I attended the AWS Summit London 2025 yesterday, accompanied by the excellent Tom Spurling.
Last year’s London Summit was a well-run success and they followed the same formula this year, including the standard exhibition floor silliness like fun booth attractions with extremely tenuous relevance to the companies hosting them.
By far the most popular attraction was the F1 area, which featured a Scalextric track (remember those?), a return of the ridiculously loud hands-on hydraulic wheel jack demo, and a rather impressive 15-person F1 racing sim.
Tom and I attended a workshop in the Developer suite on EKS Auto Mode, followed by a talk on Ocado’s recent adventures in building a system for automated provisioning and deprovisioning of AWS sandbox accounts for developers, by Luca Marsiglio and Ryan Stalbow. Very educational!
Booth swag this year included a Red Hat and a tic-tac-toe game from the Intel stand (top marks for effort for their cloud-connected tic-tac-toe board played with physical robotic avatars).
Other highlights included catching up with the heads at the Colibri stand and a chat with golden jacket Ivan, who told me that this blog might be of interest to the AWS Community Builders program. So stay tuned for more AWS tech posts!
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