AWS Users’ Group February 2018! David “Mac” McDaniel Sr. Solution & Cloud Architect - Independent Consultant david@mobile-360.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbmcdaniel Twitter: @CloudKegGuy, @ServerlessJava Twitter list: https://twitter.com/CloudKegGuy/lists/aws/members

Communication Items Slack Channel: https://DenverAWSUsersGroup.slack.com, email me at david@mobile-360.com for an invite. We now have our own Twitter handle: @DenverAWSUG. Please follow and we’ll post updates and surveys there as well! We are now listed on AWS UG site: https://aws.amazon.com/usergroups/americas/ We are sponsored by CloudAcademy! They have a free portal for our members at: https://cloudacademy.com/aws-usergroup/?code=newawsugs

Recent AWS Updates RDS Aurora Parallel Query & MySQL 5.7 compat. RDS & DMS support SQL Server replication AWS X-Ray for .NET version 2.0.0 and Ruby AWS Systems Manager adds custom repositories, Linux application patching and new SUSE Linux patching Cloud Directory now SOC and ISO compliant Amazon Polly plugin for WordPress Amazon Connect now ISO compliant RDS Postgres read replicas Connect adds SSML for Lex chatbots Workmail API supports Exchange Web Services (EWS) Push Notifications AWS Instance Scheduler for EC2 & RDS Cognito adds more migration functionality DynamoDB SSE at rest Cost Explorer amortizes reservations costs EC2 Spot two-minute warning via CloudWatch and Pause/Resume on C5 & M5 Chime supports SIP video conference systems

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! AWS IS HIRING! 47 open positions in Colorado (DTC, Broomfield, downtown) Here are a few examples: Named Account Manager, Job ID: 614359 Solutions Architect, Job ID: 623688 Partner Sales Manager, Job ID: 607307 Sr. IoT Architect, Job ID: 605160 Senior Cloud Technical Account Manager, Job ID: 619773 Web Developer, Job ID: 623274 All listed here https://aws.amazon.com/careers/

Thoughts? Thinking about creating a workshop day - where participants get to go hands-on! Our sponsor would enable us to provide AWS usage credit. Topic ideas include: Migrating a workload from on-prem to AWS Cloud Hosting a web application Building an API application Strategy Presentation How to create a Cloud Migration Strategy Pitfalls How to execute the strategy Picking the right partners

Upcoming Meetups March 21, 2018 - Speaker/Topic: Elastic - Sponsor: Elastic - Location: TBD April , 2018 - TBD - Sponsor: Dynatrace

Resources AWS Blog: Curated Twitter List: AWS Podcasts: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws Curated Twitter List: https://twitter.com/Chris_Kasten/lists/aws AWS Podcasts: https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast

Sponsorship We are proud to announce that we have formally started McDaniel Cloud Solutions! The goal is to provide AWS Cloud Strategy, Migration and Application development consulting to businesses of any size with a more personal and experienced team of consultants. We will be sponsoring and running this Meetup group as usual. As time goes on, we’ll be able to sponsor more

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