1. AWS Users’ Group February 2018!
David “Mac” McDaniel
Sr. Solution & Cloud Architect - Independent Consultant
LinkedIn:
@ServerlessJava
Twitter list:

2. Communication Items
Slack Channel: me at for an invite.
We now have our own Twitter Please follow and we’ll post updates and surveys there as well!
We are now listed on AWS UG site:
We are sponsored by CloudAcademy! They have a free portal for our members at:

3. Recent AWS Updates RDS Aurora Parallel Query & MySQL 5.7 compat.
RDS & DMS support SQL Server replication
AWS X-Ray for .NET version 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

4. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
AWS IS HIRING! 47 open positions in Colorado (DTC, Broomfield, downtown)
Here are a few examples: Named Account Manager, Job ID: Solutions Architect, Job ID: Partner Sales Manager, Job ID: Sr. IoT Architect, Job ID: Senior Cloud Technical Account Manager, Job ID: Web Developer, Job ID:
All listed here

5. 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

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

7. Resources AWS Blog: Curated Twitter List: AWS Podcasts:
Curated Twitter List:
AWS Podcasts:

8. 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

9. Questions?