Name: Welcome to the next AWS Auckland Well-Architected Meetup of 2025!
Start: 2025-06-25T05:30:00.000Z
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.

This month we welcome back another one of our most popular speakers, Ben Potter, ex-AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar Global Lead and now leading cloud decoy company Fircy.co CEO!

* **Ben Potter, CEO, Fircy.co**

**Hack Me If You Can: A Deep Dive into Web App Defences + Active Defence**
Ben Potter (ex AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar Leader) has been involved in web application security for many years, and even helped the AWS WAF team for the service launch back in November 2015! He's going to take us through the journey of web app security in AWS including API's, with more demo's than slides. Services he will go deep into are AWS WAF, CloudFront, API Gateway and ALB, with integrations featuring Lambda. He'll show you how active defence works (blocking something safely and automatically) with the product integration he has built for FIRCY.

* **Lovee Jain, Senior Software Engineer, Prezzee**

**Part 2: API Destinations for Private Endpoints: From Oversight to Insight**
In this followup talk from last month, Lovee will cover off everything from Operational Excellence to Security and Reliability and go through a real-world design challenge she faced while syncing data from a monolith to a microservice. She’ll share the different approaches explored and highlight how EventBridge API Destinations simplify event-driven integrations. However, API Destinations were historically limited to public endpoints—until AWS re:Invent changed that!

* **Mystery Speaker**

**AWS Marketplace Enablement the Well-Architected Way**
The AWS Marketplace is a vital goal for every Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in AWS. In this talk, we explore how Well-Architected dovetails into the Foundational Technical Review (FTR) that is required by every ISV to sell on AWS Marketplace and how you can automate the process to accelerate listing.

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

Kate

David Pham

Weibo Zhao

William Eom

Hazra Ali

Sai Mohan

Dave

Josh Zarazovski

Alvin Fernandes

Lovee Jain

Prashorst (Eric) Meas

Kyle Lamb

Nadid Linchestein

Bharath

Arul George

Kanchan

Kris

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

level 13/555 Collins St

Hi Architects,

Welcome to our next AWS Sydney 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.

This month we welcome back another one of our most popular speakers, Ben Potter, ex-AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar Global Lead and now leading cloud decoy company Fircy.co CEO!

* **Ben Potter, CEO, Fircy.co**

**Hack Me If You Can: A Deep Dive into Web App Defences + Active Defence**
Ben Potter (ex AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar Leader) has been involved in web application security for many years, and even helped the AWS WAF team for the service launch back in November 2015! He's going to take us through the journey of web app security in AWS including API's, with more demo's than slides. Services he will go deep into are AWS WAF, CloudFront, API Gateway and ALB, with integrations featuring Lambda. He'll show you how active defence works (blocking something safely and automatically) with the product integration he has built for FIRCY.

* **Lovee Jain, Senior Software Engineer, Prezzee**

**API Destinations for Private Endpoints: From Oversight to Insight**
In this talk, Lovee will cover off everything from Operational Excellence to Security and Reliability and go through a real-world design challenge she faced while syncing data from a monolith to a microservice. She’ll share the different approaches explored and highlight how EventBridge API Destinations simplify event-driven integrations. However, API Destinations were historically limited to public endpoints—until AWS re:Invent changed that!

* **Mystery Speaker**

**AWS Marketplace Enablement the Well-Architected Way**
The AWS Marketplace is a vital goal for every Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in AWS. In this talk, we explore how Well-Architected dovetails into the Foundational Technical Review (FTR) that is required by every ISV to sell on AWS Marketplace and how you can automate the process to accelerate listing.

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

Leticia Freitas

 Suheyl

Tina

Stefan C.

Salman Haider

Tony

emailforashish511

Anita

Kai Chung Tang

Lohitha Perera

Faisal S

Dan Trang

Sandeep Gandhi

Santhosh Santhakumar

Jakai Xu

Amr Ayad

ranjith kumar

Mo AlFares

Mahesh Pundpal

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.

We're excited to announce a full-house of speakers and topics for this month!

* **Thandi Khumalo,** Partner Development Representative, AWS

**Well-Architected, the AWS Partner Network and the path to AWS Marketplace**
In this talk, Thandi will cover off everything from the basics of the AWS Partner Network, the commercial and technical benefits of getting Well-Architected and finally the path to getting onto the AWS Marketplace.

**Mystery Speaker**
**Automating and Accelerating your Foundational Technical Review (FTR)**
The Foundational Technical Review (FTR) is a requirement for independent software vendors (ISVs) to sell on AWS Marketplace. In this talk, we will delve into the detailed technical and security requirements and how to use AWS-native services and automation and even partners to fast-track your journey.

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

Ganesh

David Horrocks

Amir Asyraf

Doug Cockroft

ConceptRat

Nazir

Jerry Liu

Laki

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

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