About us
Please join our Slack group here!
Whether you are an avid user of Amazon Web Services (AWS) today, or you just want to find out more about the advantages of using AWS, we welcome you to join a passionate group of enthusiasts who want to exchange ideas, thoughts, best practices and questions in a comfortable setting where everyone is welcome.
Sometimes we will have a sit-down session, often with subject matter experts (from Amazon or local service providers). Sometimes we will have someone from a local business present their use case for the cloud. And other times we will have an informal happy hour so that we can get to know each other better and to help grow our personal networks.
We are organizing this group because we are passionate about AWS and the cloud. The primary intent of this group is education - not sales. All presentations will be educational in scope. That being said, the AWS ecosystem includes many roles - technical users, service providers, staffing, training and others. All are encouraged to participate and contribute!
If you or your company would like to get involved, either as a host, sponsor, or speaker, please contact Sam Kasimalla on sam@kasimalla.com
For 2025, we are happily a part of Embarc Collective's and Bank of America's Tampa Bay Tech Meetup scholarship program which provides us with quarterly use of their venue space, payment of our meetup.com dues, and food sponsorship for an event.
Upcoming events
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Re:Invent Recap
Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 2101 E Palm Ave, Tampa, FL 33605, USA, Tampa, FL, USAWS re:Invent 2026 Recap
Missed re:Invent, or still catching up on everything that launched? Join Trevor Roberts Jr. and David Ernst at the Tampa Bay AWS User Group on Thursday, January 14, for a recap of AWS re:Invent 2026, straight from two people who were there.We'll walk through the biggest updates: what launched, what changed, and what it means for teams running workloads on AWS.
Trevor and David will also share their experience from the event itself: the sessions, conversations, and moments that stood out in Las Vegas, and which updates they'd try first. Bring a question, a launch you want to unpack, or a takeaway of your own.
Speakers
Trevor Roberts Jr.
Trevor Roberts Jr. is a cloud and platform architect at Capital One with more than 20 years of experience designing and operating enterprise systems. His work spans Kubernetes, cloud networking, and the infrastructure that supports AI workloads. A former AWS solutions architect, Trevor spoke at AWS re:Invent 2021 and is the author of DevOps for VMware Administrators.David Ernst
David Ernst is Director of Cloud Migrations at ClearScale, an AWS Ambassador, and a co-leader of the Tampa Bay AWS User Group. He spent more than six years at AWS as a Technical Account Manager and Specialist Solutions Architect focused on DevOps and generative AI. A three-time re:Invent speaker, David brings an architect’s perspective to the annual flood of announcements: which changes solve a problem teams face today, and where to start.5 attendees
Past events
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