Welcome to the next 2025 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our next AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup for 2025, including more exceptional speakers and topics! :-D

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.

Our speakers this month include:

• Stephen Salim, Solutions Architect, AWS

Level Up Your Operational Excellence with AWS Health Events!
An operationally excellent Well-Architected workload in the AWS Cloud needs to take into account that operational events occur not just at the application level but also within AWS's underlying infrastructure and services. This oversight can lead to unexpected downtime, security vulnerabilities, and inefficient incident management. In this session, you will learn about the AWS Health Service and how it helps address these challenges by serving as your authoritative source for AWS operational events. Discover three essential capabilities needed to achieve mature AWS Health event management—visibility, awareness, and accountability—to transform your cloud operations from reactive to proactive, along with several deployable AWS solutions to accelerate your journey.

• Mystery Speaker

Security Questionnaires - can they be automated (please)?
In this talk, we dive into the deep pain associated with what are the blight that is Security Questionnaires and ask the question - can that pain be automated away?

This month's menu will include:

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

NB: Please check in up the stairs from the ground floor to the Mezzanine Level.

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