Christian Beedgen presented on using AWS to build a scalable machine data analytics service. He discussed Sumo Logic's architecture which uses loosely coupled AWS components like S3, DynamoDB, and EC2 to ingest, index, analyze and query large volumes of machine log data in real-time. Deployment is automated using tools like Jenkins, and components are deployed across availability zones for high availability. The system scales horizontally by sharding data and queries by customer account.