Organizations can shift entire workloads to cloud, and yet still not achieve the most transformational benefits of the cloud. In this session, David will review the approaches that can lead companies in reducing long-term maintenance, increasing the speed of digital innovation, and enabling them to respond to user needs more quickly.

In addition, David will review the pillars of a modern cloud native application, so you can evaluate the solutions you are currently building. This session will review real-world scenarios for implementing these modern cloud techniques into existing organizations and how those organizations can equip their technical staff resources with the skills needed to succeed in a cloud-first world. Key points include:

• Reviewing modern infrastructure as code solutions to deploy infrastructure
• Understanding microservice approaches in AWS
• Examining the future of cloud development based on service direction and announcements
• Reducing long-term maintenance with managed service adoption

The cloud provided unprecedented capabilities for creating fault-tolerant and resilient solutions, but to take advantage of these tools requires that organizations embrace a cloud native approach to architecting modern solutions. In this talk, David will review the most common approaches and services for creating highly-available solutions on AWS. Key points include:

• Reviewing AWS services to understand how they will integrate with a highly-available application
• Examining common architectures for resiliency on AWS
• Explaining common approaches for highly-available applications including single region multiple availability zone, multi-region failover, and active multi-region
• Detailing changes and shifts in creating resilient applications within the last 18 months due to service updates
• Exploring services that will be difficult to implement within a high-availability environment