Tobias Tomandl
Senior Presales Consultant AWS
Nürnberg, Germany
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I am a 40-year-old IT professional, married with two children, living near Nuremberg, Germany.
My academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics and a Master of Science in IT Management, both completed through part-time distance learning.
My theses focused on cloud computing, reinforcing my deep technical expertise in this field.
With over 24 years in the ICT industry and 17 years as an IT designer and architect, I bring extensive hands-on experience across both enterprise and public sector projects.
My career has taken me through Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia, where I ultimately worked as an E2E Customer Solutions Architect.
After transitioning into a 100% AWS-focused role, I became an AWS Lead Engineer at Rackspace Technology, providing advanced consulting for complex cloud operations and leading technical project deliveries for over 15 years.
Today, I work as a Senior Presales Consultant AWS at the AWS Distributor Ingram Micro, where I analyze customer use cases, translate business requirements into AWS solutions, and bridge the gap between C-level decision-makers and technical teams.
A significant part of my role involves enabling AWS partners across various topics, from cost optimization and MAP tagging to security and troubleshooting. I also act as a white-labeled AWS expert, helping partners deliver AWS solutions with confidence. Additionally, I drive AWS enablement through Immersion Days, webinars, and training sessions and founded the AWS EMEA Technical Community, which I continue to lead.
I hold 8 AWS certifications, reflecting my 13+ years of experience with AWS, with the last three years dedicated exclusively to AWS cloud technologies.
I am known for my strategic mindset, direct feedback, and strong passion for cloud innovation, always looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Beyond my professional work, I have public speaking experience, having presented to audiences of up to 50 people at events like Hotel Adlon on MAP and AWS/Ingram Micro events.
I am proud to be an AWS Community Builder and an active member of the Förderverein AWS Community DACH e.V., contributing to the broader AWS ecosystem.
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Using Amazon Bedrock at scale: How we overcame quota limits without Provisioned Throughput
Amazon Bedrock provides easy access to some of the best foundation models for GenAI projects. However, due to high user demand and limited hardware capacity, AWS unexpectedly reduced quotas in late 2024. Anthropic's models in regions like Frankfurt were particularly affected, causing serious problems for many customer projects due to very low quota limits on requests and tokens per minute.
In this talk, I'll share real-world experiences from several customer projects, highlighting practical solutions we've found to successfully scale the use of foundation models without relying on expensive provisioned throughput. I'll discuss specific techniques we've used to increase seemingly fixed quota limits by more than ten times. I'll also show how choices in foundation model selection, AWS regions, and architectural setups - such as multi-account structures and cross-region inference - can significantly improve capacity and reduce costs.
By the end of this session, cloud architects, engineers, and AI developers will have clear insights into how to optimise their Amazon Bedrock architecture. You'll learn straightforward methods for supporting cost-sensitive but robust GenAI workloads, even in demanding production environments.
Empowering AWS Partners: Secure and Optimized AWS Account with Ingram Micro InstantFramework for AWS
Ingram Micro Germany has developed the InstantFramework for AWS (IMIF). This framework focuses on optimizing single AWS accounts according to AWS/CIS Best Practices, with a strong emphasis on security. It is specifically designed for new AWS (Registered/Select) Partners who often lack AWS expertise and do not have their own landing zones.
Ingram Micro, as an AWS Distributor, enables AWS Partners to grow revenue opportunities by reselling AWS products and solutions. AWS Partners leverage our go-to-market support, offload billing and operations, receive funding benefits, and gain technical expertise. Since Q2/2024, all new AWS resellers (SPP) must select a distributor, the extended arm of AWS.
AWS partners typically need to set up AWS accounts quickly, but blank/empty accounts are not secure enough for production workloads. Common issues include auto-assign public IPs, open default security groups, lack of persistent CloudTrail, no AWS Config, and no default encryption...
The IMIF, developed with AWS CDK v2 for Python, addresses these issues, making the AWS ecosystem more secure for our partners. The IMIF MVP was successfully launched at the AWS Partner Summit Berlin 2024.
In this session, I would like to share the journey of building this framework, from gathering partner feedback (market needs) to delivering a ready solution and a first success story. I will show how innovation leads to more secure AWS environments.
The presentation will not only be theoretical but will also dive into the "meta-level", explaining why we chose IaC and CDK over Terraform. I will discuss the technical issues faced with CDK and the development (this is level 300), challenges with AI-assisted-coding, with releasing as CF templates, and more. Besides the presentation, the IMIF will also be demonstrated in a live demo (prepared accounts due to time constraints).
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