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Highlights from AWS re:Invent Partner Keynote

2020-12-08 20:46:43| The Webmail Blog

Highlights from AWS re:Invent Partner Keynote nellmarie.colman Tue, 12/08/2020 - 13:46 On Thursday, AWS re:Invent turned the spotlight to their partners and the role they play in helping customers transform and innovate. Beyond just the technology, AWS partners deliver strong leadership, with talent thats hungry to invent, and a focus on solving real customer problems. Doug Yeum, Head of Amazon Web Services Global Partner Organization, called out Rackspace Technology in this regard: Reinvention is about strong leadership, when I look at some of our consulting partners like Accenture, Slalom and Rackspace who are successfully transforming into cloud first companies, the leaders of these companies play an extremely important role. Doug Yeum Head of Global Partner Organization, AWS Yeum explained that AWS partners are all-in when it comes to the cloud. They set big goals and arent afraid to make big changes in order to lead and shape the future of their company and theyre committed to moving fast. As these partners double down on their investments to grow their AWS practices and build solutions on AWS, AWS in turn makes big investments in these partners, helping them in their transformation journeys. AWS comes alongside and helps partners maximize the value of their customer relationships, deep industry experience and unique offerings, so they can deliver differentiated value to their customers. In short, AWS helps their partners become better prepared for the future, and customers end up the big winners. Professional services now available on the AWS Marketplace To help you make the most of the AWS Partner Network, AWS has expanded their AWS Marketplace to now include professional services. This means you can get not only the technology solutions you need, but also the hands-on expertise to make the most of those solutions. Rackspace Technology is proud to be an AWS launch partner, and one of the first to offer professional services on the AWS Marketplace. Find the right AWS Partner for your project When you need an AWS Partner with a proven specialty, you can turn to the AWS Competency Program. From industries, use cases and workloads, the AWS Competency Program can help you find the right partner. AWS announced two new competencies during the Partner Keynote: AWS SaaS Competency: Introduced earlier this year, this competency recognizes consulting partners that have deep experience helping companies build SaaS and cloud native solutions on AWS. Only 27 consulting partners have achieved this competency, including Rackspace Technology and Onica, a Rackspace Technology company. New industry competencies: Designed around the needs and COVID-19 challenges that travel-related businesses are facing, AWS has launched the Travel and Hospitality Competency, and Rackspace Technology is one of a growing list of partners. Other industry-specific competencies announced include Public Safety & Disaster Response and Energy. Solving Together with Southwest Airlines Onica, a Rackspace Technology company, was highlighted during the event, for excellence in travel and hospitality and their cloud native approach. Lauren Woods, Managing Director of Technology at Southwest Airlines took the spotlight to share how their multi-year journey to the cloud with AWS and Onica gave them the foundation to stay resilient and innovate amid crisis. Working with Onica, Southwest Airlines re-architected OpsSuite, a major application that had been plagued with cold starts, manual deployments and static infrastructure. The Onica team worked alongside the Southwest Airlines technology team to modernize OpsSuite, selecting Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service to containerize applications that support flight scheduling, gate assignments, turn productivity and network optimization. By leveraging Amazon EKS and 17 other cloud native AWS services, deployments are now safer and entirely automated. Releases that previously took hours, now take seconds. And if issues arise, releases can be automatically rolled back to earlier versions. With so many conditions, such as weather, maintenance and air traffic, which can impact departure and arrival time, Southwest Airlines and its customers now have access to the most accurate information faster than ever before. After experiencing the transformative power that a cloud native approach can have with Onica and AWS, Southwest Airlines is now taking steps to become a cloud native organization working with Onica on additional projects that will drive more innovation, optimization and customer-centric outcomes. Looking optimistically to the future, Woods shared, With the support of AWS, and our AWS partners, and especially the heart of our people, we will emerge from this storm of challenging times stronger than ever before. Make the most of re:Invent 2020 This years re:Invent is a three-week event, all virtual, and free. To watch the event live or view recordings, register here and dont forget to visit the Rackspace Technology virtual booth to learn more about our new AWS solutions and enjoy an immersive interactive experience. Highlights from AWS re:Invent Partner KeynoteLearn about the latest service announcements, new competencies and partner showcases from the AWS re:Invent Partner Keynote event.Explore re:Invent announcements and updateshttps://events.rackspace.com/reinventFind out more

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Highlights from Andy Jassys AWS re:Invent 2020 Keynote

2020-12-02 19:42:53| The Webmail Blog

Highlights from Andy Jassys AWS re:Invent 2020 Keynote nellmarie.colman Wed, 12/02/2020 - 12:42 AWS re:Invent 2020 is off to a huge start, with Andy Jassy presenting a tsunami of new services and features during his opening keynote. From databases to machine learning, from cloud compute to hybrid solutions, from containers to disk storage, theres far too much to write about in a single entry, so here are just a few of the highlights. Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL One of the biggest announcements is massively important to customers making the migration from on-premises facilities to the cloud, and their challenges around Microsoft SQL Server in particular. This often represents a large cost to operate due to licensing, but the move to an alternative engine like PostgreSQL is daunting due to the work required to update applications and queries. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, customers can enable a SQL Server compatible endpoint to their Aurora PostgreSQL cluster, which can handle T-SQL and TDS communications from existing applications, with no updates necessary. This will allow you to quickly remove or reduce expensive licenses without the headaches of building new schema or changing all your queries. As an added bonus, AWS will make Babelfish open source in 2021 so it can be validated and improved by the community. Babelfish is available in preview right now. Amazon ECS Anywhere and Amazon EKS Anywhere With containers being such a key piece of many environments these days, it seemed likely that thered be at least one announcement here, and theres a big one, or two. Amazon ECS Anywhere and Amazon EKS Anywhere allow organizations to deploy EKS and ECS tasks to any environment, whether thats the usual AWS infrastructure, or your on-premise infrastructure. The control pane continues to deploy within AWS, but from there you can use the regular service API to deploy and manage containers in either environment. This will be extremely useful in allowing organizations to use existing hardware while still driving towards their goals of moving to the cloud. Additionally, this can power low latency interactions within local data centers for such requirements. Both services will be available next year. Container Image Support for AWS Lambda and AWS Proton Next up is Lambda. A frequent challenge for customers using Lambda is managing the deployment of their functions, as well as the management of growing microservice architectures powered by Lambda. With that in mind, two announcements today aim to alleviate that: Container Image Support for Lambda and AWS Proton. Container Image Support enables packaging Lambda functions as container images, allowing teams to leverage all their existing container build and deployment pipelines for their Lambda functions as well. AWS Proton is a fully managed deployment service for container and serverless applications, aimed at making the management of sprawling microservices much easier. Application stacks are defined, containing everything from the infrastructure to the deployment pipeline, greatly simplifying the management of the CI/CD flow. Proton also allows for inspection and monitoring of the deployment processes, providing a clear trail on who deployed what, and when. Both are generally available today. Io2 Block Express With a big focus on solving the implementation of SANs within the cloud, io2 Block Express was announced today, allowing for the deployment of massive and highly performant block volumes up to 64 TiB, 256,000 IOPS and 4000 MBps of throughput, which is up to 4x the performance of the regular io2 volumes. The service is available in preview currently, and AWS is planning the release of additional features next year such as Multi-Attach, Elastic Volumes, I/O fencing and Snapshot Restore. io2 Block Express EBS volumes are currently in preview. Amazon Connect Another highlight was all the enhancements made to the call center service, Amazon Connect, which allows for the easy creation and management of a call center. The enhancements look to leverage machine learning to improve customer and agent interactions. Amazon Connect Wisdom uses ML to detect the content of calls and places relevant information in front of the agents to help customers quicker and more accurately. Amazon Connect Customer Profiles are able to unify customer information from multiple sources to make insights about the customer available to the agents. Negative customer experience issues can be detected in real-time during a call by Amazon Connect Real-Time Contact Lens, which can be used to escalate the calls to supervisors while providing them with transcriptions on the call so far. Amazon Connect Tasks unifies the management of all the tasks associated with the call center and allows easy routing through existing tools. Last, but not least, Amazon Connect Voice ID uses ML to build voice signatures for callers, allowing for identification through natural conversation and removing the need for authorization questions by agents based on the certainty of the model. This only hits on some of the bigger announcements during the keynote, and doesnt dive into high performance gp3 EBS volumes, Amazon DevOps Guru which provides machine learning derived insights into infrastructure and configuration, SageMaker Pipelines that provides CI/CD for ML workflows, smaller AWS Outpost devices (1U and 2U forms) and more! Andy Jassys keynote is an amazing kick-off to this years event, clearly showing AWS drive to provide customer-driven services that help inspire invention and accelerate cloud adoption. With three weeks of keynotes and sessions for re:Invent this year, there are even more big announcements in store that well be continuing to highlight here. Highlights from Andy Jassys AWS re:Invent 2020 KeynoteHighlights of the exciting announcements from Andy Jassys day-one keynote at re:Invent 2020.Explore re:Invent announcements and updateshttps://events.rackspace.com/reinvent/Find out more

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Join us on the road to AWS re:Invent 2020

2020-11-20 21:37:02| The Webmail Blog

Join us on the road to AWS re:Invent 2020 nellmarie.colman Fri, 11/20/2020 - 14:37 Rackspace Technology is entering its sixth year sponsoring AWS re:Invent and for the first time, re:Invent will be online and free to attend. This years event offers more opportunities for you to explore, with its three-week digital conference format and follow the sun agenda. Its designed not only to replicate, but also enhance the traditional, in-person experience complete with after-hours fun and networking opportunities. Weve developed an engaging, educational experience showcasing how we help customers innovate and build the future of technology on AWS. At the conference, youll also hear about exciting new solutions that weve developed to support your AWS journey. Highlights of our 2020 agenda include: Merlins Magical AI Escape Put your skills to the test by solving challenges that emulate real AWS use-cases in our interactive Jam Lounge challenge. In our challenge, youll use Amazon Transcribe to navigate a virtual maze with magical voice commands to move Merlin, the wizard, through a perilous dungeon to freedom. re:Invent Virtual Booth Enter our virtual experience to view a video from Kevin Jones, our CEO, access whitepapers and customer case studies, and check out our live meeting room to learn more about our AWS expertise. A schedule of topics is available on our AWS re:Invent hub. At the virtual booth, you can open up a virtual chat with our team of specialists about your AWS challenges, questions and concerns. On-demand breakout session: Lessons Learned with Serverless Application Development Join Tolga Tarhan, Chief Technology Officer, and Amir Kashani, Vice President, AWS Cloud Native Development at Rackspace Technology to learn about best practices and lessons learned from years of experience designing and building serverless solutions on AWS. The live Q&A session is on December 16, 2:15 P.M. 2:45 P.M. PST. Customer Perspectives: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts This is an unprecedented time for the travel and hospitality industry: travelers and guests, providers and suppliers, employees and stakeholders alike. At this virtual session, Wyndhams EVP and CIO and an AWS Guru team up to share strategic observations and technical insights, to help those in travel and hospitality and beyond build resilience for the long run. Customer Perspectives: OpenSesame Media Join us to learn how Onica, a Rackspace Technology company, helped OpenSesame Media, Inc., pioneers in social audio experiences, build and scale their karaoke app from soft launch to massive availability across 5G phones around the world. Discover how a similar cloud-native approach can help your startup dream big, begin small and scale at rapid speed. Our AWS team is looking forward to seeing you at AWS re:Invent 2020. For conference and event registration information, a full schedule of events and featured customers, visit https://events.rackspace.com/reinvent/. Join us on the road to AWS re:Invent 2020AWS re:Invent has gone virtual and Rackspace Technology is there. Learn more about how were making this virtual event feel just like the in-person experience. Join us for AWS re:Invent 2020 https://events.rackspace.com/reinvent/Find out more Amazon Web Services (AWS)Managed CloudManaged Multi-CloudCloud InsightsValerie HendersonJoin us on the road to AWS re:Invent 2020November 23, 2020 Teaser FlagBlog

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Hy-Vee Inc. Joins Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag

2020-10-13 13:20:00| Waste Age

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa --Hy-Vee Inc. joined the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag as a Supporting Partner, alongside Founding Partners CVS Health, Target and Walmart, and joined by DICKS Sporting Goods, Kroger and Walgreens. Closed Loop Partners

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