David Yanacek

AI now touches every stage of software delivery: coding assistants, autonomous agents, modernization tools, security scanners, operations, and the list grows every week. Which do you actually use, and when?

As technology evolves rapidly, business and IT leaders continue to ask: How do we operate at lower cost, improve efficiency, and enhance security and compliance posture while exceeding customer expectations? At AWS, we want to help every customer benefit from transforming their IT operations.

Using observability effectively is essential for proving your resilient system operates the way you planned. Well-applied observability helps you find early signs of problems, before they impact customers, and react quickly to mitigate impact.

Over the years, AWS has innovated its cloud operations to support its own needs at scale and turned those capabilities on for you to solve your challenges in governance, compliance, observability, and operations as you build your applications in the cloud, on premises, in hybrid environments, and at the edge.

In this session, learn about Amazon’s never-ending journey for the perfect granularity of observability. This session covers the full range of monitoring at Amazon—from how teams assess system health at a high level to how they zoom in to understand the details of a single request.

Amazon has practiced DevOps, where builders build but also test and operate almost every aspect of their services, since before it had a name. In this session, hear how Amazon practices have changed and improved over time and what we’ve learned as builders and as operators.

Operational excellence at Amazon is achieved through a DevOps model, where software development teams operate the systems they build. In this session, Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek describes Amazon’s operational practices that he has observed during his 15 years of building and operating services at Amazon.

To operate services, Amazon relies on having high-fidelity visibility into how its systems behave and the user experience, whether that’s using AWS services or shopping on Amazon.com. In this session, learn about Amazon’s never-ending journey for the perfect granularity of monitoring.

Overloading a software system occurs more often than expected, and the effects are difficult to deal with, including real-time web services halting and asynchronous systems building up backlogs. In this talk, we cover what AWS does to build reliable and resilient services, including avoiding modes and overload, performing bounded work, throttling at multiple layers, guarding concurrency,...

AWS global infrastructure provides the tools customers need to design resilient and reliable services. In this session, we explore how to get the most out of these tools.

The Amazon Builders’ Library is a collection of living articles that are written by Amazon senior technical leaders and engineers and that describe how Amazon develops, architects, releases, and operates technology. In this session, five principal engineers share hard-learned lessons from their experiences building reliable services at Amazon.