AWS Summit Zurich 2024

Today I had an inspiring day at the AWS Summit Zurich with session on Analytics, Migration and Generative AI to help accelerate business and to drive innovation.

04.09.2024

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AWS summit Zurich

The day opened with a keynote from Kevin Miller, Vice President of the AWS Global Data Center Organization, and Chris Keller, General Manager of AWS Europe Central, along with AWS customer speakers. They shared insights on the current state of cloud adoption in Switzerland and discussed key developments and emerging trends observed among AWS customers.

My AWS Swiss Cloud Day

I particularly appreciated:

• Elena Yukhymenko: For the deep dive into the new features Aurora offers, including Aurora I/O-Optimized, Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, and Aurora Serverless v2.
• Nuno Barreto and Peter Rayner: For the insights about building and optimizing a data lake on Amazon S3.

Deep dive into Amazon Aurora and its innovations by Elena Yukhymenko

Amazon Aurora cloning enables the creation of a new cluster that initially shares data pages with the original but operates as a separate, independent volume. This method is designed for speed and cost efficiency, offering a faster and more space-saving alternative to traditional data-copying techniques like snapshot restoration.

Building and optimizing a data lake on Amazon S3 by Nuno Barreto and Peter Rayner

When designing a data lake on Amazon S3 for scale, both object size and format are key. Larger objects help reduce TPS on prefixes, lowers costs, and minimize data roundtrips. Choosing widely supported formats improve compatibility and performance.

Resources

• AWS Summit Zurich, AWS