Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected Meetup!

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Each month we cover off AWS best-practices across all pillars and give away drones - lots of drones 🥳

Please also note that AWS Security now requests a company name and company email where it is available. If you are a student, please list your institution and your student email address at that institution 👍

We'll be announcing more speakers on https://well-architected.me and previewing presentations during the coming weeks - our speakers and details this month include:

• Carles Vallecillo, Technical Trainer, Snowflake

Well-Architecting AWS AI
Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker are two of AWS's most powerful AI services - but which one will win the heavyweight title?
In this session, we'll put them head-to-head across the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost
Optimization and Sustainability.
Round by round, we'll compare their strengths, weaknesses, trade-offs and real-world use cases to answer questions such as:
Which service gets you to production faster?
Which gives you more control?
Which is easier to secure and govern?
Which delivers the best performance?
• Which gives you the biggest bang for your buck?
Expect practical examples, architectural insights and a few surprises as we crown the winner of each category (and discover whether there is really a single champion at all 9.

• SkillzLab Build Gen AI Well-Architected Reviews

Well-Architecting App Build-off Review!
In this session, we will have review the apps from the previous session and perform AWS Gen AI Well-Architected Framework Reviews, with the drone going to the most Gen AI Well-Architected app on the night.

This month's menu will include:

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

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

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