AWS pre:Invent @ inQdo

Another year, another pre:Invent at inQdo. A meetup where we will be looking ahead to the yearly AWS re:Invent announcements.
We will be announcing the speakers and talks soon, so make sure to keep an eye on this page!

Information

• Parking is available for free.

Agenda
17:30 - Food 🍴
18:00 - AWS Skillbuilder talk by EiEi Tun
18:30 - Aurora DSQL, unraveling the pricing by Farid Neshat
19:00 - 🚰 Break
19:10 - Amazon S3 Vectors, store & query vectors at scale by Aleksandar Skodric
19:40 - From Developer to Cloud Architect: My AWS Team Journey by Jeroen van Zwam
20:10 - Drinks 🍻 & Networking

AWS Skillbuilder
You want to learn to work with AWS, or you want to dive in specific services that AWS providers. Where do you start? At the AWS SkillBuilder platform. With a lots of content to certify, learn or discover. EiEi will showcase how the different courses (free and paid) can be a real benefit when learning (more) about AWS.

Aurora DSQL, unraveling the pricing
AWS has released Aurora DSQL into general availability with a pricing based on Distributed Processing Unit (DPU) but there's no clear description on what a DPU is. This makes it more difficult than most other services to estimate how much it actually costs. With some benchmarks I attempt to unravel this mystery to see how DPUs actually translate to typical writes and reads and then also share some numbers about how much actual real world applications costs on Aurora DSQL. I will compare it with RDS and Aurora Serverless V2 from cost and performance point of view.

Amazon S3 Vectors, store & query vectors at scale
Cost-effective and durable storage of large, long-term vectors while delivering sub-second query time.

From Developer to Cloud Architect: My AWS Team Journey
In this presentation, I will share my personal journey of transitioning from a "normal" developer to a cloud developer, as part of the Snowworld team. I'll discuss how I encountered and learned to use various AWS services, such as SQS, Lambdas, CloudWatch, EventBridge, and DynamoDB, all while working with TypeScript and Python. This presentation will provide insights into the challenges I faced, the skills I had to develop, and the lessons I learned during this transformative experience. By highlighting my growth from a traditional developer to a cloud-focused professional, I aim to inspire and empower others to embrace the exciting opportunities in the cloud computing landscape.