Nashville Amazon Web Services User Group AWS

Register here with Kong: https://frontend.prd.mktg.konghq.com/events/workshops/aws-immersion-day-nashville-kong-konnect-and-ai-gateway?mkt_tok=NDE4LVRJVy0xMTkAAAGaaeEF8iD8odxlxp7wpv0JBy3cHN0pyQfpJfeCydD6QnnR0k6ZbXfSq5xlxFv94QOqJfD5I9NUVLKy8dhz9YA

## AWS Immersion Day: Nashville

In the era of GenAI, there is no AI without APIs — in addition to a modern, API-first strategy, developers need a robust “AI as APIs” strategy to ensure seamless integration, optimize performance and governance, and achieve long-term scalability of GenAI applications.

Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how Kong Konnect enables federated API management across the entire API lifecycle and how Kong AI Gateway and Amazon Bedrock provide essential capabilities for scaling AI use cases securely and efficiently.

What You’ll Learn

• Kong Konnect Architecture Overview
• AI Gateway Essentials
• Deploying Konnect on AWS
• Explore API and AI Use Cases

- Authentication
- AWS Lambda integration
- AI Prompt Engineering
- AI Semantic Caching
- And much more…

What's Needed?
Bring your laptop as you will need to connect to the internet.

Attendees will be guided through the AWS and Kong Konnect setup process, including comprehensive walkthroughs of the Kong Konnect Gateway Manager, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Plugins, and Monitoring systems.

## Agenda

12:00 - 12:30 Registration + Lunch
12:30 - 1:00 Introduction by AWS & Kong
1:00 - 3:30 Hands-on Workshop (Kong Konnect & AI Gateway)
3:30 - 4:00 End of Workshop and Wrap-up