Melbourne AWS User Group #158 - April 2026
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🎉 Melbourne AWS User Group – April Meetup 🎉
📅 Wednesday, 29 April
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)
Join us for our April meetup as we dive into real-world AWS architecture and cutting-edge AI workloads on Kubernetes.
This month, we’re exploring how organisations make practical architecture decisions on AWS, and how modern AI tooling and GPU-powered platforms are enabling scalable, real-time applications.
This month’s lineup features:
• Trent Hornibrook sharing how Bell Financial approaches architecture decisions on AWS.
• Yongkang He is presenting a live demo on building and scaling Stable Diffusion on Amazon EKS.
A huge thank you to our sponsors: 🥇 Mantel Group – Gold Sponsor, 🥈 Cevo – Silver Sponsor, 🏛 NAB – Venue Sponsor
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube as always: https://www.youtube.com/@AWSMelb/streams
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🗓️ Agenda
6:00 pm – Food & Socialising
6:30 pm – Introductions
6:40 pm – What’s New in AWS
6:55 pm – How Bell Financial Architects on AWS (Level 200); Speaker: Trent Hornibrook
7:25 pm – Building and Scaling Stable Diffusion with Amazon EKS (Level 300); Speaker: Yongkang He
7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
8:00 pm – Networking + Close
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🎤 Talk Details
How Bell Financial Architects on AWS
Speaker: Trent Hornibrook
Level: 200
In this session, Trent will share how Bell Financial approaches architecture decisions and the key choices they’ve made when designing and operating workloads on AWS. This talk provides practical insight into real-world decision-making, trade-offs, and architectural patterns used in a financial services environment.
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Building and Scaling Stable Diffusion with Amazon EKS
Speaker: Yongkang He
Level: 300
Imagine generating AI images from text prompts — powered by Kubernetes, GPUs, and built with the help of Amazon Kiro.
In this session (with live demo), we’ll walk through building and deploying a full AI image generator using Stable Diffusion XL on Amazon EKS. From containerisation and GPU nodes to scaling inference and pushing to Amazon ECR, you’ll see how it all comes together in a real-world setup.
💡 Key takeaways:
• Build and scale Stable Diffusion on EKS
• Use Kiro to accelerate development from code to deployment
• Understand GPU scheduling and autoscaling in Kubernetes
• Live demo of real-time image generation on AWS
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🙌 Want to Speak at a Future Meetup?
We’re always looking for new speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk waiting to be shared.
If you’d like to present at a future event, reach out at the meetup or via our website: https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/
