I attended to AWS summit Paris

The goal of this summit

The objective of this summit is to bring technology experts together to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS. It’s a good opportunity to learn and explore new ideas for example how to choose the right database, modernize your data warehouse, and drive digital transformation using AI. The event attracts technology professionals from all industries and skill levels who want to learn how AWS can help them innovate rapidly and deliver flexible, reliable solutions at scale.

But do you know what’s AWS?

You don’t?

History and evolution

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings. AWS services can offer an organization tools such as compute power, database storage, and content delivery services.

It provides on-demand storage and computing services with the concept of a pay-as-you-go pricing structure that helps your businesses to scale as you grow.

Revenue breakdown

Business Segment	Percent of Revenue (2019)
Amazon.com	50.4%
Third-party seller services	19.2%
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	12.5%
Amazon prime	6.9%
Physical stores	6.1%
Other	5.0%

Why Is It So Successful?

Scalable and Adaptable

AWS provides resources to aid in expansion. As the business model allows for flexible usage, customers will never need to spend time thinking about whether or not they need to reexamine their computing usage.

Cost Savings

With AWS, companies pay for what they use. There’s no upfront cost to build a storage system and no need to estimate usage. AWS customers use what they need and their costs are scaled automatically and accordingly.

Security and Reliability

The data centers and all the data contained therein are safe from intrusions, and, with Amazon’s experience in cloud services, outages and potential attacks can be quickly identified and easily remedied, 24 hours a day.  

Amazon Leads $180-Billion Cloud Market

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the online retailer’s profitable cloud platform, is still ahead of the pack. According to estimates from Synergy Research Group, Amazon’s market share in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market amounted to 33 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, still exceeding the combined market share of its two largest competitors, Microsoft and Google.

Customers

Here’s a famous start’up which use AWS

The top ten AWS users based on EC2 monthly spend are:

1. Netflix: $19 million
2. Twitch: $15 million
3. LinkedIn: $13 million
4. Facebook: $11 million
5. Turner Broadcasting: $10 million
6. BBC: $9 million
7. Baidu: $9 million
8. ESPN: $8 million
9. Adobe: $8 million
10. Twitter: $7 million

Let me tell a secret they even have a special contract (Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract) with the CIA, since 2013 Amazon Web Services was implementing cloud computing at the CIA and certain other intelligence agencies, and now Formul One.

My summit

i arrived at 8AM, i think it’s the perfect time to came because most of the people are not there, i could grab so many goodies before every one, i have exchanged with a lot experts, and guess what saw…

What a coincidence… a Ferrari F1-75

What was the program of the day?

• 09:30 – 11:00 : Opening session
• 11:15 – 12:00 : Sessions
• 12:00 – 13:15: Lunch break (the dish had to be so tasty, but I could not eat Ramadan ☪️)
• 13:15 – 17:15 : Sessions
• 17:30 – 18:00: Prize giving and closing session
• 18:00 – 18:45 : Cocktail

On the Opening session, i saw Mister Yves Bonnefont from Stellantis going on stage in a Citroen Ami…

My sessions

The sessions were divided into 4 categories :

100 Beginner, 200 Intermediate, 300 Advanced, and 400 Expert.

1. Reinvent the hybrid and extend AWS to your on-premises and edge environments – Topic:  Calcul EC2 | Room : 243 | Time : 11h15 – 12h00 | Level : 200 | Session ID : CP-02
2. How to automate everything with Infrastructure-as-Code and AWS CDK? – Topic:  Modern Applications / DevOps | Room : 252 B |Time : 13h15 – 14h00 | Level : 200 | Session ID : DO-02
3. Take your DevOps practices to the next level – Topic : Modern Applications / DevOps | Room: Maillot | Time : 14h15 – 15h00 | Level: 200 | Session ID : DO-01
4. Drive Your Hybrid or Migration Strategy with VMware Cloud on AWS – Topic: Migration and modernization | Room: 143 | Time: 15h30 – 16h15 | Level: 300 | Session ID: MI-02
5. Modern apps, how to get started on AWS – Topic : Modern Applications / Containers and Serverless | Room : 252 A | Time : 16h30 – 17h15 | Level : 100 | Session ID : MA-03

I tried to not choose sessions with high level, because i don’t have enough knowledge in AWS, but it was a very good introduction.

Conclusion

I love this kind of event it’s an opportunity to meet expert, exchange, and after this event i return my home with a lot ideas, i won’t say to much but i will show soon. But i still need to know more about AWS, it’s something very valuable to day, and believe its a glance of what the future holds…