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AWS This is My Architecture

'This is My Architecture' is a video series that showcases innovative architectural solutions on the AWS Cloud by customers and partners. Each episode examines the most interesting and technically creative elements of each cloud architecture. Watch them here.

Technical Sessions from AWS Events & Channels

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Getting started with Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code

🚀 Unlock the full potential of your coding with Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code!

In this quick tutorial, Rohini Gaonkar, Sr. Developer Advocate at AWS, will show you how to install and use the Amazon Q extension to supercharge your development process with AI-powered features like inline code completion, sophisticated code analysis, and more. Perfect for developers looking to enhance productivity and streamline their coding workflow. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, Amazon Q has something to offer.

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analytics, ecommerce, architecture Rohini Gaonkar analytics, ecommerce, architecture Rohini Gaonkar

Architectural Diagrams Made Easy: Harnessing AWS Application Composer, Cloudcraft, & Lucidchart

Whether you're a developer, an architect, or a cloud enthusiast, documenting your cloud infrastructure and system designs is crucial for effective communication and collaboration. This how-to video will walk you through features, options, and unique strengths of AWS Application Composer, Cloudcraft, and Lucidchart, empowering you to create visually stunning architecture diagrams.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, this video aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to master architectural diagramming. Start creating visually compelling and informative architecture diagrams today!

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AWS re:Invent 2022 - Build a managed analytics platform for your ecommerce business (BOA309)

With the increase in popularity of online shopping, building an analytics platform for ecommerce is important for any organization, as it provides insights about the business, trends, and customer behavior. But, more importantly, it can uncover hidden insights that can trigger revenue-generating business decisions and actions. In this session, learn how to build a complete analytics platform in batch and real-time mode. The real-time analytics pipeline also shows how to detect distributed denial of service (DDoS) and bot attacks, which is a common requirement for such use cases.

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Architecting for sustainability

AWS is focused on efficiency in every aspect of our infrastructure, and builders can accelerate the sustainability of their workloads through optimisation and informed architecture patterns.

This session dives deep into techniques recommended by the AWS Well-Architected Framework and provides direction on reducing the energy and carbon impact of AWS architectures. Learn about user patterns, software design, and AWS service considerations, which organisations of any size can apply to their workloads and how to review the new Customer Carbon Footprint Tool report.

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Technology, Security Rohini Gaonkar Technology, Security Rohini Gaonkar

Cloud security fundamentals: What every builder needs to know

AWS offers an ever-growing landscape of services designed for a wide range of workloads in the cloud. But how do you secure all those different types of workloads? This session, intended for security-minded builders, introduces the fundamental AWS security building blocks that can be simply, easily, and authoritatively applied to anything you build on AWS.

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Technology, Chaos Engineering Rohini Gaonkar Technology, Chaos Engineering Rohini Gaonkar

AWS Fault Injection Simulator: Fully managed chaos engineering service

AWS Fault Injection Simulator is a fully managed chaos engineering service that helps you improve application resiliency by offering an environment to safely perform controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS. In this session, see an overview of chaos engineering and the AWS Fault Injection Simulator, and a demo of the latter in action building confidence in applications’ ability to withstand failure.

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Image and video analysis with Amazon Rekognition and Analytics on AWS

Organisations are looking for ways to extract data from images and videos. Storing and manual cataloging of such media is expensive, error-prone, and hard to scale. Computer vision technology enables digital media professionals to generate valuable insights at a quick pace and at a lower cost by automatically identifying the contents of images and video. In this session, learn how you can integrate artificial intelligence into your media workflows with Amazon Rekognition, a deep learning-based image and video analysis service. We will also cover different use cases in applications such as security, public safety, identity verification, and media and entertainment.

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