Melbourne AWS User Group #157 - March 2026

🎉 Melbourne AWS User Group – March Meetup 🎉

📅 Wednesday, 25 March
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)

Join us for our March for our March meetup as we explore two important areas of modern cloud architecture: security and resilience.

This month we’ll look at how organisations can improve least-privilege access using IAM Access Analyzer, and how to design highly resilient architectures using AWS fault isolation and multi-region patterns.

This month’s lineup features:
• Hazra Ali, a brand new AWS Community Builder for 2026, is presenting on how business analysis techniques can improve outcomes when using AWS IAM Access Analyzer.
• Anshika Gupta sharing architectural principles for building resilient systems using static stability, fault isolation, and multiple AWS Regions.

A huge thank you to our sponsors: 🥇 Mantel Group – Gold Sponsor, 🥈 Cevo – Silver Sponsor, 🏛 NAB – Venue Sponsor

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube as always.

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🗓️ Agenda
6:00 pm – Food & Socialising
6:30 pm – Introductions
6:40 pm – What’s New in AWS
6:55 pm – Business Analysis in AWS IAM Access Analyzer (Level 100); Speaker: Hazra Ali
7:25 pm – Reinforcing Resilience in the Real World with Static Stability, Fault Isolation and Multiple Regions (Level 200); Speaker: Anshika Gupta
7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
8:00 pm – Networking + Close

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🎤 Talk Details
Business Analysis in AWS IAM Access Analyzer
Speaker: Hazra Ali
Level: 100
Business analysis plays a crucial role in helping organisations implement change to address challenges and leverage solutions that deliver value. AWS IAM Access Analyzer helps organisations grant precise permissions as requirements evolve, guiding users toward least privilege by enabling them to set, verify, and refine permissions.
In this presentation, Hazra will explore how business analysis practices can enhance the effectiveness of IAM Access Analyzer when solving real-world problems. The session will also discuss how AI can support business analysis workflows and assist in understanding the core concepts behind IAM Access Analyzer.

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Reinforcing Resilience in the Real World with Static Stability, Fault Isolation and Multiple Regions
Speaker: Anshika Gupta
Level: 200
At AWS, resilience is viewed as a continuous process, built on years of experience working with customers operating critical workloads.
In this session, Anshika will explore how to design systems using AWS fault isolation boundaries and the concept of static stability to achieve predictable recovery times and high availability.
You’ll learn:
• How AWS Regions are designed and operated for resilience
• Key architectural patterns AWS services use to maintain operations during disruptions
• How static stability helps maintain availability under failure conditions
• Practical architecture patterns for building multi-region resilience
This session will showcase design principles, best practices, and example architectures that can help you meet your resilience requirements for mission-critical workloads.

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🙌 Want to Speak at a Future Meetup?
We’re always looking for new speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk waiting to be shared.
If you’d like to present at a future event, reach out at the meetup or via our website:
👉 https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/