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...

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....

Join us at AWS Transformation Day to learn how AWS can help transform your business. With AWS, enterprises are becoming more agile, secure, and scalable. This helps to promote innovation, shorten cycles to respond to business requirements, increase employee productivity, and retain and recruit top talent. This one-day event offers a variety of sessions to help you improve business performance, reduce costs, and reinvent your IT strategies. Top...

Security at AWS is our top priority. Nothing is more important to us than protecting your data and your privacy. That is why we work closely with customers to offer both a secure cloud computing environment and innovative security services that satisfy the security and compliance needs of some of the most risk-sensitive organizations. AWS is the first and only commercial cloud provider to offer regions to serve government workloads across the...

This free, one-day training will provide 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. AWSome Day is ideal for IT managers, system engineers, system administrators, and architects who are eager to learn more about cloud com...

This free, one-day training will provide a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for computers, 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. AWSome Day is ideal for IT managers, system engineers, system administrators, and architects who are eager to learn more about cloud c...