re:Invent 2024 Technical Recap - AWS User Group Stuttgart

re:Invent 2024 brought significant changes to the AWS ecosystem, introducing new services, architectural patterns, and development workflows that will shape our infrastructure decisions throughout 2025. Join us for an engineer-focused breakdown of these announcements and their practical implications for production workloads.
This session cuts through the marketing to focus on what matters: technical capabilities, architectural implications, and real-world implementation strategies. We'll examine how these announcements impact existing infrastructure, explore migration paths, and evaluate which features are production-ready versus which need time to mature.

Speaker: Thorsten Höger
Your guide through the re:Invent announcements is AWS Hero Thorsten Höger, a recognized expert in AWS infrastructure automation and cloud-native architectures. As one of the top three non-AWS contributors to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and maintainer of critical open-source AWS tooling, Thorsten brings deep technical expertise in implementing AWS services at scale. His hands-on experience in automating complex AWS infrastructures and practical approach to cloud architecture ensures you'll get actionable insights based on real-world scenarios.

***
AGENDA:
18:00 Welcome and drinks 🍻
18:15 Presentations and Q&A 🤔
19:30 Food & networking 🍕🤝