Interested in getting started in the cloud but unsure where to start? Already working in the cloud but feeling a bit overwhelmed? In this session we're going to take a look at how you can kickstart your cloud journey by leveraging open source blueprints on Amazon Lightsail. We will start with a quick overview of cloud computing and Amazon Lightsail, from there we'll look at how Lightsail supports a variety of open source applications and dev stacks. We'll deploy and scale a MEAN stack application and finish up showing how you can use custom blueprints to deploy whatever package you like. - a talk by Mike Coleman, Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services, at the Open Source Summit North America, August 2018.