AWS UG Dubai Meetup #5 (virtual): Persistent Storage + AWS Microsoft Workloads

Join AWS User Group Dubai for our fresh new monthly meetups. This time we are pleased to host Ananth Vaidyanathan, Amazon EFS Product Manager, and Ali El Kontar CEO at Zero & One, Advanced AWS Partner.

🌐 Topic 1

Building Modern Applications on AWS with Persistent Storage

📝 Abstract

Development teams are modernizing their applications by adopting containers, serverless, and microservices-based architectures. Because containers are transient in nature, long-running applications can benefit from keeping state in durable storage. Distributed applications like machine learning training, and web serving, benefit from a shared storage layer. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a simple, scalable, fully managed, elastic, cloud native shared file system, enabling you to build modern applications, persist and share data from your AWS containers and serverless applications, with zero management required.

🎙 Speaker

This presentation will be led by Ananth Vaidyanathan:

Ananth Vaidyanathan is a Sr. Product Manager at AWS. Having spent time on different teams across Amazon, he has business and technical expertise in helping customers migrate to, and innovate, and optimize with best practices on AWS. He loves thinking about new ideas and creating new products that bring value to customers on the cloud. In his spare time, he is an avid reader of world history and an amateur violin player.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anantharamv/

🌐 Topic 2

Microsoft Workloads on AWS

📝 Abstract

Customers have been running Microsoft Workloads on AWS for over 12 years, longer than any other cloud provider. Customers choose AWS because we have the most experience with Microsoft applications in the cloud and we offer the best platform for Windows Server and SQL Server for higher performance and reliability, greater security and identity services, more migration support, the broadest and deepest capabilities, lower total cost of ownership, and flexible licensing options. AWS supports everything you need to build and run Windows applications including Active Directory, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows desktop-as-a-service, and all supported versions of Windows Server. With our proven expertise, we can help you easily lift-and-shift, refactor, or even modernize your Windows workloads.

🎙 Speaker

This presentation will be led by Ali El Kontar:

A seasoned entrepreneur, passionate about technology, knowledge sharing and talent nurturing with a strong belief that people always come first. Founder & CEO of Zero&One with 17+ year of experience in IT and Telecom industry.

APN Ambassador
10 x AWS Certified
AWS Authorized Instructor Champion
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akontar/

🌍 Venue
Zoom meeting. The Zoom meeting details will be sent via email on the morning of the meetup to all the members that RSVP yes.

📝 Requirements
No requirements, come as you are.

⏳ Agenda
17:30 - 17:45 🍿 Virtual Lounge Open
17:45 - 18:00 🎮 Keynote: User Group Uplift
18:00 - 19:30 ☁️ Presentations
19:30 - 20:00 👨🏻‍💻 Questions & Networking

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