2026
How to Set Up Kiro with IAM Identity Center (And Why Your Credits Depend On It)
If you are an AWS Hero or Community Builder, you have AWS credits. Kiro can run on those credits. But only if you authenticate the right way, and the …
AWS User Group Finland re:Invent 2025 re:Cap at Vivicta
The first AWS User Group Finland meetup of 2026 followed tradition with a re:Invent recap event. Niklas Liljestrand hosted the evening at …
AWS Layoffs Hit the Community Where It Hurts
Yesterday’s large layoffs at AWS hit me harder than I expected. Not because of the numbers on a spreadsheet or the stock price implications, but …
2025
From Startup CTO to AWS Contributor: My Kiro Powers Journey
Two things happened this year that I could not have imagined few years ago. First, contributing to an AWS Tier 1 AI product release. Second, seeing my …
AWS re:Invent 2025 Watch Party
For those of us not in Las Vegas, the next best thing is watching the re:Invent keynote with fellow AWS enthusiasts. Nitor hosted the watch party at …
AWS User Group Finland November Meetup at Netlight
The November meetup brought 76 people to Netlight’s 4th floor office on Pohjoisesplanadi. Late November in Helsinki means it has been dark for …
The AWS us-east-1 Outage and the On-Prem Fallacy
The AWS us-east-1 outage has been the hot topic for the past few days, and predictably, everyone has an opinion about what it proves. The pattern is …
AWS Community Day Nordics - Learning to Step Back
Since I was part of the founding team for AWS Community Day Nordics back in 2018, I have personally attended every single event. This year is the …
AWS Finland September #2 Meetup at S-Group
The second September meetup was hosted by SOK at Ässäkeskus on Fleminginkatu, with Niko Kivela making it all happen on the host side. The turnout was …
AWS Finland September Meetup at Knowit
After the summer break, the AWS User Group Finland meetup season kicked off on Thursday September 4th at Knowit’s Helsinki office on …
AWS User Group Finland May Meetup #2 at KONE
The second May meetup took us outside the Helsinki city center to KONE’s building in Keilasatama, Espoo. Doors opened at 16:30 and greetings …
AWS User Group May Meetup at Nitor
May was a big month for the AWS User Group Finland, and the first of two meetups this month was hosted by Nitor at their 6th floor office on …
AWS User Group April Meetup at Brightly
I took the train to Helsinki on Wednesday to host the April meetup at Brightly’s office on Pohjoisesplanadi 37A. Doors opened at 16:45 and the …
AWS Finland March Meetup at Nordcloud
March brought us to Nordcloud, an IBM Company, for the meetup on March 6th. Doors opened at 17:00 and the program kicked off at 17:30. We had opened …
AWS User Group Finland February Meetup at Accenture
The February meetup landed at Accenture’s Helsinki office on Aleksanterinkatu, with doors opening at 17:00 and content starting at 17:30. The …
AWS User Group Finland re:Invent 2024 re:Cap at Gofore
The first AWS User Group Finland meetup of 2025 was all about looking back at re:Invent 2024. I had announced this event back in December as the last …
2024
AWS re:Invent 2024 Watch Party
We closed out 2024 with the biggest event of the year. The AWS re:Invent 2024 Watch Party at Epicenter Helsinki drew 135 people, making it the largest …
AWS GameDay Nordics 2024 (Helsinki)
AWS GameDay is always a highlight of the year, and the second AWS GameDay Nordics was something special. Gunnar Grosch, AWS Principal Developer …
AWS User Group Finland September Meetup - Sponsored by Yle
After the summer break, we gathered at Yle’s Iso Paja on Radiokatu in Helsinki for the September meetup. Yle, Finland’s national …
AWS User Group Finland May Meetup - Sponsored by KONE
For the May meetup we headed to KONE headquarters in Espoo on a warm spring evening, and over 50 AWS enthusiasts made the trip. This was the first AWS …
AWS User Group Finland February Meetup - Sponsored by Alma Media
The February meetup brought us to Alma Media’s office on Alvar Aallon katu in Helsinki for a sustainability-themed evening. With 91 people in …
AWS User Group Finland reinvent 2023 recap - Sponsored by Cloud2
We kicked off the 2024 AWS User Group Finland meetup year with a re:Invent 2023 recap, and Cloud2 stepped up to sponsor and host us at their new …
2023
AWS Finland October Meetup - sponsored by Eficode
The October meetup brought us to Eficode’s office on Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu. Doors opened at 17:30 and the program started at 18:00, with Miska …
AWS Finland September Meetup - Sponsored by IBM
After the summer break, the AWS Finland community came back strong with our September meetup on the 28th, hosted and sponsored by IBM at their …
AWS Finland January Meetup - AWS re:Invent re:Cap - sponsored by Solita
The first AWS Finland meetup of 2023 kicked off with a bang as we gathered at Solita’s office on Etelaesplanadi to go through the highlights …
2022
AWS Finland - re:Invent 2022 Keynote Watch Party
re:Invent is the highlight of the AWS calendar, and not everyone can make the trip to Las Vegas. So we did the next best thing – a keynote watch …
Sustainability at AWS re:Invent: From Session Guide to Main Stage
I had the honor of writing the sustainability-focused session guide for one of the largest and most prestigious IT events in the world - AWS re:Invent …
AWS Finland October Meetup - Sponsored by Wärtsilä
For the second October meetup, we headed to Wartsila’s headquarters on Hiililaiturinkuja in Helsinki. Having a major industrial company like …
AWS Finland October Meetup - Sponsored by Gofore
October brought us to Gofore’s office on Urho Kekkosen katu in central Helsinki. Gofore is one of those companies that has been a steady …
AWS Finland September Meetup - Sponsored by Siili
Two meetups in September – why not? Siili Solutions hosted the second September event at their Helsinki office on Ruoholahdenkatu 21. Doors …
AWS Finland September Meetup - Sponsored by Cirit
September was a busy month for the AWS Finland User Group, with two meetups scheduled back to back. The first one was sponsored by Cirit Oy and held …
AWS Finland August Meetup - Sponsored by WithSecure / F-Secure
Summer break was over and we kicked things off with a bang. WithSecure (formerly F-Secure) hosted the August meetup at their office on Tammasaarenkatu …
AWS Finland June Meetup - Sponsored by Knowit and AWS
June’s meetup was hosted at Knowit’s premises with AWS as co-sponsor. Knowit provided the venue and AWS handled food and beverages, which …
AWS Finland May Meetup - Sponsored by Zalando
It felt good to be back. After a long stretch of remote everything, the AWS Finland User Group got together for a proper in-person meetup at …
AWS Finland March Meetup in Jyväskylä - Sponsored by Cinia
This was a special one. For the first time in a while, we took the AWS Finland User Group outside the Helsinki bubble and traveled to Jyvaskyla. …
Re:Invent Re:cap 2021 - AWS Finland Online Meetup
The first AWS Finland meetup of 2022 was the annual tradition of recapping the biggest announcements from the previous year’s re:Invent …
2021
AWS Finland November Meetup - Sponsored by Telia
This one was special. After nearly two years of online-only meetups, AWS User Group Finland finally gathered in person again on November 25th. Telia …
GameDay - Nordics v Benelux
September brought another AWS GameDay, this time with a twist – the Nordic AWS communities teamed up to take on the Benelux region in a …
The day for two topics: GDPR and Schrems II, and Video on Demand
The June meetup – our last one before the summer break – took an interesting turn by pairing two very different topics into one evening. …
AWS GameDay - AWS Community Nordics Edition
In May we joined forces with other Nordic AWS user groups for the first ever AWS GameDay Nordics, organized by AWS Community Nordics in collaboration …
Robust CI/CD pipelines for serverless applications
The March meetup of AWS User Group Finland drew a strong crowd of 112 attendees, all joining online via Amazon Chime as part of the AWS Community …
2020
AWS Community Nordics: Werner Vogels Keynote Live Session
To wrap up a year that had been anything but ordinary, the AWS Community Nordics organized a virtual watch party for Werner Vogels’ re:Invent …
Serverless Data Streaming at Scale
The October virtual meetup tackled serverless data streaming at scale, drawing 127 attendees who were eager to learn about processing real-time data …
AWS Community Nordics Virtual Meetup - CDK Crash Course
The September AWS Community Nordics virtual meetup was dedicated to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and it turned out to be one of the most …
AWS Game Tech - How Are Games Customers Running on AWS?
The June virtual meetup took a different direction with a focus on AWS Game Tech. This was the second online event organized across all Nordic AWS …
AWS Community Nordics Virtual Meetup - Building a Serverless Analytics Pipeline
With in-person events no longer possible due to the pandemic, the AWS community in the Nordics came together for the first pan-Nordic virtual meetup, …
AWS Finland March Special Meetup with Jeff Barr - Sponsored by AWS & Cybercom
This was a truly special one. Jeff Barr, the legendary Chief Evangelist of AWS and the voice behind the AWS News Blog, visited Helsinki for a …
AWS Finland February Meetup - Sponsored by Nordcloud
February’s AWS Finland meetup was hosted by Nordcloud at their headquarters on Antinkatu in Helsinki. Doors opened at 17:30 and the event kicked …
AWS Finland January Meetup - Sponsored by Sanoma
We kicked off the year at AWS User Group Finland with the January meetup at Sanoma Media Finland’s office on Toolonlahdenkatu in Helsinki. I …