In October the first ever AWS Community Day Romania took place at Iulius Congress Hall in Timisoara. It was a full day technical event loaded with exciting talks, bringing together developers, platform engineers and IT professionals from across the country and beyond.
The event was organized by Raul Geana and Lucian Patian from Haufe Group, together with the AWS User Group communities across Romania. I have to give huge kudos to Raul and Lucian – I pinged them back in April 2024 asking if they would be open to organize the first Community Day in Romania, and just three weeks later they were already sending out call for content proposals! I was really impressed by how quickly and efficiently they moved to make this happen.
The day kicked off with a keynote from Raul Geana on the AWS and IT industry landscape of the future, followed by a packed agenda of sessions covering serverless, containers, infrastructure as code and more. My favourite session was from Robert Colca and Alexandru Botici – “Food Delivery at scale on AWS” – where they shared Tazz’s story on how they use AWS to power food delivery at scale in Romania. It was great to hear a local success story and see how they handle the challenges of running a high-traffic delivery platform on AWS.
We also had speakers from across Europe covering topics like serverless architectures, AWS CDK, Terraform, resilient workloads and relational databases in serverless applications. The closing keynote from Andra Somesan and Mohammed Fazalullah – “From AWS User to Community Champion: Supercharge your tech journey” – was a great way to wrap up the day, encouraging everyone to get more involved in the AWS community.
It was fantastic to see the Romanian AWS community come together for this first edition. Looking forward to seeing this event grow in the coming years!
You can check the full agenda on the event page.