September Meetup: Cloud Adoption and Migration Trilogy

Hello! For those who do not know me, my name is Abigail Wagner, who was recently appointed to co-organizer of the AWS DC meet-up group. I am ecstatic to announce that we will be co-hosting our first in-person meet-up this year on September 21st with the Arlington & DC Cloud meet-up group. This event will also be hybrid and the online link will be shared with those who RSVP yes on the day of the event via meet-up group message, which will be forwarded to your email.

The agenda for the evening will include food and drink, networking time, and 3 speakers on topics regarding Cloud Migration and Adoption.

Also, remember that AWS Community Day DMV is the week following the meet-up, so sign up while you still can!!

Hope you can make it!

More information on the speakers:
Using software intelligence to power your cloud migration
Greg Rivera, VP Software Intelligence, CAST
As Vice President of Software Intelligence at CAST, Greg leads product strategy for the CAST Highlight SaaS platform. He has held technology leadership roles with Fortune 1000 companies such as Microsoft, IDG Communications, and Arrow Electronics for over 20 years. Greg is an expert in applying software intelligence for evaluating Cloud Readiness of custom-build application portfolios, helping clients and partners accelerate app modernization and cloud migration.

How to enable employees in AWS using their Google identity
Maki Kato, CTO at Matrix Group International
Matrix Groups uses Google identity as an OpenIDConnect IdP with Cognito to allow users to assume a role that will allow them to

1. add their IP address to a Security Group that's applied to web servers
2. turn on/off dev servers off hours

The above is implemented in JavaScript from a web app.
This is a creative and simple solution to a common challenge faced by many companies in their AWS adoption.
Finding where to eat and drink using cloud-based spatial data
Michael Goddard, Solution Engineer, Cockroach Labs
Michael is a solution engineer at Cockroach Labs, helping organizations adopt this new breed of cloud-native, distributed SQL technology. His interests include text indexing and search as well as geospatial applications. He is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Michael will demo a simple map based spatial application targeted at the problem of finding where to eat and drink while visiting a new city (in Europe). The tech stack includes CockroachDB, its PostGIS-like spatial capabilities, Leaflet, MapBox, OpenStreetMap data, Python, and Kubernetes. The demo will show CockroachDB's survivability and zero-downtime operations in K8s, coupled with its spatial query abilities.