Pfizer needed the ability to perform rapid analysis on its set of real-world evidence (RWE) data to improve patient outcomes, but its existing platform could not scale and meet its objectives. Pfizer collaborated with Deloitte to transform its real-world data and analytics capabilities that maximize insights and avoid duplicative investments by migrating their existing RWE data and analytics environment to the AWS Cloud. Learn how these strategies for planning, executing, and validating the success of these capabilities helped position Pfizer to use the AWS Cloud environment as the cornerstone of its patient-centric analytics to expand and incorporate new AI/ML capabilities, such as Amazon SageMaker. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Deloitte Consulting LLP.

In this session, learn about Amazon Linux 2, the next generation Amazon Linux operating system that now comes with five years of support. See what's new with Amazon Linux 2, how it's different from other distributions of Linux, and understand why it's rapidly becoming the go-to operating system for AWS customers. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Amazon Linux 2: A Stable, Secure, High-Performance Linux Environment (CMP203-R1)

In addition to the basic infrastructure as code capabilities provided by AWS CloudFormation, AWS now offers various programmability constructs to power complex provisioning use cases. In this talk, we present several advanced use cases of declarative, imperative, and mixed coding scenarios that cloud infrastructure developers can leverage. Examples include demonstrating how to create custom resources and leveraging transforms, like the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), to create both simple and complex macros with AWS CloudFormation. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Beyond the Basics: Advanced Infrastructure as Code Programming on AWS (DEV327-R1)

Since its launch in 2015, Alexa has enabled new experiences across many device form factors at home, work, in the car, and on the go. With over 50,000 published skills, hundreds of new API features releases, and numerous Alexa-enabled devices, it can be hard to keep track with of the current pace. In this session, we get you up to speed on the current Voice First movement, the current Conversational AI trends, and we give demonstrations of some of the latest Alexa features and devices. Come learn about the new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) multi-modal framework, Alexa Presentation Language (APL) for developers, Alexa skill fulfillment and consumables for customers, and some of the latest device offerings utilizing the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) and the new Alexa Gadgets Toolkit.

AWS GovCloud (US) is isolated AWS infrastructure and services designed to allow US government agencies and enterprises in highly regulated industries to move sensitive data and regulated IT workloads to the cloud by addressing specific regulatory and compliance requirements. While enterprises and organizations are increasingly integrating software as a service (SaaS) technologies into their IT environments, they often require SaaS products to address the same compliance features of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. In this session, we discuss the opportunities for SaaS in AWS GovCloud (US), how SaaS vendors should approach building products in AWS GovCloud (US), key architecture and operational considerations, and best practices for bringing a SaaS product on AWS GovCloud (US) to market. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Unlock Highly Regulated Enterprise Workloads with SaaS on AWS GovCloud (US) (WPS303)

Complex applications generally require a way to provision resources at scale to enable an organization to onboard customers in a frictionless way while remaining operationally efficient. In this session, we describe how you can architect a control plane built on AWS that is responsible for provisioning and maintaining infrastructure and application resources for multiple customers across a number of AWS accounts, VPCs, and AWS services.

Discover how AWS IoT services, Amazon Alexa, and AWS services help businesses leverage the AWS Cloud to make millions of homes safer, more efficient, and healthier for their occupants. The initial pilots on low-income customer base saw over 6-20% reduction in electricity bills using the minimal customer configuration of just Alexa and very basic smart device control. Discover how companies are using Amazon Experts to deploy Alexa and AWS IoT into millions of smart homes across wide geographies. Learn how AWS IoT Core, digital twin, AWS Lambda, and data analytics are used to execute real-time coordination logic, implement scheduled actions, and execute event-based bidirectional control architected to manage millions customers simultaneously. Learn how coupling this in-home IoT capability with cloud-based big data/ML algorithms enables new customer-centric outcomes, including appliance performance detection, improving the value of solar assets, security monitoring, and better ways to schedule daily energy-intensive tasks, such EV charging and hot water heaters.

At AWS, we obsess over operational excellence. We have a deep understanding of system availability, informed by over a decade of experience operating the cloud and our roots of operating Amazon.com for nearly a quarter-century. One thing we've learned is that failures come in many forms, some expected, and some unexpected. It's vital to build from the ground up and embrace failure. A core consideration is how to minimize the "blast radius" of any failures. In this talk, we discuss a range of blast radius reduction design techniques that we employ, including cell-based architecture, shuffle-sharding, availability zone independence, and region isolation. We also discuss how blast radius reduction infuses our operational practices.

Too often, data scientists build potentially high-impact models that never see the light of day due to deployment obstacles. At Convoy, data science is at the core of its trucking network product, so building a robust, frictionless platform to deploy models is critical to the company's success. To minimize the code needed to transition from training a model locally to deploying the same model in production, the company adopted Amazon SageMaker to push various models to production-ready endpoints. In this talk, Convoy's data science director, David Tsai, reviews Convoy's Amazon SageMaker architecture and highlights how it has enabled them to drive meaningful impact.

At iflix, we want to lead the internet entertainment revolution in emerging markets by redefining television for billions of people. While not everyone who wants great content may have a credit card or be able to afford pricey subscriptions, most do have smartphones, and that's where iflix comes in. In this talk, we address how we've had to be extremely scrappy to successfully serve streaming content to our millions of customers, and we discuss how we leverage various AWS services to accelerate our growth-the most recent being AWS Elemental MediaLive & AWS Elemental MediaPackage, which power our live TV option.