# AWS London Summit 2015

> Discover the 2015 AWS Summit in London: insights into Amazon EFS, hybrid architectures, and the challenges of navigating the bustling crowd.

- Canonical: https://www.russ.cloud/2015/04/18/aws-london-summit-2015/
- Published: 2015-04-18
- Author: Russ McKendrick
- Tags: AWS, Conference

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I spent Wednesday out of the office at the 2015 AWS Summit in London. It was the first time I had been to a full on AWS event and I must say I was impressed by the scale (pun intended).

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The main keynote was interesting, and it was great to hear all about new [Elastic File System](http://aws.amazon.com/efs/ "Amazon EFS") which is going to be a godsend for those who need to have some level of shared storage.

The breakout sessions I managed to attend were interesting, but due to the large numbers of people who attended it was standing room only in nearly all of them.

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I managed to catch one of the sessions I wanted to see, this was a talk about Hybrid Architectures. I get the feeling I maybe working a on lots of these in the future so it was good to get a technical overview of Amazon themselves.

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However, due to the number of people I didn’t manage to catch any of the other sessions I wanted to see.

As you can see from the this Tweet from [Steve](https://twitter.com/SteveNice3/ "Steve") it was a little like Black Friday trying to on the escalators to the sessions.

https://x.com/russmckendrick/status/588314844954263552