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re-imagine mysql performance

Supercharge MySQL Workloads with AWS Managed Databases

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About the event

This livestream event will cover key Amazon Aurora MySQL Compatible-Edition and Amazon RDS for MySQL features, including the latest launches. It is intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about managed MySQL offerings on AWS. The event will cover the following topics: 1/ availability and resilience, 2/ performance and scale, and 3/ data integration, with an emphasis on how Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS enhance MySQL capabilities across these areas. We will also have AWS leadership and an AWS customer spotlight to share their experiences and guidance using managed MySQL on AWS.

 

This event will be broadcast on Linkedin Live, Twitch.tv/awsonair, and Twitter.com/awsonair.

Who should attend

Anyone from developers to business decision makers who want to understand how managed MySQL on AWS can help organizations run highly available and performant workloads at scale.

Why attend

You will learn how Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS can help turbocharge and enhance your MySQL workloads. In this session, we will talk about some of the unique capabilities offered on Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL and why customers choose these services to run mission critical applications.

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9:00AM - 9:30AM

Amazon Aurora Leadership Spotlight

Eugene Kawamoto, General Manager, Amazon Aurora


Eugene is a 10-year Amazon veteran and has held leadership positions at AWS across the databases and analytics portfolios. He will share AWS investments in managed MySQL services. Eugene will also explain why customers continue to leverage MySQL as their primary database and how the customer journey typically evolves from a self-managed MySQL environment to an AWS managed environment.

9:30AM - 9:50AM

Enhance resiliency and availability for MySQL using AWS Managed Databases

Steve Abraham, Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect


This session will cover how Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS enhance the resiliency and availability for MySQL workloads. We will outline capabilities such as multi-AZ, in-region failover, and Aurora Global Databases for cross-region. Learn best practices in building globally available, 24/7 applications using  Aurora MySQL and RDS for MySQL.

9:50AM - 10:10aM

Run performant and scalable MySQL workloads on AWS Managed Databases

Justin Lim,  Snr Worldwide Database GTM Specialist

Pelumi Adeleke, Snr Worldwide Database GTM Specialist


Join us for a session where we dive into Amazon Aurora's newest scalability and performance features, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora I/O-Optimized. Additionally, we will cover RDS for MySQL Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes, which  improve the performance of your MySQL deployment.

10:15aM - 10:35aM

Amplify your business insights with Amazon Aurora using Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift

Steve Abraham, Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect


An integrated data strategy is a priority consideration as customers modernize on the cloud. Customers want to ingest data from their data stores for analytical purposes without dealing with the complexities of ETL processes. Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift brings together the transactional data of Amazon Aurora MySQL with the analytics capabilities of Amazon Redshift. During this session, we will demonstrate how zero-ETL helps customers enable near real-time analytics and machine learning using Amazon Redshift on petabytes of transactional data from Amazon Aurora.

10:40aM - 11:00aM

DraftKings: Running Aurora MySQL at Scale, a Customer Success Story

Joel Miller, Lead Software Architect, DraftKings


Open source databases like MySQL are simple and easy to use. Leveraging MySQL on a managed, cloud native service like Amazon Aurora provides additional benefits, such as unparalleled availability and global scale. During this session, DraftKings, an Amazon Aurora MySQL customer will discuss how Aurora helped them with stability, scalability and resilience. Come join and listen to their journey!




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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.


Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. 


Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. 

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