You have many ways to create infrastructure (by hand, and automatically), and want to make sure it is created correctly. By using a single set of tests, you can ensure that the correct infrastructure is created, regardless of the tools used by each team. Additionally you want to make sure to detect any drift happening.

Jenna Pederson, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

If you are using GitHub as a source code repository, combining GitHub Actions with other CI/CD services (like AWS CodeBuild) is a simple and powerful way to deliver feature-rich CI/CD pipelines. In this session, we will develop an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline that can execute unit tests, build a container image, upload the container image to Amazon ECR and update an Amazon ECS Task Definition for every commit to the GitHub repository. You will leave with an understanding of how to use GitHub actions to deploy applications to AWS and how additional integration with AWS CodeBuild unlocks additional capabilities.

Veliswa Boya, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Speed in software development requires being able to bootstrap development teams with best practices for DevOps, security, and infrastructure configuration. But how many times did you have to re-write the same bit of infrastructure code over and over again? How are you sure that what every is deploying infrastructure in the same correct way? Let’s talk about building reusable infrastructure elements with AWS Cloud Development Kit, and how can we test those and be sure they are doing what we expect them to do. Making you feel very safe when hitting that git push command.

Darko Meszaros, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

This session shows you how to identify and mitigate risks of modern application architectures. For example, we show you how to shift left with security in your development pipeline using CodeGuru and static source code scanning while deploying a single page web applications that integrates with Lambda functions. Next, we shift right by showing you how to use OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch and Prometheus server to instrument and monitor your workload. We move on to demonstrate using Palo Alto Primsa for run time protection of the Serverless backend. Finally, we review how to document your architecture for security review by a security audience using AWS Perspective and Well Architected frameworks. Features AWS CodeGuru, Amazon Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Perspective, and the Well-Architected Framework

Samuel Waymouth, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

While the benefits of distributed computing are undeniable and have revolutionized IT, they do have some challenges. Architectures have grown increasingly complex and can be hard to understand and difficult to debug and test. Chaos engineering is the process of stressing an application in testing or production environments by creating disruptive events, such as server outages or API throttling, observing how the system responds, and implementing improvements. In this session, we'll use chaos engineering to improve our sample application's resilience and performance, uncover hidden issues, expose blind spots, and more.

Gunnar Grosch, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

AWS enables you to take control of cost and continuously optimize your spend, while building modern, scalable applications to meet your needs. AWS's breadth of services and pricing options offer the flexibility to effectively manage your costs and still keep the performance and capacity you require. Establishing best practices early in your journey can help you establish the right processes and behaviors to ensure success when you hit scale while meeting your financial needs. This session explores the top 5 strategies you can implement today for immediate impact on building effective cost-driven architectures.

Rohini Gaonkar, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Immutable infrastructure is a model in which no updates, security patches, or configuration changes happen "in-place" on production systems. If any change is needed, a new version of the architecture is built and deployed into production. Since changes aren't allowed in immutable infrastructure, you can be sure about the deployed system's state. Immutable infrastructures are more consistent, reliable, and predictable, and they simplify many aspects of software development and operations by preventing common issues related to mutability. This session will, through hands-on demos, deep dive into the topic and explain why immutable infrastructure is a vital software engineering concept.

Adrian Hornsby, Principal Technical Evangelist, AWS

In this session you will dive deep into a new feature for fine grade access control to AWS services based on token attributes from federated Open ID Connect (OIDC) tokens using Amazon Cognito Identity Pools. We will show you how to setup authentication and authorization using Amazon Cognito User Pools, Amazon Cognito Identity Pools and IAM Policies to establish attribute-based access control to AWS services like S3. Features Amazon Cognito and AWS IAM.

Laurens Brinker, Solutions Architect, AWS and Aidan Patrick, Solutions Architect, AWS