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I had also booked time from my calendar to make a trip to Stockholm from Tuesday until Thursday - as I like to be effective and I\\u2019ll try to combine several engagements when I go visit a site in Sweden or elsewhere in the Nordics.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And it was indeed a three activity full days - I was back at home only late on Thursday night. This is a short recap of AWS Summit Stockholm and some related activities I attended during the visit.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Stockholm here I come\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"After short flight with old faithful - and ah so familiar - ATR turboprop and train trip with Arlanda Express, I arrived at Stockholm with my colleagues.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"img\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"src\": \"https://therolle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_1878-fs8-1024x576.png\",\n    \"alt\": null\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Fueling up before the evening\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Are you well architected - Customer evening\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"img\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"src\": \"https://therolle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss_Clara-1024x427.jpg\",\n    \"alt\": null\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Miss Clara Hotel Stockholm\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The event was held at the roof terrace of Miss Clara Hotel and we had invited customers as well as AWS people and our own people handling client relationships.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/etorstensson/\"\n  }, \"Erik Torstensson\"), \" from Cybercom AWS Business Group was acting as the master of ceremony and kicked off the evening with \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyhendrell/\"\n  }, \"Tony Hendrell\"), \".\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"img\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"src\": \"https://therolle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_1885-fs8-1024x768.png\",\n    \"alt\": null\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I was invited to the stage and give a brief introduction to \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/\"\n  }, \"AWS Well-Architected framework\"), \" and what it means to be Well-Architected.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"img\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"src\": \"https://therolle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AWS-WAR-1024x223.jpg\",\n    \"alt\": null\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Then we proceeded with a customer case and success story of one of the cases, where we were doing Well-Architected review. \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehdi-rafinia-48056b1/\"\n  }, \"Mehdi Rafinia\"), \" from \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"https://samtrafiken.se/\"\n  }, \"Samtrafiken\"), \" joined the stage sharing their insights, how they felt that doing the Well-Architected review early on gave the edge they needed to start proceeding to the right direction right from the start. When we revisited them after few months time, it was apparent that they had avoided the biggest pitfalls because they had done the review very early on in the process.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"img\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"src\": \"https://therolle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/samtrafiken.png\",\n    \"alt\": null\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"This is also key for everyone to understand - Well-Architected is a journey and you should do verification of your direction already very early on. Not only when everything is implemented. So it\\u2019s not only validation afterwards, it\\u2019s also validation before.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, mdx(\"img\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"src\": \"https://therolle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IMG_1880-fs8-1024x576.png\",\n    \"alt\": null\n  })), mdx(\"p\", null, \"After the official show, we had discussions with customers late until the evening, until it was time to call it a day. The next morning was to start 7:30 AM as we were going to the Summit site to set up our booth at the Expo floor.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Summit at Stockholmsm\\xE4ssan\"), mdx(\"h3\", null, \"Arriving at the scene\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The team arrived at Stockholmsm\\xE4ssan right at the break of dawn. 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