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BSidesLV: The Big Event Before the Biggest Security Event in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is famous for many reasons: gambling, bright lights, extravagant entertainment, and Elvis. It is also home to two of the largest security events on Earth: DEFCON and BlackHat. But before those massive events kick off, another slightly smaller event brings security practitioners and developers together: BSides Las Vegas 2023.

BSidesLV, as it is also known, is also special as it is the original and largest BSides event. Started in 2009 as a response to DEFCON becoming a bit too large in some people's opinion, the organizers planned a much more intimate conference earlier in the same week. That gathering has inspired BSides regional events worldwide, spanning 220 cities across 62 countries. If you can't make it to Las Vegas for this particular event, there is likely a BSides in your local area we encourage you to find and attend.

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Detect and Resolve Biases in Artificial Intelligence

This presentation is of the on-demand session by AWS Hero Virginie Mathivet at AWS re:Invent 2022 Las Vegas. Posted with permission.

Many applications get a bad buzz on the internet because of biases and discriminations in the models, but how can we avoid them? This talk presents the problem of biases, but also how to detect and fight them with cloud-agnostic solutions. We will examine solutions for biases at both the dataset level with statistical indicators, and at the model level thanks to eXplainable AI (XAI) algorithms.

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Monitor and Predict Health Data Using AWS AI Services

This is a recording of the breakout session at re:Invent 2022 Las Vegas by AWS Hero Luca Bianchi. Posted with permission.

Health systems lack the capability to account for comprehensive population health monitoring. Yet collecting data like oxygenation, temperature, blood tests, and glucose can identify the signs of underlying conditions early. Many home devices are connected and capable of acquiring and monitoring a vast number of vital signs to track a person's health across many relevant metrics. This talk will show how to build a serverless personal health solution leveraging AWS AI services to provide insight extraction, monitoring, and forecasting. Participants will see how to collect a time-variant dataset, use Amazon Lookout for Equipment to spot anomalies, and predict metrics levels.

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Automate and Manage AWS Outposts Capacity Across Multi-Account AWS Setup [Video]

This is a recording of the breakout session led by AWS Hero Margaret Valtierra at AWS re:Invent 2022, Las Vegas. Posted with permission.


Curious how, for mere dollars a month and minimal upkeep, you can centrally track and manage Outposts capacity across multiple AWS accounts? In this session, we’ll show a unique solution implemented at Morningstar by the Cloud Services team to do just that. We'll walk through how we arrived at the architecture of the solution that uses lambdas, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, S3, and a custom API to track capacity and block users from overspending their quota.

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The “Mic Drop” On Fast File Migration Speed

How Long Does a File Migration Last Anyways?

Fast Cloud File Migration and Throughput

I have been manning conference booths and speaking at technical conferences for over a decade, usually covering the topic of migration in some shape or form. Recently, I attended a technical conference in Las Vegas, for instance. Typical stuff: giant marketing cloths behind me making wild claims of ridiculously fast cloud file migration – a file migration speed of up to 60TB per day.

Surely this is the work of some funny-math executed by a sales VP and then begrudgingly incorporated into a booth banner by some young, inexperienced marketing person. Except that it’s not, and we don’t do inexperienced!