Summary of: “Application Modernization with Serverless Technologies - Part 1 (Amazon AWS)” held on April 5, 2019 from 8 to 10 AM.
The first session in our series on Application Modernization with Serverless Technologies was presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The session was led by Rory Richardson, Head of Business Development for Serverless at AWS, and she discussed how enterprises can apply DevOps, microservices and serverless to innovate faster, at scale. We learned how Amazon got from four to over 60 million deployments per year and benefited from their key learnings from building modern apps at Amazon.com. Covering the transition from a monolithic application to event-driven serverless microservices, this session dived into the reasons more and more Amazon customers are choosing the serverless operational model. By leveraging AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS Fargate, SNS, SQS, and the entire serverless portfolio, customers are able to innovate faster and focus more on their core businesses.
Rory has been driving business development with some of the fastest growing and innovative services at AWS such as Aurora and DynamoDB. She is now head of business development for Amazon’s Serverless technologies which include Lambda, StepFunctions and API Gateway, as well as, enterprise messaging such as AmazonMQ, SNS, and SQS. These technologies enable customers to move to a microservice architecture. A serverless microservice architecture lets companies increase business agility, reduce undifferentiated heavy lifting, and optimize costs by paying only for what they use.