Melbourne AWS User Group – 30th July 2014

Event page link / Meetup group

AWS Activate

• From the folks at Amazon
• AWS Activate
  • Website
  • A program to provide resources to startups: from free tier usage, labs, webinars, support and AWS credit
  • Self-Starter Package: for any startups
  • Portfolio Package: for startups in select accelerators or seed funds. Will be ‘audited’ by Amazon and will be given much better benefits vs Self-Start Package

Cloud Computing in Africa

• From Thomas Shaw, the tech man behind
  • Cheki (http://www.cheki.co.ke): #1 Car classifieds site in Kenya (and across varies countries in Africa)
  • BrighterMonday (http://www.brightermonday.co.ke): #1 Job site in Kenya
• Providing unique perspectives with regards to security, reliability, scalability of AWS especially compared to local hosting.

Microservices

• Braiden Judd @pragmaticyclist
• Slides

Other

• Kestral
  • AWS management console for the iPhone
  • In development by Rob Amos @bok_