This will be both an in-person and online meeting.
Link to online meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89410205410?pwd=RUFQM3JIT1kvblNpbmo0dktUaU9GUT09
6:00pm - 7:00pm -- Meet & Greet
7:00pm - 8:00pm -- Speaker Presentation
8:00pm - 10:00pm -- After Party
Topic: Staying in the AWS Free Tier
Cost optimization and control in the cloud are important skills. And as you start to use AWS, you can accomplish a lot and learn quite a bit while staying in the Free Tier of services. In this talk, you will learn the scope of the AWS Free Tier, and how to monitor your costs as you use it, so that you are confident you are not met with any cost surprises.
About the Speaker
Andy Cowell has over twenty five years of system administration and development experience in a variety of environments. Currently, he works for Amazon Web Services as a Senior Solution Architect working with East Tennessee enterprises.
Andy has been responsible for some of the top destinations on the Internet, such as HGTV.com, Dilbert.com, and Metallica.com. In the past, he has worn many hats, from networking admin to full-time developer, and cut his teeth as a “Wizard” with the UTK Computer Science department. Locally, he helps organize ETSA (LOPSA East Tennessee) and KnoxDevs.
When not wrangling systems, he solders microcontrollers, plucks strings, paints toy soldiers, drinks bourbon, smokes pipes, and rolls 20s.
