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Damien Jones

Damien Jones

💻 Consultant 🦈 amazonwebshark 🎤 Speaker 🌹 AWS User Group Leader (Lancashire) 🏗️ AWS Community Builder (Data) ☁️ AWS & Azure Certified | Fin Fan | Dog Dad | He/Him

Manchester, United Kingdom

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Damien Jones is an AWS consultant, experienced data professional and cloud enthusiast with a strong track record of designing, building, and optimising cloud-native solutions. He brings deep expertise in SQL, cloud architectures, and data modelling, and has a passion for leveraging emerging technologies to solve complex problems and support data-driven decision-making. Damien actively engages in the cloud community as a content creator, user group leader, and public speaker.

Outside of work, he is a keen runner, amateur gardener, dance music enthusiast and dog dad.

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Area of Expertise

  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Data Engineering
  • Amazon Web Services
  • SQL Server
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Cloud
  • Database and Cloud
  • Database
  • Data Warehousing
  • DevOps
  • DataOps
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Finops
  • Data Lakehouse
  • DevOps & Automation
  • Data Analytics
  • Databases
  • Serverless

Step On It! Rapid Event-Based AWS Cost Control With Step Functions

Ever had a cloud bill you weren't expecting? I have - let's talk about it!

Managing cloud costs effectively isn't just about cutting expenses; it's about building smart, adaptable systems that respond to events in real time. In this intermediate session for data professionals, cloud architects and DevOps engineers, we'll explore how event-based architectures can transform how you monitor, manage and optimise cloud spend, spotlighting AWS services like Step Functions, CloudTrail and EventBridge.

We'll explore:

Evaluating Options: Assess cloud-native tools and techniques, and select the optimal solution for your use case based on context, risk and operational goals.

Automating Cost Control: Discover how cloud services can work together to build dynamic workflows that detect and respond to events and anomalies.

Building the Solution: Step-by-step guidance for designing, deploying and maintaining architectures that effectively monitor and manage costs.

Live AWS demos will bring these concepts to life with real-time cost optimisation in action.

This session offers practical insights to help you implement scalable, event-based solutions, enhancing your cloud infrastructure and transforming your approach to cost control.

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS

The modern data professional navigates a dynamic data landscape, handling high-velocity raw data at ever-changing volumes. In this 30-minute intermediate session, I demonstrate a fully serverless auto-scaling data pipeline using AWS services.

This session includes:

- Getting and storing API data with AWS Lambda and Amazon S3.
- Transforming the API data with AWS Glue & Amazon Athena.
- Pipeline automation and orchestration with AWS Step Functions and Amazon EventBridge.

Ideal for Data, DevOps, and Architecture professionals, this session offers practical insights into building efficient serverless data pipelines. Join to enhance your skills and explore the latest in Data Engineering and AWS.

London DevOps

Step On It! Rapid Event-Based AWS Cost Control With Step Functions @ Amazon UK Corporate Office, London UK

April 2025 London, United Kingdom

DevOps Manchester x DTX Manchester

Step On It! Rapid Event-Based AWS Cost Control With Step Functions @ Manchester Central, Manchester UK

April 2025 Manchester, United Kingdom

AWS User Group Sheffield

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS @ Electric Works, Sheffield UK

November 2024 Sheffield, United Kingdom

AWS User Group Manchester

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS @ KrakenFlex, Manchester UK

November 2024 Manchester, United Kingdom

AWS User Group Leeds

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS @ BJSS, Leeds UK

October 2024 Leeds, United Kingdom

AWS Community Day NL

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS @ Kinepolis, Leidschendam NL

October 2024 The Hague, The Netherlands

AWS Community Summit Manchester

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS XL @ Victoria Warehouse, Manchester UK

September 2024 Manchester, United Kingdom

AWS User Group Liverpool

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS @ Barclays Eagle Lab, Liverpool UK

July 2024 Liverpool, United Kingdom

AWS Summit London

Building And Automating Serverless Auto-Scaling Data Pipelines In AWS @ Community Lounge, ExCeL, London UK

April 2024 London, United Kingdom

New Stars of Data #6 Sessionize Event

October 2023

Damien Jones

💻 Consultant 🦈 amazonwebshark 🎤 Speaker 🌹 AWS User Group Leader (Lancashire) 🏗️ AWS Community Builder (Data) ☁️ AWS & Azure Certified | Fin Fan | Dog Dad | He/Him

Manchester, United Kingdom

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