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Partners Can Now Register for the APN TechDive Virtual Conference
Join us for APN TechDive 2019, a virtual conference for members of the APN Partner community. On October 16, 2019, we will host a full day of technical sessions exclusively for APN Partners, as well as live Q&A with AWS experts, and a virtual AWS GameDay event to test your organization’s AWS knowledge and skills. Don’t miss this chance to learn about AWS services and apply your knowledge in a real AWS environment. We’ll see you there!
Read MoreHow We Rebuilt a Mythical Startup at AWS GameDay
AWS GameDay is a learning exercise designed to familiarize players with an AWS environment, and challenge them to come up with ways to solve problems based on the AWS resources they have available. GameDay has been a showcase event for APN Partners and customers in the Americas, but we wanted to provide this immersive experience to folks working in India as well. At Cognizant’s event, teams used AWS services to track down the absconding CEO of a fictitious unicorn rental company.
Read MoreTesting AWS GameDay with AWS Well-Architected Framework – Remediation
This is the second post in our series documenting a project to fix issues with the GameDay architecture by using tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We cover the steps it took to fix the critical findings identified by the review team. As noted in Part 1 of the series, the review team delivered a list of critical findings we needed to prioritize, as well as a list of non-critical ideas that we should consider in our roadmap.
Read MoreTesting AWS GameDay with the AWS Well-Architected Framework – Review
AWS GameDay is an immersive, team-based event we have hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent over the past few years. The event has teams of players settling into a challenging—and hopefully entertaining—scenario as DevOps leads at Unicorn.Rentals, a popular startup minutes away from the very public launch of a widely anticipated product.
Read MoreThe Top Eight Tips for GameDay Success (and some GameDon’ts!)
GameDay is an event that we’ve hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent for the past few years. The event immerses teams into a fictitious scenario where they pretend it’s their first day as the DevOps lead at the “hot” startup called Unicorn.Rentals! Teams work to keep users (and the boss) happy and costs low by […]
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