PagerDuty Community Update, October 27 2023
Tags: aiops, automation, devops, pagerduty
Published: 2023-10-27 16:14:44

## 🚀 Ready for the future!

October is nearly a wrap with lots of exciting things happening in PagerDuty: the latest updates to the Operations Cloud (everything you need to know is  [here](https://www.pagerduty.com/platform/operations-cloud/)), more AIOps features in [early access](https://www.pagerduty.com/early-access/), [fresh e-books and webinars](https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/), cool assets and brand colors (Volt is my favorite! 💚), [website with new looks](https://www.pagerduty.com/), top notch brand campaign [“Operations Intervention”](https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/speed-scale-and-special-sauce-the-evolution-of-the-pagerduty-brand/) (you'll see the campaign on social media, the web, podcasts, and even in [AWS re:Invent 2023 Las Vegas](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/)) and [platform releases](https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/t/platform-release-notes-october-2023/6206/3).

Wanna learn about new capabilities and get started on using them in your PagerDuty Operations Cloud environment? Go to [PagerDuty Community](https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/) and check out the [Future Ready Guide: October 2023](https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/t/future-ready-guide-october-2023/6211), a curated collection of resources that VP of Platform Advocacy Dormain put together!

Wait, there’s more! ⬇️


## ✍️AWS Orchestration with Systems Manager & Runbook Automation

Are you ready to say goodbye to time-consuming, manual tasks and hello to a self-service and orchestration layer that seamlessly integrates with AWS Systems Manager? Head to [PagerDuty Blog](https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/aws-orchestration-with-systems-manager-runbook-automation/) and read about Runbook Automation and how it helps organizations save time and expand the reach of automation across accounts.

## 🎟️ Find us in person!

- Tiago will be at [KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Nov 6–9, in Chicago. Register for in-person or virtual [here](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/register/). If you happen to be in town for #KubeCon, join PagerDuty Process Automation team for brats, beers, prizes and latest automation trends in one of the most iconic hotels in Chicago! [Reserve your spot ⬅](https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/t/kube-beer-join-pagerduty-process-automation-experts-in-chicago/6196)
- Nov 9, Kat brings *Mastering Incident Communication* to [DevOps Barcelona](https://devops.barcelona/).

Where else you can find Dutonians in November:

- Nov 6-9: [Gartner Symposium Barcelona](https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/emea/symposium-spain), Nov 23: [London: Women of Silicon Roundabout Conference](https://women-in-technology.com/), Nov 23 to Dec 1: [AWS re:Invent 2023 Las Vegas](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) (come say hi on booth #1096). 

Find more Dutonians at our [global events](https://www.pagerduty.com/events/). 👋 Say hi if you’re there and share your experience with us - we’re happy to connect and spread the Pagey love!

##  We’re Virtual!

- Join us Nov 2 for a panel discussion on [*Modern Monitoring and Observability*](https://www.linkedin.com/events/paneldiscussion-modernmonitorin7120498891707351040/comments/), featuring Ernest Mueller of Accenture and Peco Karayanev PagerDuty, authors of [DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/devops-foundations-monitoring-and-observability/) on LinkedIn Learning, plus Jason Hand of Datadog and Steve McGhee of Google!

- Fall Webinars: [*The Art of Deciding What to Automate*](https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/the-art-of-deciding-what-to-automate/) (Nov 9) and [*GenAI Unleashed: Transforming Customer Experience in the Digital Era*](https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/webinar/genai-unleashed-transforming-customer-experience/) (Nov 14).

- In Nov 15-16, Mandi will be presenting *Best Practices for On Call Teams* at [DeveloperWeek Enterprise](https://www.developerweek.com/global/conference/enterprise/). Click [here](https://link.devnetwork.com/Z9RWQFfl) for a free OPEN pass to DeveloperWeek Enterprise!

- Mandi will also be presenting *Plan for Unplanned Work: Game Days and Chaos Engineering* at [Pozitive Technologies](https://pozitive.tech/en/) on Nov 23.

## 🎧 On the Podcast(s)

Stay tuned on Nov 7 for [Page It To the Limit](https://pageittothelimit.com) **100th episode** - Sneak peek: we’re bringing in several guests to this special show! Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

## 📺 On Our Live Streams


Our regular shows are:

- **The Unplanned Show with Dormain!** Mondays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific (check other timezones [here](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty/schedule?seriesID=8621eb03-0bbe-4ab9-9ba3-591c4f016607)). Catch up on past episodes in [this YouTube playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaOBypX6nLYqI4S9oj7fPe2-&si=l6a1Ph7pYl0WasJ_). Prefer an audio-only podcast? Check out the new podcast version of The Unplanned Show on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/0WXDoDO59rjqz4cqJG08Vr)
	**Upcoming episodes**:
Oct 30: *Resilient architectures with Matt Stine, author of "Migrating to Cloud-Native Architectures" (O'Reilly)* on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/events/theunplannedshow-episode18-resi7121273187698446336/), or [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaOBypX6nLYqI4S9oj7fPe2-).
Nov 6: *Cloud security response* with Ashley Ward, of Orca Security on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/events/7123446768456916993/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBh34JssJU), or [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty).

- **Terraform Time!** Wednesdays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific with José Antonio! (check other timezones [here](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty/schedule?seriesID=037a4f43-ecd4-4e45-b239-4761177e060d)).

- **HowTo Happy Hour**: Fridays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific (check other timezones [here](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty/schedule?seriesID=5e8c58b6-52e1-4098-8835-f402b44a4688)) and now also on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaMQ9ookkPpRjW62C2d46FV_&feature=shared).
	**Upcoming show**:
Oct 27, Alex Quintana joins the stream to talk about what’s new in Onboarding and Operational Maturity. Watch on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/events/newfeaturesinteamonboarding7121156818764001281/) or [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQ1mT_NGvk).

Make sure you’re following us so you can be there live! You can view our most recent episodes on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty/videos) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pagerduty/events/). See some of our earlier streams on the [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaOwwYODuuvKdte7STOpU6jt).
## 🤝 Get in Touch

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