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Amazon Web Services Overview
What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new ideas built on Web Services. You will also learn how others, empowered by technology advances—known as “Web Scale Computing”—created businesses that weren’t practical until recently. How is all of this accomplished? One solution is Amazon's...
Amazon spent over a decade developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Most people think “Amazon.com” when they hear the word; however developers and entrepreneurs are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, software developers can build applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon’s retail business. AWS has now launched ten services with open API’s for developers to build applications, with the result that almost 330,000 developers have registered on Amazon’s developer site to create applications based on these services.
Our speaker is Mike Culver, who joined the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services in 2006. Mike brings with him fifteen years of technology leadership experience, including at companies such as Microsoft. In addition Mr. Culver has a strong background running an IT organization, with over a decade of experience in the U.S. Electrical Wholesale Distribution industry. And as a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, he helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way that businesses compete.
We are also pleased to have John Repko - the CTO of Kansas City's own Chemidex - who is an Amazon Web Services customer. John will speak to the company's usage of Amazon.
Date: Wednesday, April 30th
Location: Embassy Suites on the Plaza
220 W. 43rd Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
Time: check-in begins at 11:00am, lunch at 11:30. All done by 1pm
Cost: $25 - lunch included!
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