How to be Cost-Efficient on AWS November 15 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET) Everybody can save money on AWS by optimizing your architectures. In this virtual hands-on workshop, you'll get started on your cost-optimization journey. You will use the built in cost management tools within the console and utilize other AWS services to provide deeper analysis and answers at scale. You will also learn how to setup account structures a...

We welcome you to join us at AWS to hear from some of Virginia's most exciting startups impacting education, non-profits, and civic-change from Lighthouse Labs (a Top 25 Seed-Stage Accelerator based in Virginia) accompanied by startups from 757 Accelerate (one of Virginia's newest accelerators). The program will highlight 7 startups innovating within their industries. Attendees are invited to stay and meet the founders for drinks and hors-d'oe...

Monitoring Performance with CloudWatch Dashboards November 8 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET) As demand changes and technologies evolve, it’s important to ensure efficient use of computing resources to meet system requirements and to maintain that efficiency. This virtual workshop will guide you through configuring an Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard to get aggregated views of the health and performance of all AWS resources. Th...

Testing for Resiliency of EC2, RDS, and S3 November 1 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET) It is not sufficient to only design for failure. You must also test failure scenarios to understand how they cause your systems to behave. In this virtual hands-on workshop, we will guide you through the steps to perform basic resiliency testing of a simple, three-tier web application. You will use the AWS Management Console to understand how...

Join us for AWS What's Next and learn about the latest launches in AI/ML, Storage, and Database. Attend live demos and be among the first to try AWS's new services and features. During this interactive event, you'll hear from AWS evangelists and get a chance to chat 1-1 with AWS product teams. Games and complimentary drinks and appetizers will be offered afterward. This event is a great opportunity to connect with AWS service teams and evangel...

Security Best Practices October 25 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET) Security best practices help you secure your workloads in the cloud to meet organizational, legal, and compliance requirements. In this session you will learn how to align your AWS environment to industry standard best practices for security aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. In addition, see how AWS Security Hub simplifies the task of measuring th...

Building a Robust Monitoring Strategy October 18 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET) Effective monitoring can help you gain situational awareness, be proactive in order to prevent issues from occurring, respond efficiently and effectively when production impacting incidents occur, and achieve your business outcomes. In this virtual hands-on workshop, we will use the AWS Management Console to deploy a sample application and configu...

AWSome Day Online Conference is a free, online training event that provides a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for compute, storage, database, and networking. AWS technical experts will explain key features and use cases, share best practices, walk through technical demos, and be available to answer your questions one-on-one. Based on the AWS Essentials Course, AWSome Day is ideal for IT managers, business leaders, system eng...

Most businesses depend on a portfolio of technology solutions to operate and be successful every day. How do you know if you and your team are following best practice, or what the risks in your architectures might be? In this virtual hands-on workshop, we will show how the AWS Well-Architected framework provides prescriptive architectural advice and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool allows you to measure and improve your technology portfolio....

Join us for AWS What's Next and learn about the latest launches in AI/ML, Storage, and Database. Attend live demos and be among the first try AWS's new services and features. During this interactive event, you'll hear from AWS evangelists and get a chance to chat 1-1 with AWS product teams. Games and complimentary drinks and appetizers will be offered afterward. This event is a great opportunity to connect with AWS service teams and evangelist...