I’m a life-long learner! I try to set aside some time every day to read about or to try something new. I grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, back before the Internet existed. As a teenager, access to technical information of any sort was difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. It often involved begging my parents to drive me to the library or riding my bicycle down a narrow road to get to the nearest magazine rack. Today, with so much information at our fingertips, the most interesting challenge is deciding what to study.

As we do every month, we have assembled a set of online tech talks that can fulfill this need for you. Our team has created talks that will provide you with information about the latest AWS services along with the best practices for putting them to use in your environment.

The talks are free, but they do fill up, so you should definitely register ahead of time if you would like to attend. Most of the talks are one hour in length; all times are in the Pacific (PT) time zone. Here’s what we have on tap for the rest of this month:

Monday, April 24
10:30 AM – Modernize Meetings with Amazon Chime.

1:00 PM – Essential Capabilities of an IoT Cloud Platform.

Tuesday, April 25
8:30 AM – Hands On Lab: Windows Workloads on AWS.

Noon – AWS Services Overview & Quarterly Update.

1:30 PM – Scaling to Million of Users in the Blink of an Eye with Amazon CloudFront: Are you Ready?

Wednesday, April 26
9:00 AM – IDC and AWS Joint Webinar: Getting the Most Bang for your Buck with #EC2 #Winning.

10:30 AM – From Monolith to Microservices – Containerized Microservices on AWS.

Noon – Accelerating Mobile Application Development and Delivery with AWS Mobile Hub.

Thursday, April 27
8:30 AM – Hands On Lab: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server in AWS.

10:30 AM – Applying AWS Organizations to Complex Account Structures.

Noon – Deep Dive on Amazon Cloud Directory.

I will be presenting Tuesday’s service overview – hope to “see” you there.

— Jeff;