Anup is a regular host of the AWS OnAir show and has also participated as a speaker.

2025 Sessions

1/ AWS re:Invent 2025

Host for AWS OnAir at re:Invent 2025. Focused on discussing keynote highlights like Nova Forge, Frontier Agents, AWS Transform and interacted with the vibrant re:Post community.

2/ AWS re:Post Live – Kiro – Agentic AI IDE, Beyond a Coding Assistant

Deep dive into Kiro and exploring all the key functionalities around spec based coding and innovative features like Agent Steering and Agent Hooks.

3/ AWS re:Post Live – Amazon Q Command Line(CLI) and MCP Integration

Deep dive into Amazon Q CLI and its integration with MCP servers to do art of the possible.

4/ AWS On Air Series- Securing GenAI Applications – S1|E1 – Foundational Amazon Bedrock Security

Generative AI Security Series. In this episode, we focused on foundations for Bedrock security and provided a fun demo on VPC endpoints.

5/ AWS On Air Series- Securing GenAI Applications – S1|E2 – Monitoring and Detection on AWS

Generative AI Security Series. In this episode, we focused on monitoring and detection aspects and dove deep into GuardDuty, Security Hub etc.

6/ AWS re:Post Live – Aurora Database Upgrades

Hosted a technical session discussing best practices and strategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora databases with minimal downtime.

7/ AWS re:Post Live – AWS Clean Rooms

Led a discussion on AWS Clean Rooms, highlighting how organizations can collaborate on sensitive data while maintaining privacy and security controls.

8/ AWS re:Post Live – Data Transfer with Amazon S3

Presented strategies and tools for optimizing large-scale data transfers with Amazon S3, covering best practices for migration and operational data movement.

9/ AWS re:Post Live – EKS Auto Mode

Explored automation techniques for Amazon EKS cluster management, covering infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, and operational best practices with EKS Auto Mode.

10/ AWS re:Post Live – Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Hosted a technical deep dive into Model Context Protocol (MCP).

11/AWS re:Post Live – Using Hybrid Architectures to significantly improve accuracy in RAG applications

Deep dive into hybrid search approaches to improve RAG accuracy in generative AI applications.

12/ AWS OnAir – DeepSeek Foundation Models

Hosted a technical session on integrating DeepSeek foundation models with Amazon Bedrock.

13/ AWS OnAir – DNS Firewall Security Best Practices

Discussed implementation strategies and best practices for enhancing network security using Route 53 DNS Firewall, covering rule management and integration with security services.

14/ AWS OnAir – DSQL and new AWS MCP Servers

Dove deep into the newly GA’d Aurora DSQL service, its relevance and also discussed the new AWS MCP Servers.

15/ AWS OnAir – EBS and FSx Performance Optimization

Presented advanced techniques for optimizing storage performance using Amazon EBS and FSx, covering IO patterns, throughput optimization, and cost-effective storage tiering strategies.

16/ AWS OnAir – Glue ETL Modernization

Demonstrated data pipeline modernization strategies with AWS Glue, highlighting serverless ETL capabilities, integration with data lakes, and implementing data quality controls.

17/ AWS OnAir – Kube Resource Orchestrator

Dive deep into the all new Kube Resource Orchestrator(KRO).

18/ AWS OnAir – Security Incident Response

Led an in-depth discussion on security incident response procedures on AWS, covering detection automation, containment strategies, and leveraging AWS security services for rapid remediation.

2024 Sessions

1/ AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS OnAir Host and discussed various re:Invent 24 announcements.

2/ AWS Supports You – Improving you resiliency with AWS Fault Injection Simulator and R53 ARC

Discussed how customers can improve the resiliency posture of a critical workload by combining the power of AWS FIS and R53 ARC.

3/AWS Supports You – Gaining Security Insights for Your AWS Environments Utilizing Generative AI

In this session, we dove deep into a solution that you can leverage to get insights about your security posture on AWS.

5/AWS Supports You – Building Applications Faster and More Securely with your Al Coding Companion – Amazon CodeWhisperer

We dove deep CodeWhisperer and explain how it improves productivity for Builders.

6/AWS re:Post Live – Amazon Q Developer:Your AWS IDE Expert

Post the new release of Amazon Q, we revisited the topic of developer productivity.

7/AWS re:Post Live – Troubleshooting with Amazon Q

We discuss the SRE, Operations aspect of Q Builder.

8/AWS re:Post Live – AWS re:Post Community Spotlight

Hosted the AWS Ambassador and Community Builder.