AWS Community Day Nordics 2023: (Re)Architecting for the Cloud by disconnecting things

Using “the cloud” is not a simple on/off switch, in reality it’s a journey; No matter if your organization is just starting the journey or already far along, this talk will provide you ideas how to "make the cloud work for you". It showcases how approaches like Serverless, Asynchronous & Event-Driven Systems with patterns like Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and fully utilizing the AWS feature catalogue can improve your ability to scale, secure your systems, manage cost and overall, better understand the state of your systems. The talk will also describe (and briefly showcase) how proper tooling such as AWS CDK can help. This talk is based on 11+ years of AWS experience in Alma Media – a European digital services & media company – that also has "the magical 5 years of experience" with technologies such as Serverless and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).