AWS Community Day Italy 2026

Abstract

Every few years a new tech wave rolls in: first the cloud, then data, then serverless, and today generative AI. Each time it feels like the rules are being rewritten from scratch. But the real question never changes: how long does it take to go from "someone talked about it at a conference" to "it actually runs in production", at night, without waking anyone up?

The answer has less to do with the service that is trending this year, and more to do with the ecosystem you stand on: services that integrate, partners that fill the gaps, and, above all, a community that shares experience, code, and hard-won lessons. That is what turns each new wave into something you can actually ship. Revolutions come and go. Generative AI moves fast today precisely because it stands on cloud foundations, and on a community, built over years. A service can be copied in a year, a community cannot, and that is the difference that decides what we will build over the next five.

Because in the end the ecosystem is not a product catalog. It is the people who show up, share, and build together, the people in this room. You are the reason the next revolution will be easier to weather than the last.

Stefano Sandrini

Snr Manager, Solutions Architecture — Europe South SMB @ AWS

Abstract

We talk about AI from the rooftop, forgetting the floors beneath us. Let's take the stairs — from infrastructure to models and frameworks — and see why production-readiness hasn't changed in twenty years: reliable, scalable, secure, sustainable, observable. Why AWS makes the building solid, model- and framework-agnostic: freedom at the top, solidity underneath. Because production isn't a solo job — it's an ecosystem of services, partners, and people.

Fabrizio Celli

Solutions Architecture Manager @ AWS