AWS User Group Armenia

🎄 𝐄𝐧𝐝-𝐨𝐟-𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐱 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚

Closing 2025 with a full heart. This year was a blast because YOU showed up.
You asked questions, brought friends, shared, volunteered, spoke on stage, and made this community feel alive. Big kudos and a huge thank you to every single person who was part of the 2025 session of this journey. 💛

What a holiday without gifts, huh?
To say thanks and start 2026 cozy, we made a small gift box for you:

🎁 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭 #𝟏: Q.hub (former Anahit) Coworking space (𝟓𝟎% 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡)
Just show the postcard when booking.
Valid till: March 1, 2026

🎁 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭 #𝟐: Hayk Coffee online store (15% OFF) ☕️

Website: https://haykcoffee.am/
Discount code: 𝐀𝐖𝐒*𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐤
15% off all purchases (online store only)
Valid till: Feb 15

That’s it from us for 2025. May the 2026 be for you and your loved ones all about Health, Peace and Happiness. Take care, enjoy holidays and see you very soon~ 🫂

Onward and upward,

AWS UG Armenia team! 💌

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Anton Babenko’s keynote from AWS Community Day Armenia 2025 is now live! 🎉

If Terraform is your second language — this one’s for you.
Anton shares the real stuff: lessons learned the hard way, things that don’t break on Mondays, and ideas you’ll actually want to try out.

Watch here 👉 https://youtu.be/1m3G2QbnKdI?si=7nKDcXosfj7yq2hZ
Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/AWSUGArmeniaChannel/286

🧡 Huge thanks to Anton for sharing so generously and inspiring us all.

Anton Babenko | Doing serverless on AWS with Terraform for real | AWS Community Day Armenia 2025 🇦🇲 Anton Babenko, AWS Hero, Terraform expert, and the creator of some of the most widely used Terraform AWS modules was a keynote speaker at AWS Community Day A...

🥳We are starting – get ready for the keynote sessions Video Alerts from AWS Community Day Armenia 2025! 🇦🇲

Excited to share the Next Generation Software Development session by Jeff Barr, Vice President and Chief Evangelist at AWS.

In his talk you’ll explore:
✅ The evolution of software tools over the past few decades
✅ The impact of AI-powered coding assistants on development
✅ Key historical milestones that shaped today’s software landscape
✅ Practical tips and recommendations

🔗 Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnujfk09Oek&t=14s
👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, comment, and share with your network!

Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/AWSUGArmeniaChannel/286

Jeff Barr | Next Generation Software Development | AWS Community Day Armenia 2025 🇦🇲 It’s not every day that AWS’s Vice President visits your local tech scene — but this May, he did! 😎Jeff Bar’s storytelling is a key part of AWS history. For...

Morning, people jan ~ ☺️
and now Operational Excellence at AWS Scale by Vahe Momjyan is now up on our YouTube channel. 🎥

📝 Key takeaways:
• Practical tips for incident management & monitoring
• How to use AWS Well-Architected, Incident Manager & CloudWatch
• Real-life lessons on building for reliability, efficiency, and scale

🔗 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpiolMGht9o&ab_channel=AWSUGArmenia
👇 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy the session.
📣 Tag us if you share:
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Operational Excellence at AWS Scale | Vahe Momjyan | AWS Community Day Armenia 2025 🇦🇲 In this keynote, Vahe shares real-world insights from his experience leading teams and building systems at scale—both at Amazon Web Services and in the start...

The countdown is over, AWS Community Day Armenia 2025 starts tomorrow!
Come ready for a full day of cloud innovation, expert talks, and powerful networking.

But first, here is your unofficial checklist for tomorrow:
✅ Check in at 9:30 AM
✅ Grab your badge and stickers
✅ Say “This is the day to level up my cloud career”
✅ Bring the energy and the questions, we’ve got the rest
✅ Don’t forget your laptop (and yes, the charger too)
✅ Clap loudly after every talk, like your dev friend is on stage

See you on the ground, it’s gonna be loud, smart, and very AWSome.

One last chance to register⤵️
📅 Date: May 24, 2025
📍 Venue: American University of Armenia, Yerevan
🎟️ Registration: https://aws-community-day.am/

Blink once, name the AWS service and win a FREE AWS Certification voucher 🎁🎉

Yes, that's right. The Turbo Quiz at the end of the event is your chance to get a full reimbursement for one AWS Certification exam (Foundational or Associate level).

Just pass the exam after the event, send your receipt, and the cost is on us.

It's that simple.
Register now and get in the game😎

📅 Date: May 24, 2025
📍 Venue: American University of Armenia, Yerevan
🎟️ FREE, but registration is a must: https://aws-community-day.am/

Think great content is enough ❓
We asked our amazing speakers to come prepared so you will leave the sessions with more than notes. 🎁

All you have to do is show up, listen, learn and enjoy, you might just walk away with a prize! 😉

Register now ⤵️
📅 Date: May 24, 2025
📍 Venue: American University of Armenia, Yerevan
🎟️ Free, but spots are limited: https://aws-community-day.am/

Wrapping up the final piece of the agenda with a workshop you definitely don’t want to miss.

Perfect for developers and data scientists looking to scale GenAI solutions without getting lost in setup.

Meet Gagik Khalafyan, a Data Scientist at EPAM Systems and a lecturer dedicated to making the applied machine learning approachable, practical, and real. With experience spanning research, real-world deployments, and mentoring, he brings a fresh perspective to building GenAI apps that actually scale.

🎯𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐃𝐊
You’ll learn how to:
✅ Build and deploy generative AI applications using AWS CDK
✅ Work with prebuilt infrastructure patterns tailored for GenAI
✅ Insights into modern infrastructure practices on AWS.

💻 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐩, it’s fully hands-on.

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📅 Date: May 24, 2025
📍 Venue: American University of Armenia, Yerevan
🎟️ Free, but spots are limited: https://aws-community-day.am/

🧩 Starting the final stretch with our first workshop.

But first, let’s meet the experts ready to drop serious knowledge:

🔹Mariusz Mikciński
Senior consultant at AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, helping AWS customers accelerate the adoption of Generative AI and take it into production. He has 19+ years of experience in IT and has delivered many international projects.

🔹Marcin Czelej
Machine Learning Engineer at AWS Generative AI Innovation and Delivery. He combines over 7 years of experience in C/C++ and assembler programming with extensive knowledge in machine learning and data science, successfully implemented AI advancements in sectors such as e-commerce, telecommunications, and more.

🎯 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐖𝐒
You’ll learn how to:
✅ Build Agentic Workflows, where LLMs act autonomously to complete tasks
✅ Use AWS Bedrock to create chatbot & non-chatbot experiences
✅ Use Amazon Q Developer to assist in coding and debugging.

💻 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐩. You’ll build. You’ll break. You’ll learn.
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📅 Date: May 24, 2025
📍 Venue: American University of Armenia, Yerevan
🎟️ Free, but spots are limited: https://aws-community-day.am/

🛠️ DevOps engineer? Myth, legend… or just really good at fixing your Friday deploy?

Meet our next speaker, Giorgi Keratishvili, a Lead Systems Engineer at EPAM Systems, who will help demystify the world of DevOps. Giorgi is a DevOps leader with over a decade of hands-on experience across development, operations, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering. Beyond his professional work, he is a passionate community leader, serving as an AWS User Group Tbilisi leader, AWS Community Builder, CNCF Chapter Lead, Golden Kubestronaut, CDF Ambassador, IEEE Senior Member, and Ambassador for the Institute of DevOps.

His session?
👉𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫: 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐳𝐞

Here’s what you’ll gain:
✅ How to demystify the “mythical” DevOps engineer role by understanding its core responsibilities and the key skills needed to thrive in this dynamic field.
✅ Practical tips for growing your career—beyond just the tech skills
✅ Clear roadmap, actionable tips, and a forward-looking perspective to excel in the evolving DevOps landscape.

Lock in your seat, the maze awaits.

📅 Date: May 24, 2025
📍 Venue: American University of Armenia, Yerevan
🎟️ Free Registration: https://aws-community-day.am/