
AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Learn how Amazon EKS is the most trusted way to start, run, and scale Kubernetes
Come join us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, where we'll be hosting AWS Container Day Featuring Kubernetes on October 25 and educational sessions at our booth October 26–28. Throughout the event, our sessions are focusing on security, cost optimization, GitOps/multi-cluster management, hybrid and edge compute, and more.
October 25–28, 2022
Detroit, Michigan

Join us for AWS Container Day Featuring Kubernetes
AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Join us for AWS Container Day Featuring Kubernetes, a free Day 0 event for attendees at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022. AWS and guest speakers cover technical deep dives, product demos, and best practices designed to help you deploy, manage, secure, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
Seating is limited.
AWS sponsored collocated events
Technical deep dive on serverless containers with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate | Monday, October 24, 2022, 2:00 PM–5:00PM
GitOpsCon North America 2022 | Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
AWS and AWS Partner sessions
EmpowerUs panel networking session | Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7:45 AM–8:45 AM
73,000 pods a day: Lessons from misadventures in multi-tenant | Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 11:00 AM–11:35 AM
Shane Corbett – Senior Containers Specialist, AWS; Wil Reed – Principal Software Architect, Acquia
A Containerd and friends update: What's new in runtimes? | Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 11:00 AM–11:35 AM
Phil Estes – Principal Engineer, AWS; Mike Brown – Software Engineer, IBM; Maksym Pavlenko – Sofware Engineer, Apple; Michael Zappa – Technical Program Manager, Microsoft
Secure multi-tenant GitOps application & infrastructure rollouts At Adobe | Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 11:55 AM–12:30 PM
Manabu McCloskey – Solutions Architect, AWS; Vikram Sethi – Sr. Architect, Adobe Inc.
Beyond Kubebuilder: Generating entire Kubernetes controller implementations | Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 3:25 PM–4:00 PM
Jay Pipes – Principal Software Development Engineer, AWS; Amine Hilaly – Software Development Engineer, AWS
Tutorial: How to write a reconciler using K8s controller runtime | Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Amine Hilaly – Software Development Engineer, AWS; Scott Rigby – DX, Weaveworks; Niki Manoledaki – Software Engineer, Weaveworks; Somtochi Onyekwere – Developer Experience Engineer, Weaveworks; Soulé Ba – Consulting Reliability Engineer, Weaveworks
ADHD: Understanding, awareness, and shared experience | Thursday, October 27, 2022, 11:00 AM–11:35 AM
Farrah Campbell - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Containers and Serverless, AWS; Rich Burroughs – Staff Developer Advocate, Loft; Bartholomew Farrell – Head of Community, Data on Kubernetes Community; Walid Shaari – Platform Engineer, Saudi Aramco; Heba elAyoty – Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Peer group mentoring + career networking (in person) | Friday, October 28, 2022, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Current state and the future of Cortex | Friday, October 28, 2022, 11:55 AM–12:30 PM
Alvin Lin – Software Development Manager, AWS; Alan Protasio – Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS
Peer group mentoring + career networking (virtual) | Friday, October 28, 2022, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Build a cloud-native asynchronous messaging system for scale with Redis | Friday, October 28, 2022, 2:55 PM–3:30 PM
Madelyn Elizabeth Olson – Software Development Engineer, AWS
Building multi-tenant routing and scaling with Envoy (virtual) | Friday, October 28, 2022, 4:00 PM–4:35 PM
Yiming Peng – Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS, Inc.
AWS AT MWC SCHEDULE
Keynote
September 29, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM | Keynote: Adolfo Hernandez, VP of Global Telco Business Unit, AWS
Sessions
Building metaverse-ready networks | September 28, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
Sameer Vuyyuru, Director of Telco BD, AWS; Michel Castaldelli, BD – Connectivity, Facebook
Transforming the future of music | September 28, 4:30 PM–5:30 PM
Marissa Mathews, Verizon – MMU Lead, AWS; Andrew Zarick, Head of Partnership Activations, 5G Lab, Verizon
Road to zero-touch automation | September 29, 4:30 PM–5:30 PM
Vara Prasad Talari, Principal Consultant, Telecom, AWS; Dish Network
Could this be the year of private networks? | September 30, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Ishwar Parulkar, Chief Technologist, AWS
AWS booth
Join us at booth D1 to meet with AWS experts, check out our cafe, and attend 13 breakout sessions and demos. Sessions cover batch workloads, operational best practices, observability, multi-tenancy, security, and more.
Booth theater sessions
Wednesday, October 26
How to run batch workloads on Amazon EKS | 11:00 AM–12:00 PM (noon)
Angel Pizarro, Principal Developer Advocate for HPC, AWS; Devendra Chavan, Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS
Best practices for Amazon EKS Day 2 operational challenges | 12:30 PM–1:30 PM
Jamal Arif, Solutions Architect, AWS; Abhinav Krishna Vadlapatla, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Deploying and managing container-based applications to Kubernetes on the edge | 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder & CEO, Rafay Systems
Observability best practices for Amazon EKS | 3:30 PM–4:30 PM
Nirmal Mehta, Principal Solutions Architect for Containers, AWS; Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, Principal Solutions Architect, Observability, AWS
Hardening Amazon EKS to NSA/CISA standards | 5:00 PM–6:00 PM
Brett Eisen, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS; Sheetal Joshi, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
Thursday, October 27
Getting going with bare metal Bottlerocket with Amazon EKS Anywhere | 11:00 AM–12:00 PM (noon)
Kyle Davis, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS; Lichun Li, Senior Product Manager, AWS
Getting Started with the OpenSearch Operator | 12:30pm–1:30pm
David Tippett, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS; Prudhvi Godithi, Software Engineer, AWS
Cost-optimizing your Kubernetes workload | 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Rajdeep Saha, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS; Pritam Pal, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Building an internal development platform (IDP) on Amazon EKS with Backstage, Crossplane & Argo CD | 3:30 PM–4:30 PM
Jamal Arif, Solutions Architect, AWS; Abhinav Krishna Vadlapatla, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Evaluate Kubernetes CIS Benchmark security standard centrally with AWS Security Hub | 4:30 PM–5:30 PM
Sushanth Mangalore, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS; Chance Lee, Senior Container Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Friday, October 28
Run Kubernetes anywhere: Amazon EKS anywhere multi-cluster patterns with Istio & Cilium | 11:00 AM–12:00 PM (noon)
Sai Vennam, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS; Ram Vennam, Director of Field Engineering, Solo.io
Canary deployment using Tekton in AWS App Mesh | 12:30 PM–1:30 PM
Praseeda Sathaye, Senior Container Specialist, AWS; Valentin Widmer, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, AWS
Best practices for multi-tenancy in Kubernetes | 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hemanth AVS, Senior Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS; Ranjith Raman, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS SaaS Factory, AWS
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