AWS User Group Singapore

Hello AWS Community!

The cloud never stands still — and neither do we. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, 22nd October 2025, as the AWS User Group Singapore Meetup returns to the AWS Singapore Office.

Come ready for an evening of new ideas, live demos, and inspiring conversations. This is your chance to see what fellow builders are creating, swap stories from the field, and pick up practical insights you can take back to your own projects.
Whether you are just getting started or running production workloads at scale, there is something here for everyone in the community.

📢 IMPORTANT! Registration Information
To ensure a smooth check-in process, please take note of the following:
✅ Confirmed attendees will receive a confirmation email before the event titled "AWS User Group Singapore: Registration Confirmed for AWS User Group Meetup – October 2025". You must present this email at the Level 1 Concierge to gain access to Level 5 for attendance verification.
🚶 Walk-ins (those without a confirmation email) will only be considered if the venue has not reached full capacity. Priority will be given to registered attendees with confirmation emails.
🔒 Strictly enforced: No confirmation email = walk-in. Entry not guaranteed.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 22nd October 2025
🕡 Time: 6.30pm
📍 Location: AWS Singapore; 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5

🎤 Meetup Track
🎉 Remember that SURPRISE session we hinted at? HERE IT IS!
✅ Agentic AI Patterns in Practice
📌 Speaker: Donnie Prakoso – Principal Developer Advocate, AWS
👉 Explore the four foundational design patterns that transform AI from basic problem-solving to sophisticated autonomous systems. Expect (hopefully working 😄) live demos with Strands and Amazon Bedrock, showing how it enables AI to make complex decisions with minimal human oversight and adapt to various challenges.

✅ Beyond EBS, EFS, and S3: Unlocking the Enterprise-Grade Storage on AWS
📌 Speaker: Varun Seth – Principal Cloud Solutions Architect, NetApp
👉 Join us for an exclusive interactive learning session designed for those ready to elevate their storage capabilities on AWS.

✅ Hybrid GenAI Platform
📌 Speaker: Utkarsh Pundir – Container Specialist SA, AWS
👉 See how you can use EKS Hybrid Nodes to create hybrid GenAI platforms that meet diverse AI needs while leveraging both on-prem and AWS infrastructure within the same cluster.
📸 Kindly note that photographs and recordings captured during the event will be utilised for future promotional activities.

💡 Pro Tip: Arrive early to avoid queues and secure your seat for the sharing sessions!

Additional Highlights:
🍕 Pizza Time: Begin your evening with some delicious pizza at 6:30 PM, courtesy of our generous sponsor, AWS. Vegetarian and halal options will be available.
🍻 Post-Meetup Networking: Stick around for casual networking over drinks. Let’s forge new connections and continue the conversations!
🎁 AWS Swag & Promo Codes: Don’t miss the chance to win exclusive AWS swag and promo codes. Prizes will be drawn for attendees present at the event—so stay till the end!

Hosted by AWS User Group Singapore x AWS Security Users Group Singapore

Hey AWS Community,
November is here, and so is our next meetup. Expect new speakers, real-world security stories, and plenty of energy at the AWS Singapore office.

This meetup is all about bringing security and cloud practitioners together. Security is broad. Cloud moves fast. Let’s meet in the middle — share what works, what breaks, and how to ship safer, faster.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 5th November 2025
🕡 Time: 6.30pm – 9.00pm
📍 Location: AWS Singapore; 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 6

🎤 Speakers

✅ Lessons from Protecting a Major Conference: What You Do Not Know Will Haunt You
📌 Speaker: Wong Onn Chee – CEO, Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity | OWASP SG Chapter Lead
What happens when thousands gather and attackers watch? Onn Chee shares real lessons from securing major conferences, revealing blind spots, human factors, and surprises that even experienced teams may overlook. A rare glimpse into the unseen world of large-scale event defence.

✅ From Permanent Access To Just-in-Time: A Startup's IAM Journey
📌 Speaker: Caesar Chan – Senior Information Security Manager, FinTech
Startups move fast, but access should not stay forever. Caesar walks through a FinTech's journey from always-on permissions to a just in time IAM model, showing how automation and culture evolve together to strengthen security without slowing innovation.

✅ To Be Announced
Stay tuned for the announcement!