Welcome to the AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group - 2025’s 1st Meetup!

Welcome to our 1st AWS Melbourne 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 our speakers and topics for this month!

• Stephen Hogarth, Associate Director - AWS Practice Lead, NCS Australia

Security: The things you need to know but were never told

Stephen will cover off the Security Pillar of Well-Architected, including the things you really need to know but were never told around:
* Keeping things simple
* Keeping it Secure - Network Security
* Native AWS services you might not think were for Security
* Systems Manager – a tool to “Protect and Serve”

• Mystery Speaker

Automating all Well-Architected Pillars

Sure, you can automate best-practice in the Security pillar, but what about across all the other pillars of best-practice? Now that it’s mandatory to automate Well-Architected Framework Reviews, we cover off what can and can’t (yet) be automated in infrastructure and code.

This month's menu will include:

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

NB: Please check in up the stairs from the ground floor to the Mezzanine Level.

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