Copenhagen | Tuesday, 7 May 2024

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The AWS Community Day Nordics is a free full day event for AWS users to come together to network, learn from each other and get inspired. The event is organized by the community - for the community.

The AWS Community Day Nordics is a cloud education event where participants are able to learn best practices and latest trends for deploying applications on AWS. The event delivers a peer-to-peer learning experience, providing the people with a venue for them to acquire AWS knowledge in their preferred way: from one another.

Speakers are AWS users from the community - including First-Time speakers, AWS User Group leaders, AWS Community Builders, AWS Ambassadors and AWS Heroes - with real life experience in the AWS topics they are presenting.

Date & Venue

This event is being held Tuesday, May 7 2024 in DGI Byen (Tietgensgade 65, DK-1704 København V).

Tickets

The event is free, but you need to register by issuing a personal ticket on EventBrite

Agenda

Coming soon

Talks & Speakers

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Aaron Walker
Technology Director @ base2Services | AWS APN Ambassador | Berlin AWS User Group Co-organizer
Amazon VPC Lattice: The Service Mesh you actually want!!

Join me for an introduction to Amazon VPC Lattice, a fully managed application networking service that simplifies the management of network connectivity, traffic routing, and security between services across different VPCs and AWS accounts. In this presentation, we will discuss how Amazon VPC Lattice differs from traditional service mesh products and tools, and how it can help you modernize your applications from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture. We will demonstrate some of the key features of Amazon VPC Lattice, including its service directory, service network, advanced traffic management, and integration with AWS services such as IAM.

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Anahit Pogosova
Lead Cloud Software Engineer | AWS Data Hero @ Solita
The art of embracing failures

Nowadays serverless can mean many different things. Among others, it helps split bigger tasks into smaller pieces and run them in parallel, leveraging the power of distributed systems. It's also fun! And it's seemingly easy, almost magic-like! However, the real world is more nuanced than that. With all the power that distributed systems have given us, comes responsibility.In this talk, learn the most common challenges and pitfalls inherent to distributed systems and the ways to mitigate them. Delve into some real-world examples using two of the essential AWS serverless services: AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis. And most importantly, learn to embrace failures. Because as the CTO of Amazon Dr. Werner Vogels likes to say: everything fails, all the time.

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Christian Bonzelet
AWS Solutions Architect @DFL Digital Sports
Perfecting the Play: Elevating Transcription Accuracy in Sports with Natural-Language-Processing

In the world of sports, the clarity of game narratives is paramount. Traditional transcription services, however, often fumble with the specialized lexicon of sports commentary, especially when it comes to accurately capturing the names of players and technical terms unique to the game. This session unveils Bundesliga’s approach to tackle this challenge head-on, using Amazon Transcribe enhanced with a custom-built NLP and fuzzy-string matching autocorrection feature, powered by Amazon Comprehend. This session is designed for advanced practitioners who, while familiar with AWS Transcribe and Comprehend, seek to deepen their understanding and application of these tools. Join us to gain insights into how data curation and innovative NLP applications can turn transcription challenges into victories, ensuring that every call of the game is as clear and accurate as the action on the field.

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Elizabeth Adegbaju
DevOps Engineer | AWS Community Builder | WTM Ambassador @ Kreuzwerker
AWS things you wouldn't do with Django and how to do them

In my talk, "AWS things you wouldn't do with Django and how to do them," I'll share insights from my project where I combined Django with AWS services like DynamoDB, AWS Cognito, S3, and AWS App Runner. I'll discuss how I customized Django models for DynamoDB, implemented authentication with AWS Cognito, stored files in S3, and securely managed environment secrets with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store for deployment. Attendees will learn practical tips for integrating Django with AWS services effectively.

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Jakub Gaj
Senior Cloud Architect @ LEGO Group
From serverless to functionless

Examples of functionless (a.k.a. Lambda-less) integration pattern, where a direct integration between two AWS services is configured instead of using custom code in an intermediary Lambda function, based on Step Functions, AppSync, EventBridge.

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Jimmy Dahlqvist
AWS Community Builder and AWS Ambassador, Head of AWS @ Sigma Technology Cloud
Building resilient serverless workloads: Navigating through failures

Serverless and event-driven workloads on AWS are well known for their inherent high availability and scalability, offering a robust platform right out of the box. However, in the world of cloud, it's well known that everything fails all the time. This reality becomes even more complex when serverless systems interact with non-serverless components, which may not possess the same agility in scaling. In this talk, we will dig into architectural patterns that can help you handle failures effectively. Additionally, I'll be sharing my personal insights and gotchas from working with serverless workloads for almost ten years.

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Julia Furst Morgado
Global Technologist @ Veeam Software
Securing Your Kubernetes Clusters, Workloads and Data on Amazon EKS

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, providing powerful capabilities for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale. However, running Kubernetes introduces new security risks that must be addressed. This talk provides guidance on securing Kubernetes clusters, workloads, and data on Amazon EKS. We will also cover recent enhancements to EKS' security and dive into the latest features.

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Lee Priest
Senior Engineer | Serverless | Writer | AWS Community Builder @LEGO Group
Quash Your Quota: A Batching Pattern For Eventbridge Schedules

Scheduled tasks are a powerful tool for any service. A managed service like the one offered by AWS in the form of Eventbridge Scheduler opens the door to efficiently managing the scheduling of millions of tasks. But what happens when you have a high-traffic service that would see you reaching the quota limit for the service? A batching pattern can help alleviate at least some of the load. By consolidating event triggers and batching relevant updates together within a single schedule, you can effectively navigate quota issues without compromising the quality of your service. In this talk, I'll explore the triggers behind the need for a batching pattern, demonstrate its application, and unveil the profound impact it can have on your architecture and user experience. Discover how to leverage this approach for enhanced efficiency, scalability, and consumer satisfaction.

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Luciano Mammino
Senior Architect @fourTheorem, AWS Serverless Hero, MVP, Author, Speaker
Your Lambdas, In Rust!

Rust is taking the software engineering world by storm, but how does it affect serverless? In AWS it's not even a supported runtime, so how can we even use it... and should we even try to do that? Spoiler: yes we should and it's actually quite easy to get started with it!

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Pubudu Jayawardana
AWS Community Builder | Cloud Engineer | Serverless enthusiast | Senior Cloud Engineer @PostNL
Design a mission critical serverless application for high resilience

It is really important for a mission critical application to maintain high resilience since it will directly impact the business continuity. In this talk, I am going to share my experience on how we at PostNL use AWS Serverless technologies to design one of the mission critical systems - EBE (Event Broker E-Commerce) for high resilience.

Sponsors

We want to thank our sponsors, who are making this event possible for everyone! Our sponsors this year are the following:

Contact & Organizers

For sponsorship enquires, feedback or any general question, please send an email to info@awscommunitynordics.org.

Main Organizers

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Angela Timofte
VP of Engineering @Trustpilot | AWS Hero | Developer of the Year 2020
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Antonio Lagrotteria
Principal Architect & Engineer @Nordea | AWS Community Builder
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Rolf Koski
Pragmatist Futurist | CCO @ Knowit Managed Services | EMBA | AWS Hero & Ambassador
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Lezgin Bakircioglu
CT0 @Qred | AWS Community builder | Sec-t(.org) | AWS Stockholm meetup organizer

Supporting Organizers

Anders Björnestad
Marcus Bladh
Jimmy Dahlqvist
Anurag Kale
Harri Lakkala
Pekka Malmirae
Aki Ristkari
Arne Solheim

Previous events

Previous AWS Community Day Nordics events

  • 2018 in Helsinki
  • 2019 in Copenhagen
  • 2020 in Stockholm
  • 2023 in Helsinki