Category: AWS

  • AWS CloudFront Expands to Helsinki

    AWS CloudFront Expands to Helsinki

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    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 other completely new locations, which are Manchester, Denver and Phoenix. One could say, that this has been long overdue. But finally it is here. This also brings the total…

  • AWS User Group Finland November Meetup – Sponsored by Yle

    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 Meetup. Big thanks for Olli Vistbacka from Yle for enabling this. We had a turnout of about 80 people, so this was a very good session…

  • AWS User Group Finland October Meetup – Sponsored by Zalando

    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 greeted by the first snow of the season. Morning seemed quite bright with the snow in the ground. Zalando has big offices in Autotalo in Kamppi, in the…

  • Me as AWS Community Lead

    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. https://www.cybercom.com/fi/Suomi/Yritys/Ajankohtaista/aws-user-group-finland-on-tuhannen-pilviasiantuntijan-kohtaamispaikka/ Let’s see if we can get that published also in English at some point. In the mean time, go and check out these pages: https://www.meetup.com/awsfin/ https://awsfin.org/ And the featured picture is from my bike…

  • AWS User Group Finland August meetup at Alma Media

    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 meetup (in Finnish) here: https://www.almamedia.fi/tapahtumat/2017/aws-meetup Agenda for the evening was (links to slides in the topic rows): Opening words from Event Sponsor and greetings from AWS User Group Finland …

  • And the results are in – Gartners Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS 2017

    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 and easily worth your time to read it through, if the area is of interest to you. AWS has also bought the distribution rights to this paper, so if you…

  • AWS User Group Finland – May Meetup 2017

    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 Teollisuuskatu in Helsinki. And if I counted correctly, we had around 45 participants to attend the meetup. As usual, we had pizza, beer and talks about various subjects. I was…

  • Living on the Edge

    Living on the Edge

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    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 content is not limited any more to human clients. Services are consumed by loads of automated services discussing with each other through API calls. And the whole IoT megatrend…

  • AWS Summit Stockholm is just around the corner

    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 registration because it’s almost sold out. Cybercom will be there as one of the Gold Sponsors. https://aws.amazon.com/summits/stockholm/sponsors/ I am also personally traveling already on 2nd of May to Stockholm to…

  • Helping out in Cloudy Gothenburg

    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 Nordics and Europe. This time it meant packing the bags and heading towards Gothenburg with very early flight. There is a relatively new meetup called Cloudy Gothenburg which is sponsored by Cybercom’s…