I once believed that writing clean, reusable CloudFormation templates was the key to scalable infrastructure. But after years of helping teams adopt Infrastructure as Code at AWS, I realized something surprising: the code is the easy part. The real challenge begins when people start using it.

In this talk, I share real stories from the field: teams that struggled not with YAML syntax or drift detection - but with ownership, knowledge sharing, and governance. We’ll explore how even the most elegant IaC can fail without proper team alignment, documentation, and feedback loop

Cloud DevOps Engineer at Amazon Elastic Beanstalk SME Interviewer Mentor Team Culture Advocate With over 10 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, and infrastructure automation, Nihar Karra