AWS Canberra - June 2026

The winter solstice is fast approaching. That means more nights spent at home warming your fingers over a keyboard. More time to tinker with side project on those cold, wet winter evenings.

OpenClaw and the AWS Canberra meetup want to get you out of the house! This month we have a talk about a real world AI use case, then an OpenClaw on AWS install session.

Agenda
6:00pm Welcome and announcements
6:15pm From Slack Thread to Knowledge Base Article: Building and Deploying an AI Documentation Agent on AWS, Ching Chew
6:45pm Food and Networking
7:15pm OpenClaw on AWS Install Workshop
8:15pm Networking
8:30pm Close

You must register for this event over on Luma.

Catering this month supplied by Little Phat Rolls.

The AWS Canberra User Group is supported by AWS, Sol People and Agile Digital.

## From Slack Thread to Knowledge Base Article: Building and Deploying an AI Documentation Agent on AWS

Every team has a graveyard of incident threads and Q&A chains that never made it into the knowledge base. This talk walks through building a Documentation Agent that converts Slack conversations into structured Confluence articles with a single click; deploying it to AWS with infrastructure-as-code. You'll see how Claude API tool use produces schema-validated output instead of freeform text, why the webhook layer uses a Rust Lambda to meet Slack's 3-second response window, and how SQS decouples the fast verifier from the slower extraction worker. The full CDK stack is public on GitHub and it can also run locally without an AWS account, so you can have it running before you go to bed tonight.

Ching Chew, Full Stack Developer, Australian Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Ching is a full stack developer with 25 years of experience across web, backend, data and AI systems. He builds pragmatic AI tools that solve real problems at work and at home — and then writes and talks about them.

## OpenClaw on AWS Install Workshop

Install your own instance of OpenClaw on AWS. We will walk you through how to install your very own agentic personal assistant.
You must bring your own laptop to participate in the workshop. We will provide WiFi and some AWS credits to help get you going.