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The AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone: Learn, Play, and Relax at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent is filled with fantastic opportunities, but I wanted to tell you about a space that lets you dive deep with some fantastic open source projects and contributors: the AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone! Located in the east alcove on the third floor of the Venetian Conference Center, this space exists so that re:Invent attendees can be introduced to some of the amazing projects that power and enhance the AWS solutions you know and use. We’ve divided the space up into three areas: Demos, Experts, and Fun.

Demos: Learn and be curious

We have two dedicated demo stations in the Zone and a deep list of projects that we are excited to show you from Amazonians, AWS Heroes, and AWS Community Builders. Please keep in mind this schedule may be subject to change, and we have some last minute surprises that we can’t share here, so be sure to drop by.

Monday, November 28, 2022

Kiosk # 9 AM – 11 AM 11 AM – 1 PM 1 PM – 3 PM 3 PM – 5 PM
1

Continuous Deployment
and GitOps delivery with Amazon EKS Blueprints and ArgoCD

Tsahi Duek, Dima Breydo

StackGres: An Advanced
PostgreSQL Platform on EKSAlvaro Hernandez
 TBD

Step Functions templates and
prebuilt Lambda Packages for
deploying scalable serverless applications in seconds

Rustem Feyzkhanov

2

Data on EKS

Vara Bonthu, Brian Hammons

 TBD How to use Amazon Keyspaces
(for Apache Cassandra) and Apache Spark
to build applicationsMeet Bhagdev

Scale your applications beyond IPv4 limits

Sheetal Joshi

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Kiosk # 9 AM – 11 AM 11 AM – 1 PM 1 PM – 3 PM 3 PM – 5 PM
1

Let’s build a self service developer portal with AWS Proton

Adam Keller

Doing serverless on AWS with Terraform (serverless.tf + terraform-aws-modules)

Anton Babenko

 Steampipe

Chris Farris, Bob Tordella

Using Lambda Powertools for better observability in IoT Applications

Alina Dima

2

Build and run containers on AWS with AWS Copilot

Sergey Generalov

Fargate Surprise Fargate Surprise

Amplify Libraries Demo

Matt Auerbach

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Kiosk # 9 AM – 11 AM 11 AM – 1 PM 1 PM – 3 PM 3 PM – 5 PM
1

Building Embedded Devices with FreeRTOS SMP and the Raspberry Pi Pico

Dan Gross

Quantum computing in the cloud with Amazon Braket

Michael Brett, Katharine Hyatt

Leapp

Andrea Cavagna

EKS multicluster management and applications delivery

Nicholas Thomson, Sourav Paul

2

Using SAM CLI and Terraform for local testing

Praneeta Prakash, Suresh Poopandi

How to use Terraform AWS and AWSCC provider in your project

Tyler Lynch, Drew Mullen

How to use Terraform AWS and AWSCC provider in your project

Glenn Chia, Welly Siau

Smart City Monitoring Using AWS IoT and Digital Twin

Syed Rehan

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Kiosk # 9 AM – 11 AM 11 AM – 1 PM 1 PM – 3 PM
1

Modern data exchange using AWS data streaming

Ali Alemi

Learn how to leverage your Amazon EKS cluster as a substrate for execution of distributed Ray programs for Machine Learning.

Apoorva Kulkarni

 TBD
2

Spreading apps, controlling traffic, and optimizing costs in Kubernetes

Lukonde Mwila

 TBD

Terraform IAM policy validator

Bohan Li

Experts

Pull up a chair, grab a drink and a snack, charge your devices, and have a conversation with some of our experts. We’ll have people visiting the zone all throughout re:Invent, with expertise in a variety of open source technologies and AWS services including (but not limited to):

  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
  • Amazon Eventbridge
  • Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon Linux
  • Amazon Managed Grafana
  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
  • Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA)
  • Amazon MQ
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Apache Flink, Hadoop, Hudi, Iceberg, Kafka, and Spark
  • Automotive Grade Linux
  • AWS Amplify
  • AWS App Mesh
  • AWS App Runner
  • AWS CDK
  • AWS Copilot
  • AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
  • AWS Fargate
  • AWS Glue
  • AWS IoT Greengrass
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Proton
  • AWS SDKs
  • AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Bottlerocket
  • Cloudscape Design System
  • Embedded Linux
  • Flutter
  • FreeRTOS
  • Javascript
  • Karpenter
  • Lambda Powertools
  • OpenSearch
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
  • Rust
  • Terraform

Fun

Want swag? We’ve got it, but it is protected by THE CLAW. That’s right, we brought back the claw machine, and this year, we might have some extra special items in there for you to catch. No spoilers, but we’ve heard there have been some Rustaceans sighted. You might want to bring an extra (empty) suitcase.

But we’re not done. By popular request, we also brought back Dance Dance Revolution. Warm up your dancing shoes or just cheer on the crowd. You never know who will be showing off their best moves.

Conclusion

The AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone is a must-visit destination for your re:Invent journey. With demos, experts, food, drinks, swag, games, and mystery surprises, how can you not stop by?

Tom Callaway

Tom Callaway

Tom is a Principal Open Source Evangelist for AWS. He has been a part of the open source community since 1997, when he skipped his last day of junior high to go to Linux Expo. During college, he worked for a high-availability startup to cover tuition, and when they crashed along with the majority of the IT sector, he dropped out of college and went to work for Red Hat full-time. He worked for Red Hat for almost twenty years, in Support, Sales Engineering, Release Engineering, Engineering Management, University Outreach (CTO’s office), and Employment Brand. He’s an active contributor to Fedora and helped to write the Fedora Packaging and Legal Guidelines which are still in use today. He’s spoken at a number of conferences and events including SxSW, OSCON, Open Source Summit, and Red Hat Summit. He has one patent on a crazy idea that never got implemented in the real world, and is co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (2013, O’Reilly). When he’s not working, he finds enjoyment in 3D printing, pinball, games (board & video), geocaching, craft beer, B-movies, science fiction, trivia, traveling, and his wife and two boys. He lives in Cary, NC. Tom is also known as “spot” by many people in the open source universe, he’s gone by that nickname since the 1st grade, and he happily answers to it. Follow him on Twitter @spotfoss.