To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. The NASC annual conference, held each March, is the association's premiere event. It is designed to provide maximum opportunities for state comptrollers to network with each other and hear industry leaders speak on current and emerging issues. The conference features two and one-half days of technical sessions at which attendees pa...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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