Quick fit check: I’m wearing the latest in Scale Factory/Ten10 couture, with headgear and hydration from the AWS Ambassador community. My bag is vintage Puppet, from their limited 2015 speakers edition.

This food truck I spotted earlier sets some expectations.

Today’s keynote theatre is “boxing ring” style, which is bold. Will there be a fight? Let’s find out!

Werner, having shared his lessons, encourages the audience to learn from the AWS Heroes who also have good lessons to share, invites them to stand for applause.

So I'm just going to drop my meme from last year here because it remains relevant ;)

Principles for building evolvable systems:

Kicking off in an hour in the MGM Level 1 Ballroom 116 (just opposite badge pickup), I’ll be talking about Next Generation SaaS, along with Bill Tarr from the AWS SaaS
Factory team.

“Everything Starts With Security”.

As usual, typography is a distant last place. What is going on with those underscores?

The keynote kicks off at the top of the hour. I, and my Ambassdor friends have reserved seating in the Splash Zone, because being an AWS Ambassador isn’t all about receptions and mid tier praline chocolates.

Good morning from the official first day of AWS re:Invent 2024. @topper.me.uk here, up bright and early for the first official keynote.

I’m joined this year by colleagues Mike and Kyle (who may well be Bluesky users too, and maybe I’ll find their handles one day) so say hello if you see us out and about.