Top 10 AWS re:Invent 2024 Sessions on AWS IoT and Serverless for Developers

Bhavesh Gohel - Dec 16 - - Dev Community

AWS re:Invent 2024 was a landmark event, bringing together cloud computing enthusiasts, developers, and industry leaders for an immersive experience in cutting-edge technologies. This year’s sessions on AWS IoT and serverless offered an in-depth exploration of how these technologies can be leveraged to solve real-world challenges.

I have created my Top 10 AWS re:Invent 2024 Sessions on AWS IoT and Serverless for Developers that provided actionable insights for building the robust solution with AWS.

Here’s a curated list of the top 10 sessions, along with their key takeaways:

1) Beyond connectivity: Transforming businesses with intelligent IoT (IOT205)

This session explores how recent advancements in AI are evolving the Internet of Things (IoT) into an engine for real-world intelligence, autonomy, and actionable insights. Explore how an increasingly connected world is driving deeper systems-level intelligence across healthcare, consumer products, automotive, manufacturing, energy, and utilities.

Key Takeaways:
Learn how to get started with IoT and AI/ML services on AWS and patterns to accelerate time to value when building and deploying intelligent IoT products and solutions.

2) Optimizing manufacturing operations with AWS IoT (IOT203)

Data is manufacturing’s most valuable asset for driving industrial transformation. In this session, discover how to leverage AWS Internet of Things (IoT) & artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions to optimize production, reduce downtime, and boost efficiency.

Key Takeaways:
Learn best practices from industry experts on how to leverage ML for proactive maintenance and accelerate use cases such as sustainability management and intelligent alarm systems.

3) Celebrating 10 years of pioneering serverless and containers (SVS211)

This session delves into the evolution of serverless architectures and containerization over the past decade, highlighting their impact on application development.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understanding the progression and future trends in serverless and container technologies.
  • Insights into how these innovations have transformed application deployment and scalability.

4) Event-driven architectures at scale: Manage millions of events (API307)

Enterprises producing billions of events daily across hundreds of developers face unique challenges around schema management, evolution, and observability when scaling event-driven architectures (EDAs). In this session, discover proven patterns for building high-scale, event-driven systems that can be effectively managed and coordinated across a distributed organization with Amazon EventBridge.

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn best practices for enforcing schemas, versioning to evolve schemas without disrupting downstream consumers, and enabling schema discovery.

  • Explore strategies for maintaining observability and monitoring the health of your event-driven systems, even as the number of producers, consumers, and event types grows.

5) Building advanced workflows with AWS Step Functions (API402)

In this session, learn about architectural best practices and repeatable patterns for building advanced workflows. Discover how to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications while being cost-effective.

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn how newly released features like JSONata support, variables, and private API endpoint connections can make your workflows more efficient and reduce cost.

  • This session shares real production scenarios to illustrate the benefits.

6) Best practices for serverless developers (SVS401)

This session provides architectural best practices, optimizations, and useful shortcuts that experts can use to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn to take advantage of the full power of serverless architectures for your production workloads.

  • Learn how events can help your applications scale.

  • Learn how to tune your applications for higher performance and lower cost.

7) Develop serverless applications with Amazon Q Developer (SVS213)

In this session learn how Amazon Q Developer can boost productivity building serverless applications. See how Amazon Q can support code generation, transformation, and unit testing, and how it can help throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Takeaways:
Learn how Amazon Q Developer can support developers in learning how to build serverless applications.

8) Implementing Amazon Q Developer: Lessons from the field (DEV310)

The session highlighted practical examples and lessons learned from organizations that have successfully implemented Amazon Q Developer, providing attendees with actionable insights. Amazon Q Developer simplifies coding, testing, and troubleshooting processes, enabling developers to focus more on building features and less on managing tools.

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn how Amazon Q Developers Streamlined Workflows.

  • Learn how it is integrate with Existing Tools.

9) Dive deep on Amazon S3 (STG302)

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage that delivers industry-leading scalability, durability, security, and performance. In this session, engineering leaders from the Amazon S3 team dive deep into the inner workings of Amazon S3.

Key Takeaways:
Learn the engineering principles behind operating storage systems at scale and how that benefits customers of all sizes

10) How Netflix handles sudden load spikes in the cloud (NFX301)

The session walk through how Netflix solves these problems by pairing predictive automated pre-scaling with fast reactive auto scaling in combination with advanced resilience techniques like prioritized load shedding, cross-Region traffic shifting, targeted capacity injection by service criticality, and more.

Key Takeaways:
Learn how to maintain a low level of spend while being ready for sudden load spikes.

With more than 700+ session (and counting..) at the AWS Re:invent 2024, it is always hard to find the session we are looking for. I have tried to summarize my Top 10 favorite session in this post.

If you are interested here is the full playlist of all the sessions at AWS Re:invent 2024:

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Keynotes :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2yQDdvlhXf_aPLMfxECsw-UIbEg6uy42

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Innovation Talks:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2yQDdvlhXf_IKBiqK54xnYrg_NPDcv51

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Latest Breakout (700+ session and counting..):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2yQDdvlhXf-AEZ9FvBs0g-Sk3ykuOkgY

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Feel free to reach out to me over LinkedIn for any suggestions or feedback!

Until next time, happy building on AWS! :)

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