With 100000+ total attendees 2017 in 28 summits over the year, AWS extended their reach. This year AWS is increasing the total amount of summits to 29.

In AWS words AWS Global Summits are:

... free events designed to bring together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Summits are held in major cities around the world and attract technologists from all industries, segments, and learning levels who want to learn how the AWS cloud can help them innovate with speed and deliver services with scale, flexibility, and reliability. Attendees will hear from AWS Leaders and Experts, Partners, and Customers. Learn by attending technical breakout sessions, demonstrations, hands-on workshops and labs, and team challenges. Network with AWS Partners and their peers in The HUB—our Partner and Solutions Expo.

Source: AWS 2018

Update: Meanwhile the dates are officially confirmed. Visit: https://aws.amazon.com/summits/ for more.

Currently, the 2018 AWS Global Summits dates and locations are not present at the official Website (URL: https://aws.amazon.com/summits/). But AWS already released an informative pdf file for current and future sponsors which lists dates and locations.  The 2018 summits will be located in the following cities and the most dates are already determined.

EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)

• Tel Aviv - March 14
• Milan - March 27
• London - May 9 - 10
• Stockholm - May 16
• Amsterdam - May 31
• Berlin - June 6 - 7
• Paris - June 19
• Cape Town - TBD
• Madrid - TBD
• Bahrain - TBD

APAC (Asia-Pacific)

• ASEAN - April 4
• Sydney - April 10 - 12
• Seoul - April 18 - 19
• Mumbai - May 10

Greater China

• Taipei - June 27 -28
• Shanghai - June 29
• Hong Kong - July 26
• Beijing - August 9
• Shenzen - September TBD

America

• San Francisco - April 4
• Mexico City - May 31
• Sao Paulo - June 21
• New York City - July 17
• Chicago - August 2
• Los Angeles - August 23
• Atlanta - September 13
• Toronto - September 20

Japan

• Tokyo - May 30 - June 1
• Osaka - June 20

AWS indicates that date and locations subject may change.

AWS Global Summit 2018 Map

AWS Global Summit 2018 Locations and Dates

All information and images are based on the following source: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2018globalsummitsponsorship/2018+Global+AWS+Summit+Overview+-+Final.pdf

Great introduction and background stories about the success of docker.

dotCloud founder and CTO Solomon Hykes recently stopped by Twitter HQ to show us Docker, an open source project designed to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. Common use cases for Docker include:

• Automating the packaging and deployment of applications
• Creation of lightweight, private PAAS environments
• Automated testing and continuous integration/deployment
• Deploying and scaling web apps, databases and backend services Check out docker.io for all the official goodies, and follow Solomon at Twitter

Source: Youtube - Twitter University 

Lately, I’ve been searching a long time to find out that the hosted zone id for Amazon CloudFront distribution is statically set to: Z2FDTNDATAQYW2

Source: Route 53 Template Snippets

Everyone knows how easy it is to create a release on GitHub but how can you revoke it?

This can be implemented quite easily in just a few steps:

git tag -d 1.0.0
git push origin :refs/tags/1.0.0

The first command deletes the respective tag locally, the second pushes it to GitHub. Afterwards the release, which is now marked as “Draft”, can be deleted via the GitHub UI.

Unfortunately, BatchGetItem does currently not support operations on indexes. BatchGetItem can only read from the base table, and not from indexes (LSI, GSI). Therefore, you need to perform several query operations in parallel on your GSI to achieve a similar effect.