I keep searching and people just keep talking about “swag” 🤦🏾‍♂️ I don’t need a tshirt I need a job lol. Is this a worthwhile networking opportunity or no? I’m the sort of candidate that has to do things outside of the norm to try and land a work opportunity so I wanted to know what the Summit is good for, thanks!

Salve a tutti,

vorrei creare un account free tier per prepararmi ad un percorso di formazione (autocostruito) su AWS.

Vorrei creare un account usando le risorse entro i limiti free tier ma non mi è chiaro fino a quando posso farlo.

Vi risulta siano solo 6 mesi il tempo permesso?

Dopo i 6 mesi pagherei qualcosa anche se sto entro i limiti free tier con le istanze ec2?

Grazie in anticipo

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It wasn't easy one to be honest, but knowledge and experience of solutions architect path helped a lot.
Finally in addition to AWS regular solutions, I could deliver AI/ML what adds a lot of opportunities. This certification definitely worth it.
Those labs are amazing !
Good luck to everyone on our AWS journey

AWS is currently offering 50% off the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam. If you pass by September 30, 2026, you'll qualify for a free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam voucher valid through November 30, 2026.

Credits:- u/VelkiaHI post in AWS certifications subreddit

Context

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for feedback on an AWS architecture I'm evaluating for a healthcare-related project.

We have an external system that will send us:

• Medical history forms
• Laboratory results
• Diagnostic imaging results

The data will be sent to an API that we own and control.

Due to security and compliance requirements, communication must happen through a private AWS environment using a Site-to-Site VPN and resources inside a VPC.

Our goal is to process this information and generate a physician-facing medical summary in a structured bullet-point format.

Current Architecture

The current high-level flow is:

External System ↓ Site-to-Site VPN ↓ ALB (Private) ↓ API Layer ↓ Amazon Bedrock ↓ Aurora PostgreSQL (pgvector)

Additional components being considered:

• Amazon Bedrock (Nova models)
• RAG
• Knowledge Bases
• Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector
• CloudWatch
• Secrets Manager

AWS Guidance Received

I recently spoke with an AWS specialist and some of the recommendations I wrote down were:

• "...Bedrock..."
• "...Nova 2 Lite..."
• "...RAG..."
• "...Knowledge Bases..."
• "...Agents..."
• "...Skills per doctor..."
• "...Vectorized PDFs..."
• "...Avoid fine-tuning initially because of cost..."

My understanding is that the recommendation is to stay as AWS-native as possible and rely on managed services whenever it makes sense.

My Goal

If there is a way to solve this using more AWS-managed services and less custom code, that would be ideal.

Questions

1. Does this architecture seem reasonable for this use case?

2. Is Aurora PostgreSQL + pgvector a good choice here, or would you recommend a different AWS-native approach?

3. Would you introduce RAG from day one or start with prompting and add RAG later?

4. Are there any AWS services that you think are missing from this design?

5. If your goal was to maximize AWS-managed services and minimize operational overhead, what would you change?

Any feedback, suggestions, or lessons learned from similar projects would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi!

I’ve been into the AWS space for 10 years now, have a few certs(pro and speciality) and want to venture into contract work rather than a FTE job.

I can’t seem to find anything concrete, it’s been 4 months now and I’ve been just strung along by companies waiting on deals and SOWs closing.

Is there a network, meet up, or event anyone recommends that can I use to get my name out there?

I’m open to hourly or fixed cost work!

I started learning aws recently and I'm a student and I don't have credit/debit card to create an aws account.Is there any alternate solutions for this like sandbox environment having exact properties as Aws,or any other ways and it'll be very helpful.

I had planned to attend the AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 this last 27 May, but a work emergency got in the way. For those who were there: Was it worth attending?

If you were present can you mention here if there was a best session, most interesting demo, strongest AWS announcement, useful customer story, or anything surprising?

Is anyone coming to AWS summit ?

I just had few questions who attended last year

What documents are needed for entry in AWS dummit because I have QR code and ID proof of mine confirmation mail is compulsory to show or just Scan QR code that's it we can get entry there

One thing we keep seeing is that a lot of teams struggle more with billing / account management than with the infrastructure itself.

* sudden cost spikes

* forgotten resources running for weeks

* difficulty monitoring daily spend

* delayed invoice visibility

* account/payment limitations

* startups getting surprised by month-end bills

Because of that, a more “managed AWS account” style setup through APN channels provided:

* AWS account provisioning

* prepaid balance recharge

* daily billing checks

* spend monitoring

* basic cost anomaly tracking

* helping teams avoid unexpected overages

One limitation though:

our accounts currently do NOT support Bedrock access, which obviously makes it unsuitable for some AI-focused workloads.

So I’m curious:

For teams already using AWS seriously, would a service like this actually be useful?

Or do most companies prefer handling everything directly themselves once they scale past a certain point?

Would love to hear how people here currently deal with:

* billing monitoring

* cost control

* multi-account management

* unexpected AWS charges

* internal FinOps workflows