Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Join us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 where AWS experts we'll be sharing our latest work on open source and Kubernetes related projects. Before the main event (April 18), AWS will be hosting a virtual AWS Container Day ft. Kubernetes on from 9am - 4pm CEST (see below for more information and registration). During the event (April 19-21), you'll be able to see AWS experts speak at several sessions as well as a featured keynote presentation. Stop by our booth (D5) where we'll be running live, interactive demos of our latest projects and features as well as providing games, small prizes, and stickers.
AWS Container Day ft. Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 is a day-long virtual event dedicated to helping Kubernetes practitioners optimize their workloads and reduce their Ops burden. AWS and guest speakers will dive deep into the latest trends, techniques, and best practices for deploying, managing, securing, and scaling with Kubernetes. The day will feature new solution demos and interactive challenges designed to provide hands-on experience and practical insights. Attendees will walk away with new tools, mental models, and resources to innovate, optimize, and scale their applications.
April 18, 2023
9am - 4pm CEST
Watch the recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGD52z0LxAA
AWS Jam is an interactive, hands-on experience where attendees have the opportunity to complete live challenges using the information shared during the sessions. We'll have a Jam planned in both the morning and afternoon and and this overview will kick things off and share what to expect. For more information on AWS Jams, check out the video here. If you'd like to register for the Jams before the event starts, you can do so here.
Platform teams provide essential tooling to application teams so that they can deploy their applications at scale. Using infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling and a GitOps-based delivery model for Kubernetes cluster provisioning and configuration can accelerate application deployment and allow application teams to manage their deployment process independently. This approach also facilitates consistent and efficient multi-cluster management across multiple environments. In this session, learn how to create an automated IaC blueprint configuration to build your Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments. Explore how combining IaC and GitOps enables cluster multi-tenancy, improves security controls, and increases deployment velocity for application teams.
Kubernetes has gained widespread adoption in the field of data processing because of its ability to package and deploy applications as containers with all required dependencies, as well as its support for running data frameworks at scale. In this session, learn how to build a data platform on Amazon EKS with Data on Amazon EKS Blueprints. The platform includes all the necessary Kubernetes add-ons like Spark Operator for managing Spark jobs, Fluent Bit for logging, and Prometheus for metrics. With the help of Argo Workflows and Argo Events, learn how to build the platform to be event-driven, which triggers workflows on demand by listening to Amazon SQS.
Consistent, simplified connectivity, security, and observability at scale become critical needs as enterprises modernize their applications and incorporate global communication patterns. This allows them to benefit from the elasticity and scalability of cloud-native infrastructure and services. Amazon VPC Lattice is a new network service that allows developers to connect, secure, and monitor their services without sacrificing infrastructure-level controls and functionalities. In this session, explore how you can use Amazon VPC Lattice, the Kubernetes Gateway API, and AWS Lambda functions to securely connect your applications on AWS and across various compute platforms, all while ensuring you have the observability tools needed to understand application behavior and health.
This session is designed to help you learn how to detect, alert, and investigate potential threats and suspicious security events on Amazon EKS as well as streamline incident response and remediation through automation. Learn how to navigate the journey of using AWS managed services like Amazon EKS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon GuardDuty, and more to secure your Kubernetes environment, detect and investigate potential security issues, and further automate the incident response process to reduce MTTR.
You can use the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Collector to collect metrics and traces from various environments and workloads. Depending on factors like workload, load involved, severity of signal applications, and more, the architecture pattern for operating the ADOT Collector to reliably collect and scale is critical. In this session, explore architectural patterns you can use to operate the collector at scale in container environments. Watch a demo of the AWS Observability Accelerator, a set of opinionated Terraform modules, to help you set up observability for Amazon EKS clusters with AWS managed observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana based on ADOT.
Many users find it challenging to gain real-time insights into network and compute performance of their Kubernetes clusters. This session shows you how you can gain better and more granular visibility using eBPF to access rich, kernel-level information integrated with Kubernetes metadata. Learn how you can enable monitoring on an as-needed basis using CRDs and stream to popular log collectors such as Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon S3.
Cost optimization is a common priority. In this session, learn about the many factors that can increase costs in your Kubernetes usage beyond compute, such as compute efficiencies at the node and pod level, scaling parameters, networking cost, multi-architecture image creation, security posture, and more. Discover how to change your application components and migrate from x86-based instances to AWS Graviton to achieve cost efficiency at higher performance. Also, learn how to use open-source tools and AWS services to optimize these costs and make your Kubernetes cluster more resilient to economic instability.
Scaling your Kubernetes workloads is not only about the number of nodes, pods, or other Kubernetes objects but also selecting the right-sized compute for cost optimization. Compute optimization is a continuous process as workloads evolve. In this session, explore the different scaling dimensions of Amazon EKS and learn about best practices and recommendations for running Kubernetes-based workloads at scale using Karpenter. Karpenter enables application-centric node scaling by provisioning the right-sized Amazon EC2 instances for your workload. This results in improved compute efficiency, faster scaling decisions, and simplified configuration, making it easier to run workloads at scale.
Álvaro is a passionate database and software developer. He founded and works as the CEO of OnGres, a PostGres startup set to disrupt the database market. He has been dedicated to PostgreSQL and R&D in databases for two decades. R&D that includes “crazy” projects like spending $40K on AWS just to benchmark and compare PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Jacopo is CEO and Founder at SIGHUP, a Milan-based startup focused on Kubernetes, Cloud Native & Container technologies. He started working with Kubernetes and containers back in 2014 and over the years he fell in love with the Kubernetes community and the CNCF as a vendor-independent nexus of collaboration. Since 2017 he is also a CNCF Ambassador.
Hari Chandrasekhar is an engineering leader with more than 20 years of work experience in developing distributed multi tenant internet scale applications. Work experience includes development of autonomous cloud management platform operating on cloud native applications with high volume data involving billions of transactions.
Ritesh Patel is Co-founder and VP of Products at Nirmata, the creators of Kyverno - the Kubernetes-native policy engine. At Nirmata, he is responsible for commercial products for Kubernetes security, governance, and automation. He also leads key technology partnerships. Ritesh has 20+ years of experience building and delivering enterprise software solutions.
Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.
Data Analytics on EKS
Running data analytics tools on Kubernetes can provide a number of benefits for organizations looking to extract insights from large and complex datasets. Tools such as Apache Spark and Dask are designed to run on a cluster of machines, making them well suited for deployment on Kubernetes. In this demo, explore how to build and deploy a data processing platform on Amazon EKS with Data on EKS Blueprints. The platform includes the necessary Kubernetes add-ons like Argo Workflows, Argo Events, Spark Operator for managing Spark jobs, Apache YuniKorn batch scheduler, Fluent Bit for logging, and Prometheus for metrics.
Finch: A new open-source tool for container development
Finch is a new open-source tool for container development that provides a minimal client along with an opinionated distribution of all the required components (Lima, nerdctl, containerd, and BuildKit) to develop applications in containers on your local machine. Stop by the AWS booth and meet with the Finch team to learn about this project and its exciting future.
Sysdig
Join Manuel Boira, Sysdig Solution Architect at the AWS booth to demonstrate how to achieve better cloud and container security through effective prioritization fueled by runtime insights. Visitors will discover how to effectively flag risk exposure to save time finding and fixing what matters, ways to identify threats across attack surfaces and practices for shipping secure applications on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate.
Glamazon Candid Chats
Glamazon is an Amazon Employee Network for anyone interested in LGBTQIA+ issues, events, meetings and information. All are welcome; we invite all Amazonians to join us in a community focused on love and gender identities outside the heterosexual, cisgender default. Glamazon enables Amazonians to engage with LGBTQIA+ peers and allies across Amazon company, seeks and promotes diverse perspectives across geographic lines, identities, job types, and backgrounds, supports and develops Amazonians by creating social and professional learning opportunities, promotes Amazon's LGBTQIA+ acceptance in our communities across the globe and advocate for internal and external policies that focus on LGBTQIA+ employees' needs
Applying the sustainability pillar of AWS Well-Architected to K8s
In this demo, explore the sustainability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Learn how applying principles of the sustainability pillar to Kubernetes can reduce the carbon footprint of your cloud environment. Talk to AWS experts about how to architect in the most efficient and sustainable way, such as by selecting the most efficient instances for your workloads, running your workloads on AWS Graviton, applying optimization techniques like right-sizing, and scaling mechanisms with Karpenter.
Amazon EKS monitoring with Pixie and eBPF
Stop by the AWS booth to see the next generation of observability for Amazon EKS using Pixie and eBPF. This demo highlights how Pixie—a CNCF Sandbox project—uses eBPF—a powerful and efficient kernel tracing technology—to provide unprecedented visibility into Amazon EKS clusters. Explore CPU flame graphs, learn about intra-cluster communication and latency, and discover many other features that require no manual instrumentation and minimal resource overhead.
Amazon Women in Engineering: Let's share experiences!
Are you a woman in the technology field? Let's share experiences! Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE) is an Amazon affinity group for women in the engineering field. Our mission is to make Amazon the best place to work for technical women and non-binary individuals. This booth demo aims to create a safe space for women to ask questions regarding AWE, Amazon, work-life balance, culture, inclusion, work environment, and more. Additionally, we want to open up a conversation about what inclusion is and what steps companies can take to foster a better work environment for women.
Streaming Data on EKS
As part of Data on Amazon EKS, AWS has developed a set of blueprints that provides prebuilt templates for deploying popular streaming data platforms such as Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, and Apache NiFi on Amazon EKS. This demo walks through these blueprints, provides real-world examples of how you can use them to process data in a scalable and efficient way, and dives into best practices for running Flink jobs on Amazon EKS. Whether you are new to Amazon EKS or looking to enhance your knowledge of streaming data platforms, join this demo to learn how Amazon EKS can help you build reliable and scalable streaming data solutions.
AI/ML on EKS
Attend our informative session at KubeCon where we will discuss how to utilize EKS for AI/ML workloads as part of the Data on EKS initiative. During this session, we will focus on popular AI/ML frameworks, Kubeflow and Ray, and provide best practices for deploying and scaling them on EKS. We will also demonstrate how to deploy and scale AI/ML workloads on EKS with Ray and showcase real-world examples of how it can be used to train models at scale. Whether you are new to EKS or an experienced data scientist, this session provides valuable insights into how EKS can accelerate your AI/ML workloads in the cloud. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more!
Observability for ArgoCD on Amazon EKS Multi-Cluster Environments
Are you using a centralized ArgoCD instance in your GitOps supply chain? Join this demo to learn best practices for observability and how to monitor a centralized ArgoCD instance that manages applications deployed across Kubernetes clusters. Start with the setup for observability of ArgoCD and then see how to ingest metrics from multiple clusters with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, export them to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and then visualize them with Amazon Managed Grafana. Explore how you can apply this observability pattern to any GitOps controller that provides metrics. Also, learn about the latest AWS contribution to the new GitOps Scalability Special Interest Group (SIG) under ArgoCD.
The open-source community at AWS: containerd and Envoy
Attend this demo to learn from the maintainers and contributors of two of the most popular open-source projects: containerd and Envoy. Hear from AWS experts who contribute to the features and overall health and security of containerd, including OpenTelemetry integration and improved tracing, a performance benchmarking framework, and improved fuzzing integration. Additionally, explore Envoy, an open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications, and learn from contributors at AWS about their experience with multiple use cases in services like AWS App Mesh. Finally, hear about the importance of community cooperation at AWS.
Glamazon Candid Chats
Glamazon is an Amazon Employee Network for anyone interested in LGBTQIA+ issues, events, meetings and information. All are welcome; we invite all Amazonians to join us in a community focused on love and gender identities outside the heterosexual, cisgender default. Glamazon enables Amazonians to engage with LGBTQIA+ peers and allies across Amazon company, seeks and promotes diverse perspectives across geographic lines, identities, job types, and backgrounds, supports and develops Amazonians by creating social and professional learning opportunities, promotes Amazon's LGBTQIA+ acceptance in our communities across the globe and advocate for internal and external policies that focus on LGBTQIA+ employees' needs
AMA with author Michael Hausenblas
Michael is a Cloud Native Ambassador at CNCF and author of Cloud Observability in Action, Learning Modern Linux, Hacking Kubernetes, and other books. He'll be answering questions and talking about open source software, observability, and AWS.
Kubernetes at AWS
Stop by the AWS booth for an ask-me-anything session with Amazon EKS engineers. Hear how they engage in various upstream projects in different capacities and help run a managed Kubernetes service. Discover how they apply their operational expertise managing Kubernetes at Amazon scale to help improve Kubernetes for everyone. Also, hear how they share their challenges and solutions upstream.
Cost Optimization for K8s
We'll be discussing how to understand your Kubernetes costs and different compute/cost optimisation techniques covering right-sizing Kubernetes nodes, scaling mechanisms (Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter, event-driven scaling with KEDA) and leveraging different compute purchase options (e.g., EC2 Spot/AWS spare-capacity) and instance types (e.g., Graviton) for better price-performance. Throughout the booth duration we will be running some interactive demos including “Spot Invaders: using a retro game, making use of Spot and Karpenter to prove fault tolerance and cost-optimisation” AND a demo on “how to use KEDA to schedule pods with metrics”
Amazon EKS customer experience
As you visit the AWS booth, take some time to help shape the future of Amazon EKS. Sign up for a 15- to 20-minute session to share your ideas on topics like open-source adoption, the functionality and usability of Kubernetes on AWS, and Kubernetes on AWS for the future. As a thank you for your participation, you’ll receive an AWS T-shirt and have the opportunity for your input to become a product feature or case study launched at a future AWS re:Invent.
Latinos@Amazon
Stop by the AWS booth to hear from members of the Latinos at Amazon affinity group about our vision for making Amazon the best, most preferred employer for Latinos. Amazon provides long-term career trajectories to Latinos who help innovate on behalf of our Hispanic and Latino customers. Hear about what it’s like to work at Amazon, including culture, inclusion, work environment, and the Latinos at Amazon affinity group. Also, explore use cases of successful Kubernetes adoption at Latin American companies.
Learn and connect with the Black Employee Network
Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN) affinity group seeks to recruit, retain, and empower Black employees. BEN connects members with mentors and provides career and personal development workshops. BEN also engages with the local and regional chapters of the National Society of Black Engineers, leads recruiting initiatives with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and partners with other organizations. Join members of Amazon's BEN at the AWS booth to discuss career advancement, mentorship, and unique challenges Black professionals face in the workplace today.
Deploying Lambda with Kubernetes
Join this demo to explore how to complement Kubernetes with serverless computing. Learn how to activate self-service for developers using serverless infrastructure. Also, dive into the use of CNCF open-source Amazon EKS add-ons, such as Crossplane and ArgoCD, for managing infrastructure as code with GitOps, which ensures that the serverless environment remains in the desired state. The demo showcases how to provision serverless infrastructure, update its state, and deploy code to an AWS Lambda function.
Kubernetes on AWS for startups
Join the AWS Container Specialists to explore how Startups can utilise Kubernetes to manage and deploy containerised applications at scale whilst accelerating development velocity. Our team of experts will be available to answer questions on Kubernetes best practices, GitOps, Autoscaling, Cost Optimisation, Networking, Security and more. You can also find out how AWS supports the growth of Startups through programs such as AWS Activate and the AWS Startup Loft.
Applying GitOps to virtually everything using Amazon EKS and Flux
GitOps is a quick and secure way for developers to manage and update complex applications and infrastructure running on Kubernetes. This is an approach where infrastructure as code lives alongside your application in the same Git repository, and any changes are automatically deployed when they’re merged there. In this demo, learn how AWS resources are deployed and managed in an automated way and deployed on Amazon EKS via Flux.
Amazon EKS customer experience
As you visit the AWS booth, take some time to help shape the future of Amazon EKS. Sign up for a 15- to 20-minute session to share your ideas on topics like open-source adoption, the functionality and usability of Kubernetes on AWS, and Kubernetes on AWS for the future. As a thank you for your participation, you’ll receive an AWS T-shirt and have the opportunity for your input to become a product feature or case study launched at a future AWS re:Invent.
Learn and connect with the Asians@Amazon affinity group
Stop by the AWS booth to participate in an inclusive discussion hosted by Asians at Amazon, an officially recognized affinity group at Amazon. Our mission is to serve as a platform that promotes cultural exchange and awareness among Asian cultures and between Asian and non-Asian cultures; commits to recruiting, developing, and retaining Asian and Pacific Islander talent at Amazon; and advocates for greater representation at Amazon's leadership level. Ask Asians at Amazon members questions about culture, inclusion, work environment, Asian group career growth, and more. By coming together, we hope to bring more benefits and impact to the technical industry.
Modern Application Networking with Amazon VPC Lattice
This demo showcases the seamless integration of Amazon EKS and Amazon VPC Lattice. The Kubernetes Lattice controller allows you to have a Kubernetes-native experience without requiring in-depth knowledge of networking or virtual private networks (VPNs). Explore how the Kubernetes Lattice controller does the heavy lifting for connecting services and provides a seamless and secure experience for Amazon EKS users. Hear from a team of AWS experts about how you can streamline your network capabilities using Amazon VPC Lattice.
A Confidential Story of Well-Kept Secrets
Lukonde Mwila, AWS
Tales from on-Call: Fun with Operating Etcd at Scale Geeta Gharpure & Chao Chen, AWS
Keynote: Open Source in Bloom 🌼 at AWS
Nathan Taber, AWS
Meetings with the EKS Service Team and Specialists are available for the below:
- EKS Deep Dive & Roadmap
- Hybrid and Edge Container Workload Deployments with Amazon EKS (EKS-A, EKS on Outposts, EKS-A on Snow, etc.)
- Migration of Containerized Workloads to the Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)
- Modernizing Data Workloads on Amazon EKS (Data on EKS)
- Cost Optimization Strategies for Containerized Workloads
- Enterprise modernization and innovation with Cloud Native Accelerator (CNA)
- AWS Observability Deep Dive & Roadmap.
As you visit the AWS booth we’d like to invite you to help shape the future of Amazon EKS! Sign up below for a 15 – 20 minute session and share you ideas on topics like:
- Open Source adoption
- Functionality and Usability of Kubernetes on AWS
- Kubernetes on AWS for tomorrow
We request your collaboration to help deliver and create the features that give you more business value and meet your needs. Your feedback will help influence the direction that our EKS teams take. The sessions will be conducted either 1 on 1 or in small groups. In exchange for your participation, you will receive an AWS T-shirt and potentially have your input become a product feature or case study launched at next year’s re:Invent!
