All governments benefit from systems that allow them to understand how the land within their borders is used. The Cloud is enabling architectures that allow for flexible and fast sharing of GIS data across the entire government. This session demonstrates how customers at the federal, municipal, and state level are using the Cloud to share GIS data, serve their citizens, ...

Learn about Amazon’s program to hire transitioning and former military personnel and hear personal stories about the transition from active military to civilian technologist from both the enlisted and officer perspective. Speakers: Michael Foley Developer Support Manager, Amazon Web Services Matt Worsham Enterprise Support Manager, Amazon Web Services View more here http://oak.ctx.ly/r/3cz00

View the AWS Solutions Architects in action as they demo tips and tricks to help you design, secure, deploy and scale your applications using AWS services.  Speaker: Ryan Murphy, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services View more here http://oak.ctx.ly/r/3cz00

“AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated, private, and high bandwidth network connection from your premises to AWS. In this session we begin with a high level overview of the service, including the steps involved to establishing a connection. We then cover the typical use cases before diving deep into more advanced configurations, such as multi-region and global deployments. ...

Deploy, scale and manage your Microsoft workloads on AWS. The presenter starts with an explanation of why customers want to deploy Windows applications on AWS as a cloud platform. The discussion reference architectures and best practices for implementing Microsoft products and technologies including Active Directory, Remote Desktop Gateway, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync on the Amazon cloud. The session concludes with ...

Esa Kinnunen, CEO of Nordcloud, discusses the success the company has had as a Premier APN Consulting Partner. As an APN Partner, Nordcloud has been able to drive the growth of its international client base, as well as expand the scope of customer use cases it can support on AWS. Learn more: http://aws.amazon.com/partners/

Pacific Life Insurance has provided financial services and products to individuals and business customers for nearly 150 years. To control its IT costs, the company turned to AWS as part of a hybrid computing environment, using AWS cloud in combination with data centers in California and Nebraska to run actuarial tasks that are used to set pricing and create new ...

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS region designed to allow US government agencies, private sector companies, nonprofits and educational institutions move sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. AWS GovCloud (US) is the AWS region that adheres to US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), FedRAMPSM and DoD CSM Levels 1-5 requirements.  Join us for ...

This video provides a short introduction to the features and benefits of Amazon EC2.

London-based startup import.io provides an online tool used for collecting data from any website, allowing users to turn that information into structured data and APIs. The company uses a broad range of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Elastic Load Balancing, to capture website information and deliver it for analysis in Excel, databases, and custom line-of-business applications. By ...