Official AWS User Group Lviv Ukraine

Date: September 10, 2026
Time: 18:00 - 20:00 (Kyiv time)
Format: online
Language: Ukrainian
Free participation with registration

Get ready for two insightful talks by two expert speakers:
📍 Stanislav Kolenkin - Head of Cloud Foundation Department, TemaBit (Fozzy Group)
Topic: "Cloud FinOps: Cost Optimization for Serverless and Containers"
Topic Description: Cloud optimization is no longer just about reducing infrastructure costs—it’s about making smarter decisions across architecture, operations, and engineering.
This session explores how organizations can combine intelligent automation, modern cloud architecture, FinOps practices, and AI-driven insights to optimize the entire cloud lifecycle. We’ll look at practical approaches to identifying inefficiencies, reducing waste, improving architectural decisions, and continuously balancing cost, performance, reliability, and security.
Drawing on real-world cloud and platform engineering experience, the presentation will cover how teams can move from reactive cost-cutting to continuous, data-driven optimization, where architecture, automation, observability, and financial accountability work together.
Key topics include Cloud & FinOps optimization, architectural efficiency, AI-powered analysis and automation, Kubernetes cost optimization, observability economics, and building an engineering culture where optimization becomes a continuous process rather than a one-time initiative.

Speaker Bio: Head of Cloud Foundation Department at TemaBit (Fozzy Group), 16+ years in IT
He stays hands-on: building Kubernetes platforms, multi-environment cloud foundations, and the operational tooling that product teams rely on daily
He holds the SEI Software Architecture Professional Certificate and multiple AWS/GCP/Kubernetes certifications, with a focus on scalable platform engineering, reliability, and incident-ready operations

📍**Dmytro Hlotenko** - Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at Sage DPW, AWS Community Builder and AWS User Group Vienna Leader
Topic: "My Step Functions DAG Was a Lie: Going Agentic on 8,000 Photos"
Topic description: Once I decided to translate my photography experience into a serverless pipeline. I judged 8000 photos of your faces, and it was a big success - we turned a problem into a solution with AWS. Lambdas, Rekognition, Bedrock and the rest played together as a system, delivering a memorable AWS Community Day.
The talk traveled far - but it had a fatal weakness. It was good while it lived in the conference room. Outside, my taste - hardcoded into weights and thresholds, and a single Claude call guessing how to process every file - brought things to disaster. It ran rules I wrote for photographs I hadn't taken yet, and failed silently on every shot that didn't fit. Terraform destroy.
Vérité This year I tore out every guess. With agents.
Imagine swapping the single photographer for the press agency. I'll show how to keep a mature orchestration relevant in the agentic era. How a chain of pipelines became a grid of agents - separate programs, each with its own tooling and skills distilled from real photography craft. Where the agent reasons about what belongs and judges against real craft, not one engineer's gut. Where v1 had a frozen rule, v2 has a program that thinks.
I'll draw the parallels - where we broke through, where classic approaches still win, which weaknesses got replaced and what each agent does instead. You'll leave with a pattern for any rigid pipeline: which box is a guess, and what if it could reason instead?
Last year I automated my hands. This year, my judgment.

Speaker Bio: He leads cloud migration initiatives for enterprise HR systems, building on earlier work at APA-IT architecting cloud-powered journalism platforms like OTS Verbreiten and Presse Monitor Neo
He speaks internationally at Conf42 and AWS Community Day DACH and Italy on serverless architectures paired with AI services, and organizes AWS User Group Vienna meetups while mentoring cloud professionals across the DACH region

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