Category: Featured
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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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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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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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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 core team of event organizers and also accepted to talk at the event. The first steps and idea conceived by Marcia Villalba to have a ServerlessDays…
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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 describe the event, it is a “free one-day event bringing together the Nordic cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS“. This years agenda was particularly…
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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 go, you already have everything set up, as it is only under a week before it starts. And factoring in the fact that the event is sold…
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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…
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The Subtle Art of Upselling
I just had an experience (and actually not related to my work, or even to IT) where I clearly communicated that I wanted to buy certain service. The service in question could be considered as premium service in it’s class. But during the sales process, or discussion, I was more or less directed towards getting…
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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 still seems to hold true in the era of cloud computing — at least it has for now. It states, that you should divide your farm to pets and cattle and…