Hey AWS Security fam 👋
After a packed July relaunch, we are back in September at the AWS Singapore office.
Our goal this year: bring security and cloud practitioners together.
Security is wide; cloud teams move fast. Let’s meet in the middle — share what’s working, what’s painful, and how we can ship safer, faster.
Want to speak next time?
We are lining up lightning talks and deep dives for upcoming meetups — 30-minute sessions, interactive by design. New voices welcome: operators, builders, blue/red/purple teamers, platform folks.
If you have shipped it, broken it, or fixed it, we want to hear it. (Ping the organizers / DM us after you RSVP.)
🎤 Speakers
✅ Building a GitOps AWS Account Vending Machine for Sandboxes and Beyond
📌 Eugene Lim – Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, Open Government Products
How do you give developers secure, self-service cloud environments without chaos? Eugene shares how OGP built a GitOps-powered AWS account vending machine that enables sandbox experimentation while maintaining guardrails.
✅ 50 Shades of Purple - The Cloud Edition
📌 Pengfei Yu – Solution Architect (APJ & SAARC),
Picus Security
So your organisation spent loads on AWS security controls – GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, the works. But when APT groups abuse IAM roles or exfiltrate data through misconfigured S3, can your security stack actually detect it? Pengfei shows how Purple Teaming can validate your defences and help you win that fiery chat with your CISO. Because hoping it works is not a strategy — validating is.
✅ Securing APIs Without Slowing Down Developers
📌 Tay Boon Wah – Senior Solutions Engineer, Akamai
APIs power everything in the cloud, but securing them often feels like slowing developers down with endless checklists. Boon Wah explores practical ways to secure APIs without breaking developer flow: testing APIs early, monitoring them in runtime, and tackling common pitfalls like broken object authorization and excessive data exposure. You will leave with actionable practices — whether you are writing code, running APIs, or securing them in production.
🧭 Event Details
📅 Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2025
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: AWS Singapore, 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5
🛂 Registration & Check-in (Important)
Watch for an email titled:
AWS Security User Group Singapore: Registration Confirmed for AWS Security Meetup – September 2025
Show this email at Level 1 Concierge to access Level 5 for verification.
Walk-ins: Only if capacity allows. Confirmed registrations get priority.
No confirmation email = walk-in; entry not guaranteed.
🙌 What to Expect (and why it’s worth your evening)
- 30-minute interactive sessions — no death-by-slides
- Live Q&A & show-and-tell — bring questions, tooling, and war stories
- Security × Cloud crossover — incident learnings, IaC guardrails, identity, data protection, cost/risk trade-offs
🍕 Agenda & Housekeeping
6:30 PM — Pizza & drinks (vegetarian + halal options)
Talks — Start right after dinner
Networking — Meet builders, defenders, and platform folks
📸 Photos/recordings may be used for future promo
Pro tip: Arrive early to skip queues and snag a good seat
🎁 Swag & promo codes — stay till the end for giveaways