Damien Jones

💻 Consultant 🦈 amazonwebshark 🎤 Speaker 🌹 AWS User Group Leader (Lancashire) 🏗️ AWS Community Builder (Data)

Bio

Damien Jones is an AWS consultant, experienced data professional and cloud enthusiast with a strong track record of designing, building, and optimising cloud-native solutions. He brings deep expertise in SQL, cloud architectures, and data modelling, and has a passion for leveraging emerging technologies to solve complex problems and support data-driven decision-making. Damien actively engages in the cloud community as a content creator, user group leader, and public speaker.

Outside of work, he is a keen runner, amateur gardener, dance music enthusiast and dog dad.

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Sessions

ACD203

Step On It! Rapid Event-Based AWS Cost Control With Step Functions

Room: Room 2 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 30

Ever had a cloud bill you weren’t expecting? Managing cloud costs effectively isn’t just about cutting expenses; it’s about building smart, adaptable systems that respond to events in real time. In this session, we’ll explore how event-based architectures and serverless AWS services can transform how you monitor, manage and optimise cloud spend. You’ll learn to evaluate cloud-native tools, automate anomaly detection workflows, and design, deploy, and maintain real-time cost-control solutions through live demos.

Damien Jones

💻 Consultant 🦈 amazonwebshark 🎤 Speaker 🌹 AWS User Group Leader (Lancashire) 🏗️ AWS Community Builder (Data)