Melbourne AWS User Group #161 - July 2026

🎉 Melbourne AWS User Group – July Meetup 🎉

📅 Wednesday, 29 July
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)

Join us for our July meetup as we explore practical approaches to modern cloud engineering.

This month we’ll look at how to design scalable Terraform codebases using reusable modules and environment patterns. We’ll also have a second session, with speaker and topic details to be announced soon.

This month’s lineup features:
• Dale Orders presenting on implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform best practices, with a focus on real-world modular design patterns.
• Speaker TBA — second session details coming soon.

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://melb.awsug.org.au/live

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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 – Implementing IaC using best practice (Level 100); Speaker: Dale Orders
7:25 pm – Session TBA
7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
8:00 pm – Networking + Close

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🎤 Talk Details
Implementing IaC using best practice
Speaker: Dale Orders
Level: 100
This session shows how to design and implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with a focus on real-world modular design patterns.
Dale will cover how to break infrastructure into reusable modules, structure Terraform codebases for scalability, and manage environments without unnecessary duplication. You’ll also look at best practices around state management, versioning, and dependency handling so infrastructure stays predictable as it grows.

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Second Session
Speaker: TBA
Level: TBA
Details for the second session will be announced soon.

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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/