While there is plenty of value using AWS X-Ray with Lambda, the current limitations restricts its usefulness for complex systems

The results demonstrate the latest generation of instances provide a significant cost efficiency boost over previous instance types

AWS re:Invent 2017 is going to be bigger than ever with over a 1000 sessions and another record breaking number of attendees

Best practices discovered while processing over 200 billion records on AWS every month with Amazon Kinesis Streams

Elasticsearch is a powerful but fragile piece of infrastructure with a ton of things that can cause the AWS service to become unstable

Comparing the cold start times of AWS Lambda using different languages, memory allocation, and sizes of deployment package

Many IT departments are bloated bureaucracies of interconnected silos that work to enforce the status quo — let’s fix it now

As application patterns evolve to event-driven architectures, it’s more likely that serverless and blockchain will be used together

Why are IT shops using versions to trade stability for productivity? Have your cake and eat it too by deploying features in the cloud!

Building a unified event stream on AWS

Cloud is key to reinvigorating your IT infrastructure, but you won’t get very far until you stop the behavior that feeds your monolith

Changing a functions dependent resources after deployment is a critical step towards feature parity with traditional architectures

Explore the key missing pieces required to achieve loose coupling between services and low end-to-end latency in your systems

Use the Alexa voice service to amplify messages of social good and worthy causes into the homes of millions of users worldwide

The only way to gain confidence that a feature branch will work in the cloud is to run it in the cloud — with environmental sympathy

“Hi, my name is James. I’m a self-confessed cloud-oholic and I’ve been off-premises for 7 years now.”

Check out some pictures of the presenters, attendees, booths, events, and donuts from the hottest conference in the cloud!

Discovering the inherent advantages for testing smaller bits of uncoupled logic requires a different approach — and tools

Getting a handle on the actual costs of cloud computing can be elusive and frustrating until your learn the basics of billing