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What to Look Out for with AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2022

Headed to Las Vegas on November 28 to December 2nd for re:Invent 2022, the annual learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community? If so, here is what to look out for with AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2022!

Wherever you are in your digital transformation, you can set up, maintain, and operate a secure AWS environment following best practices and using AWS Cloud Operations that helps you manage your IT operations more easily and efficiently so you can focus on elevating your customer experiences. According to a commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact study conducted over a three-year period on behalf of AWS, organizations attain a 241% return on investment (ROI) with cost savings of $3.4 million with an optimized cloud environment leveraging AWS Cloud Operations’ services and best practices.

At re:Invent, you can learn more about AWS Cloud Operations and interact with subject matter experts (SMEs) through various sessions such as the Leadership Session and our kiosks at the Expo. This year, our Leadership Session, “Transform with AWS Cloud Operations: From Vision to Reality”, will feature Nandini Ramani, VP of Monitoring at AWS, and Kurt Kufeld, VP of AWS Platform, sharing the latest innovations across AWS Cloud Operations! Kiosks are an informal way of chatting with AWS Cloud Operations experts and you’ll even have a chance to claim some fun swag!

Breakout sessions will consist of one or more speakers presenting content to a large audience. Workshops are interactive sessions where attendees work in small groups to build a solution to a problem using AWS. Chalk talks are highly interactive and begin with a short lecture delivered by an AWS expert, followed by a 45–50-minute whiteboarding and Q&A session. Builders’ sessions are small-group sessions led by one AWS expert that start with a short demonstration followed up attendees experimenting and building with the AWS expert. Be sure to take advantage of all of our learning opportunities this year with AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2022!

Come find AWS Cloud Operations to dive deeper into the topics that interest you—from simplifying your AWS cost estimation to automating patch management, we have a session for you! Here are some recommendations.

Leadership Session:

Transform with AWS Cloud Operations: From Vision to Reality
Nov 28, 4:00 pm, The Venetian (VEN) Palazzo Ballroom B
Many organizations save time and money with AWS Cloud Operations, achieving up to a 241 percent return on investment over three years. AWS Cloud Operations helps organizations run their infrastructure and applications in the cloud, on premises, and using hybrid environments with high availability, superior automation, and proven security. In this session, hear from Nandini Ramani, VP of Monitoring at AWS, and Kurt Kufeld, VP of AWS Platform, as they share the latest innovations across AWS Cloud Operations, including cloud governance, compliance, and observability services. Explore showcases of customer transformations and discover how AWS Cloud Operations can help you accelerate development cycles and improve application availability and performance.

Subtracks:

Depending on your business needs and interests, you can learn more about observability, cloud financial management, compliance and auditing, cloud governance, and centralized operations management. Here are some popular sessions, and you can follow the links for more related sessions in each subtrack.

  •  Monitoring & Observability:
    • COP308 – Hands-on experience with AWS observability services – Workshop
    • COP309 – Accelerate AWS observability for your containers – Workshop
    • COP340 – Monitor end user experience with Amazon CloudWatch – Builders’ session
  • Cloud Financial Management
    • COP205 – Simplify your AWS cost estimation – Breakout session
    • COP203 – Manage and control your AWS costs – Breakout session
    • COP202 – Cloud metrics strategy and customizable billing – Chalk talk
  • Compliance & Auditing
    • COP304 – Cloud compliance, assurance, and auditing – Breakout session
    • COP306 – Cloud compliance and auditing best practices on AWS – Chalk talk
    • COP334 – Audit and investigate compliance violations with AWS CloudTrail Lake – Builders’ session
  • Cloud Governance
    • COP206 – Build a complete DevSecOps pipeline on AWS – Workshop
    • COP303 – How Global Payments scales on AWS with governance and controls – Breakout session
    • COP323 – Delegating access in a multi-account environment with IAM Identity Center – Chalk talk
  • Centralized Operations Management
    • COP310 – Automate operations management on AWS – Workshop
    • COP305 – Best practices for organizing and operating on AWS – Breakout session
    • COP331 – Automate incident response with AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager – Builders’ session

About the authors:

Tiffany Chen

Tiffany Chen (cwtiff@amazon.com) is a Solutions Architect on the CSC team at AWS. She has supported AWS customers with their deployment workloads and currently works with Enterprise customers to build well-architected and cost-optimized solutions. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, gardening, baking, and watching basketball.

Winnie Chen

Winnie Chen (winniec@amazon.com) is a Solutions Architect currently on the CSC team at AWS supporting greenfield customers. She supports customers of all industries as well as sizes such as enterprise and small to medium businesses. She has been with AWS for over 3 years helping customers migrate and build their infrastructure on AWS. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors through activities like hiking, biking and rock climbing.