{"id":3917,"date":"2021-12-13T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.besharp.it\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:26:18","slug":"back-to-las-vegas-our-journey-through-the-aws-reinvent-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.besharp.it\/back-to-las-vegas-our-journey-through-the-aws-reinvent-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Las Vegas: our journey through the AWS re:Invent 2021!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A week has passed since the end of the re:Invent 2021, the most awaited moment of the year for those who, like us, work in the IT world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year signed the “back to physical” for the AWS re:Invent as a great technological event after exactly two years (my last event was, in fact, the re:Invent 2019<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will not detail how the experience of attending an in-person event was pleasant from a personal point of view and how it allowed us to make the most out of every single idea offered by the conference if compared to the “virtual-only” mode. I would say the obvious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, I’d like to congratulate AWS for being the first among the “big ones” in the IT world to believe in such a huge event and for the great work done in organizing it in an in-person mode even with thousands of uncertainties and many organizational and logistical challenges that could change the plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, compromises were necessary, such as a reduced number of people (20,000 attendees VS more than 60,000 in 2019) or limits to the organization of some specific events. Anyway, in general, it was a really successful conference. Let me say that with less than a third of the participants compared to the last time, it was far easier for me to enjoy the whole event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I have already said many times, the most exciting aspects of the re:Invent are not (or not only!) the contents presented in the (four!) Keynotes and during the hundreds of sessions: most of them, in fact, are available online in a few hours in articles summarizing the most important announcements<\/a>, recordings of all the sessions conveniently available on YouTube (and, unfortunately, just because you think “I can watch them whenever I want” you’ll never <\/a>take the time to watch them actually, but that’s another story …)<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this reason, I’m not going to write yet another list of all the news announced, but I will try to tell more about the impressions and the takeaways that the conference left me as food for thoughts for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The peculiar aspect of the re:Invent is the possibility of “touching” all the things we usually interact with through a web console or a CLI. Also, you can interact with and speak directly to the various products and services managers or with the speakers of the various technical sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n