Amazon AWS Meetup in Tel Aviv

Boy, was that awesome or what! Amazon AWS team from Luxembourg invited us tiny start-ups to an introduction (and networking) meet-up in Tel Aviv. Prior to that, there was a 2-day convention about grid computing with folks from AWS, eBay, Yahoo! and others.

After socializing for over an hour with plenty of new upcoming startups (lots of interesting things are going on right now!,) we were gathered for an evangelistic talk with Martin Buhr (@tallmartin) and Simone Brunozzi (@simon). When asked, almost everybody in the room raised hands for already trying out/working with Amazon's web services. It's quite amazing that it has become a common use among startups and based companies.

Following their talk, Guy Nirpaz of Gigaspaces introduced their incredible framework over EC2, and handed out free try-out coupons for everybody who was interested in hands-on trial of their service.

Were you there?

Martin is explaining about AWS EMEA



Simone is answering a million and one questions