Cloud Natives Zurich: Building resilient and reliable applications on AWS

Leading AWS experts share their most innovative ideas for increasing the resilience of AWS environments in the November issue of Cloud Natives Zurich. Get inspired by inspiring approaches and practical examples to make your AWS projects more resilient and powerful. Learn in three exciting presentations which AWS services support you and how the e-commerce platform Amazon.com secures their AWS environment against outages.

17:00 – 17:15 Registration
17:15 – 17:20 Welcome & Introduction

17:20 – 17:55 Christian Essig | Senior Cloud Engineer, ti&m
Mastering Infrastructure Tests with AWS CDK
With CDK, AWS gives us the ability to describe infrastructure with code. This offers many advantages, including writing tests. But so far, we are only creating tests for a few customers for their infrastructure built with CDK. We'll show you ways to test your infrastructure to increase the quality of your cloud resources.

17:55 – 18:30 Marcel Neidinger | Solution Architect, AWS
Test your Architectural Resilience with Chaos Engineering
How resilient is your architecture to sudden failure? Very? Great! Have you ever tested it in a real-world environment? No? Then chaos engineering could be something worth doing. In chaos engineering, we purposely inject failures - and thus chaos - into a system under load to test both the architectural resilience of our solution as well as our recovery processes. By provoking a failure, we can do an end-to-end test of all auxiliary systems, like monitoring and automated responses, as well as any human components involved.
This talk will introduce you to the concepts of chaos engineering and walk you through a demo scenario of chaos testing an application. We then conclude by showing possible variants of chaos engineering you can incorporate into your architectural process.

18:30 – 18:55 Angelo Skibola | Solutions Architect, AWS Switzerland
Best Practices for Architecting Highly Available Solutions on AWS
In an era where digital accessibility and uptime are critical business imperatives, highly available solutions are key to ensuring continuity and resilience. At AWS we can find a broad set of services and technologies that can be leveraged to architect robust high availability systems. This presentation will delve into proven methodologies and best practices to design and implement such systems on AWS.

18:55 – 19:00 Conclusion
19:00 – 20:30 Networking