My experience of AWS Summit Stockholm 2025

Stockholmsmässan, June 4, 2025

This was my first ever experience of an AWS summit. I took the train from Gothenburg to Stockholm early in the morning. Took shuttel to Stockholmsmässan in Järfalla. When stepping in to the venue there were not many people yet there. At the AWS Community both I met up with some very friendly community builders, Jens Båvemark, Andreas Caseen, Vijay Kodam, Sebastian Bille, Thembile Martis, Aritra Nag, Gunnar Grosch, Jimmy Dahlqvist and many more. It felt super fun to get to know more excited community builders and AWS enthusiasts.

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The first part of the day was really about getting to know other community members and their engagement in meetups, their current projects and getting perspectives of what is achievable with cloud infrastructure. I talked about our recent initiative on how we can use a storage policy, how to move resources between different storage tiers to save X amount of money.

At 12:00 it was time for my talk COM204: "Bye-Bye Ticket Queues: Building an IaC Vending Machine". The talk was how my team built a vending machine as a platform team for a larger organization in Gothenburg.

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As a product owner my main purpose has been to find the biggest pain point the company has and build a product roadmap that solves it. The team built the concept of a CLI tool that generates a baseline for projects where software engineers can build on top of, with the organizational private networking approach, fast. The lead reward for us as a platform team was to make cloud development the best option in terms of availability, scalability, economical and security. By choosing cloud you get so many benefits in terms of maintainability that you don't get from the on-premise option.

After my talk we got served lunch. I had planned my day with the "AWS Events" app. The app has a map of the venue which makes it easy to navigate without knowing the venue.

At 13:30 I listened to Alvin Johansson and Julian Wood talk on topic "Best practises for serverless developers". With an event driven approach it is possible to make applications much more efficient and how to tune them in order to get the best performance and lower cost.

At 14:30 Aritra Nag held the session "Build without limits with AWS Cloud infrastructure". This talk was inspiring in how AWS handles different enterprise requirements in terms of security and sustainability. He explained why it is important to take in region in consideration during the architecture design phase. Especially when aiming for high availability and data replication. This becomes important when designing systems that must meet strict Service Level Agreements for data, servers, and other buisness critical services.

The last session I attended was "Building event-driven applications on AWS" by Uri Segev and Tudor Cojocaru. "Teams building microservice architectures often find that integration with applications and external services can result in more monolithic and tightly coupled workloads".

To solve this they talked about EventBridge event buses and how to integrate with AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions as well as APIs. They took the example of an ecommerce site and how an event-driven architecture design would solve the problem of monoliths and tightly coupled services.

To finish the day we met up in the Community Builders booth. I felt inspired and eager to build on all of the ideas I had gotten from the day. It was an awesome opportunity to meet up and get to know people with passion for tech.

I would really like to thank those that has given me the opportunity to be a part of it, Anurag Kale for pushing me to join AWS Community Builders and AWS New Voices. Gunnar Grosch and Thembile Martis for giving me the chance to speak in the Community Builders area. Also thank you to all the people I met that made the conference day! ❤️