​Talk 1: Cloud Hardening as a Proactive Defense Against Adversarial AI

​AI is making attackers faster—and cloud weaknesses easier to exploit than ever.

​In this session, we’ll break down how modern threats are evolving and what that means for AWS environments today. More importantly, you’ll walk away with practical, vendor-neutral ways to harden your cloud proactively—before issues become incidents.

​What to expect:

• ​How AI is accelerating real-world attack paths

• ​The most common gaps in AWS architectures

• ​Simple, effective hardening strategies you can apply immediately

• ​A few quick demos to make it real

​If you work with AWS and care about security, this is one you don’t want to miss.

​Talk 2. Spec It Before You Ship It: Structured, Governed AI Development with Amazon Kiro

​Vibe coding is fast — but fast without structure creates tech debt at scale. In this live demo session, we'll build a production-grade feature from scratch using Amazon Kiro's Spec-Driven Development (SDD) workflow. Watch as a natural language prompt transforms into structured requirements (EARS notation), architectural designs, and sequenced implementation tasks — all before a single line of code is written. Then we'll enforce organizational guardrails using Kiro steering files: coding standards, security policies, approved libraries, and compliance rules that every AI agent follows automatically. You'll leave with a practical playbook for going from "it works on my laptop" to "it's governed, auditable, and enterprise-ready."

​Agenda:

• ​6:00 PM: Networking & Refreshments

• ​6:35 PM: Welcome & Announcements

• ​6:45 PM: Cloud Hardening as a Proactive Defense Against Adversarial AI - Rupesh Mishra - Founder & CEO, InstaSecure

• ​7:30 PM: Spec It Before You Ship It: Structured, Governed AI Development with Amazon Kiro - Arivoli Tirouvingadame and Shivansh Singh (AWS)

• ​8:15 PM: Event Wrap-up (15 minutes)

​Tell your friends!

​Bring your friends, registration closes on Tuesday May5

​Oh, and if you have (or not) attended the AWS Community Day on April 10, the videos, photos, and surveys are at https://www.aws-cscd.com/