AWS Meetup Frankfurt - Sustainability & Observability

Agenda 📆

• Doors open: 18:30
• Pizza, drinks & networking: 18:30-19:15
• Talks: 19:15-20:30
• Networking & discussions: 20:30-21:30

Welcome and Networking 🤝
- Join us for some pre-event networking.
- Enjoy pizza 🍕 and refreshments while get-to-know fellow AWS enthusiasts.
- Kick off the meetup with a warm welcome and a brief introduction to the evening's exciting agenda.

• Talk #1 will be in English
  Talk - Cost as a Proxy for Sustainable Outcomes
• Description: Today, more than ever, sustainability and cost-savings are top of mind for nearly every organization. That said, simply migrating to AWS isn’t enough to meet the Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Cloud Financial Management (CFM) goals that today’s customers are setting.
  In this session, you will discover Amazon’s best practices for reviewing cloud workloads and optimizing them in line with sustainability goals. This will enable you to have a consistent approach to delivering actionable outcomes, and design with cost and sustainability in mind. After this session, you will be able to create a view that aligns financial targets with sustainability goals. We will explore technologies, architectures, and patterns that help meet these goals and become design considerations to help benefit the budget and create a more sustainable world.
• Speaker: Reem Gaafar is a Senior Technical Account Manager with over 17 years of experience supporting Customers in various Industries. In her role She supports Customers get the best out of their Cloud utilization, continuously improve their Operational Excellence all while understanding their priorities and working backwards to accelerate achieving their goals. She is also part of a Community that specializes in Sustainability in AWS. Reem worked variety of roles in multinational organizations from Technical Support to People management and Advocating internally for Customers needs.
• Talk #2 will be in English
  Talk - Harnessing observability to optimize your serverless workloads
• Description: Observability is more than monitoring your workload—you also need logs and traces for full visibility into your applications. Many serverless workloads consist of components distributed over multiple accounts and teams. This requires you to join and correlate information from many sources to gain an understanding of the overall system. You then have to ask the right questions to gain insights from the data. In this session, learn how to improve your observability foundations and derive valuable insights to understand and optimize your serverless workloads.
• Speakers: Ben Freiberg is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with over 12 years of professional experience. In his role, he guides customers to achieve their goals with AWS and accelerate their digital transformation. He has a background as a software developer and worked for start-ups as well as large enterprises.
  Marco Jahn is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. With over 20 years of professional experience in software engineering and architecture, he assists customers in leveraging the cloud to achieve their goals, accelerate digitization, and create more room for innovation. Prior to joining AWS, Marco worked as a consultant for various small and medium-sized businesses as well as enterprise companies across multiple sectors.

Closing Remarks 🙌
- As we conclude our meetup, we'll have some closing remarks and invite attendees to continue networking and discussions.
Important Information:
- This event is open to all AWS enthusiasts, from beginners to experts.
- Pizza and drinks will be provided to keep you fueled throughout the evening. 🍻
- Please RSVP to secure your spot.
- Don't forget to bring your questions, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn and connect with the AWS + DevOps community.
Join us on February 27th 2024 at codecentric AG Frankfurt for an evening of knowledge-sharing, networking, and delicious food.

RSVP now, and we look forward to seeing you there! 📅