Welcome to the next AWS Auckland Well-Architected Meetup of 2025!

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the next AWS Auckland Well Architected User Group Meetup of 2025!

At each meetup we covered off various pillars in detail, best-practices and insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework.

And giving away drones, of course. Lots of drones.

We're excited to announce a full-house of speakers and topics for this month, all related to enabling your journey to the AWS Marketplace.

• Evan Rowse, GRC Subject Matter Expert, Vanta

Well-Architected and how GRC accelerates the AWS Marketplace
In this talk, Evan covers off how compliance can accelerate getting onto the AWS Marketplace.

• Mystery Speaker

Discovering the Brand-New AWS Gen AI Well-Architected Lens
In May 2025, AWS released the Well-Architected Gen AI Lens, which allows you to review your generative AI against best-practices. We go through each of the pillars that apply and automation that's available, including reviewing AWS-native AI-driven tools (yes, that's AI reviewing AI).

• Mystery Speaker

Automating and Accelerating your Foundational Technical Review (FTR)
The Foundational Technical Review (FTR) is a requirement for independent software vendors (ISVs) to sell on AWS Marketplace. In this talk, we will delve into the detailed technical and security requirements and how to use AWS-native services and automation and even partners to fast-track your journey.

This month's menu will include:

• Pizzas
• Beer: Nastro Azzuro
• Wine: Big and red 🤤

So come join us at 5:30pm for a 6pm SHARP start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and networking after our talks :-)