KEYNOTE: Miles Ward, Manager, Solutions Architecture

Miles Ward is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur with a decade of experience building global-scale computing infrastructures. Miles has been at Amazon Web Services since 2010 and is responsible for designing and developing AWS Solution Architectures relating to big data and social analytics, multi-tiered storage, HA and DR approaches for RDBMS systems, and cost optimization.

Author of the SQL Server on EC2 and MongoDB on EC2 white papers, core contributor to the AWS architecture training classes and Architect Certification Exam, Patent Pending Amazon inventor, Miles has engineered successes with marquee customers and partners like Obama for America, NASA/JPL, Microsoft, 10gen, Adobe, RightScale, CloudOpt, Nokia, 2ndWatch and Kind Snacks among many others.