Name: Welcome to the *INAUGURAL* 2026 AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!
Start: 2026-02-19T18:00:00.000Z
Location: AWS Experience

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our next 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.

We'll be announcing more speakers during the coming months but our speakers this month include:

* **Carlos Santini, CEO, Cloud Assembly**

**Building the Architecture behind AWS AI Agents**
AI-powered AWS architecture tools don't work by magic; they depend on deliberate architectural choices regarding data access, context building, security boundaries and model orchestration.

In this talk, we'll break down some core AI architecture patterns required to safely deploy agents that reason over AWS environments. We'll compare deployment options - from fully managed agents to customer-hosted, VPC-isolated models. We will also cover the trade-offs across performance, cost, security and features and how we model these against the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

* **Allan Denot, Director of Innovation, DNX Solutions**

**Handing AWS Keys to an AI Agent: What can go wrong?**

What happens when you give an AI agent read-only access to your AWS accounts? Diagrams appear, documentation writes itself and that architecture review you've been avoiding suddenly becomes manageable.

In this talk, we'll explore practical ways to use AI agents for AWS architecture work; generating accurate diagrams from live infrastructure, producing documentation that stays current, investigating incidents and answering those "why is this configured this way?" questions that haunt every team.

We'll cover real examples from production environments, the gotchas of trusting AI with your infrastructure context and when to let the agent run versus when to keep your hands on the wheel.

* **Brendan Gough,TAM, AWS**

**Not another re:Invent recap 😉**
In this talk, Brendan will detail only the most significant updates but now that the dust has settled how they are being used by customers (Did anyone say persistent Lambda..?)

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Can Cost Optimisation Improve your other pillars?**
In this talk, we'll go through whether Cost Optimisation can improve your security, operational excellence, reliability, etc. and more importantly, how (spoiler alert - it can but it will be an interesting exploration).

This month's menu will include:

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

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

\*\*\*NB: No entry to the building after 6pm\*\*\*

AWS Brisbane Well-Architected User Group

Lorenzo Modesto

oysterbrains

Visahan Pirabaharan

yvette.bevis

James B

Tony Pickett

Rob Langford

Jobin Varghese

ashasoman

Aygul

Marco Tassi

Petras Butkevicius

Lexy Zhitenev

Kelly Fusato

Mikhail Sutormin

Lance Ross

James Agus

Yasith Amarasinghe

Renato Meireles

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Brisbane Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Amazon Web Services Brisbane Office

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our first AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup for 2026, 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:

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Can Cost Optimisation Improve your other pillars?**
In this talk, we'll go through whether Cost Optimisation can improve your security, operational excellence, reliability, etc. and more importantly, how (spoiler alert - it can but it will be an interesting exploration).

This month's menu will include:

* Pizzas
* Beer: Nastro Azzurro
* 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

yukthika fernando

Nishant palav

Yasiru Randika

Tony

Carolyn

Ankit Awade

Divya Kothamasu

Priya Halderkoley

Mohammed Imaduddin 

Ankur Goyal

Dave Piddocke

Paul Colby

Shiva Kiran Vemparala

Max Christiansen

Naren

nicolas.simonds

Tuan

Akshit Chaudhary

Welcome to the first 2026 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

level 13/555 Collins St

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the first 2026 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 9! 🥳

The speakers for this month!

* **Adiel Horesh, Chief Business Officer, Scytale**

**Automating Compliance in Well-Architected Cloud Environments**

Security is a cornerstone of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and as cloud environments grow more complex, ensuring continuous compliance has become critical. In this session, we'll explore how engineering and security teams can embed compliance automation directly into their AWS architecture, aligning with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, Essential 8 and Australia's evolving regulatory landscape.

* **Josh Mehlman, CEO, mehlman.info**

**A well architected case study – what Die Hard and Star Wars can teach you about telling compelling tech stories.**

Josh will be talking about common storytelling structures such as the three-act structure for movie scripts and the hero's journey and explaining how tech case studies have their own structure and journey (and hero!), plus adding some advice on what makes case studies more interesting,

* **Mystery Speaker**

**Can Cost Optimisation Improve your other pillars?**

In this talk, we'll go through whether Cost Optimisation can improve your security, operational excellence, reliability, etc. and more importantly, how (spoiler alert - it can but it will be an interesting exploration).

This month's menu will include:

* Pizzas
* Beer: Nastro Azzurro
* 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 Sydney Well-Architected User Group

Anand

Sid Rakhada

Mayank Ahuja

David Wang

snigdhapatibandla

Ankit Gupta

Ahmet Gezici

Vlad

Gerard Menezes

Navakumar

Sandeep Gandhi

DAVID LEE

Autumn Fjeld 

Tohid Azimi

Kai Chung Tang

Vinay Bajpai

Liam Cheney

Dan Trang

Brandon

Welcome to the first 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

2 Park St

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the first [AWS Auckland Well Architected User Group](https://www.meetup.com/aws-canberra-well-architected-user-group/) Meetup of 2026!

At each meetup, we focus on learning and networking in a friendly and inclusive atmosphere and explore best-practices in AWS. This has resulted in the AWS Well-Architected Meetups becoming the most popular AWS Meetups in ANZ 🥳

**Carel Wentzel, Cloud Platform Architect, Theta.co.nz**
**Case Study - Designing a Security SaaS the Well-Architected Way: Lessons from Migrating Glasstrail’s Backend Services to AWS**
Glasstrail is an External Security Attack Surface Management (EASM) SaaS platform with backend services recently migrated to AWS and built with the AWS Well-Architected Framework as a first-class design constraint.

This talk explores how Well-Architected principles influenced not only the runtime architecture, but also how we design, build and deliver the platform backend. Carel will share practical insights into best-practices for structuring a secure, scalable SaaS backend on AWS, alongside how we optimised our Solution Development Lifecycle to enable rapid, reliable delivery. The session highlights concrete patterns, tooling choices, and lessons learned from building and evolving a security product where speed, safety, and operational discipline must coexist.

**Mystery Speaker**
**Can Cost Optimisation Improve your other pillars?**
In this talk, we'll go through whether Cost Optimisation can improve your security, operational excellence, reliability, etc. and more importantly, how (spoiler alert - it can but it will be an interesting exploration).

This month's menu will include:

* Pizzas
* Beer: Nastro Azzurro
* 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

Tamas Kajtor

Berend de Boer

Steve

Kaushal Swami

yashnirwan27

Derek 

Punitha Hariharan

ConceptRat

Michael Zhang

May ROBERTS

Doug Cockroft

David Horrocks

Jayakumar Kannan

Beaubaby Hamtaro

Nihal

Laki

Junbin Xu

Nick Watt

Welcome to the first AWS Auckland Well-Architected Meetup for 2026!

AWS Office Auckland

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our the inaugural AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!!! 🥳🥳🥳

The AWS London Well-Architected Meetup is the latest chapter in the most popular AWS Meetup group globally.

At each meetup we covered off various pillars of AWS best-practice in detail including insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework.

And a drones giveaway.

We'll be announcing more speakers during the coming months but our speakers this month include:

* **James Harding, Technical CSM, Green Custard**

**Well-Architected as a Business Tool: Translating Pillars into Business Outcomes**
In this session, we’ll go beyond the mechanics of a Well-Architected Framework review and focus on outcome-driven Well-Architected thinking: translating architectural risks into business impact, aligning improvements to strategic goals and creating a repeatable cadence that strengthens business outcomes.

This month's menu will include:

* Pizzas
* Beer
* Wine: Big and red 🤤

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

\*\*\*NB: No entry to the building after 6pm\*\*\*

AWS London Well-Architected User Group

Michael Breashears

Ali Umair

Anas Abdulrazzaq

Killian Kavanagh

Jack Yuen

Samuel Steiner

KHALDOUN CHAHDE

Aris Boutselis

Vivek Srivastava

Ravi

Andy Read

Ahmet Bilgin

Ritesh Rama

Philip Lusher

Ejimofor Nwoye

Shailendrasinh Gohil

Ehsan Danesh

BrianLinuxing on BlueSky too

Nikolai Levshakov

Welcome to the *INAUGURAL* 2026 AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

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