Agenda:
6:30pm - 7pm: Refreshments and networking
7:00pm - 7:50pm: 1st talk Scottish Government Virtualizes Critical Legacy Apps in VMware Cloud on AWS
Neill Smith, Head of Infrastructure at the Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Economy will walk us through ARE's desire to embrace a modern hybrid cloud strategy. This was complicated by many mission-critical, legacy applications and Oracle databases that were perceived to be impossible to virtualize or move to the cloud due to their dependence on legacy technologies such as the SPARC/Solaris platform, Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle APEX. ARE virtualised their legacy application stacks using VMware vSphere, and leveraged VMware HCX and VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) as a disaster recovery platform. ARE proved that even the most stubborn legacy applications can be a good fit for a hybrid cloud environment built on the strong technological foundations provided by AWS and VMware.
7:50pm - 8:00pm: Break
8:00pm - 8:50pm: Designing Serverless applications with Operations in mind
Pawan Puthran, a Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager (TAM) - Serverless, will cover some of the best practices from AWS as well the lessons learnt from AWS customers when it comes to Serverless operations.
Topics include:
- Deployment patterns
- Understand the health of your serverless application
- Logging, Tracing, Metrics
- Measuring Business and Operational Metrics
- AWS Service limits
Thank you to Skyscanner for hosting the event and CirrusHQ for the pizza!
AWS User Group Edinburgh #16 Scottish Government, VMware & AWS
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Agenda:
6:30pm - 7pm: Refreshments and networking
7:00pm - 7:50pm: 1st talk Scottish Government Virtualizes Critical Legacy Apps in VMware Cloud on AWS
Neill Smith, Head of Infrastructure at the Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Economy will walk us through ARE's desire to embrace a modern hybrid cloud strategy. This was complicated by many mission-critical, legacy applications and Oracle databases that were perceived to be impossible to virtualize or move to the cloud due to their dependence on legacy technologies such as the SPARC/Solaris platform, Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle APEX. ARE virtualised their legacy application stacks using VMware vSphere, and leveraged VMware HCX and VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) as a disaster recovery platform. ARE proved that even the most stubborn legacy applications can be a good fit for a hybrid cloud environment built on the strong technological foundations provided by AWS and VMware.
AWS User Group Edinburgh #15, Security in the Cloud
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We have 2 great speakers lined up for our next event so please RSVP if you would like to attend!
The speakers are:
Stu Hirst, Principal Cloud Security Engineer at Just Eat:
"Thinking Out Cloud" - my journey into Cloud Security and learnings from my time at tech companies in the Cloud.
Stu is currently a Principal Cloud Security Engineer, leading the Cloud Security function
for Just Eat, a FTSE 100 company & leading online food ordering service.
He was instrumental in building Skyscanner’s Security team from[masked], having led them to the final of SC Magazine’s Security Team Of The Year 2017.
He has previously worked in security at The Trainline, was part of the Cyber Leadership Team at Capital One UK and was Head Of Cloud Security at the Photobox Group.
He has twice been nominated as a finalist for Cyber Evangelist Of The Year at the Scottish Cyber Awards and is one half of Cyber Scotland Connect.
Stu has appeared at numerous leading Security events such as InfoSec Europe, Cloud Expo Europe, BSides (various) and Future Of Cyber Security.
Twitter: @StuHirstinfosec
Davin Fligel, Public Cloud Principal Systems Engineer UK&I at Fortinet:
"Transit Gateway as a security enabler? Securing Applications vs Network Security"
Firewall placement and scaling, the quirks of AWS networking and the consequences this has on security choices and performance.
Both should be really informative and give you new insights into managing the security of your applications and infrastructure on AWS, whether you are just starting out or an experienced user.
Thank you to Skyscanner for hosting the event and CirrusHQ for the pizza!
Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
In this talk, Guy Templeton will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 10,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time - Matt Houghton, CDL
Learn how CDL, a software provider for the retail insurance sector, processes vast amounts of consumer data in milliseconds using machine learning, AI and big data in order to help the UK's biggest insurance providers combat fraud, learn consumer habits, and more.
The talk will cover how we tried and failed to build a solution, called Hummingbird, with ‘big iron’ before moving to the cloud with AWS. We developed and delivered at scale in under 8 months. We will demo how Hummingbird works in production and how our DevOps team uses key AWS Services, logging, monitoring and machine learning to continually improve and deliver enhancements to the service.
We will share our experience and lessons learnt from completing an AWS Well-Architected Review and applying Chaos Engineering disciplines through Game Days. Technologies discussed include packer, terraform, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, lambdas and containers.
Matt is a Technical Consultant at CDL. Their customer base comprises high volume retail operations or start-ups with serious growth ambitions, including over 100 Internet brands and all the major price comparison sites, and they also have partnerships with over 50 UK insurers. https://www.cdl.co.uk/
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Agenda
6:30pm: Doors open, check-in, refreshments and networking
7pm: Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
7:50pm: Short break
8:00pm: Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time
9pm: Wrap-up
AWS User Group Edinburgh #14 - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
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Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
In this talk, Guy Templeton will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 10,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
The AWS user groups for Glasgow and Edinburgh are running consecutive events on the 23rd (Glasgow) and 24th (Edinburgh) of January with a guest speaker from AWS.
Philip Fitzsimons (Fitz) has worked for AWS for over 7 years and currently leads the AWS Well-Architected Team at Amazon Web Services.
The Well-Architected Framework (https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/) has been developed by Fitz and his team to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications.
Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — the Framework provides a consistent approach for customers to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that will scale over time.
Fitz will walk through the five pillars of the Framework with practical examples of the improvements that can be made by using it, including a demonstration of the new Well Architected Tool announced at AWS re:Invent 2018 and a Q + A session.
This is an must attend event for software developers, solution architects and IT management planning to or already working with Amazon Web Services based applications.
Numbers are limited so please RSVP asap to claim your place.
If you wish to attend the Edinburgh event please, RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group-Scotland/events/255089455/
If you wish to attend the Glasgow event please, RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group-Glasgow/events/254179877/
Thanks to our sponsors for both events, Skyscanner and CirrusHQ
AWS User Group Edinburgh #12, CodePipeline & CloudWatch Events
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After a break over the summer, the AWS User Group Edinburgh is returning on the 18th of October.
There will be talks on "Continuous deployment using CodePipeline, CloudFormation, Packer, Ansible, Inspector and more!" and "Using CloudWatch Events for automation, security and task scheduling" by James Lucas, CEO & Founder of CirrusHQ.
There was a plethora of announcements at AWS re:Invent in December 2017 around Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, especially in the area of pre-trained "black-box" services. Dr. Andrew Kane, Enterprise Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services will join us again and attempt to go into some detail on three of the major announcements, with a suitable break somewhere for refreshments:
- Introduction to Amazon Translate (plus interactive demo) - 30m-40m
- Introduction to Amazon Comprehend - 30m
- Introduction to Amazon Transcribe (plus pre-recorded demo) - 30m
- Bringing it all together with AI-driven social analytics - 15m
Unfortunately, time will mean that he cannot cover Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Rekognition Video or Amazon Greengrass ML Inference - sounds like an agenda for a future session!
We are happy to announce our first speaker for our next meetup on November 22nd.
Title: Rapidly delivering cost effective cloud-based software procurement & service governance
Speaker: Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder, Cloudsoft
Duncan looks at the emergence of the AWS Marketplace as both a channel for ISVs and SaaS providers and a powerful way of optimising software discovery and procurement for AWS customers.
He will examine the relationship between the AWS Marketplace and the AWS Service Catalog and show how the latter helps organizations address governance and compliance by creating portfolios of IT services approved for use on AWS and ensuring that these are only available to approved users.
Finally he looks at how Cloudsoft is helping these organizations take full advantage of the AWS Service Catalog where they have settled on ServiceNow as their internal ITSM tool of choice.
If you have an idea for a short (5-15 minutes) talk that you would to give, please get in touch or ask us on the night, we would love to hear from you.
We are happy to announce our first speaker for our next meetup on November 22nd.
Title: Rapidly delivering cost effective cloud-based software procurement & service governance
Speaker: Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder, Cloudsoft
Duncan looks at the emergence of the AWS Marketplace as both a channel for ISVs and SaaS providers and a powerful way of optimising software discovery and procurement for AWS customers.
He will examine the relationship between the AWS Marketplace and the AWS Service Catalog and show how the latter helps organizations address governance and compliance by creating portfolios of IT services approved for use on AWS and ensuring that these are only available to approved users.
Finally he looks at how Cloudsoft is helping these organizations take full advantage of the AWS Service Catalog where they have settled on ServiceNow as their internal ITSM tool of choice.
We aim to announce another speaker in the near future.
CirrusHQ and Skyscanner are proud to sponsor the ninth AWS user group Edinburgh.
Speaker
Michael Booth is a Senior Engineer who has been working at Skyscanner for the last 7 years based in Edinburgh. During that time he has worked in various areas of Skyscanner Engineering with most recent work being in the Developer Enablement Tribe building out tools and standards for cloud native development within Skyscanner.
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How to gain insight into your services by integrating with AWS X-ray
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AWS X-ray enables you to analyze, trace and debug your complex distributed system. At Skyscanner we're providing development teams with the tools they need to simply and easily integrate with X-Ray. In this talk we'll demonstrate this capability and the insight gained by integrating with X-Ray.
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