Enterprise Analytics workshop Webinar on moving a data warehouse from SQL Server to Redshift using Database Migration Services (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). https://dev8014.d2kkzha2beqo1p.amplifyapp.com/

The Quilt 2020 Winter Member Meeting I’ll be presenting The Quilt Member Meeting in San Diego today. I’ll cover the following topics: Overview of AWS Global Infrastructure Recent Announcements – Local Zones Recent Announcements – Wavelength Recent Announcements – Outposts Recent Announcements – HPC Advances Partnership Opportunities for RENs Link to the event

Performance instrumentation and monitoring for .NET applications I’ll be presenting the following session at re:Invent 2020. Are you confident you can quickly identify service problems and resolve performance issues at scale? Isolating and remediating performance problems in the cloud, particularly with modern, distributed microservice architectures, can pose unique challenges. This session shows you how to capture logs, metrics, and telemetry for .NET applications across servers, containers, serverless architectures, and related components.

A life-cycle approach to governance, compliance, and audit I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk twice at re:Invent 2019. Ongoing implementation of regulations by governments across a variety of industries requires organizations to adopt enterprise solutions that fulfill needs relating to compliance, audit, and overall risk management. Join us to learn more about how Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail can help with enhanced controls, beginning with resource provisioning through to monitoring, remediation, event audit, and issue investigation.

Manage Windows instances at scale with Systems Manager I’ll be presenting the following workshop at re:Invent 2019. Get hands-on experience managing Windows servers with AWS Systems Manager. Examples include the life cycle of an application, automating the creation and management of a “golden AMI,” domain join, application installation, patching, and collecting inventory. Experience with Windows administration and PowerShell are expected for this session. Please bring a laptop (and charger) for the hands-on exercises.

High-velocity service delivery: Infrastructure as code I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk three times at re:Invent 2019. Customers today are looking to the cloud to help them evolve, adapt, and innovate faster than ever. In this chalk talk, learn how to use AWS native services to increase your organization’s ability to deliver at high velocity using services like AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, and AWS Systems Manager. We talk about best practices to help you provision and manage infrastructure, deploy code, and automate your software-release processes.

Advancing to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services I’ll be presenting at EDUCAUSE today. You can see details here.

Presented a webinar to researchers along with Carahsoft.

Presented to students in a summer program on machine learning.

AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway I’ll be presenting to the Internet2 Cloud Community on how to use Internet2’s Cloud Connect with AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway. You can see details here.

Cyber Carpentry I’ll be presenting for the second year on HPC, Machine Learning, and Big Data to researchers from around the globe today in Arcot Rajasekar Cyber Carpentry Workshop at UNC. You can see details here.

Self-service remediation, managing configuration drift, & automation I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk at Chicago AWS Public Sector Summit 2019. https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/selfservice-remediation-managing-configuration-drift-automation-svc311-chicago-aws-summit?qid=c35e3140-0788-4b75-b57e-93d8760245d0&v=&b=&from_search=25

Improve operations with AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk at the New York Summit 2019. https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/improve-operations-with-aws-systems-manager-opscenter-svc310-new-york-aws-summit?qid=c35e3140-0788-4b75-b57e-93d8760245d0&v=&b=&from_search=23

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Strategies I’ll be presenting the following Silent Disco talk at the Public Sector Summit 2019 in Washington, DC. Migrating SQL Server databases to the cloud is a critical part of a cloud journey and requires planning and architectural considerations. In this session, we cover best practices and guidelines in migrating and/or architecting a hybrid SQL Server architecture on AWS. We compare and contrast various migration methods, including SQL export, backup and restore, and using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).

AWS Organizations and Control Tower I’ll be presenting to the Internet2 Cloud Community on AWS Organizations and Control Tower today. You can see details here.

Keynote Learn and brainstorm how we store, retrieve, integrate, and use our data to help drive Cornell into the future. Additionally, Brian Beach, Solutions Architect from Amazon Web Services will be one of our keynote speakers. https://events.cornell.edu/event/itcornell_symposium_on_big_data

Hands-On Automating AWS Infrastructure with PowerShell n this Workshop, we will introduce you to the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell/PowerShell Core and discuss the fundamentals for automating infrastructure on AWS using PowerShell. We have provided a set of challenges that you can choose from as a way to help you learn how you can use PowerShell to automate infrastructure on AWS in a variety of real-world scenarios. You can see these challenges in the table of contents to the left of this page.

Building a Migration Strategy for SQL Server on AWS I’ll be presenting the following workshop at re:Invent 2018. Slides Workshop Instructions CloudFormation Template Sample Schema on GitHub

Designing a Migration Strategy for Your SQL Server Infrastructure https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/designing-a-migration-strategy-for-your-sql-server-infrastructure-win322-aws-reinvent-2018

Presented to researchers at Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC.

Presented to a group of entrepreneurs within the incubator at Duke University.

Presented to a group of researchers across campus.

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