cloudacademy.com/webinars/ 2. Also many free articles at https://cloudacademy.com/blog/ 3. Special Cloud Academy Portal (7 entire free courses and 3 hands-on labs): https://cloudacademy.com/aws-usergroup/ 4. Free Year of CloudAcademy for somebody here tonight? WHAAAT?
- 7. Next Month’s TOPIC: Amazon Redshift AWS’ Columnar Data Warehousing Service Have something to talk about? Today’s Word: constellate, v.: Form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together. “Let’s constellate outside the pub.”
- 8. Questions?