This event was held at Amazon’s London HQ (on Black Friday, which was a fun insight into the company’s party mode!)
About:
- AWS is becoming more and more affordable, with 77 price reductions since 2006
- There are many more services in their product suite than I realised, including Pinpoint for audience targeting and monitoring tools like X-Ray which are much easier to set up from within the AWS environment than standard alternatives like New Relic
- I’d also never considered using AWS for personal use, but that was also an option discussed at the roadshow
Adoption:
- Training and certification available
- Consider that ‘transformation’ terminology is blocking senior level buy-in
- Charities can claim up to $2000 towards setup
- Account management service
- Product feature requests flow
Security:
- Have a plan, practice the plan
- Perform regular penetration tests
- Take the cyber essentials assessment
- Transparency when things go wrong
- Ensure senior leaders have a role, both to handle reputation management and to allow the tech team room to solve the problem
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