AWS User Group Tampere May Meetup - Sponsored by Gofore

Welcome to AWS User Group Tampere's May 2026 meetup. The event is kindly hosted and sponsored by Gofore.

Food and drinks are be provided by Gofore and the sauna is available for use after the program ends.

** Agenda **

17:00 - Doors open and food is served

17:30 - Program starts

• Welcome and Upcoming Events – User group crew
• Host Company Welcome – Gofore
• Working on a Open Source AWS CDK Project – Lessons Learned - Jari Voutilainen, Technical Project Manager (Gofore)
• From Fragile to Flexible: Migrating to AWS Account Factory for Terraform - Ari Luokkala & Markus Toivakka - SOK
  (More details of the session and presenters below.)

Afterwards – Possibility to use the sauna facilities (bring your own bathing suit + towel) or just hang around in the Meetup space.

From Fragile to Flexible: Migrating to AWS Account Factory for Terraform
Managing hundreds of AWS accounts is no small task—especially when the tooling behind it is brittle and officially unsupported. In this session, you’ll hear how SOK AWS Platform team is migrating from an aging deployment platform to AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), the modern, officially supported way to manage AWS accounts at scale.

Session will cover the journey of importing existing accounts from CloudFormation into Terraform, lessons learned along the way, and how AFT helps to improve consistency, automation, and long-term maintainability. You'll walk away with practical insights into AFT, migration patterns, and pitfalls to avoid.

Ari Luokkala
Ari is a Principal Cloud Engineer at SOK, based in Helsinki. He works in the SOK AWS Platform team, where they focus on platform development and collaborate closely with development teams.
He’s passionate about cloud technology, driven by curiosity, and a strong believer in continuous learning. Outside of work, you'll most often find him enjoying sports or fishing.

Markus Toivakka
Markus is a hands-on Cloud Architect at the SOK AWS Platform Team. Once a strong advocate of CloudFormation over Terraform (those days are gone), he since has gathered plenty of experience from managing multi-account AWS environments that he’s excited to share.

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Gear – If you want to use the sauna, please bring your own bathing suit and towel.

Meetup – The meetup takes place at Gofore's Tampere office. There will be someone to greet you at the door when the event start and a sign with a phone number for latecomers.

Language – As always, we'll have the event in English to cater to a larger audience.

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As the event space can only host a limited number of meetup-goers, please remember to update your RSVP in case you can't make it to the event.