Introduction to AWS - Compute (EC2) , Autoscaling, and Storage

Solutions-Focused Immersion Day:

Thursday

,

January

04

2024

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7:00PM

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10:00PM

PST

About the event

Join us In-Person at the AWS Office in Herndon, VA for a hands-on Immersion Day. AWS Solution Architects are leading the sessions and are available to answer questions.

This foundational hands on workshop is focused on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Autoscaling, Simple Storage Service (S3), and Elastic File System (EFS).

By attending this workshop, you will learn how to:

- Launch a virtual server- EC2 and automatically scale your EC2 instances
- Create a S3 bucket for object storage and learn about versioning and lifecycle policies.
- Design an EFS drive and connect it to your EC2 instance

For full event details, please check out this page.

Temporary AWS accounts will be provided for the hands on labs. You will need to bring a laptop in order to participate in the hands-on labs. Guest Wi-Fi will be available.

Who should attend

This Immersion Day is geared towards Solution or System Architects, IT Professionals, Cloud Administrators, Cloud Support Engineers, Cloud Developers, and Cloud Architects. You will dive into foundational AWS Services. No prior AWS or cloud computing experience is required.

Agenda

Presentation: Introduction to Amazon Cloud and Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Overview
Lab: Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) - Linux
Lab: EC2 Auto Scaling
Presentation: Storage in AWS
Lab: Simple Storage Service (S3)
Lab: Elastic File System (EFS)

Agenda

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The Horizon of AI

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Breakout Session 1

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host Jenkins, an open-source automation software predominantly used for CI/CD

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Breakout Session 2

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host WordPress, an open-source blogging tool and content management system

Speakers

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Spring, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, and more. Adam was previously the Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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