AWS UG Hamburg May: Agentic DevOps & Security Lessons Learned

**Dear AWS users,** our May event will happen soon! Thanks to **Freenow by Lyft** for providing us the space, drinks and food for this AWS User Group Meetup. **Agenda & Talks**: * 18:00 Warm-up * 18:30 - 19:00 **Agentic AWS Ops: Automating Troubleshooting and Maintenance of AWS Resources** by Clifford Sanders * 19:00 - 19:15 Break * 19:15 - 19:45 **AWS Security at Scale: Lessons from an Anonymized Review of One of Germany’s Largest Financial Services Providers** by Hendrik Hagen * 20:00 - 21:00 Wrap up & Networking **Agentic AWS Ops: Automating Troubleshooting and Maintenance of AWS Resources by Clifford Sanders** As cloud-native architectures scale, SRE teams are often buried under a deluge of operational data and maintenance toil. Traditional monitoring is reactive, but the emergence of "Agentic Ops" allows teams to move toward autonomous, self-investigating infrastructure. This talk explores the practical implementation of HolmesGPT, a CNCF Sandbox project, for alert-driven operations on AWS. We will dive into two production-ready use cases: * Reactive Troubleshooting: How AI agents autonomously investigate EKS alerts by correlating signals across Prometheus, Kubernetes events, and logs to identify root causes in seconds. * Proactive Maintenance: Leveraging agentic workflows to monitor RDS version deprecations and automate notifications to resource owners, ensuring seamless engine upgrades before maintenance windows hit. **AWS Security at Scale: Lessons from an Anonymized Review of One of Germany’s Largest Financial Services Providers** by Hendrik Hagen Cybersecurity, especially cloud security, is one of the most discussed topics today. Long gone are the days of on-premises environments where you could hide your infrastructure behind a strong perimeter. Modern infrastructure runs in the cloud: large, complex, and inherently interconnected ecosystems. Even within a single AWS account, we have instant access to hundreds of services, thousands of API calls to