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AWS re:Invent 2023 - Expect the unexpected and build resilience with AWS (PEX116)

Summary

The talk focused on AWS Resilience best practices and how AWS Resilience partners can assist customers in achieving resilience goals.
The speaker emphasized the importance of planning for unexpected failures and designing systems to recover with minimal impact on end-users.
AWS operates on a shared responsibility model for resilience, where AWS ensures the resilience of the cloud infrastructure, while customers and partners are responsible for application-level resilience.
Downtime can be costly, with impacts including loss of revenue, brand damage, productivity disruption, and regulatory penalties.
Possible causes of downtime range from more probable events like code deployments and configuration errors to less likely scenarios like natural disasters.
AWS has developed mechanisms, processes, and frameworks to guide resilience, including the resilience lifecycle framework.
The resilience lifecycle framework involves setting objectives, designing for high availability or disaster recovery, evaluating and testing, operating, and learning from incidents to improve.
AWS offers a suite of services to support building resilient workloads.
Partners can benefit by enhancing customer satisfaction, differentiating their offerings, and increasing revenue opportunities by qualifying for RFPs that require high resilience levels.
Attendees were invited to visit the AWS partner resilience booth and to attend related sessions on resilience at re:Invent.

Resilience in cloud computing is not just about the robustness of the infrastructure but also involves application design, deployment practices, and operational procedures.
The shared responsibility model in AWS indicates that while AWS ensures the physical and infrastructural resilience, customers and partners must actively design and manage their applications to be resilient.
The cost of downtime is significant and varies by industry, highlighting the need for businesses to invest in resilience to avoid financial and reputational damage.
The AWS resilience lifecycle framework is a structured approach that helps organizations systematically improve their resilience posture.
AWS's suite of services and the AWS Builder's Library provide tools and best practices for partners and customers to build resilient applications.
The talk suggests a growing market for AWS partners who specialize in resilience, indicating a business opportunity for service providers in this niche.
The availability of over 100 sessions on resilience at re:Invent underscores the importance of this topic and AWS's commitment to educating customers and partners on resilience best practices.