10th Anniversary of the AWS Edinburgh User Group

I love my home city, as I can get on a bus, and present to great people on some interesting ideas.

And, so, I’m a big user of AWS. Without it, I could not teach in the way that I wanted. While it costs me money every month, it is well worth it for the support it gives to our students and to others around the world. Overall, I mainly use EC2, AWS Lambda (for serverless code), Route 53 (for DNS) and WorkMail (for email), but I dabble with many of the other services:

Security and So Many Things

My site has grown from being useful to our students to scaling up to over 1.5 million unique users and 30 million access per year. Without AWS, I could never have achieved this scale.

And, so, 10 years ago — on 27 May 2014 — on our Merchiston Campus, I presented at the first AWS Edinburgh Meetup.

I was just getting into Cloud at that stage and was given 30 minutes as a warm-up act for the mighty…