Melbourne AWS User Group #162 - August 2026

🎉 Melbourne AWS User Group – August Meetup 🎉
📅 Wednesday, 26 August
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)

Join us for our August meetup with two Level 200 sessions covering AWS AgentCore and AWS Control Tower.

This month we’re particularly pleased to feature two speakers from our Silver Sponsor, Cevo. Malinda Kapuruge and Gokul Venugopal will be sharing their experience across agentic AI architecture and AWS governance.

This month’s lineup features:
• Malinda Kapuruge – AWS AgentCore: Practical Architecture, Pitfalls and Best Practices
• Gokul Venugopal – Improving AWS Governance with AWS Control Tower

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.

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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 – AWS AgentCore: Practical Architecture, Pitfalls and Best Practices (Level 200); Speaker: Malinda Kapuruge
7:25 pm – Improving AWS Governance with AWS Control Tower (Level 200); Speaker: Gokul Venugopal
7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
8:00 pm – Networking + Close

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🎤 Talk Details
AWS AgentCore: Practical Architecture, Pitfalls and Best Practices
Speaker: Malinda Kapuruge
Level: 200
This session focuses on the practical realities of operating AWS AgentCore within enterprise systems.
Based on experience designing and engineering enterprise systems, Malinda will review possible architectural patterns, common pitfalls to avoid, and best practices to follow.
Attendees will leave with a clear engineering blueprint to help deploy, scale and maintain reliable agentic workflows with AWS AgentCore.

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Improving AWS Governance with AWS Control Tower
Speaker: Gokul Venugopal
Level: 200
This session will introduce AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower and explore the governance challenges Control Tower is designed to solve.
Gokul will cover:
• AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower
• Governance challenges and how they were managed before AWS Control Tower
• What’s new in AWS Control Tower 4.0
• Core AWS Control Tower capabilities
• Greenfield vs. brownfield implementation approaches
• Key considerations and takeaways for each deployment option

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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/