You've never managed servers on your team. Just an idea of doing so feels scary, as it's a whole area to master to make sure it's done correctly, but also made secure. And, then, there's the infrastructure management which involves tracking and patching the systems for updates, for security; and protecting them from intrusion and unauthorized access. Or, you've been comfortable managing servers in the team at all, but you never actually gave it another thought about the overhead of managing your systems by hand.

In any case, this talk is for you. It will explore alternatives to running and managing the computing resources all the way down to the OS level. With newly developed technologies, there's a significant opportunity to scale-down on the operation cost and complexity of such an approach, by offloading it to the cloud platform.

The talk overviews AWS technologies, but the ideas and the content are equally applicable in the other public cloud offerings.