Welcome to the March 2025 AWS Canberra Well-Architected Meetup!

Hi Architects,

Following on from our very successful combined AWS Canberra User Group and AWS Canberra Well-Architected Meetup last month, welcome to our next AWS Canberra 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 a full lineup of speakers for this month! 👍

• Sam Murphy, Software Engineer @ Agile Digital

Improving deployment resiliency with CloudFormation and CodeDeploy
This month, we focus more on the development side of best-practice and explore how to use several strategies to improve the resilience of CloudFormation, including leveraging CodeDeploy.

• Ching Chew, Senior Developer, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

Optimising Java with GraalVM and AWS Lambda
Interested in GraalVM and how it fits with AWS Lambda? Join us for a practical, beginner-friendly session on optimising Java applications for serverless environments. We’ll walk through real examples, compare performance with vanilla Java, and discuss the benefits and challenges of using native images. Whether you're new to GraalVM or just exploring serverless Java, this session will give you a solid starting point.

• Mystery Speaker

The Future of Auto-remediation
As briefly touched on at the last Meetup, sure you can automate best-practice in the Security pillar, but what about automating other pillars like Cost Optimisation and what about setting up your environment to self-heal and be continuously compliant. We will cover off what can and can’t (yet) be automated in infrastructure and code and even cover off the importance of best-practices like automatic tagging of resource.

This month's menu will include:

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

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