Amazon Web Services principal evangelist Jeff Barr is embarking on an AWS Road Trip that involves driving across the country to promote the cloud platform.
The trip will kick off on May 12 in Boston, with Barr working his way back west across the continental US to arrive back in Amazon’s backyard of Seattle.
Barr outed the trip on the AWS blog back in March. The finalized schedule is now up at AWSroadtrip.com.
Here’s his itinerary:
Week 1
- Monday, May 13 – Boston, MA Boston AWS Meetup.
- Tuesday, May 14 – Philadelphia, PA – Philly Stop (Philly DevOps and PhillyAWS.
- Wednesday, May 15 – Pittsburgh, PA – Pittsburgh AWS Meetup.
- Thursday, May 16 – Roanoke, Virginia – Roanoke Valley .NET User Group.
- Friday, May 17 – Lexington, KY – Lexington Tech Forum.
Week 2
- Monday, May 20 – Dallas, TX – North Dallas Cloud Computing.
- Tuesday, May 21 – Austin, TX – Austin Cloud User Group.
- Thursday, May 23 – Phoenix, AZ – Phoenix Cloud Entrepreneurs.
- Friday, May 24 – Las Vegas, NV – PalominoDB Headquarters.
Week 3
- Tuesday, May 28 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Cloud.
- Wednesday, May 29 – San Jose, CA – Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group.
- Thursday, May 30 – San Francisco, CA – Boundary Headquarters.
- Friday, May 31 – Portland, OR – Portland Internet Experiment.
Week 4
- Monday, June 3 – Seattle, WA – NW Cloud.
Aside from the user groups, Barr will be blogging and tweeting the experience using AWS-powered services. Contour, which uses Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront, will provide car footage and he’ll rely on Waze for navigation. Other sponsors and partners, all of which use AWS, include ArcGIS Explorer, Red Lion and Unilever.
Interestingly, Barr is also using the trip to earn his final five credits for a Master’s of Communication in Digital Media from the University of Washington. Sounds like it’ll be a very productive trip.
The trip is the latest Amazon initiative to invest in developing IT professionals for its AWS cloud platform. Earlier this week, the company announced a certification program for AWS that will provide training and testing for individuals.
(hat tip Hacker News)
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