Tag: AWS GameDay

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.

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.

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 […]