AWS User Group Cologne - October Edition [hybrid]

AWS User Group Cologne, hybrid meetup on Thursday, October 20th 2022, 6:00 pm / 18:00 CET - presented by RTL Deutschland & StormForge. With talks by Mazen Bassiouny (Cloud Engineer at RTL group) and Matthias Lübken (Product Manager at Upbound).

Hey everyone,

welcome to our second hybrid meetup!

If you like to attend on site please get your free ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/aws-user-group-cologne-october-edition-tickets-421246849667
Due to the limited room capacity we only have a limited ticket contingent. Please have a look at our hygiene concept: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/aws-cologne/. Once all tickets have been allocated, only virtual participation is possible. If there are restrictions due to a change in the Covid situation, we may have to revert to a virtual format.

Here’s the agenda:
18:00 – Get together
18:15 – Intro and administrative details by StormForge
18:25 – Introduction of RTL Deutschland
18:35 – Mazen Bassiouny: MinIO Storage synchronization and replication to AWS S3
19:05 – Q&A (15 minutes)
19:20 – Short break (5 minutes)
19:25 – Matthias Lübken: Building an internal AWS platform with Crossplane
19:55 – Q&A (15 minutes)
20:10 – Socializing

Speaker & Talk Information
Mazen Bassiouny: MinIO Storage synchronization and replication to AWS S3
Organizations use many storage solutions for systems that run in their on-premises or private cloud environment. MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage that runs with an AWS S3 compatible API. Having a failover and backup solution in the AWS cloud help to have a disaster recovery plan for such a storage service to ensure business continuity. I will introduce concepts and feature available in MinIO to allow data synchronization to AWS. From there, an extendable cloud-based solution can be used to store the data in AWS S3.

About Mazen
My name is Mazen Bassiouny. I have been working as a network and cloud implementation engineer for multiple international companies. Currently I’m working as a cloud engineer for RTL group focusing on helping my team to design, implement, and automate the cloud infrastructure of our customers. I enjoy knowledge sharing and exchanging ideas for different cloud aspects.

Meet Mazen:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mazen-bassiouny-26671293/

Matthias Lübken: Building an internal AWS platform with Crossplane
There are many AWS services to choose from, and new ones arrive on a daily basis. Organizations struggle to enable teams while maintaining an internal platform that can be managed and updated continuously. Crossplane solves this by leveraging Kubernetes and letting teams use, compose and share infrastructure services like from AWS as Kubernetes objects. In this talk, I will introduce the core concepts of Crossplane.io an Open-Source project from the CNCF. I’ll show how organizations can build their own internal platform and provide a custom API for public clouds like AWS and other services.

About Matthias
Matthias Lübken is a Product Manager at Upbound. He has significant experience with different aspects of software development and operation and is currently focussing on helping teams build their own dedicated Cloud platform. He enjoys the in-person exchange and has been a speaker at multiple international conferences.

Meet Matthias:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luebken/
Twitter: @luebken