AWS User Group Berlin Session - March 2026

Dear Community,

this March we are gathering as part of Exasol Xperience 26. This is an event worth being part of, Exasol team was so kind to host us for the evening.

Please visit the event page and chech the exciting agenda. Distinguished speakers, inspiring topics! If you would like to attend the event free of charge, let us know and we will provide you a ticket.

If you prefer to attend our session only, register with your full name below. We also have two awesome speakers that will fill the night with AWS content as usual!

18:30 - Warming up and networking chat
18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin & Exasol
19:00 - 19:40 - Philipp Hoyer // An AWS Container Journey - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly featuring ECS and EKS

EKS on Fargate promises fully managed Kubernetes without EC2 management, but it comes with more hidden complexity than expected. In this talk, I compare running containers on AWS Fargate with EKS versus ECS based on real project experience.

Philipp is Senior AWS DevOps Engineer at Rackspace Technology, where he helps automotive customers design and operate reliable cloud and container platforms on AWS.

19:40 - 20:00 - Network break with snacks & drinks

20:00 - 20:40 - Piotr Pabis // How we cut ECS Startup by 30% - SOCI Deep Dive

"What are docker images anyway? How are they formed? What is a other container registry? I want to go from first principles - presenting TAR files, composing an image, combining it with a JSON manifest and explaining how SOCI technology improves the speed of lazy loading required files and layers. HTTP range requests, GZIP table of contents, many things. I will try to make it understandable for the casual Docker user as well as nerds who want to know how this works under the hood."

Piotr is a Senior Platform Engineer at About You and a well-known Community Builder in AWS. He works mostly improving legacy projects, Terraform and migrating old stuff to ECS.

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Very Important: There is no "waitlist" for our regular sessions. However, there are limited seats available. If you want to make sure you can attend:

Register yourself with your "full name" here at Meetup.com,
Arrive on time - seats are first come, first serve.

As soon as there are seats available, you are welcome to join with your registration. In case there are no more seats available, we won't be able to let you join us this time.We thank you very much for your understanding!

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Additional Information

This event is wheelchair friendly. Help us spread the word, and invite your friends & colleagues! If you're attending with wheelchair and need assistance, please mail us: organisers@berlinawsug.de for further details.

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