Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and is often the starting point for your first week using AWS. This session will introduce these concepts, along with the fundamentals of EC2, by employing an agile approach that is made possible by the cloud. Attendees will experience the reality of what a first week on EC2 looks like from the perspective of someone deploying an actual application on EC2. You will follow them as they progress from deploying their entire application from an EC2 AMI on day 1 to more advanced features and patterns available in EC2 by day 5. Throughout the process we will identify cloud best practices that can be applied to your first week on EC2 and beyond.

As more organisations seek to leverage the power and benefits of the cloud, they also need to combine new systems with existing on-premise systems. Services such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and AWS Direct Connect enable AWS customers to combine on-premise and cloud-based resources easily and effectively. This session will walk customers through the 4 main patterns of connectivity and will include a "real time" demonstration of how easy it is to setup your own VPC and start working in your own private section of the AWS Cloud.

As you look to go beyond your cloud and how you will manage governance for it, there are things you need to consider as you build your strategy. Come to this session to understand data protection policies, your relevant control areas, what shared responsibility means and what you need to do to put the right components together for your organisation's Cloud governance strategy.

Highly available and scalable web hosting can be complex and expensive. Learn how Amazon Web Services provides the reliable, scalable, secure, and high performance infrastructure required for web applications while enabling an elastic, scale out and scale down infrastructure to match IT costs in real time as customer traffic fluctuates.

Since Amazon's launch in November 2012, AAPT AWS Direct Connect has proven to be a key enabler for privately transporting Big Data workloads in and out of AWS infrastructure in Sydney. Traditional networking solutions are being pushed to their limits and struggle to deal with the demands of the Big Data workloads that often demand a minimum of 1Gbps or even up to 10Gbps transmission speeds. We are seeing massive demand for speed from a range of industries, particularly Financial, Gaming and Media. AAPT has a winning formula by providing customers with simple affordable access through its extreme performance network, connecting our customers data centres and office locations, wherever they may be in the country, to AWS through AAPT Direct Connect at speeds up to 10Gbps.

No matter where you live, what hours you work, how busy you are or what assistance you require, MediMail makes Pharmacy easy because you can order and manage your medication and pharmacy needs in one of 4 different ways - you choose. With over 194 Million prescriptions per year and growing, MediMail had to devise a technology strategy that would allow easy growth without impacting initial capital. Join this presentation to find out more.

A globally connected cloud such as Amazon Web Services enables cost effective disaster recovery and backup solutions. Yuruware is an AWS Technology Partner that delivers highly automated solutions and services to help businesses with system migration, replication and recovery using AWS. Come and hear from some of our system integrator partners and end customers on how they achieved total system migration, auditable and testable disaster recovery, with no business down time using Yuruware tools.

Disaster recovery is about preparing for and recovering from any event that has a negative impact on your IT systems. A typical approach involves duplicating infrastructure to ensure the availability of spare capacity in the event of a disaster. Learn how Amazon Web Services allows you to scale up your infrastructure on an as-needed basis. For a disaster recovery solution, this results in significant cost savings.

Learn more about the tools, techniques and technologies for working productively with data at any scale. This session will introduce the family of data analytics tools on AWS which you can use to collect, compute and collaborate around data, from gigabytes to petabytes. We'll discuss Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop, structured and unstructured data, and the EC2 instance types which enable high performance analytics.

Come and learn how the flexible and pay as you go nature of AWS makes it perfect for compute environments that need to be spun up quickly and disposed of when not needed, and placing this power at the fingertips of developers means you can make step changes in productivity as you progress applications through the dev/test cycle.