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AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 3

Traditionally, the 3rd day is almost always the busiest and the most crowded in the sessions. I followed 4 breakout sessions, one 2 hours workshop and found some time to visit the Expo to see some sponsors and look for(…)

AWS re:Invent day 3 – Gray failures mitigation

So again during the 3rd day of the re:Invent 2022 there were plenty of interesting information to take with us. However, the most interesting part was for sure the workshop about gray failures and how to mitigate them in a(…)

AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 2

The second day usually starts with the keynote from Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS. The keynote is not a technical session but it’s a good place to learn about new products or services launches. In such big event, it’s show(…)

AWS re:Invent day 2: All about Lakes

As usual the day 2 with Adams Selipsky’s keynote is where most announcements are done…and they have been severals. As you will probably see plenty of articles about these, and by the way I recommend you to take few minutes(…)

AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 1

This week I feel lucky to attend the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. This event is so big there are multiple ways to go through it. For the first day I made a mix between breakout sessions and a(…)

AWS re.Invent day 1: Cloud WAN and a small tip…

Here we go, the 1st day of this 2022 edition of the AWS re:Invent is almost over and it was already a pretty busy day with 2 interesting hands-on workshop. Here some insights about Cloud WAN and to finish a(…)

How the YaK is born

It all began with a challenge In the consulting job, some tasks can be a bit repetitive. They also take up valuable consulting time that the client would be more than happy to use for higher value-added tasks. So, my(…)

Automated patching at Idorsia with AWS Systems Manager

Servers patching is very important but can be very challenging. One of our customers, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd implemented successfully AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to automate patching not only of instances running in AWS Cloud but also covering on-premises(…)

AWS CLI tips and tricks

When working with AWS, I would not advice to run all operations through the AWS Console. And it’s not always possible or easy to do it only with pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes, we just need to perform the(…)

dbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 4

For my day 3 recap, please jump here. The fourth day has started and I decided to attend a couple of session. Both are not in my direct field of expertise but promised to be very interesting.