1. Thanks to our Host, Sempera!
Please thank them for the food and beverages!
WiFi for members:
Network: 400Inverness Password:

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

3. 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:

4. Tonight’s Topic: Deploy Elastic on AWS
Learn about Elastic deployment options on AWS. We will look at different departmental solutions of Elastic. We will then go through considerations of deploying the Elastic Stack on AWS EC2, in an Enterprise Elastic Cloud Environment, and as a fully managed Elastic cloud service in the AWS cloud.
Speakers: Matteo Rebeschini & Susan Herchenach

5. Recent AWS Updates
Real-Time Hotspot Detection in Amazon Kinesis Analytics via ML Integration
Chime - Usage Based Pricing
SageMaker - Auto Scaling now available
Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming Releases API for Managing Health Status of Service Instances
AWS CloudTrail Log Search Using Amazon Athena
Manage your Amazon RDS, Redshift, and ElastiCache Reservations via the Reserved Instance (RI) Coverage Report in AWS Cost Explorer
Deploy a Cloud Video Editing Environment on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
AWS Service Catalog Announces AutoTags for Automatic Tagging of Provisioned Resources

6. 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

7. Upcoming Meetups
April 9, Special Event: GOTO Conference & Serverless speaker Russ Miles - aka, Geek on a WeWork Union Station
April 18, TBD - Sponsor: Dynatrace

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

9. Questions?