# AWS Immersion Day Edinburgh: Seamless APIM with Kong Konnect and Amazon EKS

Digital transformation is built on APIs. Modern organisations use APIs to modernise access to legacy systems, liberate siloed data, and break down monolithic applications into smaller, easier-to-manage components to rapidly increase their pace of innovation and deliver new digital experiences. Paramount to successful modernisation is an API-first strategy that leverages cloud-native technologies to achieve security, automation, and performance at scale.

In this hands-on workshop, we will demonstrate how Konnect and AWS can help your organisation modernise by adopting an API management model.

**Learning Objectives**

• - Get an architectural overview of the Kong Konnect platform.
• - Set up Kong Konnect with an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). environment.
• - Learn what services, routes, and plugins are.
• - Access an existing API service using a defined route.
• - Use the platform to address the following use cases: Authentication (API Key & OpenID Connect ) | Rate limiting | Response Transformer | Invoke AWS Lambda | Proxy caching
  

What's Needed for the workshop

• - Wifi enabled laptop
• - Access to email account for Kong Konnect trial sign-up
  
  **Agenda**
• - 13.30 -14.00 Registration
• - 14:00 -14.30 Kong & AWS Introduction
• - 14:30 -15.00 Workshop Setup
• - 15:00 -16.30 Hands-on Workshop
• - 16:30 Networking & Drinks
  

Note: This workshop requires a trial Kong Konnect Plus subscription and an AWS account with IAM user/identity that has proper permissions to set up the necessary AWS components to work through the workshop, as well as introductory knowledge in Kubernetes. The facilitators will provide temporary AWS accounts to be used for the duration of the workshop so that attendees can get hands-on experience. The facilitators will also walk attendees through the Kong Konnect [sign-up](https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect/register)sign-up process.