AWS Services for Developers (In Arabic): The Last DVA-C02 Window Before DVA-C03

AWS Services for Developers (In Arabic): The Last DVA-C02 Window Before DVA-C03
[Series of successive meetups - meetup #1]

Details:
🏠 Venue: Online.
📢 Limited places: Please book your spot (100 spots available).
📢 Language: Arabic (with English technical Acronyms).

Target Audience:

• Developers who already know AWS basics and want a practical map of which service to reach for, and when
• Engineers preparing for AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02) before it retires
• Anyone building on AWS who wants the current picture - a lot of what's out there in courses and tutorials is already out of date

Description:
AWS's service catalog keeps growing, and so does the number of ways to build the same application. Meanwhile, some of what a two-year-old course taught you about AWS is no longer true - services get renamed, deprecated, and occasionally, like AWS CodeCommit, un-deprecated.
This session is a practical map, not a certification cram. We'll walk through the AWS services a developer actually reaches for, organized by the problem each one solves, then apply that map to eight real applications - starting from a simple WordPress site and ending at event-driven, production-grade architectures.
There's also a timing reason to join now: AWS retires the current AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam (DVA-C02) on November 30, 2026. Registration for the next version, DVA-C03, opens October 27, and the exam goes live December 1 - adding AI-assisted development, managed AI services, and securing AI agent interactions to what's tested. Whether or not certification is your goal, this session gives you the current map before that shift lands.
We'll cover:

• Why "which AWS service do I need" depends entirely on what you're building
• A categorized map of AWS services for developers - with each one's current status, since GA, maintenance, and discontinued behave very differently
• Eight architectures, from a single Lightsail instance to a full event-driven, CI/CD-backed application
• What's changed since you last checked - Cloud9, CodeStar, CodeCatalyst, App Runner, and CodeCommit's comeback
• Where this connects to AI-assisted development, with a callback to June's Kiro/SDD session

This session is for developers who want a current, practical map of AWS - not a service-by-service lecture, and not exam prep.
Agenda:

• Why this topic, why now: the DVA-C02 → DVA-C03 transition
• The AWS developer toolbox: a categorized service map, with status
• The architecture ladder: eight real applications, simple to complex
• From commit to production: CI/CD and observability
• Where Kiro and AI-assisted development fit
• What's next: the deep-dive series
• Q&A

Speaker:
🎤 Khalid ElGazzar: AI & Software Development Leader | CTO | Cloud Architect.
Bio: Khalid is an AWS Community Builder & AWS User Group Leader. He holds a B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Computer Science in addition to an e-MBA. As a Cloud Architect, Software Development Manager, & CTO, and with around 25 years of experience in the software field, he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the table.

Find Khalid @: https://dev.to/khalidelgazzar | Khalid (at) OneKC (dot) pro

📢 Sponsors:
- One K Compute Professional - https://onekc.pro
- the Software, Architecture & Cloud Blog - https://SWAC.blog

Attendance prerequisites:

• Basic familiarity with core AWS concepts (an AWS account, the console, what EC2 and S3 are) - this session assumes you've used AWS before
• No hands-on setup needed - this is a mapping and architecture session, not a coding workshop
• (Optional) If you want to check the exam this session references beforehand: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-developer-associate/

System Requirements:
- From PC: Web browser, headset (or Mic / Speakers), Strong Internet connection.
- From Smartphone/tablet: Google Meet (from Google Play or Apple Store).

Attention:
Please change your RSVP from Yes to No if you will not be able to join us. You will be removed from our group after 2 no-shows!