Ben Bridts

AWS Community Hero and AWS Ambassador @ Cloudar

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Ben has been using AWS since 2015 and works with businesses ranging from start-ups to enterprises. He provides architectural and operational support and shares his experiences along the way. Currently, his favourite services are CloudFormation, Lambda, KMS, CloudFront, and Step Functions.

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BEN-BRIDTS

The Hidden Costs of Managed Open Source

Room: Cheese & Onion | Time: 9:45 am

Level: Advanced

When building on AWS there are frequently multiple ways to achieve the same goal: You can run containers on ECS or EKS; you can use SQS or Amazon MQ; there’s MSK and Kinesis, … In this talk we will look at few different ways in which you might be paying more when selecting the (managed) Open Source Solution. From the expected higher base cost for a private control plane, to the more surprising costs that suddenly can appear in the EC2-Other category.

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Ben Bridts

AWS Community Hero and AWS Ambassador @ Cloudar