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

NB: Location changed to Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd Level 5, 2 Park Street Sydney, NSW 2000

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Hi Architects,

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

Each month we cover off AWS best-practices across all pillars and give away drones, of course. DJI drones! Last month we gave away 9! 🥳

The speakers for this month!

• Andrew Goifeld, Co-founder, Resilera

Validated Resilience the Well-Architected Way
Reducing risk, increasing reliability, well architected - all the buzzword are great - but how do we actually know our system will sail through the storms. In this talk we will tackle reliability, control plane, data plane and concepts that will give you a map for keeping your systems humming - even during unlikely events of outages.

• Sam Sehnert, CTO, Caitlyn

Securing GenAI in Production: Guardrails, Prompt Injection, and Document Poisoning
As more teams move generative AI into production, new risks emerge — from prompt injection and jailbreaks to poisoned documents and model manipulation. This talk will unpack real-world attack surfaces in GenAI systems and share practical guardrails you can build using the AWS Well-Architected Framework and will cover secure patterns like isolation layers, input classification, traceability, and validation pipelines that map directly to the Security and Reliability pillars, helping you deploy AI workloads that are both resilient and trustworthy.

• Mystery Speaker

Open Source vs AWS-native CSPM tools
In this talk, we go into the details of open-source vs proprietary tools for AWS posture management (AWS Automated Security Response on AWS/Prowler vs AWS Security Hub and other AWS tools).

This month's menu will include:

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

NB: Location changed to Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd Level 5, 2 Park Street Sydney, NSW 2000

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