Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Join us for the AWS Architectural Resilience Day Bucharest, a free event happening on the 30th March 2023 to learn about architectural best practices that will help you build more resilient workloads. During this in-person event, we’ll host interactive talks and hands-on workshops where you can deep dive into topics around disaster recovery, architecting high availability workloads, implementing Correction of Error processes, and more.
Session format: Chalk Talk
The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework describes 66 best practices for creating reliable workloads on AWS. This chalk talk is your one stop to learn how to apply these best practices to meet your resiliency needs, and enable your workloads on AWS to quickly recover from disruptions. Ask questions about your own workloads and systems, and learn how applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices improves reliability.
Session format: Workshop
Using AWS Resilience Hub, you can define your applications’ resilience targets (RTO and RPO) and help validate that these targets can be met prior to deployment. It provides automated assessments that identify resilience weaknesses and provide recommended remediation. It also integrates with AWS FIS to test that resilience targets can be met under different conditions (e.g., database disruptions). When integrated into CI/CD pipelines, Resilience Hub provides continuous resilience assessments and testing. It provides a comprehensive view of your overall application portfolio resilience status through its dashboard. We’ll look at all of these features and more in this interactive workshop.
Session format: Workshop
In this workshop, learn hands-on how to use chaos engineering to set up failure injection testing to validate the resiliency of your service. Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, learn about the design principles and AWS resources to ensure a resilient architecture. Then, using a three-tier architecture you will use scripts and AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to simulate various failures, from the loss of a single Amazon EC2 server to the loss of an entire Availability Zone. This workshop focuses on the impacts of these failures and the resources AWS provides to maintain high service availability and a short time to recovery.
Session format: Breakout
This sessions covers AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) which helps minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery. You can use Elastic Disaster Recovery to recover a wide range of applications on AWS from physical infrastructure, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and cloud infrastructure. You can also use Elastic Disaster Recovery to recover Amazon EC2 instances in a different Availability Zone or a different AWS Region. Elastic Disaster Recovery uses a unified process for drills, recovery, and failback, so you do not need application-specific skillsets to operate the service.
Session format: Breakout
The Reliability Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework references the Correction of Error (COE) process. This presentation explains why the Correction of Error (COE) process improves resiliency. Service interruptions result in negative customer experiences, eroding customer trust and business value. One Amazonian best practice is to perform Correction of Error post incident analysis to prevent the incident from reoccurring. This session includes a demo implementing a Correction of Error mechanism using Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager.
Ionut is an AWS solutions architect focused on helping customers from various industries solve business problems using AWS Cloud technologies. Ionut has expertise in scaling infrastructure and operations, and designs solutions that make use of infrastructure as code and automation. Outside work he likes to spend time skiing and playing tennis whenever possible.
Dragos Madarasan is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he works with companies and their partners in Central and Eastern Europe by transforming their enterprise IT landscape and helping them design reliable, cost-effective cloud architectures. Dragos works with clients to assess their infrastructure and application portfolio while developing a shared vision, leading the customer and partner over the technical and business hurdles of cloud adoption
