Is generative AI a fundamental improvement in our day-by-day? Or is it just the cool tech trend which shall pass? Are generative AI assistants useful? Can they make us more productive? Can we trust them? Are developers going to be replaced? In this session Massimo will share his perspective on the new opportunities and new challenges that generative AI is bringing to the table.

Nel panorama IT odierno, innovazione e competitività si fondano su una gestione efficace dei dati. La crescente mole di informazioni aziendali può generare grande valore grazie alle nuove tecnologie. Per sfruttarne appieno il potenziale, è cruciale adottare una strategia solida per catalogare, gestire e interrogare i dati in modo efficiente. Da qui nasce l’importanza della Data Strategy.

Esamineremo alcuni casi reali, analizzando nel dettaglio le architetture AWS che abbiamo progettato e implementato, per condividere l’esperienza maturata nella costruzione di soluzioni efficaci e performanti. Questo ci permetterà di ripercorrere l’evoluzione delle principali tecnologie nel corso degli anni, mettendo in luce le tendenze emergenti e le prospettive future. Infine, vedremo come AWS offra un’ampia gamma di servizi che possono essere combinati in diversi modi per costruire data platform scalabili, efficienti e sicure, rispondendo alle esigenze sempre più complesse delle aziende.

Training an AI-powered Slackbot sounds straightforward - until your model starts ignoring half of the data you feed it. At AWS User Group Vienna, we built OTTO, a Slack-integrated AI assistant, fine-tuned using the open source tool InstructLab and deployed on Amazon Bedrock.

But as we scaled up, we ran into real-world bottlenecks: training on MacBooks was slow, retrieval was inconsistent, and debugging was way harder than expected.

This talk goes beyond the ‘perfect AI stack’ and into the messy reality of model tuning, infrastructure choices, and the unexpected lessons we learned. If you’re working on AI-powered assistants (or just curious how fast things can go sideways), this talk will provide practical insights into our approach, with focus on cost efficiency, and what we learned on the way.

Let’s go on a journey through the world of multi-tenant architectures on AWS using serverless technologies. In this talk, we will uncover the key aspects of multi-tenancy, including security, tenant isolation, and performance. We will learn how to utilise Cognito for authentication, DynamoDB to store millions of tenant-partitioned records and lambda for compute.

We will also explore different deployment models and their tradeoffs, and, finally, we will learn how to implement policy-based isolation with IAM to keep our execution context tied to one specific tenant and avoid data leakage. By the end of this talk, you will feel more confident building SaaS applications on AWS with serverless technologies and you will have learned some of the many insights that come from the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens.

Questa sessione esplorerà come Docebo integra Datadog per migliorare il monitoraggio della sicurezza e l’efficienza operativa. Scoprirete come Docebo utilizza le funzionalità di monitoraggio e sicurezza di Datadog, supportate da esempi reali che ne dimostrano l’implementazione. Durante la sessione parleremo di osservabilità, monitoraggio della sicurezza, analisi dei log SIEM e APM per l’ottimizzazione delle prestazioni, e concluderemo con una panoramica di Datadog.

FinOps non è sinonimo di “tagliare i costi”, è un cambio di mentalità. Significa prendere decisioni intelligenti per massimizzare il valore del Cloud. In questo talk esploreremo tre storie vere di architetture “spendaccione” e come evitarle: dall’inutile sovradimensionamento delle risorse, ai finti SaaS che fanno piangere il CFO, fino all’infrastruttura “da manuale” che poi però nessuno sa più gestire. Inizia a progettare con un approccio “cost-aware” senza rinunciare alle potenzialità di AWS!

We’ll share our practical experience in building a production-ready system for managing EV charging networks on AWS. Our talk takes a modest, real-world approach to solving everyday challenges. We’ll walk through how we set up a secure data ingestion pipeline using AWS IoT Core, processed real-time data with Lambda and Step Functions, and managed our operational data in Amazon RDS - with a separate data warehouse built on Amazon Redshift for deeper analysis.

In large-scale IoT systems, where thousands of devices communicate unpredictably, serverless and event-driven architectures offer a dynamic, efficient solution. These approaches are ideal for handling the variable flow of data and control messages typical in IoT environments.

This session will explore why serverless is well-suited for IoT, particularly in data ingestion and management. We’ll examine key architectural patterns used in IoT systems, focusing on how event-driven design supports scalability and flexibility.

La scalabilità è una delle sfide principali nello sviluppo web moderno. Questo talk esplora come distribuire e scalare un’applicazione Django utilizzando AWS App Runner, un servizio completamente gestito che semplifica il deployment senza richiedere competenze infrastrutturali avanzate.

Attraverso un approccio pratico, esploreremo come configurare un’applicazione Django, collegarla in modo sicuro a un database PostgreSQL Amazon RDS utilizzando AWS Secrets Manager, e implementare un’efficace separazione tra ambienti di sviluppo e produzione. Il talk fornirà anche indicazioni su come abilitare l’auto-scaling per gestire il traffico in modo efficiente, garantendo un’esperienza utente ottimale. Una guida passo-passo per sviluppatori e professionisti DevOps che mirano a ridurre la complessità di deployment e a concentrarsi sull’innovazione.

An inspiring and hands-on session designed to empower women in the cloud industry! We’ll dive into practical strategies for fostering diversity, creating inclusive spaces, and closing the gender gap in tech. Together, we’ll explore ways to break barriers, amplify voices, and drive meaningful change. Expect insights on public speaking, content creation, organizing user groups, and building strong professional networks. Whether you’re just starting or a seasoned pro, this workshop is packed with actionable takeaways to help you grow, connect, and make an impact. Let’s learn, share, and uplift each other because the cloud needs all of us!

In a world where online transactions are growing exponentially, security and scalability are essential for any e-commerce architecture. In this talk, you will discover how to design a 100% serverless solution using AWS Transit Gateway to orchestrate global networks with logical partitions that strengthen the security of your platform.

We will explore how to implement a robust architecture that combines services such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and EventBridge, all while ensuring efficient connectivity, advanced protection and global scalability. Plus, we’ll see how to automate network configurations, audit changes and optimize performance with centralized management.

While traditional RAG excels in searching across unstructured documents, it often struggles to grasp intricate relationships between entities. GraphRAG overcomes this limitation by integrating knowledge graphs, enabling your solutions to understand and utilize these complex relationships.

In this session, we’ll explore how to supercharge Bedrock agents with GraphRAG, leveraging Amazon Neptune as the graph database alongside the Bedrock knowledge base. As part of the last re:Invent announcements, we’ll see how this approach delivers precise, contextually rich answers.

The landscape of global AWS database solutions is transforming with groundbreaking innovations. This session explores the newly announced Aurora DSQL, Aurora Limitless Database, and enhanced DynamoDB global tables with strong consistency. We’ll dive deep how Aurora DSQL delivers active-active capabilities across regions with strong consistency.

We will also discover how Aurora Limitless Database enables write scalability through automated sharding while maintaining PostgreSQL compatibility.

Learn how to implement zero RPO disaster recovery using DynamoDB’s enhanced global tables, and how to leverage DynamoDB’s single-digit millisecond performance at global scale.

Enforcing rules and best practices consistently while enhancing operational efficiency, reducing risks, and controlling costs is a tricky journey, that often leads to frustration, loss of productivity, and friction between engineering teams and yours because the challenge is not purely technical.

Empathy and a customer-focused mindset are crucial, and a suite of AWS services, including AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and Tagging policies, can greatly assist in automating compliance checks, enforcing governance, and managing access and costs.

More and more companies are adopting serverless technologies as the community is defining the best practices, tools, and patterns.

Companies using Terraform as their infrastructure as a code tool are often required to reinvent the wheel when they work with serverless.

During this session I will show how I experimented with Amazon Q for Developers to become Web Game Developer in less than 45-60 minutes. The results of the session are unpredictable due Generative AI nature. We will try to create a fully functional game that is deployed on AWS infrastructure and available to play through the web browser.

In 2025, discussing an AWS Multi-Account Strategy might seem trivial. However, adopting a multi-account strategy is not a given. Many businesses still lack a robust cloud foundation, often resulting in poorly architected, non-compliant, and costly environments that make security, governance, and operational management difficult.

Building a well-architected multi-account environment aligned with security and compliance best practices requires expertise, effort, and the coordination of numerous AWS services. Fortunately, AWS Control Tower simplifies this process. In less than an hour, it can establish a well-architected multi-account environment, providing a strong foundation.

This session demonstrates how AWS services can transform traditional photography workflows through a comprehensive engineering solution. Using the AWS Community Day DACH 2024 as a case study, we’ll explore how serverless architecture and AI services efficiently processed and organized over 8,000 event photos.

The presentation will detail an integrated solution combining Amazon Rekognition, Bedrock, and Step Functions to automate photo organization and delivery. We’ll examine how cognitive services enhance image processing, while data science principles improve accuracy and efficiency. The solution showcases practical applications of AWS services that significantly reduce manual work while improving delivery speed and accuracy.

Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable you to build applications that can interact with your systems and data to automatically perform tasks and trigger complex workflows. Allowing you to build powerful, secure systems that are customized for your data and use case.

In this session you’ll discover how to design and build agentic systems using AWS technologies. Including a demo and source code so that you can try it out for yourself!

I triggered storage autoscaling during maintenance, crashed my first Amazon RDS instance on Graviton due to a suboptimal configuration, and ran out of IOPS multiple times.

While attempting to autosmart the automated backups, my storage costs skyrocketed, surpassing any other expenses associated with the RDS instance.

Sometimes things fall apart, and sometimes I succeed. I doubled the DML per second by switching to io2 Block Express volumes. I experimented with various methods to optimize the storage of fragmented tables.