2023
AWS Community Day Nordics 2023 announced
We are really excited to announce the AWS Community Day Nordics on April 20 2023 in Helsinki at Nordea Vallila Campus. Full agenda is to be announced, …
2020
re:Invent 2020 week 2 recap - announcements keep on rolling in
Week 2 coming to an end. After two weeks of the virtual re:invent in 2020, it is certainly a bit a bag of mixed feelings. And probably it shows on the …
re:Invent 2020, Machine Learning Keynote - level keeps on rising
Machine Learning (ML) keynote is the third keynote of the re:Invent 2020, and today we join with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Amazon Machine …
re:Invent 2020 - week 1 recap and the new normal of being virtual
As the week turns towards Friday, the first week of AWS re:Invent 2020 is done. Now it is the time to do some reflection back on the first few days of …
AWS re:Invent 2020 officially opened
The AWS re:Invent 2020 in virtual format is officially opened. The next three weeks are going to be filled with virtual keynotes, leadership sessions …
2019
First take on AWS Savings Plans
There was a huge announcement about a new service, or rather a feature, with the bit monstrous name " Savings Plans for AWS Compute …
AWS User Group Finland October Meetup - Sponsored by S-Group
On October 24th, 2019 we had AWS User Group Finland October meetup sponsored by S-Group. Here are my short notes about the event, where we had around …
Practical guide to re:Invent 2019
The annual AWS re:Invent is closing up and today (October 15th 2019) the reserved seating bookings open up at 10AM PST (that’s 19:00 Stockholm / …
AWS User Group Finland September Meetup - Sponsored by Digia
On September 26th we had the second AWSFIN meetup which was sponsored by Digia. We had around 50 people attending and came all the way to Pitäjänmäki, …
AWS Summit Stockholm 2019 - Are You Well Architected
Last week, on Wednesday May 22nd, the AWS global summits tour 2019 arrived in Stockholm. I had also booked time from my calendar to make a trip to …
ServerlessDays Helsinki 2019 - The Aftermath
ServerlessDays Helsinki was organized the first time ever last week, on April 25th. I had both the honor to be invited to be one of the members of the …
2018
AWS ReInvent 2018
First a disclaimer: I’ve had this article in the works for a long time. So if you are seeing this only right now, it’s because I’ve …
AWS User Group Finland October Meetup – Sponsored by New Things Co
Time for October AWS meetup! This time we were gathering at New Things Co. They had smaller premises, but really cool and modern office. Unfortunately …
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2018
This year’s Gartner analysis on the Cloud IaaS is fresh out and there are few interesting pointers and easily worth your time to read it …
AWS Summit Stockholm 2018 - Stream recording and materials
Earlier this week, I wrote this short summary about my trip to AWS Summit in Stockholm. Here is a summary of relevant materials from the Summit, which …
AWS Summit Stockholm 2018
AWS Global Summits AWS organizes annually a series of global AWS Summits, and one of them for last years has been organized in Stockholm. As they …
AWS User Group Finland March Meetup – Sponsored by Gofore
On March 8, 2018 we had AWS User Group Finland meetup, which was sponsored by by Gofore. Meetup venue The meetup was organized at Gofore’s …
AWS Dev Day Helsinki 2018 and Meetup
AWS Dev Day Nordics On 25th of January, AWS had it’s Dev Day summit in Helsinki, where there was a full day of technical talks produced by the …
2017
AWS User Group Finland December Meetup - Sponsored by Cybercom
On 13th of December, we gathered to restaurant Maxine in downtown Helsinki for AWS Meetup. This meetup was sponsored by my employer, Cybercom, so …
Reinvent 2017 - Some expectations and some predictions
Next week one of the main events of the IT and especially Cloud Services landscape takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada. I guess if you are planning to …
AWS CloudFront Expands to Helsinki
AWS just announced minutes ago, that they added six new edge locations to their CDN network. And that Helsinki is one of them. There are also three …
AWS User Group Finland November Meetup - Sponsored by Yle
On 16th of November we had the possibility to go to Yleisradio in Helsinki and use one of their main TV studio spaces as the premises for the AWS …
AWS User Group Finland October Meetup - Sponsored by Zalando
On October 26th we gathered to downtown Helsinki to Zalando office for a AWS meetup. I started the journey early in the morning from Tampere and was …
Me as AWS Community Lead
There is a short post (in Finnish) here about my role as AWS Community Lead for AWS User Group Finland. …
AWS User Group Finland August meetup at Alma Media
On the 29thof August 2017 we gather to Alma-building for AWS Finland August meetup, which was sponsored by Alma Media. They have a blog post about the …
And the results are in - Gartners Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS 2017
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2017 The latest Gartner analysis on the Cloud IaaS is out and there are few interesting pointers …
AWS User Group Finland - May Meetup 2017
Last week we had AWS User Group meetup, which was this time sponsored by Solinor. The meetup was at Solinor’s office, which is located at …
Living on the Edge
Cloud services delivery endpoint is moving more and more to network edges and closer to clients little by little. Why is that? Because delivery of the …
AWS Summit Stockholm is just around the corner
The AWS Summit in Stockholm is very close, 3rd of May in the Waterfront Congress Center. If you are planning to come you should move fast with the …
Helping out in Cloudy Gothenburg
Cloudy Gothenburg - AWS meetup April 2017 Part of my job description is also helping out internationally the different sites we have around the …
AWS User Group Finland - March meetup
Real life IoT in Amazon The march meetup for AWS User Group Finland was a first try to have a event in Tampere. Cybercom was sponsoring the event and …
2016
re:Invent 2016 starting
I had the possibility this year to attend to AWS Re:invent, which is one of the largest IT conferences currently in the world. We had a team of three …
How to farm your servers
… or the cloud-tale of pets, cattle and … insects? There is quite an old anecdote in IT how to classify your servers running your services. And it …
The Golden Cage of Public Cloud
… and should you even try to avoid it? Cross-cloud portability, that one great argument against using specific cloud provider to it’s …
Public Cloud - Someone else's Data Center or something else?
There’s been some time this one internet meme has been going around. It says: " There is no cloud - it’s just someone else’s …