AWS Ambassador Summit 2023

AWS Ambassador Summit 2023

This week I had the honor to attend The AWS Ambassador Summit held in Seattle from September 19 to 20 2023. It was a thrilling two-day event that brought together AWS ambassadors, partners and AWS leaders to provide insights on what's cooking at AWS.

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Having fun with GPU-based instances, Spot Prices and Benchmarks

Having fun with GPU-based instances, Spot Prices and Benchmarks

Once in a while, I like to play video games, but as an occasional gamer, it isn't worth the money to invest in a dedicated gaming rig or brand new PS5. So what do you do as an AWS enthusiast, you build gaming system in AWS. In this post I'll benchmark some GPU-accelerated instances and compare prices to find out what would work best for this purpose.

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Exploring Amazon Connect, Building a Pizza Ordering Service - Part 2

Exploring Amazon Connect, Building a Pizza Ordering Service - Part 2

In the second installment of this series we will continue the build of our Pizza Ordering service. We begin with some contact flows and create a simple Lambda function that will fetch some customer data from our backend system. With that data we can greet our customers with a customized welcome message.

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Extending your landing zone with AWS Outposts

Extending your landing zone with AWS Outposts

As introduced in my previous post AWS Outpost brings a lot of new possibilities to extend the reach of the AWS cloud to virtually any location. In this post, I’ll dive a little deeper and show you how to incorporate AWS Outposts in your AWS landing zone design.

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Build once, Deploy Anywhere with AWS Outposts

Build once, Deploy Anywhere with AWS Outposts

Introduced at re:Invent 2019, Outposts is AWS’s take on reinventing hybrid cloud, where AWS delivers, installs and manages the AWS Outposts hardware and service for you. In this blog, I will explain why AWS Outposts is perfect for workloads that need to adhere to regulatory requirements, require local data processing and storage, or low latency connections to your end-customers or other on-premises systems.

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