こんにちは。AWS CLIが好きな福島です。
はじめに
現在、現地参加しているAWSの大規模なカンファレンスであるre:Invent 2022ですが、ついに明日で最終日となります。
少し早いですが、どういったWorkshopが行われたのか、備忘として記載いたします。
また、私が参加したWorkshopのいくつかはブログに記載しようと思っており、 現時点で記載しているものは以下になるため、興味がある方はこちらもご覧ください。
Workshopの開催総数
Workshopは明日開催されるものも含め、合計292個(内94個リピート)がありました。
リピートされたものを抜いても約200種類のWorkshopが行われており、実際に計算してみるとかなりの数のWorkshopがあったのだなと実感しました。
セッションレベルごとのWorkshop数
100 - Foundational: 3
200 - Intermediate: 57
300 - Advanced: 205
400 - Expert: 27
会場ごとのWorkshop数
MGM Grand: 83
Mandalay Bay: 52
Caesars Forum: 44
Wynn: 68
Venetian: 4 5
開催日ごとのWorkshop数
Sunday: 0
Monday: 60
Tuesday: 53
Wednesday: 113
Thursday: 58
Friday: 8
Workshop一覧
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy evaluation in action
SEC401-R In this workshop, dive deep into the logic of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy evaluation. Gain experience with hands-on labs that walk through IAM use cases and learn how different policies interact with each other. Using identity- and resource-based policies within single- and cross-account scenarios, learn about the evaluation logic that you can apply in your own environment. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Beyond monitoring: Observability with operational analytics data
ANT306-R1REPEAT Ninety percent of issue resolution time is spent identifying the problem. Increasing the reliability of your distributed application and improving your incident response becomes vital in reducing the mean time to resolution. In this workshop, learn how you can use open-source tools, SDKs, and standards with Amazon OpenSearch Service to facilitate observability with your logs, traces, and metrics data. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Boost your serverless application availability with AIOps on AWS
DOP307-R1REPEAT As applications become increasingly distributed and complex, developers and IT operations teams need more automated practices to maintain application availability and reduce the time and effort spent detecting, debugging, and resolving operational issues manually. In this workshop, learn how you can make the shift toward more automation and more proactive mechanisms and help your IT team innovate faster with AWS AIOps solutions. Use cases covered span multiple AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, and Amazon EKS. Learn how to reduce MTTR and quickly identify issues within your AWS infrastructure. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics
DAT401-R In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases. Discover how to apply development patterns using Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon OpenSearch Service to build a fully functional and scalable bookstore ecommerce application and dive deep into best practices along the way. Basic familiarity with AWS concepts and services such as IAM, VPC, networking, and storage services is recommended. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Create an online software trial with Amazon AppStream 2.0
EUC305-R Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed application streaming service. Users can instantly access their applications over an internet connection with no downloads or installation required. In this workshop, create an online software trial with Elastic fleets and other fully managed services to deliver your application as a service. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get better at building AWS CDK constructs
DOP401-R1REPEAT In this workshop, dive deep into how to design AWS CDK constructs, which are reusable and shareable cloud components that meet your organization's security, compliance, and governance requirements. Learn how to build, test, and share level-one constructs representing a single AWS resource, as well as higher-level abstractions (level-two and level-three constructs) that include built-in defaults and provision multiple AWS resources. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get hands-on and unlock renewable energy data with AWS IoT
ENU301-R Do you want to accelerate a transition to renewable energy with IoT and digital twins? AWS IoT EnergyKit is a gamified workshop designed to accelerate IoT adoption through interactive learning with real renewable energy assets. In the wind edition of this hands-on workshop, assemble 3D-printed wind turbines, provision them as IoT things, and visualize time-series data with real-time dashboards featuring AWS IoT TwinMaker. Gain experience with edge computing, IoT, analytics, and digital twin services while learning about practical IoT applications in renewable energy. You must bring your laptop to participate.
How to set up Microsoft identity solutions on AWS
ENT323 In this workshop, learn how to set up AWS Managed Microsoft AD, configure directory security settings, extend the directory across multiple AWS Regions, create trust with on-premises directories, and verify on-premises authentication to Amazon RDS for SQL Server resources. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Improve customer retention with AI-powered contact centers
BIZ310-R This workshop is intended for Amazon Connect users and data scientists and covers how to predict customer churn and proactively engage agents to retain customers. In this workshop, use real-time transcription and sentiment analysis from Contact Lens for Amazon Connect combined with customer profile data to train a machine learning model using Amazon SageMaker. Then, use this model to predict the probability of customer churn in real time based on the live customer interaction. Finally, use Amazon Connect Tasks, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon SNS to proactively alert a retention associate equipped with the right data and insights to intervene. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Serverlesspresso: Building an event-driven application from the ground up
SVS306-R1REPEAT In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and more. By the end, you’ll have built a scalable serverless web application that allows users to order coffee and baristas to keep track of and fulfill orders. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate software development lifecycles with GitOps
CON306-R1REPEAT GitOps simplifies both application deployments and operations tasks with Kubernetes. In this workshop, learn how to build a scalable, complete GitOps system that addresses the needs of both application teams and platform teams. The workshop covers application deployment, associated infrastructure resources, and Amazon EKS clusters into which the applications are deployed at scale via GitOps. Learn how to manage multiple Amazon EKS clusters, environments, and workloads; increase deployment speed for advanced deployment patterns; and handle canary and progressive releases safely with rollbacks. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Advanced data protection for your hybrid file storage
STG325 Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers fully managed capabilities like for like with NetApp ONTAP without requiring changes to code. In this workshop, explore the advanced security features of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to help simplify disaster recovery and protect your data. Walk through setup and management of the service and learn about key features such as backups, NetApp Snapshots, and replication to help improve the RTO/RPO of your business applications and accelerate your migration to the cloud. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Architecting and delivering low-latency applications at the edge
HYB303-R In this workshop, learn how to architect, design, build, and deploy applications at the edge using AWS hybrid cloud and edge computing services. Explore architecture best practices for deploying a high-bandwidth media streaming application to AWS Wavelength Zones on a 5G network. Learn the steps for deploying a real-time online game closer to your end users in large metro areas using AWS Local Zones. Explore the new challenges associated with edge computing, such as the need for location services, and use edge discovery services to identify the optimal location for client devices to connect to. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a complete DevSecOps pipeline on AWS
COP206-R Organizations want to deliver applications that prioritize security and governance. In this workshop, learn to build a DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline with security and compliance testing integrated into the development process. Discover how you can create a CI/CD pipeline that delivers tested and secure infrastructure as code using a Git branching strategy for your AWS accounts. Learn to use GitHub Actions to integrate AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) to run policy validations and ensure that pipeline deployments are consistent and that they meet your organization’s compliance standards.
Build a fitness activity tracker using machine learning
BOA318 In this workshop, learn how to build a fitness and activity tracker using sensor data collected from your phone to train a machine learning model to detect a range of motion activities such as running, walking, sitting, and more. Walk through the entire process of data collection, data processing, model training, and deploying a fitness and activity detection service to generate both cloud and on-device predictions. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build an NFT marketplace on Ethereum with Amazon Managed Blockchain
BLC301-R This hands-on workshop walks you through developing a complete NFT marketplace application that includes an NFT smart contract as well as a frontend and middle-tier component. Learn how to deploy the created NFT application via Amazon Managed Blockchain to Ethereum testnet and mainnet. You must bring your laptop to participate and be familiar with JavaScript and web development.
Build stateful K8s applications with ultra-fast Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
DAT313-R Microservices-based architectures are a top choice for developers that need to build applications for speed, scalability, and agility. Kubernetes is also a popular deployment and management system for microservice architectures. In this workshop, learn how to build, deploy, and operate a Kubernetes-based application with Amazon MemoryDB for Redis―an ultra-fast, durable, Redis-compatible database that is purpose-built for modern applications with microservice architectures requiring low latency and high availability. MemoryDB also supports native integration with Kubernetes. Experience firsthand how to use the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controller for MemoryDB (in developer preview) to define and operate MemoryDB and other relevant AWS service resources using Kubernetes-na...
Build stunning customized dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
BSI205-R1REPEAT Want to grow your dashboard building skills? In this workshop, the Amazon QuickSight team demonstrates the latest authoring functionality designed to empower you to build beautiful layouts and robust interactive experiences with other applications, right from within your dashboard. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building a serverless data consumption platform on AWS
PEX304-R The advent of serverless services on AWS has redefined contemporary architectures and driven new architecture patterns. Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to build a future-proof serverless data platform on AWS. Learn how to use a suite of serverless analytics services including Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift Serverless, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight to visualize the serverless data processing results. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Building apps to isolate & process sensitive data with AWS Nitro Enclaves
CMP306-R Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to isolate highly sensitive data from your own users, applications, and third-party libraries on your Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Nitro Enclaves. Explore Nitro Enclaves, discuss common use cases, and build and run an enclave. This workshop covers enclave isolation, cryptographic attestation, enclave image files, how to build a local vsock communication channel, CI/CD setup for enclave-based applications, how to debug common scenarios, the enclave lifecycle, tools, and SDKs. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploy global wide area networks using AWS Cloud WAN
NET309 As organizations grow, the network connecting their on-premises locations and cloud resources together becomes increasingly important. In this workshop, get hands-on with AWS Cloud WAN, a service for building, managing, and monitoring global wide area networks. Learn about the components of Cloud WAN and how each plays a role in connecting your on-premises and cloud resources. Build a cross-Region network in minutes, then use core network policy documents to segment your network traffic and start automating common networking tasks. You must bring your laptop to participate.
How to use Terraform to deploy AWS security solutions
BOA313-R1REPEAT Many modern organizations are taking an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach to provide a consistent language in multi-vendor environments, and Terraform is a popular choice to facilitate this. In this workshop, learn how you can use IaC for security deployments. Discover how to deploy AWS WAF, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail event logs, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs to protect your applications and provide deep monitoring capabilities. Also, find out how to activate email notifications with Amazon SNS and use Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda functions to automatically isolate infected hosts. You must bring your laptop to participate.
The AWS Step Functions workshop
API201-R1REPEAT Join this workshop to learn the primary features of AWS Step Functions. Step Functions is a low-code, visual workflow service that developers use to build distributed applications, automate IT and business processes, and build data and machine learning pipelines using AWS services. This workshop contains a series of interactive modules that give you hands-on experience building resilient workflows with robust error handling in a workshop environment. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R1REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Advanced multi-AZ resilience patterns: Mitigating gray failures
ARC201-R Many organizations run their workloads in highly available multi-Availability Zone (AZ) configurations. These architectures perform well during binary failure events, but often encounter problems with “gray failures.” The manifestations of these types of failures can be subtle and defy quick and definitive detection. This workshop demonstrates how you can use services like Amazon CloudWatch to detect gray failures as well as the use of two mitigation patterns to respond to them. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Automate operations management on AWS
COP310-R Balancing agility, maximizing uptime, supporting compliance, and driving organizational efficiency can be complex. Add on-premises and other cloud resources, and that complexity can be multiplied. In this workshop, walk through building automation workflows using AWS Systems Manager to help reduce the complexity of managing and operating large numbers of applications and resources in cloud and hybrid environments through the automation of ITSM operations processes, data collection, and reporting. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a custom recommendation engine in 2 hours with Amazon Personalize
AIM312-R Using public datasets and common use cases, select relevant data, train a model, and apply business rules to generate high-quality recommendations powered by state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms using Amazon Personalize. In this workshop, learn how to build a customer-specific solution using your own data to deliver personalized experiences that can be integrated into your existing websites, applications, SMS, and email marketing systems using simple APIs. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build with AWS IoT ExpressLink to securely connect your IoT devices to AWS
IOT207-R In this workshop, get hands-on experience connecting IoT devices to the AWS Cloud within minutes. Learn how security and networking heavy-lifting is handled for you by the AWS IoT ExpressLink module and how it can be integrated into your designs using simple code snippets. Use an AWS IoT ExpressLink module to connect a portable electronic conference badge over Wi-Fi to the AWS Cloud, upload and visualize sensor data, and then control LEDs and NFC tags. Basic Python programming knowledge is required. You must bring your laptop, power supply, and a USB data cable to connect to a USB-C device to participate.
Building a hybrid data pipeline to Amazon S3 using AWS Storage Gateway
STG327 What is the best way to take advantage of AWS AI, ML, and compute technologies when your data is created on premises? In this workshop, build a data pipeline to write your data to Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises through SMB or NFS, upload it to the cloud, and process it using AWS compute resources. All the data is stored in the cloud and the Amazon S3 File Gateway offers access to the data for on-premises systems. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deep learning with Amazon SageMaker, AWS Trainium, and AWS Inferentia
AIM212-R With Amazon SageMaker you can build, train, and deploy machine learning models for almost any use case. Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium, and EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia, deliver the best price performance for deep learning training and inference. In this workshop, walk through training a BERT model for natural language processing on Trn1 instances to save up to 50 percent in training costs over equivalent GPU-based EC2 instances. Also learn how to deploy this model for inference on Inf1 instances for up to 2.3x higher throughput and up to 70 percent lower cost per inference than comparable GPU-based EC2 instances. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Secrets to a successful migration at scale
ENT321-R Large-scale migrations of numerous servers can be costly and involve time-consuming manual tasks and long cutover windows. Automating the migration process simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of cloud migration. This workshop shows you how to use automated solutions to migrate large numbers of servers to the AWS Cloud. First, learn how AWS Migration Evaluator provides an initial assessment of your migration project, including a projected cost estimate. Then, learn how the Cloud Migration Factory on AWS solution’s orchestration platform reduces manual processes by integrating multiple tools efficiently, including the recommended migration service, AWS Application Migration Service. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Spot the savings: Use Amazon EC2 Spot to optimize cloud deployments
CMP324-R Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are spare compute capacity available to you for less than On-Demand prices. EC2 Spot enables you to optimize your costs and scale your application’s throughput. This workshop walks you through the APIs and commands used to create Spot Instances: You create an EC2 launch template and then use the launch template to launch Spot Instances using EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Spot Fleet, EC2 Fleet, and EC2 RunInstances API. Also learn how to implement Spot functions such as Spot placement score, attribute-based instance selection, and AWS Fault Injection Simulator.
Use AWS IoT TwinMaker to easily create digital twins for aerospace uses
AER305 In this workshop, learn how to use AWS building blocks and technologies to create digital representations of your physical systems that are dynamically updated with data to mimic their true structure, state, and behavior. Digital twins help you develop equipment more effectively, increase output efficiency, and forecast lifespan through predictive maintenance. Join this hands-on workshop to build, deploy, and test a digital twin architecture that can help you achieve your business and technical outcomes. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Using Amazon SageMaker, AutoGluon, and ASDI to predict air quality
SUS202 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ambient air pollution leads to an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year, and around 91 percent of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits. In this workshop, investigate the relationship between air quality and weather using Amazon SageMaker Studio. Access open data from the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) with Amazon S3 and an API to explore air quality by geography. Deploy a machine learning model that uses AutoGluon (AutoML from AWS) binary classification models to predict how weather features may result in unhealthy air quality. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS Migration and Modernization GameDay
ENT313-R1 Nothing is better than learning by doing and putting your AWS skills to the test in a real-world gamified environment. AWS Migration and Modernization GameDay is an entirely hands-on opportunity for technical professionals to explore AWS services, architecture patterns, best practices, and group collaboration. In this GameDay, teams of professionals are tasked to take a sample workload running on a simulated on-premises environment and migrate it to AWS. These teams must analyze, design, migrate, modernize, optimize the workload and operate it successfully! Join us to test and grow your AWS skills with light competition and gamification. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate migrations with AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator
PEX302 Are you looking to orchestrate large-scale migrations using a factory approach? This year, AWS announced a new feature called AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator to guide automations in a prescriptive manner. Attend this workshop and discover how to use predefined and customizable workflow templates to migrate onto AWS and modernize using AWS purpose-built services as applicable during factory migration. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Automating threat detection & incident response in your AWS environments
SUP301-R In this workshop, learn how to detect threats and respond to them in automated manner using AWS services. Explore multiple AWS security and logging services, and discover how to configure, aggregate, and correlate data between them. Detect threats using Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail. Then, learn how to use AWS services such as AWS Systems Manager, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions to responds to the threats. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a real-time multiplayer gaming app with AWS Amplify & AWS AppSync
FWM302-R Increase application engagement by providing differentiated user experiences that use real-time data. In this workshop, build an online, real-time multiplayer trivia application, and learn how to create a serverless web application quickly. In addition to game management, learn how to build real-time capabilities such as player scoring and leaderboards and game state updates. Find out how to use AWS Amplify to connect a frontend to a sophisticated backend with a GraphQL API powered by AWS AppSync, using subscriptions to deliver real-time data to users. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a serverless web application for a theme park
SVS202-R Learn how to build a complete serverless web application for a popular theme park called Innovator Island. The theme park is rolling out a mobile app that provides thousands of visitors with wait times, photo opportunities, notification alerts, and language translation for visitors who need it. In this workshop, get hands-on experience building a scalable serverless application with a single-page application (SPA) frontend that delivers a feature-rich user experience. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building a monitoring strategy
ARC301-R In this workshop, follow Amazon best practices to help organizations build a consistent approach to workload monitoring and observability. The goal is to create a strategy that aligns business and operational metrics. The workshop identifies the key metrics that matter most to delivering successful business outcomes. Customer organizations are most successful when they develop a monitoring strategy that starts with the client experience and utilizes the appropriate technologies. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Decoupled microservices
API202-R Companies may deal with integration challenges in many areas and on many layers, and all integration approaches come with their individual trade-offs. However, loosely coupled integration can not only help with designing independent systems that can be developed and operated individually but can also increase availability and reliability of the overall systems landscape. In this workshop, implement fundamental integration patterns in a serverless microservices scenario on AWS. The focus is on standard integration patterns for loose coupling and asynchronous communication and how simply they can be implemented with cloud-native services on AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get started with OpenSearch
OPN203-R1REPEAT OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. In this workshop, deploy an OpenSearch cluster and a simple container application for searching that data. Pull log and metric data, send it to OpenSearch to visualize the performance of your application, and use OpenSearch's observability capabilities to debug issues with your application. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with Amazon WorkSpaces
EUC306-R In this workshop, learn how to deploy cloud desktops using Amazon WorkSpaces and the AWS Directory Service for your organization’s end users. Amazon WorkSpaces is a secure, fully managed desktop computing service that allows you to easily provision cloud-based virtual desktops to provide your users access to the documents, applications, and resources they need. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with serverless
SVS203-R In this workshop, create your first serverless web application using AWS services like Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. Learn modern development techniques to build, secure, deploy, and monitor a serverless application, and take away serverless best practices that can be applied to your own projects. Come see how quickly you can turn your ideas into working products with serverless application development. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Intelligently automating cloud operations
SUP303-R You can surface insights from best practices, security, fault tolerance, and performance using AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Health, and Amazon DevOps Guru. Join this workshop to learn how to automate these insights intelligently using AWS services and machine learning tools. After discussing the data insights that you surface, walk through setting up repeatable automation pipelines and using anomaly detection to drive automation across your infrastructure and then validate your automations using AWS Fault Injection Simulator. Also, learn how to use Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and AWS machine learning services such as Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection and Amazon Forecast. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Learn to deploy containerized applications in hybrid cloud environments
CON304-R Attend this workshop to learn more about using the efficiencies and benefits of containers in a hybrid environment. Consider how you can satisfy compliance, data gravity, and other business requirements by running your workloads on infrastructure you own while enjoying simple and familiar container tooling. Learn how you can run containerized data processing workloads at edge locations on your own hardware to allow you to stay close to your end users and maintain reduced latency. Also, discover machine learning, image processing, big data, and other application workloads that don’t require you to transfer your data to the cloud or manage a third-party orchestration software. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Startup optimization: Tuning app performance for maximum efficiency
STP302 First impressions are key. If customers find your application slow, you may not get another chance. Do you know how to troubleshoot slow performance? In this workshop, learn approaches to understanding the performance of your applications and various optimization techniques that can be directly applied to your AWS environment with minimal time and effort. Using an AWS account with a sample application experiencing poor performance, work to determine root cause, and then find ways to optimize both your AWS infrastructure and your application code to achieve maximum efficiency (and potentially reduce costs). You must bring your laptop to participate.
The serverless future of cloud data analytics
BOA302-R According to the estimates, by 2030, humans will generate an ocean of data up to 572 zettabytes, which is equal to 572 million petabytes. This poses the question: How do we prepare our IT environments for the challenges of continually growing demand for infrastructure without inflating infrastructure costs and spending countless hours on maintenance? One answer for such future challenges is serverless services. Join this workshop to learn how to use serverless in practice, starting from data acquisition through processing, orchestration, and gathering insights, without worrying about capacity planning, infrastructure, and operational specificity of various tools used in the process.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R2REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build analytics applications using Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Serverless
ANT309-R In this workshop, learn how to build an Apache Spark?based application and run it using Amazon EMR Serverless. Start with developing your application locally in VS Code and use GitHub Actions to test and run the application on Amazon EMR Serverless, then debug in-progress applications. Learn how to configure unit tests when a push is made, run data quality checks when a pull request is opened, and automatically package and deploy new application releases. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building apps to isolate & process sensitive data with AWS Nitro Enclaves
CMP306-R1REPEAT Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to isolate highly sensitive data from your own users, applications, and third-party libraries on your Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Nitro Enclaves. Explore Nitro Enclaves, discuss common use cases, and build and run an enclave. This workshop covers enclave isolation, cryptographic attestation, enclave image files, how to build a local vsock communication channel, CI/CD setup for enclave-based applications, how to debug common scenarios, the enclave lifecycle, tools, and SDKs. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Cloud-native development of synthetic sensors with BlackBerry IVY
AUT303 In this workshop, learn how to use a novel automotive-native software development infrastructure that can run binary equivalent workloads―with environmental parity ― to targeted compute elements. Discover how BlackBerry IVY synthetic sensors can be developed in the cloud environment and deployed at the embedded edge seamlessly. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Concepts to take your Kubernetes operations and scale to the next level
CON402-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn about Kubernetes best practices and dive into the critical concepts, tools, and configurations necessary to ensure application health. Gain hands-on experience securing, scaling, and observing Kubernetes to identify, debug, and improve overall performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Continuous integration and delivery on AWS
DOP310-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn about creating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure as code on AWS. Review fundamental concepts of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery. Then, using TypeScript, create a web application and use Docker to build a container image. Using the same language your application is written in, build your CI/CD pipeline code and application infrastructure for both test and production environments using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Get ready to build! You must bring your laptop to participate.
Executive security simulation
SEC208 This workshop features an executive security simulation, designed to take senior security management and IT or business executive teams through an experiential exercise that illuminates key decision points for a successful and secure cloud journey. During this team-based, game-like simulation, use an industry case study to make strategic security, risk, and compliance decisions and investments. Experience the impact of these investments and decisions on the critical aspects of your secure cloud adoption. Learn about the major success factors that impact security, risk, and compliance in the cloud and applicable decision and investment approaches to specific secure cloud adoption journeys.
Extract AI-driven customer insights using Post-Call Analytics
AIM402-R Companies are transforming existing contact centers by adding AI/ML to deliver actionable insights and improve automation with existing telephony systems. Join this workshop to learn how to use the AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) Post-Call Analytics solution to derive AI-driven insights from virtually all customer conversations. Explore how you can automatically generate insights like sentiment, call issues, agent actions, and outcomes, as well as detect entities. See how you can increase the accuracy of the transcriptions using the custom vocabulary features of Amazon Transcribe. Finally, move on to building analytics dashboards on Amazon QuickSight to report the metrics that are important to your business. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Launch a highly available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail
CMP217 Attend this workshop to learn how to host your business applications on Amazon Lightsail. Phone systems, ecommerce shops, blogs, and more can all be hosted with WordPress on Lightsail. With Lightsail, you don’t need to run applications on multiple hosting platforms. Discover how you can quickly deploy and configure virtually any application at a predictable monthly rate. You must bring your laptop to participate.
SaaS microservices deep dive: Multi-tenancy meets microservices
SAS403-R Microservices represent the area of your SaaS application where multi-tenant context meets the everyday coding needs of SaaS developers. The microservices of your SaaS environment are where you ultimately apply constructs that address tenant isolation, accessing data with tenant context, recording tenant-aware metrics, integrating with billing systems, interacting with other multi-tenant microservices, and much more. In this workshop, create real-world microservices that cover a broad spectrum of multi-tenant use cases and implementation strategies. See how SaaS influences the inner workings of your microservices. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Transforming your data with Amazon S3 Object Lambda
STG316-R Amazon S3 Object Lambda works with your existing applications and allows you to add your own code using AWS Lambda functions to automatically process and transform data from Amazon S3 before returning it to an application. This allows different views of the same object depending on user identity, so you can restrict access to confidential information or disallow access to PII data. In this workshop, learn how to use Amazon S3 Object Lambda to modify the object during the GET so you no longer have to store multiple views of the same document. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R3REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Amazon EKS SaaS: Building a working multi-tenant environment
SAS401-R1REPEAT Amazon EKS provides SaaS developers with a rich collection of constructs that can be used to create a SaaS solution. In this workshop, learn how to build a complete multi-tenant SaaS environment that highlights the different strategies and considerations that come with building, securing, and deploying SaaS applications in an Amazon EKS model. Work through labs that demonstrate the implementation of core multi-tenant concepts, including onboarding, tenant isolation, tiering, cost attribution, and data partitioning. Get hands-on experience with the moving parts of an Amazon EKS SaaS solution while discovering the nuances of the Amazon EKS SaaS model. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Application modernization using Amazon EKS Blueprints for AWS CDK
PEX303-R Attend this workshop to learn how to use the Amazon EKS Blueprints for AWS CDK to build and deploy a multi-tenant container solution on top of Amazon EKS. Gain a deep understanding of how to use the EKS Blueprints for AWS CDK framework to define and deploy Amazon EKS clusters that address all day-two operations using AWS CDK. To get the most out of this workshop, it’s helpful to have a basic understanding of AWS CDK, TypeScript, and Amazon EKS. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Building AI-activated robots for dynamic pick-and-place operations
ROB305-R This workshop shows how developers can integrate AI into Robot Operating System (ROS) applications using managed zero-code ML services. Use Amazon Rekognition to enable a 4-DOF robot arm to comprehend its environment and autonomously interact with objects around it. Learn how this approach to AI integration provides ROS developers the opportunity to build smarter robots―ones capable of dynamically responding to their surroundings―without AI, ML, or CV expertise. Join this workshop to deploy, test, and fine-tune your AI pipeline on real robot hardware and compete to grab the most objects placed around the robot. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building containerized apps: From development to production
BOA317-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to develop with containers with fewer challenges and implement best practices using AWS Copilot, an AWS CLI tool designed to deploy containers with best practices. Walk through how to build a virtual photo booth app and deploy it into Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate. Start with a simple API implementation, horizontal scaling, and integration with Amazon DynamoDB to implement CI/CD. Then, as the app grows, implement asynchronous communication and implement publish/subscribe. Gain a practical knowledge of using AWS Copilot for deployment to a DevOps implementation.
Decoupled microservices
API202-R1REPEAT Companies may deal with integration challenges in many areas and on many layers, and all integration approaches come with their individual trade-offs. However, loosely coupled integration can not only help with designing independent systems that can be developed and operated individually but can also increase availability and reliability of the overall systems landscape. In this workshop, implement fundamental integration patterns in a serverless microservices scenario on AWS. The focus is on standard integration patterns for loose coupling and asynchronous communication and how simply they can be implemented with cloud-native services on AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploying a complete machine learning fraud detection solution
STP303-R It’s crucial for startups to get to market early with a minimum viable product and iterate as they gather feedback. For this reason, overhead reduction is one of the most important goals of hypergrowth startups. In this workshop, learn how to build automated training and inference pipelines with Amazon SageMaker for machine learning fraud detection, on-demand capabilities, mitigation of training bias, and support preprocessing. This solution serves as a reference implementation, making it easier to implement a complete training and inference pipeline. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Explore the foundations of AWS container services
CON203 In this workshop, start at the beginning of the modern application deployment process and learn how Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, and AWS App Runner form a flexible and powerful set of experiences to deploy, run, secure, and scale containers. Work through a step-by-step, hands-on workshop in which you determine the right application to use and learn how to deploy microservices, set up the proper observability, and implement networks and security the right way the first time. Finally, explore how to seamlessly and securely integrate with the vast offerings of AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Putting cost optimization into practice
ARC202-R In this hands-on workshop, set up monitoring and analysis for your AWS costs using Amazon Athena and AWS Glue. Measure your workload efficiency and create dashboards for your teams so they can use Amazon QuickSight to stay on top of their usage and take necessary steps to optimize their costs. Also learn about the latest enhancements and announcements in the cost-control space. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Replatforming a mainframe application to AWS with Micro Focus
ENT318 In this workshop, you encounter the following scenario: Customer MyBank runs a business-critical application managing credit cards and corresponding accounts. It’s a CICS COBOL application with BMS maps and VSAM files. Because MyBank wants to modernize application infrastructure and IT processes, you use the AWS Mainframe Modernization Replatform solution with Micro Focus Enterprise technology to analyze the application, replatform the programs and data, and implement it on an AWS Cloud native runtime. Join this hands-on workshop to experience Micro Focus mainframe replatforming. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Secrets to a successful migration at scale
ENT321-R1REPEAT Large-scale migrations of numerous servers can be costly and involve time-consuming manual tasks and long cutover windows. Automating the migration process simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of cloud migration. This workshop shows you how to use automated solutions to migrate large numbers of servers to the AWS Cloud. First, learn how AWS Migration Evaluator provides an initial assessment of your migration project, including a projected cost estimate. Then, learn how the Cloud Migration Factory on AWS solution's orchestration platform reduces manual processes by integrating multiple tools efficiently, including the recommended migration service, AWS Application Migration Service. You must bring your laptop to participate.
The AWS Step Functions workshop
API201-R Join this workshop to learn the primary features of AWS Step Functions. Step Functions is a low-code, visual workflow service that developers use to build distributed applications, automate IT and business processes, and build data and machine learning pipelines using AWS services. This workshop contains a series of interactive modules that give you hands-on experience building resilient workflows with robust error handling in a workshop environment. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Analytics for games
GAM205 Game developers need the most up-to-date information about player engagement. Speed is key and success relies on real-time analytics, whether it’s identifying which in-game items are most purchased, seeing how advertising and IAP currency sales are performing, or discovering where players are getting stuck. Learn how to make faster, better decisions, visualize trends as they happen, and share live results with teams. In this workshop, learn how to build an analytics pipeline on AWS and see AWS services in action, including Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue DataBrew, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight, and how they can help extend the game’s lifecycle with more engaged and happy players. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Boost your serverless application availability with AIOps on AWS
DOP307-R As applications become increasingly distributed and complex, developers and IT operations teams need more automated practices to maintain application availability and reduce the time and effort spent detecting, debugging, and resolving operational issues manually. In this workshop, learn how you can make the shift toward more automation and more proactive mechanisms and help your IT team innovate faster with AWS AIOps solutions. Use cases covered span multiple AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, and Amazon EKS. Learn how to reduce MTTR and quickly identify issues within your AWS infrastructure. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Bringing machine learning and automation to remote systems
ENU302 Real-time equipment optimization is a challenge for most field environments. Traditional industrial control systems rely on human intervention, and modern systems use the cloud for automation. However, these may still be prone to connectivity and latency limitations. In this workshop, learn how to use AWS IoT and Amazon Machine Learning services that can be deployed at the edge to adapt to changing environmental conditions in real time, without human intervention or the need for continuous connectivity. This automated feedback loop allows for faster decision making and responses to changing environment conditions that optimize performance and limit equipment downtime. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a full-stack retail web application with AWS Amplify
FWM303-R User-facing web and mobile applications are the primary touchpoint between organizations and their customers. To meet the ever-rising bar for customer experience, developers must deliver high-quality applications with both foundational and differentiating features. AWS Amplify helps frontend developers build faster front to back. In this workshop, learn how to build a full-stack retail web application with frontend UI and a backend with AWS Amplify Studio. Discover how to approach use cases such as data, authentication, storage, and APIs, and how to extend use cases as your needs evolve. Finally, learn how to deploy your serverless application using Amplify Hosting built-in hosting and out-of-the-box CI/CD capabilities. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build human-like customer experiences with conversational AI
AIM403 Today’s contact centers provide omnichannel services so that customers can interact by chat or phone. With shorter hold times, chat has helped solve some of the challenges associated with traditional voice-based contact centers, but it is still constrained by the need for live agents. While interactive voice response (IVR) systems help with some automation, their deterministic behavior frustrates many customers. Contact centers can solve for this using conversational AI. In this workshop, learn how you can use powerful conversational AI with Amazon Lex, Amazon Kendra, and the Amazon Chime SDK to build fully automated human-like chat experiences and alleviate challenges with IVR systems. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Continuous cost and sustainability optimization
SUP304-R In this workshop, learn best practices for cost and sustainability optimization. Shift costs and sustainability responsibilities from the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to end users and application owners aided by automation at scale. Learn about cost efficiency and implementing mechanisms that empower application owners to have clear, actionable tasks for cost and sustainability optimization building upon real-world use cases. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Explore and migrate to VMware Cloud on AWS (sponsored by VMware)
PRT331 VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to accelerate their cloud migration in a simple, fast, and low-risk way. In this workshop, learn how to set up a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC), use the latest new capabilities, and start migrating workloads. How do you set your company up for successful cloud migrations? What migration options do you have? How can you scale storage separate from computing resources? Find the answers to all these questions in this workshop. Seize the chance to gain hands-on experience in the fundamentals of migrating workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an AWS Partner.
Finding data in a life science data mesh
LFS303 Data sources for analytic needs in healthcare and life sciences are growing exponentially but are often not centralized in a common data lake. Finding data sources across a data mesh needs to be intuitive and easy. In this workshop, learn how to create an intuitive semantic search solution by building a knowledge graph in Amazon Neptune that connects different clinical ontologies by disease concepts. Then, extend the knowledge graph to connect an aggregated data profile of a data product in Amazon S3 and AWS LakeFormation. With this knowledge graph, you will be able to search for relevant data products in an AWS Glue Data Catalog using familiar disease concepts. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get better at building AWS CDK constructs
DOP401-R In this workshop, dive deep into how to design AWS CDK constructs, which are reusable and shareable cloud components that meet your organization’s security, compliance, and governance requirements. Learn how to build, test, and share level-one constructs representing a single AWS resource, as well as higher-level abstractions (level-two and level-three constructs) that include built-in defaults and provision multiple AWS resources. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Improve customer retention with AI-powered contact centers
BIZ310-R1REPEAT This workshop is intended for Amazon Connect users and data scientists and covers how to predict customer churn and proactively engage agents to retain customers. In this workshop, use real-time transcription and sentiment analysis from Contact Lens for Amazon Connect combined with customer profile data to train a machine learning model using Amazon SageMaker. Then, use this model to predict the probability of customer churn in real time based on the live customer interaction. Finally, use Amazon Connect Tasks, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon SNS to proactively alert a retention associate equipped with the right data and insights to intervene. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Migrate relational databases to Amazon RDS or Aurora using AWS DMS & SCT
DAT309 Gain hands-on experience migrating your relational databases to the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, carefully consider your migration options for adopting Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora as your target. Then, learn how to use the AWS SCT, AWS DMS, and AWS DMS Fleet Advisor to plan the migration, implement the schema conversion, and migrate data to your target databases. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Run Windows containers on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate
ENT401 Customers have been running Linux containers on AWS for years, and now, as Windows teams start to modernize, migrate, and optimize their workloads, they want to align best practices across platforms. Join this workshop to gain hands-on experience building and operating Windows containers on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate. You can choose to work with all three services or just pick the one(s) you find interesting. You must bring a laptop with an RDP client installed to participate. AWS will provide an AWS account.
Securing serverless applications
SVS309-R This workshop shows you techniques to secure a serverless application built with AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora. Learn about AWS services and features you can use to improve the security of a serverless applications in five domains: identity and access management, infrastructure, data, code, and logging and monitoring. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Using Apache Spark for data science and ML workflows with Amazon EMR
ANT313 Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. Analyzing, transforming, and preparing large amounts of data is a foundational step in any data science or ML workflow. Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and ML applications with open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. In this workshop, learn about recent integrations between the services making it simple for data scientists and ML engineers to use distributed big data frameworks in ML workflows. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Working backwards in action: Starting with your customers
INO202-R This intensive and highly collaborative workshop is inspired by the same customer-centric methods used by Amazon to develop breakthrough innovations our customers love, such as Amazon Prime, Amazon Kindle, AWS, Amazon Echo, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Go. In this workshop, engage with an interactive journey that introduces you to the working backwards process. Walk through some of the general activities and outputs of a full digital innovation working backwards project.
AWS Network Firewall and DNS Firewall security in multi-VPC architectures
SEC302-R This workshop guides participants through configuring AWS Network Firewall and Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in an AWS multi-VPC environment. It demonstrates how VPCs can be interconnected with a centralized AWS Network Firewall and DNS Firewall configuration to ease the governance requirements of network security. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate AWS observability for your containers
COP309-R Collecting observability signals, such as metrics, logs, and traces, from container environments can be a challenging task. In this workshop, get hands-on experience with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry using opinionated solutions such as Amazon EKS observability accelerator and the new Amazon ECS console experience to collect metrics and traces from your container applications and send them to AWS observability services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and AWS X-Ray. Also, learn to query, correlate, and visualize signals from these data sources along with advanced configurations such as Grafana teams and SAML integration with third-party authentication providers using Amazon Managed Grafana. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build Kubernetes at scale using AWS file services
STG326-R In this scenario-based workshop, learn how you can launch and use Amazon FSx fully managed file services to power your Amazon EKS Kubernetes container workloads. Deploy a container-based workload with persistent storage from Amazon FSx to better understand the benefits and key features for container-based workloads. The workshop also touches on dimensions such as performance, scale, high availability, and how to create clones of your DevOps data in seconds, or replicate and access your data seamlessly across AWS Regions, to further power at-scale container-based workloads. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build an SAP data lake & automate business processes with Amazon AppFlow
ENT225 In this workshop, learn how to solve common business problems using native AWS services in conjunction with SAP applications. First, create an SAP data lake by setting up bidirectional data flows between your SAP applications and AWS services. Then, use Amazon Textract to process inbound invoice documents and upload them to Amazon S3. Then, invoke AWS Lambda to call the Amazon Textract API and check the sales order fields against order numbers inside the SAP sales order. Finally, observe how the sales order will automatically update to match the quantity from the invoice. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch
CMP335-R In this workshop, gain an understanding of the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon EKS. Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts and how AWS Batch works together with your other AWS services running within Amazon EKS. In this workshop, deploy an Amazon EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to manage pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate.
From serverful to serverless Java with AWS Lambda
SVS310 The traditional approach to develop and run Java applications included setting up applications servers, required complex build and dependency management, and often relied on large enterprise frameworks. In contrast, serverless functions are ideally short-lived, single-purposed, and not reliant on extensive infrastructure configuration. This has encouraged new frameworks, concepts, and techniques to evolve. In this workshop, learn how to bring traditional Java Spring applications to AWS Lambda with minimal effort and iteratively apply optimizations to enhance your serverless Java experience. Hear about best practices, performance trade-offs, and design considerations for each step to help you make well-informed decisions when bringing enterprise Java applications to AWS Lambda. You must bri...
Get hands-on to learn about AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN and new updates
IOT313 With AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, you can connect wireless devices that use low-power, long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) protocol to the AWS Cloud. In this hands-on workshop, learn about new updates to AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, such as a new use case for location service. Build a private LoRaWAN network using gateways and devices provided by AWS Partners to deploy an environmental monitoring solution that visualizes data from the LoRaWAN sensors. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get started with OpenSearch
OPN203-R OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. In this workshop, deploy an OpenSearch cluster and a simple container application for searching that data. Pull log and metric data, send it to OpenSearch to visualize the performance of your application, and use OpenSearch’s observability capabilities to debug issues with your application. You must bring your laptop to participate.
SaaS microservices deep dive: Multi-tenancy meets microservices
SAS403-R1REPEAT Microservices represent the area of your SaaS application where multi-tenant context meets the everyday coding needs of SaaS developers. The microservices of your SaaS environment are where you ultimately apply constructs that address tenant isolation, accessing data with tenant context, recording tenant-aware metrics, integrating with billing systems, interacting with other multi-tenant microservices, and much more. In this workshop, create real-world microservices that cover a broad spectrum of multi-tenant use cases and implementation strategies. See how SaaS influences the inner workings of your microservices. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Secure and govern your third-party products on AWS Marketplace
MKT301 With features offered by AWS Marketplace, you can securely govern the procurement and usage of third-party products in your AWS environment. In this workshop, learn how to set up guardrails so only authorized products from AWS Marketplace can be procured by authorized personnel in your organization, and discover how to distribute licenses. Get hands-on experience building an AWS private marketplace, creating and managing multiple private marketplace catalogs, and using managed entitlements via AWS License Manager to distribute licenses. This workshop requires an active AWS account with admin rights. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Turbocharge your ML transformation with AWS DeepRacer events
DPR101 In this workshop, learn how to build an inclusive machine learning (ML) company culture, no matter where in the world your teams are located. Discover how easy it is to build online, in-person, and hybrid employee events that foster organization-wide collaboration and competition with guided hands-on ML instruction through the lens of multiple customer success stories. AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get your team started with ML. Utilizing a virtual 3D racing simulator, broadcasting tools, and 1/18th-scale autonomous RC cars, AWS DeepRacer puts the “fun” in ML fundamentals. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Use machine learning to automate and process documents at scale
AIM311 Organizations continue to see an influx of paper-based and digital documents, which must be stored and processed. Many organizations are burdened with a fragile or inadequate document processing pipeline. In this workshop, gain hands-on instruction to build a document processing pipeline to process, extract, store, and search documents at scale. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Become a network support expert: We break it, you fix it
NET307-R Troubleshooting is a muscle that must be exercised. In this workshop, troubleshoot and deploy fixes to several networking problems. Perform root-cause analysis using AWS tools to review logs and grow your troubleshooting capabilities. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a content moderation workflow to protect users, brands & information
AIM316 As the volume, complexity, and speed of user-generated content increase, organizations of all sizes commit significant technical and human resources to help ensure that customers and brands are not harmed by offensive material and that sensitive information is not exposed publicly, all while keeping operational costs down. Join this workshop to learn how to build a multimodal content moderation workflow that processes and analyzes images, videos, text, and audio using AWS AI services. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a data mesh with AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue
ANT310-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to build a data mesh architecture on AWS. Organizations are interested in implementing this architecture to move away from centralized data lakes and toward decentralized ownership and delivery of analytics solutions across business units. Learn about data mesh fundamentals and principles, how data mesh can impact your organization, and how data mesh architecture can be implemented with AWS services. Build your own data mesh using AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, and AWS CDK, and share data across business units. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building your own Apache Kafka connectors
BOA301 Apache Kafka is one of the best ways to replicate data over disparate systems. A common architecture design consists of pushing data from relational databases to purpose-built ones using change data capture (CDC), Kafka Connect, and Kafka. This technique provides data consistency, immutability, and fast data transmission using only open-source technologies. But what if you don’t have a compatible connector? Don’t worry. You can build your own Kafka connectors. In this workshop, learn the architectural design aspects of Kafka Connect and the details of its SDK. Build a new connector that reads data from a source and writes onto Kafka. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Configuring Amazon S3 security settings and access controls
STG315-R Amazon S3 provides a number of different settings to help you secure your data, controls to ensure that those settings remain in place, and features to help you audit all of the above. In this workshop, learn about the different capabilities of Amazon S3 and apply them in scenarios for different security requirements. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Detecting deforestation with geospatial images and Amazon SageMaker
SUS201-R Since 1990, the earth has lost about one billion acres of forest, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In this workshop, learn how to track deforestation caused by fires and forest cutting using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and visualize changes using Amazon SageMaker Studio labs. Build a SageMaker Jupyter Notebook that uses Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) geospatial imagery and calculates pixel changes, known as spectral indices. Create a machine learning model that identifies newly deforested areas and detects forest cut changes. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Develop event-driven applications using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2
DAT310-R Event-driven architecture is a software architecture promoting the production, detection, and consumption of events, as well as the reaction to them. It provides increased availability, elasticity, scalability, and cost optimization by promoting microservices, which are small, specialized services performing a narrow set of functions that can independently scale to meet demand. In this workshop, learn how to build an event-driven serverless application using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 as a relational, persistent database supporting your microservices. Discover how Aurora Serverless V2 is able to seamlessly scale and keep up with your workload. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Dive deep on the FedRAMP authorization process
WPS201-R1REPEAT The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. This two-hour workshop helps you understand how the Authority to Operate (ATO) process works, what the considerations for getting FedRAMP certification entails, and how to use AWS services to meet your assessment requirements. Leave this workshop knowing if FedRAMP is right for your organization, what the different levels mean, how to operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, and how to use AWS resources to expedite the process. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with Amazon AppStream 2.0
EUC303 In this workshop, learn how to deploy applications and desktops using Amazon AppStream 2.0. AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, non-persistent application and desktop streaming service that runs on AWS. Administrators can simplify application management, improve security, and reduce costs by moving a company’s applications from their users’ physical devices to the AWS Cloud. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
CON204-R Ready to kick off or accelerate your Kubernetes experience? This workshop provides an introduction to Kubernetes using the AWS managed Kubernetes service Amazon EKS. Previous experience with Kubernetes or container workflows is useful but not required. During this workshop you deploy everything needed to have a set of microservices running with additional useful day-2 functionality in place. The workshop includes deploying a set of microservices, configuring a load balancer in front of your service, configuring centralized logging, and enabling automatic scaling of your pods and worker nodes. You must bring your laptop to participate.
How to use Terraform to deploy AWS security solutions
BOA313-R Many modern organizations are taking an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach to provide a consistent language in multi-vendor environments, and Terraform is a popular choice to facilitate this. In this workshop, learn how you can use IaC for security deployments. Discover how to deploy AWS WAF, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail event logs, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs to protect your applications and provide deep monitoring capabilities. Also, find out how to activate email notifications with Amazon SNS and use Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda functions to automatically isolate infected hosts. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Making the most of the AWS Cloud for macOS development
CMP304 Amazon EC2 Mac instances allow you to run on-demand macOS workloads for Apple application development in the cloud. Whether you use the new EC2 M1 Mac instances or the x86-based EC2 Mac instances, join this workshop to dive deep into architectures and best practices when migrating macOS CI/CD pipelines to AWS. Hear success stories and explore how they migrated their macOS development pipelines to EC2 Mac instances and optimized their workflows to take advantage of the AWS Cloud. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Modernizing your workload for speed and flexibility
ENT312-R In this workshop, learn how to quickly take a workload from monolithic on-premises architecture to a loosely coupled distributed microservices architecture using serverless with AWS Lambda. Learn how this modern architecture enables speed with development and flexibility to pivot technology stacks based on business capability requirements. Follow a real-world migration and modernization scenario starting with migration of a server onto Amazon EC2, containerization of applications using AWS App Runner, and decomposition of the monolith using AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces and AWS Lambda. Leave the workshop knowing how to take your workload to a modern cloud architecture. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Threat detection and response workshop
SEC301-R This workshop takes you through threat detection and response using Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector. The workshop simulates different threats to Amazon S3, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon EKS, and Amazon EC2 and illustrates both manual and automated responses with AWS Lambda. Learn how to operationalize security findings. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate software development lifecycles with GitOps
CON306-R GitOps simplifies both application deployments and operations tasks with Kubernetes. In this workshop, learn how to build a scalable, complete GitOps system that addresses the needs of both application teams and platform teams. The workshop covers application deployment, associated infrastructure resources, and Amazon EKS clusters into which the applications are deployed at scale via GitOps. Learn how to manage multiple Amazon EKS clusters, environments, and workloads; increase deployment speed for advanced deployment patterns; and handle canary and progressive releases safely with rollbacks. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Amazon EBS snapshots: Build protection and cost-optimize
STG314-R Data protection and reducing long-term data retention costs are top priorities for many organizations. In this workshop, learn how to use Amazon EBS snapshots to protect EBS volumes. Explore the EBS Snapshots Archive tier, which can save you up to 75 percent in snapshot storage costs. The workshop guides you through topics and workflows to optimize your EBS volumes and snapshots, such as encryption best practices, snapshots creation, access and data security management, volume recovery through snapshots, snapshots retrieval from EBS Snapshots Archive, and best practices to achieve optimal cost savings. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a full-stack retail web application with AWS Amplify
FWM303-R1REPEAT User-facing web and mobile applications are the primary touchpoint between organizations and their customers. To meet the ever-rising bar for customer experience, developers must deliver high-quality applications with both foundational and differentiating features. AWS Amplify helps frontend developers build faster front to back. In this workshop, learn how to build a full-stack retail web application with frontend UI and a backend with AWS Amplify Studio. Discover how to approach use cases such as data, authentication, storage, and APIs, and how to extend use cases as your needs evolve. Finally, learn how to deploy your serverless application using Amplify Hosting built-in hosting and out-of-the-box CI/CD capabilities. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build stateful K8s applications with ultra-fast Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
DAT313-R1REPEAT Microservices-based architectures are a top choice for developers that need to build applications for speed, scalability, and agility. Kubernetes is also a popular deployment and management system for microservice architectures. In this workshop, learn how to build, deploy, and operate a Kubernetes-based application with Amazon MemoryDB for Redis-an ultra-fast, durable, Redis-compatible database that is purpose-built for modern applications with microservice architectures requiring low latency and high availability. MemoryDB also supports native integration with Kubernetes. Experience firsthand how to use the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controller for MemoryDB (in developer preview) to define and operate MemoryDB and other relevant AWS service resources using Kubernetes-na...
Building a data perimeter to allow access to authorized users
SEC306 In this workshop, learn how to create a data perimeter by building controls that allow access to data only from expected network locations and by trusted identities. The workshop consists of five modules, each designed to illustrate a different AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principle or network control. Learn where and how to implement the appropriate controls based on different risk scenarios. Discover how to implement these controls as service control policies, identity- and resource-based policies, and virtual private cloud endpoint policies. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deep learning with Amazon SageMaker, AWS Trainium, and AWS Inferentia
AIM212-R1REPEAT With Amazon SageMaker you can build, train, and deploy machine learning models for almost any use case. Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium, and EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia, deliver the best price performance for deep learning training and inference. In this workshop, walk through training a BERT model for natural language processing on Trn1 instances to save up to 50 percent in training costs over equivalent GPU-based EC2 instances. Also learn how to deploy this model for inference on Inf1 instances for up to 2.3x higher throughput and up to 70 percent lower cost per inference than comparable GPU-based EC2 instances. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get hands-on with AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances
CMP303-R1REPEAT AWS Graviton processors are designed to deliver the best price performance for a wide variety of workloads in Amazon EC2. In this workshop, walk through moving a workload to AWS Graviton based instances, including containerized applications. This workshop is great for developers or IT practitioners who are running Linux-based workloads in Amazon EC2 and are looking for better price performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Go hybrid: Migrate and modernize with VMware Cloud on AWS
ENT320 Organizations today are looking for ways to extend their on-premises data center to the cloud without having to replatform or refactor their applications. The AWS and VMware integration provides a simple, fast, and cost-effective path to hybrid cloud while applying your VMware skills and experience. In this workshop, gain hands-on experience migrating virtual machines to the cloud using VMware Cloud on AWS. Also learn how you can combine your VMware Cloud virtual machines with AWS services including Amazon RDS for databases, Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, and AWS Backup for data protection. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Improve search relevance with ML in Amazon OpenSearch Service
ANT307 Search engines use text analysis to power your search. In this workshop, learn how machine learning (ML) transforms traditional search techniques with ML techniques for ranking, relevance, content, and query understanding. Go beyond lexical search and build next-generation semantic search with Amazon OpenSearch Service. Incorporate ML libraries like k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) powered by vectors. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Industrial automated quality inspection
MFG201 Join this workshop to get hands-on experience applying artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) for industrial use cases. Using a sample product quality image dataset, build and train an ML model with Amazon Lookout for Vision. Once the model has been trained, deploy it to an industrial edge device to detect quality issues on a production line and visualize the results in real time. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Ship securely: Automated security testing for developers
SEC307 In this workshop, learn how to build automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines using AWS services and open-source tools. The workshop highlights how to identify and mitigate common risks early in the development cycle and also covers how to incorporate code review steps. All this can help you ship faster and more securely. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Transforming your data with Amazon S3 Object Lambda
STG316-R1REPEAT Amazon S3 Object Lambda works with your existing applications and allows you to add your own code using AWS Lambda functions to automatically process and transform data from Amazon S3 before returning it to an application. This allows different views of the same object depending on user identity, so you can restrict access to confidential information or disallow access to PII data. In this workshop, learn how to use Amazon S3 Object Lambda to modify the object during the GET so you no longer have to store multiple views of the same document. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Advanced multi-AZ resilience patterns: Mitigating gray failures
ARC201-R1REPEAT Many organizations run their workloads in highly available multi-Availability Zone (AZ) configurations. These architectures perform well during binary failure events, but often encounter problems with "gray failures". The manifestations of these types of failures can be subtle and defy quick and definitive detection. This workshop demonstrates how you can use services like Amazon CloudWatch to detect gray failures as well as the use of two mitigation patterns to respond to them. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Architecting and delivering low-latency applications at the edge
HYB303-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to architect, design, build, and deploy applications at the edge using AWS hybrid cloud and edge computing services. Explore architecture best practices for deploying a high-bandwidth media streaming application to AWS Wavelength Zones on a 5G network. Learn the steps for deploying a real-time online game closer to your end users in large metro areas using AWS Local Zones. Explore the new challenges associated with edge computing, such as the need for location services, and use edge discovery services to identify the optimal location for client devices to connect to. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Best practices for high performance computing in the cloud
CMP305 Join this workshop to gain a solid skills foundation to run common high performance computing (HPC) workloads using cloud technologies. Start with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. Then, get a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies, such as object storage, in HPC workflows. Get hands-on experience setting up your own cluster in the cloud and running a sample application. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building a serverless Apache Kafka data pipeline
BOA325-R Serverless services allow you to build applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. This allows developers to avoid provisioning, scaling, and managing resource utilization. In this workshop, build a serverless data pipeline using Amazon MSK Serverless, which allows data to be consumed from many different client applications to accomplish downstream tasks such as dashboards and analytics. Learn how to start an Amazon MSK Serverless cluster, deploy a Kafka client container-based Lambda function, ingest data from various sources into a Kafka client, and consume data for downstream tasks like Amazon QuickSight dashboards. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building containerized apps: From development to production
BOA317-R In this workshop, learn how to develop with containers with fewer challenges and implement best practices using AWS Copilot, an AWS CLI tool designed to deploy containers with best practices. Walk through how to build a virtual photo booth app and deploy it into Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate. Start with a simple API implementation, horizontal scaling, and integration with Amazon DynamoDB to implement CI/CD. Then, as the app grows, implement asynchronous communication and implement publish/subscribe. Gain a practical knowledge of using AWS Copilot for deployment to a DevOps implementation.
Creating AWS industrial IoT digital twins
PEX301 In this workshop, learn how to connect your industrial assets to the AWS Cloud to ingest data using AWS IoT Greengrass. In addition, learn how to use AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, organize, and analyze data at scale from industrial equipment. Finally, learn how to create a digital twin using AWS IoT TwinMaker and visualize your data and digital twin using Amazon Managed Grafana. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Develop AWS CloudFormation templates to manage your infrastructure
DOP308-R In this workshop, learn how to develop and test AWS CloudFormation templates. Create CloudFormation templates to deploy and manage resources. Learn about CloudFormation language features that allow you to reuse and extend templates for many scenarios. Explore testing tools to validate your CloudFormation templates including cfn-lint and CloudFormation Guard. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Extract AI-driven customer insights using Post-Call Analytics
AIM402-R1REPEAT Companies are transforming existing contact centers by adding AI/ML to deliver actionable insights and improve automation with existing telephony systems. Join this workshop to learn how to use the AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) Post-Call Analytics solution to derive AI-driven insights from virtually all customer conversations. Explore how you can automatically generate insights like sentiment, call issues, agent actions, and outcomes, as well as detect entities. See how you can increase the accuracy of the transcriptions using the custom vocabulary features of Amazon Transcribe. Finally, move on to building analytics dashboards on Amazon QuickSight to report the metrics that are important to your business. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
CON204-R1REPEAT Ready to kick off or accelerate your Kubernetes experience? This workshop provides an introduction to Kubernetes using the AWS managed Kubernetes service Amazon EKS. Previous experience with Kubernetes or container workflows is useful but not required. During this workshop you deploy everything needed to have a set of microservices running with additional useful day-2 functionality in place. The workshop includes deploying a set of microservices, configuring a load balancer in front of your service, configuring centralized logging, and enabling automatic scaling of your pods and worker nodes. You must bring your laptop to participate.
How to create your dev/test environment on Amazon Lightsail
CMP224-R1REPEAT Creating development sandboxes and testing environments outside of your production environment lets you test without the concern of breaking something or spending large amounts of money. Amazon Lightsail provides lightweight virtual servers and other cloud resources at a low, predictable price, which allows you to test solutions in a low-risk way. In this workshop, learn how you can easily migrate your development resources in Lightsail to run production environments on Amazon EC2 and other AWS services. Learn about how to run your dev/test environments on Lightsail and migrate them to production workloads. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Migrate the AWS Well-Architected way
ENT316 The AWS Well-Architected Framework gives organizations a way to learn the best practices for operating secure, reliable, highly performant, cost-optimized, and sustainable workloads on the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, learn how to implement tips and best practices across the six pillars of the framework that we learned from migrating large-scale workloads to AWS Cloud using AWS Application Migration Service.
Running efficient Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EC2 with Karpenter
CMP405-R In this workshop, learn how to provision, manage, and maintain your Kubernetes clusters with Amazon EKS at virtually any scale using Karpenter. Karpenter is a node lifecycle management solution used to scale your Kubernetes cluster. It observes incoming pods and launches the right instances for the situation. Instance selection decisions are intent-based and driven by the specification of incoming pods, including resource requests and scheduling constraints. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Startup security: Techniques to stay secure while building quickly
STP301 This workshop covers techniques for protecting web applications without changing code. Learn how to apply these techniques to your AWS environment and how they align to common security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS. With a provided AWS account running the OWASP Juice Shop, make an attempt to exfiltrate its credentials. Then, use Amazon GuardDuty to detect and respond to the attack, AWS WAF to create a virtual patch to stop it, and VPC endpoint policies to prevent unintended use of the stolen credentials. Learn techniques that can help you build fast and stay secure. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Ticket automation and customer insights through NLP
SUP306 In this workshop, learn how to use Amazon Comprehend, an AWS natural language processing (NLP) service, to classify tickets, automate ticket handling, and gain insights from the classification data. Join this workshop to learn about automation and how to optimize your incident management process by harnessing the capabilities of AWS machine learning services. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Train & deploy a Hugging Face NLP model with AWS Trainium & AWS Inferentia
CMP206 Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, and Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia chips, are built to provide high performance and low-cost machine learning training and inference in the cloud. In this workshop, learn how to train a Hugging Face NLP model on a Trn1 instance and then deploy it on an Inf1 instance. The workshop also covers how to use NeuronPerf to generate performance benchmarks for your models. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Use AWS no-code services to build a credit default risk model
FSI305 In this workshop, get hands-on experience building applications using AWS no-code services in a financial services context. Your goal is to build a credit default risk model. Learn how to prepare the data using AWS Glue DataBrew and how to visualize it using Amazon QuickSight. Then, use Amazon SageMaker Canvas to build your first credit default risk model. Finally, use Amazon AppFlow to get live data from a credit bureau API and automate invoking your model. This workshop does not require coding or deep technical expertise. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R7REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer Arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory.
AWS serverless developer experience: A day in the life of a developer
SVS308-R Developers: this workshop provides you with an immersive experience of a serverless developer. Get hands-on experience building a serverless solution using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and AWS SAM CLI. Along the way, learn principles of event-driven distributed architecture, orchestration, and serverless observability. Explore open-source tools, core features of AWS Lambda Powertools, and CI/CD deployments. Choose from four runtimes―Python, TypeScript, Java, and .NET―and work with your own developer setup or use AWS Cloud9 to build the services. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate the ML lifecycle with Amazon SageMaker low-code tools
AIM201 Amazon SageMaker offers low-code tools for each step of the machine learning (ML) lifecycle so you can prepare data and build, train, and deploy high-quality models faster. In this workshop, discover how to use SageMaker low-code tools, including SageMaker Data Wrangler, SageMaker Autopilot, and SageMaker JumpStart, for ML. Whether you are an expert data scientist or just getting started with ML, learn how to quickly and easily prepare data for ML, automatically create ML models, and use prebuilt ML solutions to accelerate the ML lifecycle. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Become a network support expert: We break it, you fix it
NET307-R1REPEAT Troubleshooting is a muscle that must be exercised. In this workshop, troubleshoot and deploy fixes to several networking problems. Perform root-cause analysis using AWS tools to review logs and grow your troubleshooting capabilities. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a custom recommendation engine in 2 hours with Amazon Personalize
AIM312-R1REPEAT Using public datasets and common use cases, select relevant data, train a model, and apply business rules to generate high-quality recommendations powered by state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms using Amazon Personalize. In this workshop, learn how to build a customer-specific solution using your own data to deliver personalized experiences that can be integrated into your existing websites, applications, SMS, and email marketing systems using simple APIs. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building a disaster recovery strategy with VMware Cloud on AWS
ENT309 When building a strategy to protect your VMware infrastructure from disasters, it is important to balance factors such as speed, granularity of recovery, cost, and operational aspects. In this workshop, learn about the breadth of features within the different built-in disaster recovery services that are fully integrated into VMware Cloud on AWS. Get hands-on experience building recovery plans and runbooks and failing over your virtual machines. This workshop includes both VMware Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Carbon emissions reporting using modern data architecture on AWS
SUS203 Companies across the globe need to quantify their carbon emissions to track progress toward net-zero or carbon reduction goals, and regulators are increasing mandatory reporting requirements. Tracking emissions requires coordination across business units and involves data collection from operations, finance, the supply chain, and more. In this workshop, learn how to approach a simple carbon emissions accounting exercise while exploring the benefits of modern data architecture on AWS, which supports easy movement between data lakes, data warehouses, and purpose-built data stores. Use AWS analytics services to collect, manage, and analyze carbon emissions data. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch
CMP335-R1REPEAT In this workshop, gain an understanding of the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon EKS. Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts and how AWS Batch works together with your other AWS services running within Amazon EKS. In this workshop, deploy an Amazon EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to manage pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Design and build modern mobile apps
ARC302 In this workshop, build a photo-sharing app using AWS Amplify, and build serverless services using AWS Well-Architected best practices. Learn how to include capabilities like user signup/sign-in and management, storage, and real-time and offline data to support photo posting, likes, and in-app notifications. Gain hands-on experience designing and building a modern mobile app using AWS Amplify, AWS AppSync (GraphQL API), AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon Cognito. This workshop requires an iOS or Android mobile device with either Expo Go (for iOS) or Expo (for Android) installed. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Enable secure access to private resources with Amazon WorkSpaces Web
EUC304 Amazon WorkSpaces Web is a low-cost, fully managed workspace built specifically to facilitate secure access to internal websites and software as a service (SaaS) applications from existing web browsers, without the administrative burden of appliances or specialized client software. In this workshop, learn how to configure WorkSpaces Web to protect internal content with enterprise controls, while providing access to all your web-based applications to users from any browser at a predictable per-user cost. You must bring your laptop and have an AWS account to participate. AWS credits will be provided.
Operate Windows Server workloads at scale by using automation
ENT305-R In this workshop, learn how to operate Windows fleets at scale. First, use Amazon EC2 Image Builder to build, distribute, and deploy secure Windows images with your organization’s software and settings included. Next, learn how to use AWS Systems Manager to automate patching and set configurations at runtime. Finally, automate monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation through Amazon CloudWatch. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Raw data to social progress insights in 90 minutes
IMP204 Countries need a new measure to assess and quantify the things that really matter to people: Do I have enough to eat? Do I have shelter? Can I get an education? The Social Progress Index―created by the nonprofit Social Progress Imperative―meets that need. In this workshop, use index data to develop approaches that address basic human needs, locally and globally. In addition, derive meaningful insights from raw data using AWS analytics services to ingest, clean, enrich, and create curated datasets for analysis. Use Amazon Athena to conduct one-time analysis, and create visualizations with Amazon QuickSight. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Track and visualize your AWS cost and usage KPI targets
COP307 Measuring cost targets, such as Amazon EC2 spend by purchase options, Amazon S3 cost by storage tiering, and the age of your Amazon EBS snapshots, helps you identify cost-saving opportunities on AWS. Come to this workshop to learn how you can use the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards to track cost optimization KPIs recommended by AWS. Walk through how to use the dashboards to track the impact of optimizing your compute, storage, and other business unit costs, so you can learn how to maximize the value of AWS and scale your business. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS Migration and Modernization GameDay
ENT313-RREPEAT Nothing is better than learning by doing and putting your AWS skills to the test in a real-world gamified environment. AWS Migration and Modernization GameDay is an entirely hands-on opportunity for technical professionals to explore AWS services, architecture patterns, best practices, and group collaboration. In this GameDay, teams of professionals are tasked to take a sample workload running on a simulated on-premises environment and migrate it to AWS. These teams must analyze, design, migrate, modernize, optimize the workload and operate it successfully! Join us to test and grow your AWS skills with light competition and gamification. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Backup for applications running on the AWS Cloud
STG313 Backup is critical for organizations with regulatory compliance needs, and it’s also the last line of defense against ransomware events. In this workshop, explore different scenarios in which you can use AWS Backup to protect Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora databases, Amazon EFS or Amazon FSx file systems, and more with simple, auditor-ready compliance reporting. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Best practices for growing your business on Amazon Lightsail
CMP310 Whether you need a simple website, blog, ecommerce store, or other applications for your business, Amazon Lightsail gives you the tools you need to quickly and easily meet your requirements. In this workshop, launch and configure multiple products similar to those you may use in your own business. Learn about architecture and best practices when running your applications on Lightsail and how to avoid some common pitfalls. Gain confidence in your ability to successfully run your business applications online. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Beyond monitoring: Observability with operational analytics data
ANT306-R Ninety percent of issue resolution time is spent identifying the problem. Increasing the reliability of your distributed application and improving your incident response becomes vital in reducing the mean time to resolution. In this workshop, learn how you can use open-source tools, SDKs, and standards with Amazon OpenSearch Service to facilitate observability with your logs, traces, and metrics data. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build your first graph application with Amazon Neptune
DAT205 Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. In this workshop, get hands-on experience and learn how to use Amazon Neptune to create and load a connected graph dataset, write connected graph queries with Gremlin and openCypher, and generate rich visualizations with your connected data. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building cloud-connected robot dogs and making them dance
ROB304 Developing robotics platforms and scaling out deployments is made easier with AWS. In this workshop, learn how to build a cloud-connected dancing robot using the MangDang Mini Pupper running Robot Operating System (ROS). Gain direct experience authoring a robot application, and design dance routines in the cloud with simulations powered by AWS. Then, deploy the dance routines to the robot using AWS IoT Greengrass. Bring your dance moves for the workshop finale featuring a dance party with your fellow participants and robots! You must bring a laptop capable of SSH to participate.
How to build a pet tracker application with Amazon Location Service
FWM306 In this workshop, learn how to build a pet tracker application and how to add location functionalities, such as maps, assets, and trackers, to your application. Find out how to create and monitor geofences with Amazon Location Service. Also, discover how to deploy a serverless application that showcases AWS IoT integrations for geospatial use cases. Leave this workshop with a clear understanding of how to add maps and tracking features to applications and edge devices. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Migrating to purpose-built databases for microservices
ARC303 In this hands-on workshop, learn how to migrate a monolithic enterprise database to a purpose-built database with microservice architecture (MSA). Migrate a single RDBMS to in-memory (Redis), ranking (Redis), document (MongoDB), key-value (Amazon DynamoDB), and time-series (Amazon Timestream) purpose-built databases using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), database engine native utilities, and user-defined scripts. Also, migrate legacy applications to microservices to work with purpose-built databases. This workshop lets you experience application performance improvement while decreasing database load. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Operational excellence with AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript
OPN304 AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript is a suite of utilities for AWS Lambda functions that help simplify, accelerate, and scale the adoption of best practices for serverless applications. In this workshop, dive deep into some practical examples of how these utilities can help you run serverless workloads more effectively and gain insight into how they operate. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Product-led support: An essential ingredient for growth this decade (sponsored by DevRev)
PRT234 In this hands-on workshop, walk through deploying a NextJS application and follow a now-next-later methodology to create parts (features and capabilities), prioritize work items, and deploy these to a mock production system. Users get access to a few DevRev accounts and a Github repo for a sample application. This presentation is brought to you by DevRev, an AWS Partner.
Run Spark applications for less with Amazon EMR and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
CMP406 Wondering how to optimize costs when running Spark applications or speed up data processing without increasing your budget? In this workshop, learn how to optimize your Spark workloads using Amazon EMR and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Find out how to configure Amazon EMR using Instance Fleets and how to apply a selection criterion to diversify your workloads. Also learn how to dynamically scale your cluster as needed and use AWS Fault Injection Simulator to issue EC2 Spot interruptions and check what the impact of an interruption would be for your data and analytics workload.
Streaming ingestion and ML predictions with Amazon Redshift
ANT312 Data loses value quickly. It needs to be processed, analyzed, and even acted upon in near real time to bring value to businesses. Join this workshop to learn how you can use Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion to ingest streaming data into your data warehouse, analyze and transform the streaming data, build an ML model using Amazon Redshift ML, and run near real-time predictions on streaming data. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Troubleshooting from the perimeter
SUP302 How do you use troubleshooting methodologies across trust boundaries and data perimeters on AWS, especially across third-party products? With the right amount of access and control, various AWS services like Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon DevOps Guru are available to set up appropriate proactive and reactive monitoring. In this workshop, choose your preferred domain (compute/networking, databases, and serverless/DevOps), and then work on triaging an issue using techniques and best practices shared during the session. Come learn how to securely approach troubleshooting at scale on AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Turbocharging your applications with AWS in-memory databases
DAT307 In this workshop, learn how to reduce latency and increase throughput of your applications by using AWS in-memory database services for caching, session state management, and leaderboards. Find out how to deploy a purpose-built database strategy using Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Aurora, and build a scalable, high-performance database solution for workloads that require low latency and high throughput. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Turn your iPhone into an IoT device and visualize sensor metrics
IOT210 Did you know that iPhones have multiple sensors that you can use to transform your phone into an IoT device? This workshop provides you with the foundation to get comfortable building custom IoT solutions. First, choose from an array of built-in iPhone sensors such as accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, GPS compass, and more to collect and send data to AWS IoT Core for processing. Then learn how to build dashboards to visualize those sensor metrics. These learnings can be easily adapted to address a range of use cases across industries. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Using AWS Nitro Enclaves for secure blockchain key management
BLC401 AWS Nitro Enclaves offers a flexible and secure compute environment for blockchain-related key management tasks. In this workshop, set up an enclave, create a temporary Ethereum key, and use the enclave to securely sign an Ethereum transaction. You should understand how to sign transactions for the Ethereum blockchain to attend this workshop. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R4REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Advancing responsible AI: Bias assessment and transparency
AIM342 Building and operating machine learning applications responsibly requires an active, consistent approach to prevent, assess, and mitigate bias. This workshop takes you through a computer vision case study in assessing unwanted bias. It covers demographic group selection, evaluation dataset selection, bias metric selection, bias reporting, and root cause analysis. It concludes by discussing prevention, mitigation, and communication strategies. Follow along during the workshop with a Jupyter notebook. The workshop is led by a team of AWS experts who focus on responsible AI that develops science, tools, and best practices to advance responsible AI within AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Basketball shot success predictor: Deploy a motion-sensing ML model
HYB302 In this workshop, join AWS experts in deploying a basketball shot success predictor using AWS IoT and machine learning services on AWS Outposts. Discover how, with a basketball shot success predictor, basketball shots can be analyzed in real time to predict the likelihood of scoring before the ball hits the hoop. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a complete FAST channel
MNE302 Take your existing video content library in any format and generate a complete free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel. This workshop utilizes all AWS Elemental Media Services and shows you how to go from having unstructured video collections to a linear multi-bitrate stream with monetization built in for a fraction of the traditional playout costs. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building a monitoring strategy
ARC301-R1REPEAT In this workshop, follow Amazon best practices to help organizations build a consistent approach to workload monitoring and observability. The goal is to create a strategy that aligns business and operational metrics. The workshop identifies the key metrics that matter most to delivering successful business outcomes. Customer organizations are most successful when they develop a monitoring strategy that starts with the client experience and utilizes the appropriate technologies. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building event-driven architectures
API306-R Many customers choose to build event-driven application architectures in which subscribers or target services automatically perform in response to events triggered by publisher or source services. This pattern can help development teams operate more independently to release new features faster and make their applications more scalable. This workshop covers the basics of event-driven design using examples involving Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and more. Learn how to choose the right AWS service for the job and how to optimize for cost and performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploy a CI/CD pipeline with Amazon CloudFront
NET310 In this workshop, learn how to pair Amazon CloudFront with AWS developer tools like AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodePipeline to build a CI/CD pipeline to rapidly deploy a CloudFront distribution. Explore topics like branching and pipeline strategies and how to use blue/green deployments to safely deploy and test your applications on CloudFront. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Develop AWS CDK resources to deploy your applications on AWS
DOP309 In this workshop, learn how to build applications using infrastructure as code with AWS CDK. Create resources using AWS CDK and learn maintenance and operations tips. Walk through the steps of coding and building your own constructs (or integrating solution constructs) and publish them as shared libraries. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Hands-on experience with AWS observability services
COP308 Setting up great observability is key for successful IT operations, improved customer satisfaction, business growth, and agility in your enterprise. AWS offers a variety of turnkey observability services and solutions that you can deploy to build a reliable and scalable IT infrastructure in your environment. In this workshop, gain hands-on experience with how services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry can be used to set up monitoring on a variety of services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and many others. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Migrate your on-premises data to AWS storage using AWS DataSync
STG318 In this session, learn how to efficiently perform online migration of on-premises data to the cloud. Work hands-on with AWS DataSync to copy data from a simulated on-premises NAS to a variety of cloud targets including Amazon S3 and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This workshop covers three broad use cases for online data transfer at scale: analytics processing, archival storage, and data protection. You must bring your laptop to participate
Modernize .NET Framework applications with AWS tools
XNT305 This hands-on workshop takes you through an end-to-end ASP.NET application modernization journey. In this workshop, take an existing .NET Framework application, analyze and identify components to be modernized, and then modernize it using AWS tools such as Porting Assistant for .NET and AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET. Then, use modern infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CloudFormation templates to create resources to host the application using an automated deployment pipeline. Finally, learn best practices for building and deploying modern .NET applications on AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Serverless meets SaaS: Inside a real-world serverless SaaS solution
SAS402 Serverless architecture equips SaaS builders with new strategies and mechanisms that directly impact how they approach designing and building a SaaS solution. In this workshop, get experience with a working SaaS environment that deals with the various strategies and patterns that come with the serverless SaaS model. Learn how serverless influences the onboarding, tiering, tenant isolation, routing, and throttling strategies of your SaaS architecture. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Serverlesspresso: Building an event-driven application from the ground up
SVS306-R In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and more. By the end, you’ll have built a scalable serverless web application that allows users to order coffee and baristas to keep track of and fulfill orders. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS Contact Center Intelligence using AWS AI services
PEX305 Many customers are looking for opportunities to add intelligence to their contact center without degrading the customer experience. AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) is a way for you to meet this customer need. In this workshop, learn about options to modernize existing contact centers by using AI services including Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Kendra to handle large-scale interactions, cut costs, and improve the customer experience. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Boost productivity and avoid becoming overwhelmed
INO101-R Do you ever feel overwhelmed from the pressures of work and life? Do you ever get imposter syndrome or feel like the constant requests for your time are hindering your ability to make an impact? In this workshop, practice how to use emotional intelligence techniques such as self-awareness and self-management to understand hidden rules that are impacting your ability to find balance. Build your vision for success and learn about the techniques used to help more than 25,000 Amazonians supercharge their productivity. Laptops are not required to participate.
Building secure VPCs and integrating them into your network
NET308-R In this workshop, learn from practical guidance for designing and building secure Amazon VPCs. Using an interactive scenario-based approach, learn about (or refresh your knowledge of) Amazon VPC features like subnets, security groups, routing, and flow logs. Then see how to integrate your Amazon VPC with AWS services such AWS Network Firewall, Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, AWS Systems Manager, Traffic Mirroring, AWS WAF, AWS PrivateLink, and more. All examples follow best practices for Amazon VPC security, design, and management. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Continuous integration and delivery on AWS
DOP310-R In this workshop, learn about creating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure as code on AWS. Review fundamental concepts of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery. Then, using TypeScript, create a web application and use Docker to build a container image. Using the same language your application is written in, build your CI/CD pipeline code and application infrastructure for both test and production environments using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Get ready to build! You must bring your laptop to participate.
Data discovery and classification on AWS
SEC323 In this workshop, learn how to use Amazon Macie to discover and classify data in your Amazon S3 buckets. Dive deep into best practices as you follow the process of setting up Macie. Also use AWS Security Hub custom actions to set up a manual remediation, and investigate how to perform automated remediation using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploy an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in under 2 hours
ENT307-R As companies look to transition on-premises SAP systems to AWS, many also seek guidance on how to move to S/4HANA. In this workshop, learn how to deploy an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in just a few hours. First, use AWS Launch Wizard to automate provisioning of AWS services and install the software in accordance with SAP and AWS best practices. Then, configure observability and explore insights that help you maintain strong performance and reliability. Finally, walk through proven migration blueprints to move your organization’s existing SAP workloads to AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploying Amazon S3 in multiple AWS Regions to support global applications
STG317 Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points provide a single global endpoint to access a dataset that spans multiple Amazon S3 buckets in different AWS Regions. This allows you to build multi-Region applications with the same simple architecture used in a single Region and then to run those applications anywhere in the world. In this workshop, learn how you can scale your existing Amazon S3 data stack to multiple AWS Regions and clients across the globe. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with Amazon WorkSpaces
EUC306-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to deploy cloud desktops using Amazon WorkSpaces and the AWS Directory Service for your organization's end users. Amazon WorkSpaces is a secure, fully managed desktop computing service that allows you to easily provision cloud-based virtual desktops to provide your users access to the documents, applications, and resources they need. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Improve citizen services using intelligent document processing
WPS202 U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies spend trillions on social and safety net programs including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, with spending increasing every year. The volume of forms the government handles requires a large workforce to manually review and process paperwork. Agencies face many challenges with these programs, including increasing application backlogs and delayed benefits to citizens. In this workshop, learn how intelligent document processing can help enhance agency staff productivity using AWS AI and ML services such as Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Augmented AI. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Integrating disparate clinical data with purpose-built health AI services
HLC401 Healthcare and life science customers are challenged with pulling data such as electronic health records; CRM, audio, environmental, and scientific research data; and other data from disparate systems and using it to drive better patient, clinician, and research outcomes. In this workshop, get hands-on with AWS purpose-built healthcare services such as Amazon HealthLake and Amazon Comprehend Medical, and learn how to integrate disparate healthcare datasets to provide new insights to scientists and clinicians. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Monitoring EV battery health using AWS IoT FleetWise
IOT308 With auto manufacturers committed to electrifying their fleets over the next decade, the ability to monitor electric vehicle (EV) battery health will become critical to their success. In this workshop, get hands-on experience using AWS IoT FleetWise to collect battery management system (BMS) data and learn about the service’s technical capabilities and logical architecture. Walk through vehicle modeling, campaign creation, and data ingestion using AWS IoT FleetWise, then set up a dashboard to view insights. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Networking, service mesh, and service discovery with Amazon ECS
CON303 In this workshop, start with a deployed containerized application and explore all the native networking options available. By looking at multiple use cases, learn about connecting AWS containers to the people, places, and things that are important. Use cases in this workshop include connecting to an existing AWS environment, connecting securely to available AWS services like databases and load balancers, and discovering whether a service mesh and automatic service discovery are a necessary part of your deployment. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Route contacts based on emotion models with Amazon Connect and AI/ML
BIZ308 Contact center agents can struggle to identify and respond appropriately to different types of critical customer asks and situations. For example, someone contacting an airline about travel to visit a sick relative is going to be in a heightened emotional state. So is a bridesmaid whose dress has not arrived the day before her flight to a wedding, but the approach to these problems may differ. Learn how Amazon Connect and AI/ML can help agents identify and respond appropriately to both of these and similar situations.
Securing serverless applications
SVS309-R1REPEAT This workshop shows you techniques to secure a serverless application built with AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora. Learn about AWS services and features you can use to improve the security of a serverless applications in five domains: identity and access management, infrastructure, data, code, and logging and monitoring. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Use Terraform to build Microsoft infrastructure on AWS
ENT303 Terraform is used by many AWS Partners and customers. The AWS Terraform provider has been downloaded over 644 million times and has over 2,100 active contributors. In this workshop, explore how to use Terraform to deploy services such as Amazon EC2 for Windows Server, AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Learn from best practices for how to use Terraform to create fully functioning, well-architected AWS solutions in a quick and repeatable manner. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate AWS observability for your containers
COP309-R1REPEAT Collecting observability signals, such as metrics, logs, and traces, from container environments can be a challenging task. In this workshop, get hands-on experience with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry using opinionated solutions such as Amazon EKS observability accelerator and the new Amazon ECS console experience to collect metrics and traces from your container applications and send them to AWS observability services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and AWS X-Ray. Also, learn to query, correlate, and visualize signals from these data sources along with advanced configurations such as Grafana teams and SAML integration with third-party authentication providers using Amazon Managed Grafana. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Advanced cross-Region disaster recovery patterns
FSI307-R In this workshop, explore a resilient, cross-Region architecture that performs equity trade matching and settlement clearing. This highly available architecture is designed to exceed US regulatory standards for systemically important financial market utilities (SIFMUs) that are required to demonstrate out-of-Region recovery with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 30 seconds and a recovery time objective (RTO) of two hours or less. Learn about key design decisions, such as selecting cross-Region data stores, messaging, and shifting, and how to apply best practices for fail-safe DR orchestration. The architecture applies several AWS services, including Amazon ECS, Amazon MQ, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a data mesh with AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue
ANT310-R In this workshop, learn how to build a data mesh architecture on AWS. Organizations are interested in implementing this architecture to move away from centralized data lakes and toward decentralized ownership and delivery of analytics solutions across business units. Learn about data mesh fundamentals and principles, how data mesh can impact your organization, and how data mesh architecture can be implemented with AWS services. Build your own data mesh using AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, and AWS CDK, and share data across business units. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Containers for scaling games
GAM302-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to modernize game servers by porting them from bare metal/VM to containers. Gain practical skills for how to deploy game servers to Kubernetes while meeting CPU and memory requirements, integrate matchmaking, utilize container scans in CI/CD pipelines, and observe games using custom metrics. Attendees also build foundational skills around AWS CDK. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploy Node.js using AWS App Runner for web applications at scale
CON305 In this workshop, learn how to start with source code or a container image build to deploy web applications automatically and load-balance traffic with encryption. Find out how to scale your traffic needs and make it easy for your services to communicate with other AWS services and applications. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploying an object detection AI/ML model to the edge
HYB301-R1REPEAT Join this workshop to learn how you can deploy a new class of object detection models on premises and at the edge that are applicable to a broad range of latency-sensitive use cases, including quality inspection on the manufacturing floor, hazard detection, and more. Walk through the architecture and steps for deploying a real-time ML service to detect items of interest. Also, learn about deploying object detection models and using the AWS Snow Family, explore real-world use cases, and walk through reference architectures. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Implement GitOps and manage your Amazon RDS resources using ACK from K8s
DAT312 In this workshop, learn to deploy a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflow using GitOps and the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controller for Amazon RDS on Amazon EKS to create and manage Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 databases effectively. GitOps relies on Git as the single source of truth for declaratively managing containerized infrastructure and application components. With Git at the center of CI/CD pipelines, developers can automate and simplify application deployments and operations to Kubernetes. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Implementing MLOps to deliver high-performing ML models faster
AIM308 MLOps tools help you automate and standardize testing, managing, deploying, and monitoring hundreds to thousands of machine learning models. In this workshop, learn how you can use Amazon SageMaker MLOps capabilities such as Pipelines, Projects, Model Registry, Model Monitor, and CI/CD to deliver new models in production faster while maintaining model performance in production. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Improving development ergonomics
DOP311 In this workshop, get hands on with AWS Developer Tools including AWS IDE toolkits, SDKs, and CLIs to build a modern application. Learn how to easily and efficiently build, test, and debug a serverless application and explore modern tooling, including managed environments, to rapidly prototype and debug secure applications in the cloud. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Look under the hood of AWS DeepRacer with Amazon SageMaker
DPR401 This workshop dives deep on how to use an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance to augment the simulation environment, manipulate inputs to the neural network, modify neural network architecture, run distributed rollouts, and debug your AWS DeepRacer model. This workshop is designed for those familiar with AWS DeepRacer and Amazon SageMaker. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Proactive auto scaling for optimal cost and availability
CMP412 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups allow you to extract the elasticity benefits of the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, learn how to make the most of the latest innovations from Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to further improve your web application availability at lower costs. Specifically, dive into using a combination of predictive scaling, dynamic scaling, and warm pool features to automatically launch and terminate capacity with changing demands throughout a day. With more responsive and proactive scaling, you run only the required number of instances at any time of the day, reducing the cost of overprovisioned Amazon EC2 instances. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Seamlessly embed analytics into your apps with Amazon QuickSight
BSI303 In this workshop, learn how you can bring data insights to your internal teams and end customers by simply and seamlessly embedding rich, interactive data visualizations and dashboards into your web applications and portals. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Simplify and automate continuous compliance with AWS
COP311 It can be challenging to manage compliance of your AWS resources as you scale. In this workshop, learn how to simplify and automate continuous compliance and automated remediation at scale in your AWS accounts. Dive deep into AWS Config conformance packs, which are collections of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can easily be deployed as a single entity in an AWS account or AWS Region. The workshop also covers custom rules with AWS CloudFormation Guard and how to automate evidence collection with AWS Audit Manager. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy evaluation in action
SEC401-R1REPEAT In this workshop, dive deep into the logic of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy evaluation. Gain experience with hands-on labs that walk through IAM use cases and learn how different policies interact with each other. Using identity- and resource-based policies within single- and cross-account scenarios, learn about the evaluation logic that you can apply in your own environment. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Automated refactoring of a mainframe application with AWS Blu Age
ENT317 In this workshop, you encounter the following scenario: Customer MyBank runs a business-critical application managing credit cards and corresponding accounts. It’s a CICS COBOL application with BMS maps and VSAM files. Because MyBank wants to modernize this application into a Java agile service, you use the AWS mainframe modernization service Blu Age to analyze the application, refactor the programs and data, and implement it on an AWS Cloud native runtime. Join this hands-on workshop to experience Blu Age automated refactoring. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Automating threat detection & incident response in your AWS environments
SUP301-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to detect threats and respond to them in automated manner using AWS services. Explore multiple AWS security and logging services, and discover how to configure, aggregate, and correlate data between them. Detect threats using Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail. Then, learn how to use AWS services such as AWS Systems Manager, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions to responds to the threats. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a disaster recovery solution with AWS storage services
STG312-R1REPEAT Today’s critical business applications span multiple AWS services. In this workshop, learn how to build solutions for disaster recovery with different recovery point and recovery time objectives using AWS services like AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Amazon S3. For applications spanning multiple AWS services, learn how to set up protection plans using AWS Backup, the cross-AWS solution for managing data protection at scale. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a real-time multiplayer gaming app with AWS Amplify & AWS AppSync
FWM302-R1REPEAT Increase application engagement by providing differentiated user experiences that use real-time data. In this workshop, build an online, real-time multiplayer trivia application, and learn how to create a serverless web application quickly. In addition to game management, learn how to build real-time capabilities such as player scoring and leaderboards and game state updates. Find out how to use AWS Amplify to connect a frontend to a sophisticated backend with a GraphQL API powered by AWS AppSync, using subscriptions to deliver real-time data to users. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a serverless web application for a theme park
SVS202-R1REPEAT Learn how to build a complete serverless web application for a popular theme park called Innovator Island. The theme park is rolling out a mobile app that provides thousands of visitors with wait times, photo opportunities, notification alerts, and language translation for visitors who need it. In this workshop, get hands-on experience building a scalable serverless application with a single-page application (SPA) frontend that delivers a feature-rich user experience. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build smart camera applications using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC
IOT309-R1REPEAT Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC helps users to easily build low-latency video solutions such as smart doorbells, connected vehicles, surveillance cameras, and more. Join this workshop for hands-on experience building a complete real-world video solution, including setting up a device with a camera to transmit video. You then have the opportunity to use AWS Amplify to build a web application to view your video streams. You must bring your laptop and have an active AWS account to participate.
Building a serverless Apache Kafka data pipeline
BOA325-R1REPEAT Serverless services allow you to build applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. This allows developers to avoid provisioning, scaling, and managing resource utilization. In this workshop, build a serverless data pipeline using Amazon MSK Serverless, which allows data to be consumed from many different client applications to accomplish downstream tasks such as dashboards and analytics. Learn how to start an Amazon MSK Serverless cluster, deploy a Kafka client container-based Lambda function, ingest data from various sources into a Kafka client, and consume data for downstream tasks like Amazon QuickSight dashboards. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building a serverless data consumption platform on AWS
PEX304-R1REPEAT The advent of serverless services on AWS has redefined contemporary architectures and driven new architecture patterns. Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to build a future-proof serverless data platform on AWS. Learn how to use a suite of serverless analytics services including Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift Serverless, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight to visualize the serverless data processing results. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Continuous cost and sustainability optimization
SUP304-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn best practices for cost and sustainability optimization. Shift costs and sustainability responsibilities from the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to end users and application owners aided by automation at scale. Learn about cost efficiency and implementing mechanisms that empower application owners to have clear, actionable tasks for cost and sustainability optimization building upon real-world use cases. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Getting started with serverless
SVS203-R1REPEAT In this workshop, create your first serverless web application using AWS services like Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. Learn modern development techniques to build, secure, deploy, and monitor a serverless application, and take away serverless best practices that can be applied to your own projects. Come see how quickly you can turn your ideas into working products with serverless application development. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Network functions in AWS Local Zones for edge compute
TLC302 Interested in learning how AWS Local Zones can be used to deploy latency-sensitive telecom and media cloud applications closer to end users? This workshop takes you through an actual deployment of a workload in both an AWS Local Zone and parent AWS Region. Learn how to deploy a network function in a Local Zone and what to consider in your VPC architecture for traffic flow within the Local Zone and the Region. Additionally, learn about considerations for interaction with internet gateways, transit gateways, and other network functions such as load balancers. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Scalable data preparation & ML using Apache Spark on Amazon SageMaker Studio
AIM313-R During this workshop, you will learn how to build end-to-end data preparation and machine learning workflows on SageMaker Studio. You will learn how to connect to Apache Spark data processing environments running on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue Interactive Sessions from SageMaker Studio. Once connected, you will learn how to access data governed by AWS Lake Formation, interactively query, explore, and visualize data, and run and debug Spark jobs as you prepare large-scale data for use in machine learning. Finally, you'll learn how you can use the prepared data to train ML models, to deploy them and to schedule jobs for automated execution.
Spot the savings: Use Amazon EC2 Spot to optimize cloud deployments
CMP324-R1REPEAT Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are spare compute capacity available to you for less than On-Demand prices. EC2 Spot enables you to optimize your costs and scale your application's throughput. This workshop walks you through the APIs and commands used to create Spot Instances: You create an EC2 launch template and then use the launch template to launch Spot Instances using EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Spot Fleet, EC2 Fleet, and EC2 RunInstances API. Also learn how to implement Spot functions such as Spot placement score, attribute-based instance selection, and AWS Fault Injection Simulator.
The serverless future of cloud data analytics
BOA302-R1REPEAT According to the estimates, by 2030, humans will generate an ocean of data up to 572 zettabytes, which is equal to 572 million petabytes. This poses the question: How do we prepare our IT environments for the challenges of continually growing demand for infrastructure without inflating infrastructure costs and spending countless hours on maintenance? One answer for such future challenges is serverless services. Join this workshop to learn how to use serverless in practice, starting from data acquisition through processing, orchestration, and gathering insights, without worrying about capacity planning, infrastructure, and operational specificity of various tools used in the process.
AWS CLI tips and tricks
DOP312 In this workshop, learn AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) tips and tricks for how to efficiently interact with your AWS services and manage your AWS resources. Also learn how to automate your regular repetitive operations and utilize various use cases presented in this workshop. Also, join the workshop to hear about new feature functionalities integrated for developer operations. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Advanced cross-Region disaster recovery patterns
FSI307-R1REPEAT In this workshop, explore a resilient, cross-Region architecture that performs equity trade matching and settlement clearing. This highly available architecture is designed to exceed US regulatory standards for systemically important financial market utilities (SIFMUs) that are required to demonstrate out-of-Region recovery with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 30 seconds and a recovery time objective (RTO) of two hours or less. Learn about key design decisions, such as selecting cross-Region data stores, messaging, and shifting, and how to apply best practices for fail-safe DR orchestration. The architecture applies several AWS services, including Amazon ECS, Amazon MQ, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a disaster recovery solution with AWS storage services
STG312-R Today’s critical business applications span multiple AWS services. In this workshop, learn how to build solutions for disaster recovery with different recovery point and recovery time objectives using AWS services like AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Amazon S3. For applications spanning multiple AWS services, learn how to set up protection plans using AWS Backup, the cross-AWS solution for managing data protection at scale. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build smart camera applications using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC
IOT309-R Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC helps users to easily build low-latency video solutions such as smart doorbells, connected vehicles, surveillance cameras, and more. Join this workshop for hands-on experience building a complete real-world video solution, including setting up a device with a camera to transmit video. You then have the opportunity to use AWS Amplify to build a web application to view your video streams. You must bring your laptop and have an active AWS account to participate.
Event detection with Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
ANT403 In this workshop, take on the role of a technology manager for a Las Vegas casino. Your assignment is to create a stream processing application that identifies customers entering your casino who have previously gambled with large sums of money and sends you a text message when big spenders sit down at a gaming table. To do this, use Amazon MSK to capture events, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to detect events of interest, and AWS Lambda with Amazon SNS to send you a message for any events. You must bring your laptop to participate.
FinOps: Intersecting cost, performance, and software license optimization (sponsored by Flexera)
PRT306 Within the rapidly maturing FinOps discipline, cost is the driving force behind the optimization of cloud resources. Actions taken to optimize costs may be detrimental to application performance or be at odds with licensing restrictions for the software running on those resources. In this workshop, experts from Flexera and IBM Turbonomic identify overlooked aspects of cloud cost optimization and demonstrate how successful FinOps practices require visibility and continuous analysis of performance metrics and licensing constraints when optimizing cloud resources. You must bring your laptop to participate. This presentation is brought to you by Flexera, an AWS Partner.
Get hands-on and unlock renewable energy data with AWS IoT
ENU301-R1REPEAT Do you want to accelerate a transition to renewable energy with IoT and digital twins? AWS IoT EnergyKit is a gamified workshop designed to accelerate IoT adoption through interactive learning with real renewable energy assets. In the wind edition of this hands-on workshop, assemble 3D-printed wind turbines, provision them as IoT things, and visualize time-series data with real-time dashboards featuring AWS IoT TwinMaker. Gain experience with edge computing, IoT, analytics, and digital twin services while learning about practical IoT applications in renewable energy. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Hands-on AWS Support operational and resilience readiness
SUP305 In this workshop, discover how AWS infrastructure can help you through pivotal times in your business. Learn how to assess operational readiness and resilience using example workloads. Gain an understanding of the operational readiness process that AWS cloud support engineers and technical account managers perform during the proactive phases of the AWS Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) process. Using the Well-Architected Framework, learn self-service tools to help you identify and mitigate risks, and document the plan for a successful launch. You must bring your laptop to participate.
How to create your dev/test environment on Amazon Lightsail
CMP224-R Creating development sandboxes and testing environments outside of your production environment lets you test without the concern of breaking something or spending large amounts of money. Amazon Lightsail provides lightweight virtual servers and other cloud resources at a low, predictable price, which allows you to test solutions in a low-risk way. In this workshop, learn how you can easily migrate your development resources in Lightsail to run production environments on Amazon EC2 and other AWS services. Learn about how to run your dev/test environments on Lightsail and migrate them to production workloads. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Integrate serverless applications with AWS storage services
STG319 AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. In this workshop, gain experience integrating your compute stack running on AWS Lambda with persistent data in Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Learn to deploy containerized applications in hybrid cloud environments
CON304-R1REPEAT Attend this workshop to learn more about using the efficiencies and benefits of containers in a hybrid environment. Consider how you can satisfy compliance, data gravity, and other business requirements by running your workloads on infrastructure you own while enjoying simple and familiar container tooling. Learn how you can run containerized data processing workloads at edge locations on your own hardware to allow you to stay close to your end users and maintain reduced latency. Also, discover machine learning, image processing, big data, and other application workloads that don’t require you to transfer your data to the cloud or manage a third-party orchestration software. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Using AutoML to develop deep learning solutions automatically
BOA402 Many companies, startups and enterprises alike, do not have the teams and processes needed to create their own research teams. The promise of AutoML is that it allows companies and scientists to create deep learning solutions without possessing a deep knowledge of deep learning. This workshop focuses on describing AutoML methods and walks you through a practical example of creating a solution on a public dataset using AutoGluon, an open-source AutoML framework developed by AWS. Finally, look into Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, which is developed using AutoGluon. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R5REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS serverless developer experience: A day in the life of a developer
SVS308-R1REPEAT Developers: this workshop provides you with an immersive experience of a serverless developer. Get hands-on experience building a serverless solution using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and AWS SAM CLI. Along the way, learn principles of event-driven distributed architecture, orchestration, and serverless observability. Explore open-source tools, core features of AWS Lambda Powertools, and CI/CD deployments. Choose from four runtimes―Python, TypeScript, Java, and .NET―and work with your own developer setup or use AWS Cloud9 to build the services. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Boost productivity and avoid becoming overwhelmed
INO101-R1REPEAT Do you ever feel overwhelmed from the pressures of work and life? Do you ever get imposter syndrome or feel like the constant requests for your time are hindering your ability to make an impact? In this workshop, practice how to use emotional intelligence techniques such as self-awareness and self-management to understand hidden rules that are impacting your ability to find balance. Build your vision for success and learn about the techniques used to help more than 25,000 Amazonians supercharge their productivity. Laptops are not required to participate.
Build a complete DevSecOps pipeline on AWS
COP206-R1REPEAT Organizations want to deliver applications that prioritize security and governance. In this workshop, learn to build a DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline with security and compliance testing integrated into the development process. Discover how you can create a CI/CD pipeline that delivers tested and secure infrastructure as code using a Git branching strategy for your AWS accounts. Learn to use GitHub Actions to integrate AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) to run policy validations and ensure that pipeline deployments are consistent and that they meet your organization's compliance standards.
Build better ML models for business decisions using Amazon SageMaker Canvas
AIM337-R Efficient machine learning (ML) models enable desired business outcomes across organizations. In this workshop, learn a no-code approach to ML with Amazon SageMaker Canvas. The workshop poses a specific business problem and you address it by building an ML model using SageMaker Canvas. Import your data, prepare, explore, and transform the data, and finally create an ML model without writing a line of code. Then analyze the model using different metrics in SageMaker Canvas to understand the impact of the model artifacts. Finally, share the model with ML practitioners for additional insights. Learn how you can use SageMaker Canvas to make more effective business decisions. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build stunning customized dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
BSI205-R Want to grow your dashboard building skills? In this workshop, the Amazon QuickSight team demonstrates the latest authoring functionality designed to empower you to build beautiful layouts and robust interactive experiences with other applications, right from within your dashboard. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build your first project with Amazon CodeCatalyst
DOP306 Amazon CodeCatalyst brings together everything developers need to plan, code, build, test, and deploy applications on AWS into a streamlined, integrated experience. You can easily integrate and leverage AWS resources with your projects by connecting your AWS accounts. With all of the stages and aspects of an application’s lifecycle in one tool, you can deliver software quickly and confidently. In this workshop, gain hands-on skills in creating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Amazon CodeCatalyst. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building event-driven architectures
API306-R1REPEAT Many customers choose to build event-driven application architectures in which subscribers or target services automatically perform in response to events triggered by publisher or source services. This pattern can help development teams operate more independently to release new features faster and make their applications more scalable. This workshop covers the basics of event-driven design using examples involving Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and more. Learn how to choose the right AWS service for the job and how to optimize for cost and performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Containers for scaling games
GAM302-R In this workshop, learn how to modernize game servers by porting them from bare metal/VM to containers. Gain practical skills for how to deploy game servers to Kubernetes while meeting CPU and memory requirements, integrate matchmaking, utilize container scans in CI/CD pipelines, and observe games using custom metrics. Attendees also build foundational skills around AWS CDK. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploy an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in under 2 hours
ENT307-R1REPEAT As companies look to transition on-premises SAP systems to AWS, many also seek guidance on how to move to S/4HANA. In this workshop, learn how to deploy an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS in just a few hours. First, use AWS Launch Wizard to automate provisioning of AWS services and install the software in accordance with SAP and AWS best practices. Then, configure observability and explore insights that help you maintain strong performance and reliability. Finally, walk through proven migration blueprints to move your organization's existing SAP workloads to AWS. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Develop event-driven applications using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2
DAT310-R1REPEAT Event-driven architecture is a software architecture promoting the production, detection, and consumption of events, as well as the reaction to them. It provides increased availability, elasticity, scalability, and cost optimization by promoting microservices, which are small, specialized services performing a narrow set of functions that can independently scale to meet demand. In this workshop, learn how to build an event-driven serverless application using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 as a relational, persistent database supporting your microservices. Discover how Aurora Serverless V2 is able to seamlessly scale and keep up with your workload. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get hands-on with AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances
CMP303-R AWS Graviton processors are designed to deliver the best price performance for a wide variety of workloads in Amazon EC2. In this workshop, walk through moving a workload to AWS Graviton-based instances, including containerized applications. This workshop is great for developers or IT practitioners who are running Linux-based workloads in Amazon EC2 and are looking for better price performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.
How to use Amazon Location Service for an intelligent supply chain
FWM301 Amazon Location Service makes it easy for developers to add geospatial data and location functionality to applications. In this workshop, learn how to optimize your supply chain powered by Amazon Location Service, AWS IoT Core, and AWS Amplify. Discover how to develop a full-stack app that allows a field service dispatcher to enter and store destination and waypoint locations on a map, create cost-effective and optimized routes, and track a driver on a map. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Migrate and modernize at scale with a cloud migration factory
ENT315 Do you have a large migration project that requires a combination of rehost and replatform? Does it require orchestrating multiple migration tools? Join this workshop to learn how to migrate your workloads to AWS at scale by using a cloud migration factory approach to automate and simplify your migration and modernization journey. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Operate Windows Server workloads at scale by using automation
ENT305-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to operate Windows fleets at scale. First, use Amazon EC2 Image Builder to build, distribute, and deploy secure Windows images with your organization's software and settings included. Next, learn how to use AWS Systems Manager to automate patching and set configurations at runtime. Finally, automate monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation through Amazon CloudWatch. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Running efficient Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EC2 with Karpenter
CMP405-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to provision, manage, and maintain your Kubernetes clusters with Amazon EKS at virtually any scale using Karpenter. Karpenter is a node lifecycle management solution used to scale your Kubernetes cluster. It observes incoming pods and launches the right instances for the situation. Instance selection decisions are intent-based and driven by the specification of incoming pods, including resource requests and scheduling constraints. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Threat detection and response workshop
SEC301-R1REPEAT This workshop takes you through threat detection and response using Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector. The workshop simulates different threats to Amazon S3, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon EKS, and Amazon EC2 and illustrates both manual and automated responses with AWS Lambda. Learn how to operationalize security findings. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a cross-platform mobile app in Flutter with AWS Amplify
FWM307 AWS Amplify helps frontend web and mobile developers quickly build feature-rich applications without the need for deep cloud expertise. Flutter is a UI toolkit for building applications that compile to mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. In this workshop, learn how to build a complete Flutter mobile application with AWS Amplify Flutter Libraries and create custom plugins using the AWS Amplify Android and iOS libraries. Discover how to add features such as authenticating users, uploading images to Amazon S3, and offline capabilities with AWS Amplify DataStore and AWS AppSync. This workshop requires a Flutter development environment set up with an iOS simulator and/or Android emulator installed. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building AI-activated robots for dynamic pick-and-place operations
ROB305-R1REPEAT This workshop shows how developers can integrate AI into Robot Operating System (ROS) applications using managed zero-code ML services. Use Amazon Rekognition to enable a 4-DOF robot arm to comprehend its environment and autonomously interact with objects around it. Learn how this approach to AI integration provides ROS developers the opportunity to build smarter robots-ones capable of dynamically responding to their surroundings-without AI, ML, or CV expertise. Join this workshop to deploy, test, and fine-tune your AI pipeline on real robot hardware and compete to grab the most objects placed around the robot. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Concepts to take your Kubernetes operations and scale to the next level
CON402-R In this workshop, learn about Kubernetes best practices and dive into the critical concepts, tools, and configurations necessary to ensure application health. Gain hands-on experience securing, scaling, and observing Kubernetes to identify, debug, and improve overall performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Configuring Amazon S3 security settings and access controls
STG315-R1REPEAT Amazon S3 provides a number of different settings to help you secure your data, controls to ensure that those settings remain in place, and features to help you audit all of the above. In this workshop, learn about the different capabilities of Amazon S3 and apply them in scenarios for different security requirements. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploying an object detection AI/ML model to the edge
HYB301-RREPEAT Join this workshop to learn how you can deploy a new class of object detection models on premises and at the edge that are applicable to a broad range of latency-sensitive use cases, including quality inspection on the manufacturing floor, hazard detection, and more. Walk through the architecture and steps for deploying a real-time ML service to detect items of interest. Also, learn about deploying object detection models and using the AWS Snow Family, explore real-world use cases, and walk through reference architectures. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Detecting deforestation with geospatial images and Amazon SageMaker
SUS201-R1REPEAT Since 1990, the earth has lost about one billion acres of forest, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In this workshop, learn how to track deforestation caused by fires and forest cutting using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and visualize changes using Amazon SageMaker Studio labs. Build a SageMaker Jupyter Notebook that uses Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) geospatial imagery and calculates pixel changes, known as spectral indices. Create a machine learning model that identifies newly deforested areas and detects forest cut changes. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Develop AWS CloudFormation templates to manage your infrastructure
DOP308-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to develop and test AWS CloudFormation templates. Create CloudFormation templates to deploy and manage resources. Learn about CloudFormation language features that allow you to reuse and extend templates for many scenarios. Explore testing tools to validate your CloudFormation templates including cfn-lint and CloudFormation Guard. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Get hands-on with IPv6
NET202 In this workshop, gain experience building an AWS network using IPv6. Learn how to set up a dual-stack Amazon VPC, run an application in an IPv6-only subnet, and launch IPv6 resources within it. Learn to establish IPv6 connectivity for an internet-facing application that is behind an elastic load balancer. Finally, access local instance services over IPv6 and use AWS PrivateLink to reach applications hosted by a service provider. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Prepare & protect your applications from disruption with AWS Resilience Hub
ARC208 Using AWS Resilience Hub, you can define resilience targets (RTO and RPO) for your applications and help validate that these targets can be met prior to deployment. Resilience Hub provides automated assessments that identify resilience weaknesses and provide recommended remediation. It also integrates with AWS Fault Injection Simulator to test that resilience targets can be met under different conditions (for example, database disruptions). When integrated into CI/CD pipelines, Resilience Hub provides continuous resilience assessments and testing. It provides a comprehensive view of your overall application portfolio resilience status through its dashboard. Join this workshop to explore all of these features and more. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Scalable data preparation & ML using Apache Spark on Amazon SageMaker Studio
AIM313-R1REPEAT During this workshop, you will learn how to build end-to-end data preparation and machine learning workflows on SageMaker Studio. You will learn how to connect to Apache Spark data processing environments running on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue Interactive Sessions from SageMaker Studio. Once connected, you will learn how to access data governed by AWS Lake Formation, interactively query, explore, and visualize data, and run and debug Spark jobs as you prepare large-scale data for use in machine learning. Finally, you'll learn how you can use the prepared data to train ML models, to deploy them and to schedule jobs for automated execution.
Use AI to live transcribe and translate multiparty video calls
BIZ307 Harness the power of real-time transcription in web-based voice or video calls through the Amazon Chime SDK. Join this interactive workshop to learn how to build transcription and translation into multiparty video calls requiring additional compliance and language accessibility, such as telehealth appointments, government services, parent-teacher interactions, or financial services. Experts guide attendees in a hands-on demo that combines the power of Amazon Chime SDK, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Translate into one simple interface. This workshop is designed for communication developers. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Working backwards in action: Starting with your customers
INO202-R1REPEAT This intensive and highly collaborative workshop is inspired by the same customer-centric methods used by Amazon to develop breakthrough innovations our customers love, such as Amazon Prime, Amazon Kindle, AWS, Amazon Echo, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Go. In this workshop, engage with an interactive journey that introduces you to the working backwards process. Walk through some of the general activities and outputs of a full digital innovation working backwards project.
AWS DeepRacer: Get hands-on with machine learning
DPR202-R6REPEAT Developers, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML), literally. This workshop provides developers of all skill levels an opportunity to get hands-on experience with AWS DeepRacer to learn the basics of reinforcement learning, an advanced ML technique. During this workshop, dive into the AWS DeepRacer console to build a reinforcement learning model for an autonomous driving application that is ready to race in under 90 minutes. Take your model from the classroom to the AWS DeepRacer League arena at re:Invent to compete for prizes and glory. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AWS Network Firewall and DNS Firewall security in multi-VPC architectures
SEC302-R1REPEAT This workshop guides participants through configuring AWS Network Firewall and Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in an AWS multi-VPC environment. It demonstrates how VPCs can be interconnected with a centralized AWS Network Firewall and DNS Firewall configuration to ease the governance requirements of network security. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Accelerate your application modernization with containers
ENT314 Moving to containers is one of the most adopted modernization pathways today. Following the correct approach and using the right tools helps you achieve important benefits like agility, portability, and efficiency. You can benefit most when you modernize your delivery and operational practices, and transform your organizational processes and culture. In this workshop, learn how to use AWS App2Container to jumpstart your application’s containerization and deploy it to Amazon ECS. Learn how to adopt DevOps principles by building a mature CI/CD pipeline with AWS developer tools. Discover how to achieve operational excellence through observability for your Amazon ECS environments and containers. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Amazon EKS SaaS: Building a working multi-tenant environment
SAS401-R Amazon EKS provides SaaS developers with a rich collection of constructs that can be used to create a SaaS solution. In this workshop, learn how to build a complete multi-tenant SaaS environment that highlights the different strategies and considerations that come with building, securing, and deploying SaaS applications in an Amazon EKS model. Work through labs that demonstrate the implementation of core multi-tenant concepts, including onboarding, tenant isolation, tiering, cost attribution, and data partitioning. Get hands-on experience with the moving parts of an Amazon EKS SaaS solution while discovering the nuances of the Amazon EKS SaaS model. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Application modernization using Amazon EKS Blueprints for AWS CDK
PEX303-R1REPEAT Attend this workshop to learn how to use the Amazon EKS Blueprints for AWS CDK to build and deploy a multi-tenant container solution on top of Amazon EKS. Gain a deep understanding of how to use the EKS Blueprints for AWS CDK framework to define and deploy Amazon EKS clusters that address all day-two operations using AWS CDK. To get the most out of this workshop, it’s helpful to have a basic understanding of AWS CDK, TypeScript, and Amazon EKS. You must bring your laptop to participate. This workshop is intended for AWS Partners.
Automate operations management on AWS
COP310-R1REPEAT Balancing agility, maximizing uptime, supporting compliance, and driving organizational efficiency can be complex. Add on-premises and other cloud resources, and that complexity can be multiplied. In this workshop, walk through building automation workflows using AWS Systems Manager to help reduce the complexity of managing and operating large numbers of applications and resources in cloud and hybrid environments through the automation of ITSM operations processes, data collection, and reporting. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a cloud experience with Cloudscape, an open-source design system
OPN305 In this workshop, learn how to use the open-source Cloudscape Design System to build a responsive and accessible web application for cloud management. The web application uses the open-source React components offered by Cloudscape. This workshop requires knowledge of frontend development and React. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics
DAT401-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases. Discover how to apply development patterns using Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon OpenSearch Service to build a fully functional and scalable bookstore ecommerce application and dive deep into best practices along the way. Basic familiarity with AWS concepts and services such as IAM, VPC, networking, and storage services is recommended. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build an NFT marketplace on Ethereum with Amazon Managed Blockchain
BLC301-R1REPEAT This hands-on workshop walks you through developing a complete NFT marketplace application that includes an NFT smart contract as well as a frontend and middle-tier component. Learn how to deploy the created NFT application via Amazon Managed Blockchain to Ethereum testnet and mainnet. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build an iOS-native app with a cloud-based backend
BOA332 In this workshop, create a data-driven iOS-native app integrated with a cloud-based backend. Learn how to use Amazon Cognito to manage user authentication. Discover how to design a data-first strategy with GraphQL APIs to store data in Amazon DynamoDB. Learn how to use an AWS Amplify library to authenticate users, communicate with the API, and download images from Amazon S3. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build better ML models for business decisions using Amazon SageMaker Canvas
AIM337-R1REPEAT Efficient machine learning (ML) models enable desired business outcomes across organizations. In this workshop, learn a no-code approach to ML with Amazon SageMaker Canvas. The workshop poses a specific business problem and you address it by building an ML model using SageMaker Canvas. Import your data, prepare, explore, and transform the data, and finally create an ML model without writing a line of code. Then analyze the model using different metrics in SageMaker Canvas to understand the impact of the model artifacts. Finally, share the model with ML practitioners for additional insights. Learn how you can use SageMaker Canvas to make more effective business decisions. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build for resilience using Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller
ARC304 An event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary deployed location is considered a disaster. Disaster recovery is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. In this workshop, explore Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) and how it can help recover an example program, a tic-tac-toe game, from application failures. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Create an online software trial with Amazon AppStream 2.0
EUC305-R1REPEAT Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed application streaming service. Users can instantly access their applications over an internet connection with no downloads or installation required. In this workshop, create an online software trial with Elastic fleets and other fully managed services to deliver your application as a service. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Deploying a complete machine learning fraud detection solution
STP303-R1REPEAT It’s crucial for startups to get to market early with a minimum viable product and iterate as they gather feedback. For this reason, overhead reduction is one of the most important goals of hypergrowth startups. In this workshop, learn how to build automated training and inference pipelines with Amazon SageMaker for machine learning fraud detection, on-demand capabilities, mitigation of training bias, and support preprocessing. This solution serves as a reference implementation, making it easier to implement a complete training and inference pipeline. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Dive deep on the FedRAMP authorization process
WPS201-R The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. This two-hour workshop helps you understand how the Authority to Operate (ATO) process works, what the considerations for getting FedRAMP certification entails, and how to use AWS services to meet your assessment requirements. Leave this workshop knowing if FedRAMP is right for your organization, what the different levels mean, how to operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, and how to use AWS resources to expedite the process. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Putting cost optimization into practice
ARC202-R1REPEAT In this hands-on workshop, set up monitoring and analysis for your AWS costs using Amazon Athena and AWS Glue. Measure your workload efficiency and create dashboards for your teams so they can use Amazon QuickSight to stay on top of their usage and take necessary steps to optimize their costs. Also learn about the latest enhancements and announcements in the cost-control space. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Seamless data sharing using Amazon Redshift
ANT308 Data copying, transformation, and movement take time and can introduce errors and consistency issues. Organizations are looking for a way to easily share data across Regions and teams. With Amazon Redshift data sharing, organizations can share live data with relative security and ease across Amazon Redshift clusters in the same AWS account, across different AWS accounts, or across different AWS Regions for read purposes. In this workshop, learn how Amazon Redshift data sharing performs workload isolation and facilitates collaboration to solve business challenges. Learn about permissions management, monitoring, and best practices and considerations to optimize data sharing deployment. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build analytics applications using Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Serverless
ANT309-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to build an Apache Spark based application and run it using Amazon EMR Serverless. Start with developing your application locally in VS Code and use GitHub Actions to test and run the application on Amazon EMR Serverless, then debug in-progress applications. Learn how to configure unit tests when a push is made, run data quality checks when a pull request is opened, and automatically package and deploy new application releases. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build with AWS IoT ExpressLink to securely connect your IoT devices to AWS
IOT207-R1REPEAT In this workshop, get hands-on experience connecting IoT devices to the AWS Cloud within minutes. Learn how security and networking heavy-lifting is handled for you by the AWS IoT ExpressLink module and how it can be integrated into your designs using simple code snippets. Use an AWS IoT ExpressLink module to connect a portable electronic conference badge over Wi-Fi to the AWS Cloud, upload and visualize sensor data, and then control LEDs and NFC tags. Basic Python programming knowledge is required. You must bring your laptop, power supply, and a USB data cable to connect to a USB-C device to participate.
Deploy deep learning models cost-effectively on GPUs with Amazon SageMaker
AIM401 In this workshop, explore the hardware and software optimizations available for deep learning model deployment, when and how to use them, and the impact on the model performance and cost. Learn how to run hundreds of deep learning models using Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints and reduce model serving costs. Dive deep into model compilation and optimization techniques using TensorRT and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server features to achieve hyperscale inference on Amazon SageMaker. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Intelligently automating cloud operations
SUP303-R1REPEAT You can surface insights from best practices, security, fault tolerance, and performance using AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Health, and Amazon DevOps Guru. Join this workshop to learn how to automate these insights intelligently using AWS services and machine learning tools. After discussing the data insights that you surface, walk through setting up repeatable automation pipelines and using anomaly detection to drive automation across your infrastructure and then validate your automations using AWS Fault Injection Simulator. Also, learn how to use Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and AWS machine learning services such as Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection and Amazon Forecast. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Build Kubernetes at scale using AWS file services [REPEAT}
STG326-R1 In this scenario-based workshop, learn how you can launch and use Amazon FSx fully managed file services to power your Amazon EKS Kubernetes container workloads. Deploy a container-based workload with persistent storage from Amazon FSx to better understand the benefits and key features for container-based workloads. The workshop also touches on dimensions such as performance, scale, high availability, and how to create clones of your DevOps data in seconds, or replicate and access your data seamlessly across AWS Regions, to further power at-scale container-based workloads. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Building secure VPCs and integrating them into your network
NET308-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn from practical guidance for designing and building secure Amazon VPCs. Using an interactive scenario-based approach, learn about (or refresh your knowledge of) Amazon VPC features like subnets, security groups, routing, and flow logs. Then see how to integrate your Amazon VPC with AWS services such AWS Network Firewall, Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, AWS Systems Manager, Traffic Mirroring, AWS WAF, AWS PrivateLink, and more. All examples follow best practices for Amazon VPC security, design, and management. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Modernizing your workload for speed and flexibility
ENT312-R1REPEAT In this workshop, learn how to quickly take a workload from monolithic on-premises architecture to a loosely coupled distributed microservices architecture using serverless with AWS Lambda. Learn how this modern architecture enables speed with development and flexibility to pivot technology stacks based on business capability requirements. Follow a real-world migration and modernization scenario starting with migration of a server onto Amazon EC2, containerization of applications using AWS App Runner, and decomposition of the monolith using AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces and AWS Lambda. Leave the workshop knowing how to take your workload to a modern cloud architecture. You must bring your laptop to participate.