The AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone: Learn, Play, and Relax at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent is filled with fantastic opportunities, but I wanted to tell you about a space that lets you dive deep with some fantastic open source projects and contributors: the AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone! Located in the east alcove on the third floor of the Venetian Conference Center, this space exists so that re:Invent attendees can be introduced to some of the amazing projects that power and enhance the AWS solutions you know and use. We’ve divided the space up into three areas: Demos, Experts, and Fun.

Demos: Learn and be curious

We have two dedicated demo stations in the Zone and a deep list of projects that we are excited to show you from Amazonians, AWS Heroes, and AWS Community Builders. Please keep in mind this schedule may be subject to change, and we have some last minute surprises that we can’t share here, so be sure to drop by.

Monday, November 28, 2022

Kiosk #	9 AM – 11 AM	11 AM – 1 PM	1 PM – 3 PM	3 PM – 5 PM
1	Continuous Deployment and GitOps delivery with Amazon EKS Blueprints and ArgoCD Tsahi Duek, Dima Breydo	StackGres: An Advanced PostgreSQL Platform on EKSAlvaro Hernandez	TBD	Step Functions templates and prebuilt Lambda Packages for deploying scalable serverless applications in seconds Rustem Feyzkhanov
2	Data on EKS Vara Bonthu, Brian Hammons	TBD	How to use Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) and Apache Spark to build applicationsMeet Bhagdev	Scale your applications beyond IPv4 limits Sheetal Joshi

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Kiosk #	9 AM – 11 AM	11 AM – 1 PM	1 PM – 3 PM	3 PM – 5 PM
1	Let’s build a self service developer portal with AWS Proton Adam Keller	Doing serverless on AWS with Terraform (serverless.tf + terraform-aws-modules) Anton Babenko	Steampipe Chris Farris, Bob Tordella	Using Lambda Powertools for better observability in IoT Applications Alina Dima
2	Build and run containers on AWS with AWS Copilot Sergey Generalov	Fargate Surprise	Fargate Surprise	Amplify Libraries Demo Matt Auerbach

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Kiosk #	9 AM – 11 AM	11 AM – 1 PM	1 PM – 3 PM	3 PM – 5 PM
1	Building Embedded Devices with FreeRTOS SMP and the Raspberry Pi Pico Dan Gross	Quantum computing in the cloud with Amazon Braket Michael Brett, Katharine Hyatt	Leapp Andrea Cavagna	EKS multicluster management and applications delivery Nicholas Thomson, Sourav Paul
2	Using SAM CLI and Terraform for local testing Praneeta Prakash, Suresh Poopandi	How to use Terraform AWS and AWSCC provider in your project Tyler Lynch, Drew Mullen	How to use Terraform AWS and AWSCC provider in your project Glenn Chia, Welly Siau	Smart City Monitoring Using AWS IoT and Digital Twin Syed Rehan

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Kiosk #	9 AM – 11 AM	11 AM – 1 PM	1 PM – 3 PM
1	Modern data exchange using AWS data streaming Ali Alemi	Learn how to leverage your Amazon EKS cluster as a substrate for execution of distributed Ray programs for Machine Learning. Apoorva Kulkarni	TBD
2	Spreading apps, controlling traffic, and optimizing costs in Kubernetes Lukonde Mwila	TBD	Terraform IAM policy validator Bohan Li

Experts

Pull up a chair, grab a drink and a snack, charge your devices, and have a conversation with some of our experts. We’ll have people visiting the zone all throughout re:Invent, with expertise in a variety of open source technologies and AWS services including (but not limited to):

• Amazon Athena
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
• Amazon Eventbridge
• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
• Amazon Kinesis
• Amazon Linux
• Amazon Managed Grafana
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
• Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA)
• Amazon MQ
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Apache Flink, Hadoop, Hudi, Iceberg, Kafka, and Spark
• Automotive Grade Linux
• AWS Amplify
• AWS App Mesh
• AWS App Runner
• AWS CDK
• AWS Copilot
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
• AWS Fargate
• AWS Glue
• AWS IoT Greengrass
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Proton
• AWS SDKs
• AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
• AWS Step Functions
• Bottlerocket
• Cloudscape Design System
• Embedded Linux
• Flutter
• FreeRTOS
• Javascript
• Karpenter
• Lambda Powertools
• OpenSearch
• Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
• Rust
• Terraform

Fun

Want swag? We’ve got it, but it is protected by THE CLAW. That’s right, we brought back the claw machine, and this year, we might have some extra special items in there for you to catch. No spoilers, but we’ve heard there have been some Rustaceans sighted. You might want to bring an extra (empty) suitcase.

But we’re not done. By popular request, we also brought back Dance Dance Revolution. Warm up your dancing shoes or just cheer on the crowd. You never know who will be showing off their best moves.

Conclusion

The AWS Modern Applications and Open Source Zone is a must-visit destination for your re:Invent journey. With demos, experts, food, drinks, swag, games, and mystery surprises, how can you not stop by?