Get Your Questions Answered at re:Invent 2023 in the AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone

Re:Invent promises to be even bigger and better this year with over 50,000 participants and a steady stream of product launches and announcements. Amid the excitement, it can be challenging for attendees to find the right person to answer their questions and learn more about the latest releases. The Modern Applications and Open Source Zone on the Expo Floor is the best place for developers to interact directly with experts from the AWS Heroes and open source communities, and AWS service teams.

Whether you are beginning as a builder or expanding your cloud practice, you’ll find an AWS expert in the Zone who shares your passion and can provide insight and expertise to help you on your journey. Get the information you need to improve your applications from AWS service teams, open source contributors, and AWS Heroes in Kubernetes, containers, serverless, application integration, developer tools, frontend web and mobile, next generation developer experience and open source teams. Then stay to network, win some great prizes from the claw machine, watch demos, play games, whiteboard out your architecture diagrams, load up on stickers, and relax with coffee and snacks. We’re located in booth #1390 of the Developer Solutions Area on Level 2, Hall B of The Venetian.

On Wednesday from 1-3 p.m., we’ll have cookies and celebrate the five-year anniversary of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with EKS engineers, product managers, and senior leadership including Kubernetes VP Barry Cooks and Head of Product Nathan Taber. Since its launch in 2018, Amazon EKS has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide in running resilient, secure, and scalable container-based applications. Amazon EKS uses upstream open source Kubernetes and is the most reliable way to run Kubernetes in AWS, on-premises data centers, and at the edge.

The open source AWS Amplify application framework is also turning six this year, and we’ll celebrate with their developer community in the Zone on Tuesday from 1-3 p.m. You’ll also have the chance to meet Deepak Singh, VP of database and AI leadership, and Adam Seligman, VP of developer experience. Amplify is everything you need to build full stack web and mobile apps on AWS. Build and host your frontend, add features like auth and storage, connect to real-time data sources, deploy, and scale to millions of users. Join us in the Zone to meet Amplify’s growing community of contributors and users and learn more about how to get involved.

Modern Applications and Open Source Demos

Starting on Monday at 4 p.m. Pacific, we’ll have up to four demos running — every hour on the hour — from all of your favorite services, AWS community members, and open source projects. Stop by to learn about the latest releases and meet the engineers who build them. Check back here for updates to the schedule, as demo times are subject to change. We will also have a number of exciting launch-related demos, but we can’t reveal the secrets just yet!

Demo Schedule for Monday Nov. 27

4-4:45 p.m. PT

• Amazon CodeWhisperer: Gen AI coding companion, David Ernst, Amazon
• Accelerate your serverless journey with Powertools for AWS Lambda, Henrique Graca, AWS
• Cracking the Enigma Machine (and rebuilding with serverless), Anton Aleksandrov, AWS

5-5:45 p.m. PT

• Event driven scaling using CNCF projects Keda with Karpenter, Rajdeep Saha, AWS
• Serving stable diffusion on Amazon EKS with Hugging Face OSS, Ray, and Karpenter, Apoorva Kulkarni, AWS
• AWSome Store – building a resilient and scalable event-driven retail SaaS solution with zero infrastructure maintenance using AWS serverless stack. Alexander Vladimirov, AWS
• Modernizing security SaaS with serverless event-driven architectures — real-time threat detection and vulnerability scanning at scale, Anton Aleksandrov, AWS

6-6:45 p.m. PT

• Building A self-service developer platform on AWS with Pulumi, Lee Briggs, Pulumi
• Cedar: Writing and enforcing authorization policies for your applications, Mike Hicks, Amazon Verified Permissions, AWS

Demo Schedule for Tuesday, Nov. 28

11-11:45 a.m. PT

• Integrate event producers and consumers with EventBridge Pipes, Jeff Oriecuia and Michael Gasch, AWS EventBridge
• Shift your Policies validation “left” with AWS CDK Policy Validation Plugin, Evgeny Karasik, AWS Infrastructure as Code
• Jupyter AI, Jason Weill and Piyush Jain, AWS Sagemaker

12-12:45 p.m. PT

• Improve your Lambda debugging experience with samp-cli, Lars Jacobsson, Mathem
• Terraform & AWS Modules, Anton Babenko, Betajob AS
• Building a question answering bot with GenAI and OpenSearch, David Tippett, AWS

1-1:45 p.m. PT

• Cedar: Writing and enforcing authorization policies for your applications, Mike Hicks, Amazon Verified Permissions, AWS
• Lambda observability with CloudWatch/Cost management with Cost Explorer, Sisira Narayana, AWS
• Generate video summary reports at scale using Serverless services and Amazon Bedrock, Chetan Makvana

2-2:45 p.m. PT

• Improve relevance of OpenSearch search results with the new Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin, Aruna Govindaraju, AWS Analytics
• Tracking the Health of A modern Enterprise Cloud Environment using AWS Eventbridge, Kanwar Bajwa and Debasis Rath
• Cloudscape Design System, Olga Madejska, AWS
• Writing better Integration tests on Serverless, Praneeta Prakash, AWS

3-3:45 p.m. PT

• Modernizing Security SaaS with serverless event-driven architectures – real-time threat detection and vulnerability scanning at scale, Anton Aleksandrov, AWS
• AWSome Store – building a resilient and scalable event-driven retail SaaS solution with zero infrastructure maintenance using AWS Serverless stack, Alexander Vladimirov, AWS
• Rust for AWS Lambda: How to set-up your dev environment and start building your Lambda functions in Rust, Roman Boiko, AWS

4-4:45 p.m. PT

• Amazon CodeWhisperer: Gen AI Coding Companion, David Ernst, AWS
• Use AWS Amplify with your Next.js application, Erik Hanchett, AWS
• Projen-pipelines, Thorsten Höger, Taimos

5-5:45 p.m. PT

• Event driven scaling using CNCF projects Keda with Karpenter, Ratnopam Chakrabarti, AWS
• Tracking the Health of a modern enterprise cloud environment using AWS Eventbridge, Kanwar Bajwa and Debasis Rath, AWS

Demo Schedule for Wednesday, Nov. 29

11-11:45 a.m. PT

• Accelerate your serverless journey with Powertools for AWS Lambda, Henrique Graca, AWS
• Patterns for integrating Backstage with AWS, Niall Thomson, AWS
• Better together: cdk8s and Helm, Evgeny Karasik, AWS
• Writing better Integration tests on serverless, Praneeta Prakash, AWS

12-12:45 p.m. PT

• Taskcat: Open source cloudformation testing and reporting tool, Shivansh Singh, AWS
• Enhance your enterprise document search leveraging OpenSearch as vector store and LLM models for Q&A, Prashant Agrawal, AWS
• Kubernetes network security with Cilium, Liz Rice, Isovalent

1-1:45 p.m. PT

• Break down data silos using real-time synchronization with Flink CDC, Ali Alemi and Francisco Morillo, AWS
• Building a Question Answering Bot with GenAI and OpenSearch, David Tippett, AWS
• Building Apps with OPA on AWS using Backstage.io, Zahi Ben Shabat, AWS

2-2:45 p.m. PT

• No pineapple on pizza! Streaming anomaly detection with Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®, Francesco Tisiot, Aiven. io
• Achieve a faster planning, development, and delivery lifecycle with Amazon CodeCatalyst, Kyle Seaman and Doug Clauson, AWS

3-3:45 p.m. PT

• Testing your serverless workload using serverless testing framework, Guy Almog, AWS
• Instrumentation In-Depth with OpenTelemetry, Liz Fong Jones, Honeycomb.io
• Lambda observability with CloudWatch/Cost management with Cost Explorer, Sisira Narayana, AWS

4-4:45 p.m. PT

• Simplifying your Vector Search using OpenSearch service remote inference, Aruna Govindaraju, AWS
• Writing better Integration tests on serverless, Praneeta Prakash, AWS
• Multi-region data replication using Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ, Mithun Mallick, AWS

Demo Schedule for Thursday, Nov. 30

11 – 11:45 a.m.

• Generate graph visualizations using Graph Explorer, Taylor Riggan and Kelvin Lawrence, Amazon Neptune
• Amazon CodeWhisperer: Gen AI Coding Companion, David Ernst, AWS

12-12:45 p.m.

• Not just on EC2: Using Bottlerocket on the edge, Kyle Davis, AWS
• Accelerate your Serverless journey with Powertools for AWS Lambda, Henrique Graca, AWS

1-1:45 p.m.

• LLRT Custom Runtime – 10x faster cold start and 2x lower cost on AWS Lambda, Richard Davison, AWS
• Patterns for integrating Backstage with AWS, Niall Thomson, AWS

2 – 2:45 p.m.

• Writing better integration tests on serverless, Praneeta Prakash and Dan Fox, AWS
• Building scalable serverless Internal Development Platforms using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, Arvind Soni, AWS
• Generate video summary reports at scale using serverless services and Amazon Bedrock, Chetan Makvana, AWS

3-3:45 p.m. PT

• TBD

Open Source Sessions at re:Invent

Open source sessions are also a great way to dive deep into open source projects and products at AWS. Search for OPN in the re:Invent catalog to find sessions in the open source track. You’ll find chalk talks, workshops, and builders’ sessions from AWS, our Partners, and community members. The open source sessions are focused on topics such as Apache Hudi, Apache Kafka, DBT, Jupyter AI, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, and much more. You’ll also find sessions in other tracks focused on open source, including AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM).

Open Source Session Schedule for Monday, Nov. 27

8-10 a.m.               OPN303 | Complete data transformation and orchestration pipelines using DBT
10-11 a.m.              OPN311 | Extending OpenSearch
11:30-12:30 p.m. OPN308-R | Build and operate a Zero Trust Apache Kafka cluster [REPEAT]
11:30-12:30          AES302 | Building on AWS for startups: Balancing security, cost, and velocity
1-2 p.m.                 OPN401-R | Apache Hudi on AWS: Tuning for cost and performance [REPEAT]
2:30-3:30 p.m.    OPN203 & OPN203-SC1 | Jupyter AI: Open source brings LLMs to your notebooks [SIMULCAST]
3-4 p.m.                SVS210 | Just run code: Build serverless applications quickly with AWS SAM
4-5 p.m.                OPN305 & OPN305-SC1 & OPN305-SC2 | The pragmatic serverless Python developer [SIMULCAST]

Open Source Session Schedule for Tuesday, Nov. 28

11 a.m. -12 p.m.   OPN401-R1 | Apache Hudi on AWS: Tuning for cost and performance [REPEAT]
11 a.m. – 1p.m.     OPN301-R | Accelerate your serverless journey with Powertools for AWS Lambda [REPEAT]
11:30 -12:30 p.m. OPN309-R | Building a secure and scalable transactional data lake [REPEAT]
12:30-1:30 p.m.   COM302 | Advanced AWS CDK: Lessons learned from 4 years of use
1-2 p.m.                OPN302 | AWS open source strategy and contributions for PostgreSQL
1-2 p.m.                OPN307-R | Beyond caching: Advanced design patterns with Redis [REPEAT]
2-4 p.m.                DOP401 | Get better at building AWS CDK Constructs
2:30-3:30             SVS206 | Building your first serverless application with AWS SAM
2:30-3:30 p.m.    DOP206 | AWS infrastructure as code: A year in review
3:30-4:30 p.m.    OPN404 & OPN404-SC1 | Transforming deployment: Deep dive into Backstage on AWS [SIMULCAST]
5-6 p.m.               SVS206 | Building your first serverless application with AWS SAM
5-7 p.m.               OPN301-R1 | Accelerate your serverless journey with Powertools for AWS Lambda [REPEAT]

Open Source Session Schedule for Wednesday, Nov. 29

11 a.m.-12 p.m. CON331 | Harness the power of Karpenter to scale, optimize & upgrade Kubernetes
12-1 p.m.            DOP209 | Governance and security with infrastructure as code
1-2 p.m.              DOP314 |  Simplifying cloud infrastructure creation with AWS CDK
1:30-2:30 p.m. OPN310-R | Cedar policy language in action [REPEAT]
2-4 p.m.            CON306 | Karpenter: Amazon EKS best practices and cloud cost optimization (Workshop)
2:30-3:30         SVS207 | Creating your first API from scratch with OpenAPI and AWS SAM
3-5 p.m.            OPN202 | Logging with Amazon EKS, Bottlerocket, Fluent Bit, and OpenSearch
4:30-5:30 p.m. OPN308-R1 | Build and operate a Zero Trust Apache Kafka cluster [REPEAT]
4:30-5:30 p.m. SVS206 | Building your first serverless application with AWS SAM
4-5 p.m.             PT BOA206 | Stateful vs stateless workloads with IaC
5:30-6:30 p.m. AES204 | Using AWS edge compute in space to reduce EO data costs
7:30-8:30 p.m. AES302 | Building on AWS for startups: Balancing security, cost, and velocity

Open Source Session Schedule for Thursday, Nov. 30

11:30- 1:30 p.m. DOP304 | Develop AWS CDK resources to deploy your applications on AWS
1-2 p.m.               OPN306 | Accelerating IoT product delivery with AWS and open source
1-2 p.m.               OPN307-R1 | Beyond caching: Advanced design patterns with Redis [REPEAT]
2-3 p.m.               SVS207 | Creating your first API from scratch with OpenAPI and AWS SAM
2:30-3:30 p.m.  OPN309-R1 | Building a secure and scalable transactional data lake [REPEAT]
2:30-3:30 p.m.  OPN310-R1 | Cedar policy language in action [REPEAT]
2:30-3:30 p.m.  OPN403 | Scaling Argo CD efficiently to handle thousands of applications
2:30-3:30 p.m.  OPN314 | Using Mountpoint for Amazon S3 for content production
3:30-4:30 p.m.  OPN313 | Shifting left & preventing misconfigurations using open source tooling
3:30-4:30 p.m.  DOP312 | Creating custom constructs with AWS CDK
4-5 p.m.              OPN402 | Break down data silos using real-time synchronization with Flink CDC
4-5 p.m.              OPN201 | Evolving OSPOs for supply chain security and generative AI
4-5 p.m.              OPN312 | How Amazon ECR speaks open source: OCI and the V2 proxy

Modern Applications and Open Source Zone Location and Schedule

We’re looking forward to seeing you at re:Invent! Be sure to visit the Modern Applications and Open Source Zone at The Venetian in booth #1390 of the Developer Solutions Area on Level 2, Hall B of the Expo Floor on Monday, Nov. 27 – Thursday Nov. 30.

Zone Schedule:

Monday, November 27, 2023 (ACT 167 in the re:Invent catalog) 4:00 pm -7:00 pm

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 (ACT 185) 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 (ACT 187) 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Thursday, November 30, 2023 (ACT 188) 10:00 am – 4:00 pm