Cloud Hardening & Governed AI Development: Securing AWS in the Age of Adversarial AI

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 - Shivansh Singh (AWS)
8:15 PM: Event Wrap-up (15 minutes)
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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/