AWS Summit 2013 took place last month, and recently Amazon published the slides for the event. The primary focus of the event was on cost effectiveness, security, big data, and DevOps. Clearly, it targets the entire IT industry, especially the developer community.

The keynote at AWS Summit 2013 Germany was delivered by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com., who talked about the transformational impact of AWS. He said that one of the principles of AWS is driving cost down to a point so that you don’t have to think about it, and that the company has done 31 price reductions over the last six years.

Werner also announced new certifications for three roles: Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator and Developer. These certifications add up to company’s portfolio, which had only “AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level” for now.

In another keynote, Stephen Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer of AWS talked about cloud security in AWS. While his target was security-sensitive enterprises, he detailed AWS CloudHSM, a recent Hardware Security Module (HSM) implementation in AWS.

The summit visitors witnessed the Amazon OpsWorks, an integrated experience for managing the complete application lifecycle, including resource provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, software updates, monitoring, and access control. It allows developers to build and manage your application stacks with the finesse and control of Chef recipes.

OpsWorks was announced recently in beta form, and is available at no additional cost for AWS customers.

The next AWS summit is scheduled to be held on June 5 and 6 in Tokyo.

This year, TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s premier video production team, was invited to the AWS Summit where theCube guys, Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, were able to get a good sense of the momentum, innovation, commitment to the enterprise, and the richness of the ecosystem via interviews with the company’s executives, partners and customers.

Vellante and Frick both are astounded as to how well Amazon has evolved into what it is today, and how it has become disruptive to the enterprise.With the entire buzz happening around the event, Vellante was still able to narrow down what Amazon needs to improve on with its AWS such as its “posture towards the private cloud. Check out the complete coverage here.