Events Participated

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Event 1 — Kick-off: The First Cloud Journey (FCJ)

  • Date: 06/09/2025
  • Location: Online
  • Role: Attendee
  • Summary: Official kick-off for the 12-week FCJ program: introductions, program vision, roadmap overview, team formation guidance, and AWS account security setup (2FA, budgets).
  • Outcome / Lessons Learned: Clear understanding of program expectations, the importance of discipline and commitment, and initial AWS security best practices.

Event 2 — DX Talk#7: Reinventing DevSecOps with AWS Generative AI

  • Date: 16/10/2025
  • Location: Bitexco Tower, Ho Chi Minh City / Online
  • Role: Attendee
  • Summary: Strategic and practical perspectives on integrating Generative AI into DevSecOps; case studies from CMC Global and AWS; an overview of CI/CD and security tooling (Jenkins, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Terraform) and Amazon Q Developer.
  • Outcome / Lessons Learned: Insights into AI-enabled DevSecOps workflows, automated security checks, and tools to integrate into pipelines.

Event 3 — AWS Cloud Mastery Series #1: AI/ML/GenAI on AWS

  • Date: 15/11/2025
  • Location: Bitexco Tower, Ho Chi Minh City / Online
  • Role: Attendee
  • Summary: Overview of AI/ML in Vietnam and AWS services (Amazon SageMaker); introduction to Generative AI via Amazon Bedrock, prompt engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG); live demo building a GenAI chatbot.
  • Outcome / Lessons Learned: Gained practical knowledge of SageMaker and Bedrock, RAG techniques, and GenAI prototyping.

Event 4 — AWS Cloud Mastery Series #2: DevOps on AWS

  • Date: 17/11/2025
  • Location: Bitexco Tower, Ho Chi Minh City / Online
  • Role: Attendee
  • Summary: DevOps culture and practices; AWS CI/CD services; Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK); container services (ECS, EKS, App Runner); observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray); and pipeline demos.
  • Outcome / Lessons Learned: Practical experience with CI/CD patterns, IaC best practices, container strategies, and monitoring for cloud applications.

Event 5 — AWS Cloud Mastery Series #3: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar

  • Date: 29/11/2025
  • Location: Bitexco Tower, Ho Chi Minh City / Online
  • Role: Attendee
  • Summary: Security Pillar deep dive: Identity & Access Management, detection (GuardDuty, CloudTrail), infrastructure protection, data protection (KMS, Secrets Manager), and incident response automation.
  • Outcome / Lessons Learned: Reinforced security fundamentals, IAM best practices, data encryption, and incident response playbooks and automation.

Event 6 — Vietnam Cloud Day HCMC Connect Edition

  • Date: 18/09/2025
  • Location: Ho Chi Minh City (main hall) / Online
  • Role: Attendee
  • Summary: Track 1 — AI, Data & Infrastructure Modernization: building data foundations for AI, GenAI adoption roadmap on AWS, AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC), GenAI application security, and AI Agents.
  • Outcome / Lessons Learned: Practical guidance for designing AI-ready data platforms, an understanding of GenAI tools and services (e.g., Bedrock), security considerations for GenAI workloads, and architectural trade-offs (Serverless vs Container).