Ben Bridts
AWS Community Hero, Principal AWS Technologist at Cloudar
Ben has been using AWS professionally since 2015 and, as an AWS Technologist at Cloudar, works with businesses ranging from start-ups to enterprises. Being part of a Premier AWS Consulting Partner, he provides architectural and operational support and shares his experiences along the way. He is also an AWS Authorized Instructor and gives AWS Classroom Training at The Campus.
He has a broad interest in serverless, automation and enabling builders. Currently, he counts CloudFormation, Lambda, KMS, CloudFront, and Lambda@Edge among his favorite services. Still, he has a soft spot for everything related to operational tasks, like Systems Manager.
Sessions
RTB001 - Being Part of the AWS Community - with our Panel of Builders from the South
Room: zandstraalcabine - Ever wondered what the Builders and Heroes program is about? Or maybe even dreaming of becoming one? Feel free to ask Luc, Maarten, Ben and Yolanda anything about their experiences as being AWS Community Builder or AWS Hero. Read more
DOP302 - Mistakes I made writing Infrastructure as Code, and how to avoid them
Room: werkwagen - There have been ways to generate CloudFormation templates using general-purpose programming languages since 2013. As such, there have been many learning opportunities even before tools like the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) were released. Read more
DOP301 - Policy as Code: Putting best practices in your repository
Room: postwagon-4 - Governance and Compliance can be a bottleneck when building infrastructure. In this talk we will look at different ways to enforce and encourage best practices, where they can fit in the Software Development Lifecycle and at different ways of running them. Read more