Damien Jones: Best in Show: Building a Crufts-Ready AWS Business Platform in 5 Weeks

AWS AI In Practice Meetup #5

A new dog training business is launched. You have 5 weeks to develop a new production-ready platform before Crufts: the world's biggest dog show. Could you deliver?

In this talk, I'll share the real-world journey of building WolfieAndFriends on AWS. We'll review my architectural choices, "build vs buy" decisions and the trade-offs made during those hectic early days. You'll learn how to use AWS serverless, IaC and AI services to enable rapid delivery, shorten development times and transform a greenfield project into a professional, scalable platform that pays the bills.

Whether you're a startup founder or an enterprise dev, you'll walk away with a blueprint for rapid delivery without sacrificing long-term stability. Expect Amplify, CDK, Q Developer, Kiro and more!

Learning Takeaways:

💡 Make fast, defensible architectural decisions under genuine time pressure using AWS CDK, Amplify Gen 2, and Kiro as an integrated delivery stack.
💡 Apply a practical build vs buy framework to decide what to own, what to delegate, and how to justify each decision when time is short.
💡 Use serverless IaC to iterate safely from greenfield to a production-ready platform without accumulating technical debt.
💡 Walk away with a reusable blueprint for going from zero to a scalable, paying platform in weeks - not months.

Damien Jones is an AWS consultant, data specialist, and cloud enthusiast with a strong record of designing, building, and optimising cloud-native solutions. He has extensive knowledge of data engineering, DevOps and cloud architectures, fueled by a passion for using emerging technologies to solve complex problems and support data-driven decision making. Damien is also active in the cloud community, serving as a content creator, user group leader and public speaker.

Find out more about Damien Jones here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrdamienjones/

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