Enhancing AWS CloudTrail Observability Using Event-Driven Ansible

AWS CloudTrail is a useful tool that records everything happening in AWS account, such as who did what, when, and from where. It helps with tracking changes, spotting unusual behavior, and meeting security and audit requirements. By combining CloudTrail with Event-Driven Ansible, we can take automatic action as soon as something important happens without needing someone to step in manually. In this talk, I will demonstrate how to set up this integration using the ansible.eda.aws_cloudtrail module. In this demo, I will give a demo on how to monitor events like starting or stopping an EC2 instance, and automatically trigger a response. This setup can be customized to handle many other events, helping teams manage their cloud systems more easily, securely, and efficiently.

Crushing Bottlenecks: Distributed Load Testing on AWS

Building reliable applications in the cloud starts with understanding how they perform under pressure. This session dives into how AWS customers simulate real-world traffic and incorporate performance and load testing both pre- and post-deployment to validate system reliability under stress and varying load conditions. We’ll cover testing APIs, microservices, and applications, and show how performance data drives smarter scaling, monitoring, and architectural decisions.

Mest

"Some months ago, I entertained the thought of starting something on my own. I wasn’t so sure what but definitely knew it was something that I wanted to keep my audience engaged and updated. As someone going solo, the idea of sending emails and keeping up felt daunting so I decided to find ways to automate this. That single idea turned into a serverless learning journey, a project where I explored AWS Lambda, SES, and DynamoDB to create a personalized, automated email campaign system. In this talk, I’ll share my journey learning AWS Lambda, Amazon SES, and DynamoDB to create a simple, serverless email campaign system that sends dynamic, personalized emails without managing servers. I’ll cover the basics of each AWS service and how they fit together to solve the challenge of automated outreach. Through real examples from my hands-on experience, I’ll discuss setting up email templates, triggering email sends with Lambda, and storing recipient data in DynamoDB. I’ll also highlight the challenges I faced, how I overcame them, and key lessons for anyone starting their own serverless projects. This talk will offer practical insights into building scalable email campaigns, plus motivation to embrace learning through doing. Join me to explore the potential of serverless architectures and discover how you can start your own personalized email automation journey. "