What’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in November

AWS Pop-up Lofts are places for startups to get in-person support and education on AWS, network, get some work done, or just hang out. If you haven’t checked out the Berlin Loft you’ll want to swing by soon as that Pop-up’s last day is scheduled to be November 13. The New York and San Francisco Lofts each have a full month of activities, highlighted by the return of the Loft Rocks Concert Series, as well as “Best of AWS re:Invent 2015” sessions covering newly released services. Below is a sampling of some of the hottest events taking place this month:

San Francisco: Featured Loft Events in November

Container Day Sponsored by Intel

Learn about deploying and managing containerized applications at scale using Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Engineers at various companies will discuss how they are using Amazon ECS in their production infrastructure.
Thursday, November 5, 11am [San Francisco]

Best of AWS re:Invent 2015

This session is designed to be a reflection on AWS product strategy in 2015 by examining the latest service announcements from re:Invent and why they are significant for startups. Topics will include: AWS IoT, AWS QuickSight, AWS Mobile Hub, AWS Lambda, and more.
Tuesday, November 17, 2pm [San Francisco]

‘Loft Rocks’ Concert Series with Kid Cadaver

Come to the AWS Pop-up Loft in San Francisco and hang out with others in the Loft community while listening to the awesome music of Kid Cadaver, an LA-based, three-piece indie rock band. We’ll have cocktails, beer, wine and appetizers.
Thursday, November 19, 6:30pm [San Francisco]

New York: Featured Loft Events in November

This One Weird API Request Will Save You Thousands: Using Spot Instances to Lower Costs and Get More Capacity

On average, customers save 80% to 90% compared to On Demand prices by using Spot instances. In this session, we dive into best practices and new features that will help you realize immediate cost savings, maximize compute capacity within your budget, and maintain application availability and performance.
Friday, November 6, 11am [New York]

Best of AWS re:Invent 2015

‘Loft Rocks’ Concert Series with Birch

Grab a drink, and enjoy the sounds of Birch, the NYC band who delivers a contemporary sound while maintaining the strength and significance of traditional songwriting. Party starts at 7pm with cocktails, beer, wine, and appetizers.
Thursday, November 19, 7pm [New York]

Berlin: Featured Loft Events in November

Get Started with Automated Mobile Application Testing and AWS Device Farm

AWS Device Farm enables developers to deliver higher quality iOS, Android, and Fire OS apps by testing them against real phones and tablets in the AWS cloud. Join us for a step-by-step demo of writing and configuring your first tests, running them in the cloud, and viewing detailed results that pinpoint bugs and performance problems.
Friday, November 6, 5pm [Berlin]

100% Server-Less: Operating Highly Scalable Microservices with AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you. Billing is metered in increments of 100 milliseconds, making it cost-effective and easy to scale automatically from a few requests per day to thousands per second. If you want to know how all this magic really works, be sure to attend this talk!
Wednesday, November 11, 10am [Berlin]