Name: Welcome to AWS Auckland Well-Architected Meetup + AWS Beers with Engineers!
Start: 2025-11-19T05:00:00.000Z
Location: AWS Office Auckland

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our next 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.

Our speakers this month include:

* **Stephen Salim, Solutions Architect, AWS**

**Level Up Your Operational Excellence with AWS Health Events!**
An operationally excellent Well-Architected workload in the AWS Cloud needs to take into account that operational events occur not just at the application level but also within AWS's underlying infrastructure and services. This oversight can lead to unexpected downtime, security vulnerabilities, and inefficient incident management. In this session, you will learn about the AWS Health Service and how it helps address these challenges by serving as your authoritative source for AWS operational events. Discover three essential capabilities needed to achieve mature AWS Health event management—visibility, awareness, and accountability—to transform your cloud operations from reactive to proactive, along with several deployable AWS solutions to accelerate your journey.

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Security Questionnaires - can they be automated (please)?**
In this talk, we dive into the deep pain associated with what are the blight that is Security Questionnaires and ask the question - can that pain be automated away?

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 :-)

AWS Melbourne Well Architected User Group

Lorenzo Modesto

Gavin Pereira

Mallikarjun

Kanchan

deepsp2310

Man-Hua Chu

Alif

Ashoka Rao

Arun Siva

Mohammed Imaduddin 

bmovoisin

Cristian Naranjo

srinivas.bommu108

nagarjuna.ts

ychetanreddy441

Lee Lee

Sheetal

Guillermo Buritica T

Mukesh B

Ramana

Welcome to the next 2025 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

level 13/555 Collins St

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the next 2025 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Each month we cover off AWS best-practices across all pillars and give away drones, of course. DJI drones! Last month we gave away 6! 🥳

The speakers for this month!

* **Nitin Yadav,** Director (AWS), CS2, Cloud Security & Solutions, CyberCX

**Securing AI Workloads: Applying the Well-Architected Security Pillar to AI workloads**
This talk will cover the Security Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, showing how to secure AI workloads. Learn how to protect sensitive data, ensure compliance and build trust in AI systems.

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Security Questionnaires - can they be automated (please)?**
In this talk, we dive into the deep pain associated with what are the blight that is Security Questionnaires and ask the question - can that pain be automated away?

This month's menu will include:

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

\*\*\*NB: Please enter via Kent St\*\*\*

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

AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group

Ankit Gupta

Nath

AllenXie

Kimberly

Taiki Ishii

j.manujayaprakash

Anand

Danila Goloshchapov 

Nasir Mazrooei

Fiona Lin

Praveen Nadarajah

Colin Kabaara

Zhang Di

robert.s.healey

Scott Morris

Gary Sutcliffe

Jason Whatson

Welcome to the next 2025 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

level 8/2 Market St

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the next [AWS Auckland Well Architected User Group](https://www.meetup.com/aws-canberra-well-architected-user-group/) Meetup of 2025!

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. Last month alone we had 3 winners! 🙂

* **Ryan Field, Principal Cloud Architect, Grant Thornton**

**Optimize your AWS environment to front-foot your MDPR…**
Explore how cloud architecture, strategies and operational excellence can help position your organization for success in the Modern Data Protection and Resilience (MDPR) landscape.

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Security Questionnaires - can they be automated (please)?**
In this talk, we dive into the deep pain associated with what are the blight that is Security Questionnaires and ask the question - can that pain be automated away?

This month's menu will include:

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

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

AWS Auckland Well-Architected User Group

Enrico Gazal Regazzini

GABRIELA DE AQUINO SILVA

Victor Bueno

Yuzheng Wang

Abraham Gibson

Laki

William

Anna

Christopher  Chataika

Ankita Kaushik

Punitha

Seelan G

Clem Nienkemper

levani.ramazashvili90

Andrew JC

Kasun Sanjaya

ethanojan1

Amir Asyraf

Dinesh Liyanage

Welcome to the next AWS Auckland Well-Architected Meetup of 2025!

AWS Office Auckland

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our INAUGURAL AWS Brisbane Well-Architected User Group Meetup!!! 🥳

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.

Our speakers this month include:

* **Carlos Santini, Founder and Head of Solutions, Assembly Cloud**

**Infraless the Well-Architected Way**
Carlos will dive deep into how to leverage Well-Architected Infrastructure as Code to deliver a higher level of abstraction over cloud infrastructure, aiming to simplify development by automating tasks like infrastructure setup, deployment, and scaling.

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Security Questionnaires - can they be automated (please)?**
In this talk, we dive into the deep pain associated with what are the blight that is Security Questionnaires and ask the question - can that pain be automated away?

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 friendly networking after our talks :-)

AWS Brisbane Well-Architected User Group

Nicholas Edwards

Hardik Rao

Ashok

Mark Coleman

Benjamin Luton

John Joe Mcalonan

Jessica

hemerson costa

Joung hee Park

Iresha 

Luke

Clara

Dev Mukherjee

Swagata Bhattacharjee

Diana Barreto

Ella Ferreira

Dmytro Sirant

Paul Tompkins

Welcome to the *INAUGURAL* 2025 AWS Brisbane Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Amazon Web Services Brisbane Office

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the last [AWS Auckland Well Architected User Group](https://www.meetup.com/aws-canberra-well-architected-user-group/) Meetup of 2025!

After the overwhelming success of the combined event in Sydney in September, this month we're teaming up again with AWS Beers with Engineers in Auckland! 🥳

Join us to hear about Trust.Codes’s AWS journey, from startup, through growth and acquisition to then emerging as part of ASX-listed entity Codeifai [(ASX:CDE)](https://www.listcorp.com/asx/cde/codeifai-limited "https://www.listcorp.com/asx/cde/codeifai-limited") including their experience going through the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). Trust.Codes’s AWS-Validated software is centred around a distinctive digital identity for each item, acting as a licence plate to intelligently capture and enrich data while enhancing communication and creating well-architected supply-chain efficiency and operational excellence.

We will also have Lorenzo Modesto from 6pillars.ai to go into the details of open-source vs proprietary tools for AWS posture management (AWS Automated Security Response on AWS/Prowler vs AWS Security Hub and other AWS tools).

This month's menu will include:

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

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

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