AWS Community Day 2023
Singapore

Serverless computing got its start with functions-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings, such as Amazon Lambda, which allow users to run code in response to specific events, such as a request to an API or the uploading of a file to a storage service. These FaaS offerings made it easy for developers to build and deploy code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

Over time, serverless offerings have expanded to include database-as-a-service (DBaaS) options, such as Amazon DynamoDB, which allow users to easily create and manage a NoSQL database without the need to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

Serverless computing has also overlapped with container-based technologies, such as Kubernetes, which allow users to deploy and manage containerized applications in the cloud. This overlap has led to the development of hybrid serverless architectures, which combine the benefits of both serverless and container-based technologies.

While the hype around serverless computing may have died down in recent years, usage of serverless technologies is still on the rise, with over 50% of cloud customers using serverless technologies. As the technology continues to evolve, it is likely that serverless computing will continue to play a significant role in cloud computing.

Join us to learn more about the past, present, and future of serverless computing.

Companies need to build quickly, and keep their costs under control. They need to make sure that every dollar that flows out is being turned into value for the business, and they need to maximise that value. By following the Well-Architected Framework’s Cost Optimization pillar, they can ensure they have the guard rails in place to move forward with confidence and focus on building their business, without having to look over their shoulder constantly in case an unexpected bill crops up.

One of the major pain points of serverless is complexity. Design patterns recommended in the serverless context include "microservices" and "event-driven architecture. While both are excellent designs for modern application development, they can increase overall complexity as workloads grow, reduce monitoring and transparency, and lead to a poor developer experience. This session will introduce architectural patterns that tend to be complex and show how to improve them smartly with the latest services presented at re:Invent 2022.

As AWS users we often experience friction when developing or operating our workloads. Some of this is healthy, some is infuriating. In this session we adopt a series of AWS user personas and explore a range of pain points and possible responses to them. Should we accept the friction? Can we work around it? or should we lean into our role as customers and drive AWS to improve their product?

New Relic started a journey to migrate its entire telemetry data platform to AWS to accommodate explosive growth. In under a year, New Relic used its own Observability Platform combined with AWS services to migrate 20,000+ servers to AWS. In this session, we talk about how New Relic used a cell-based architecture to pave the way for long-term scalability and geographic expansion.

A solid foundation must be built around AWS accounts, Networking, Security, Logs, Monitoring, etc to host a production grade cloud hosted application and to ultimately make it operational.
In the context of an enterprise AWS environment one will be creating tens and hundreds of AWS accounts to host the Cloud hosted applications. To manage that level of AWS accounts at scale a solid multi account management foundation must be put in place to ultimately run a production grade AWS application. The solid foundation includes creating a proper design for your multi account strategy and management solution to manage your multi AWS accounts, Identity and access management for managing the user access across multi AWS accounts, Managing network connectivity for your multi AWS accounts, Establishing security tooling for managing the multi AWS account vulnerability assessment & threat detection, Centralised logging solution for your multi AWS accounts, Performing backup and disaster recovery for your multi AWS accounts & Managing deployments for your multi AWS accounts.
In this talk, You will learn some practical implementation approach to establish solid multi account foundation to create an enterprise grade AWS environment.