Welcome to the March 2025 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Hi Architects,

Following on from our hugely successful Meetup last month (with more than 200 registrants!), welcome to our next AWS Sydney 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.

We're excited to announce our speakers for this month!

• Jordan Humpherson, AuthSignal

Enhancing IAM Security & Compliance with Adaptive Authentication on AWS
Security is a cornerstone pillar of AWS's Well-Architected best practices, and implementing a robust IAM strategy is critical for protecting users and data. In this session, we’ll explore how adaptive authentication can seamlessly integrate with AWS services like Cognito, Lambda, and API Gateway to enhance security while maintaining a frictionless user experience. Learn how risk-based step-up authentication, passkeys, and fraud detection can help your AWS architecture meet compliance requirements and reduce account takeovers—without adding unnecessary complexity.

• Mystery Speaker

The Future of Auto-remediation
In addition to covering off the past and future of auto-remediation in code and infrastructure, we will discuss setting up your environment to self-heal and be continuously compliant. We'll cover off what can and can’t (yet) be automated in infrastructure and code all the way to the importance of best-practices like automatic tagging of resource.

This month's menu will include:

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

NB: Please enter by Kent St and go to Level 8 to check in.

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