Category: Cloud
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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, but be prepared for a full day of top-shelf topics and talks from the industry leading experts. Brought to the community – by the community. Stay tuned for agenda updates…
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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 AWS execution side. Don’t get us wrong, especially the keynote performances are well-rehearsed, the message is polished, and the content is well thought out.…
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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 Learning to hear the latest news and industry trends & visions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning is, and continues to be, one of the most disruptive technologies we…
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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 this three-week event. Virtual experience – slam dunk or something else? First, it is probably worth addressing the elephant in the room. As the…
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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 and virtual breakouts covering the world of IT from A to Z. And as a suitable kickoff to the event, CEO of AWS brought his keynote mayhem to all of us.…
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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 Services“. Let’s just call it as Savings Plans for short for now, OK? There is a AWS blog post and a very recent Last Week in AWS post about the launch, so…
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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 50 quite senior attendees joining the meetup. There was a bit of an overlap with some other events and I personally want to apologize for any inconvenience. There…
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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 / 20:00 Helsinki time). If you do not have any idea, what’s this all about, you can check out the event and register at the event site here: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ There are…
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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, so thanks for all of the attendees to take the time to travel and coming to hear us talk. The lineup for the evening was as follows: New…
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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 Stockholm from Tuesday until Thursday – as I like to be effective and I’ll try to combine several engagements when I go visit a site in Sweden…