Women in Cloud Meetup Group

Women in Cloud - Building on AWS

Tue, Oct 13 · 5:30 PM AEDT

Amazon MEL12, 555 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia, Melbourne, AU

📍 Please note: This event will be hosted at the AWS Melbourne office. To arrange office access, please complete this form by 12pm on 12 October. You must also bring a valid government-issued ID on the day of the event.

Join us for an evening of learning, networking, and knowledge sharing as we explore how organisations build resilient, reliable, and scalable cloud platforms on AWS.

First, we will take you through resilience in AWS, exploring fault isolation, static stability, multi-Region architectures, and the patterns that help mission-critical workloads maintain availability through disruptions.
Then we will focus on agent design, using AWS Bedrock AgentCore.

Whether you're working in cloud, DevOps, platform engineering or simply keen to expand your knowledge of modern cloud technologies, we'd love to see you there!

Topics:
1. Reinforcing Resilience in the Real World with Static Stability, Fault Isolation and Multiple Regions
At AWS, based on years of working with customers, resilience is viewed as a continuous process. In this session, we'll explore how to design with AWS fault isolation boundaries, building on the concept of static stability to achieve predictable recovery times and high availability.
We'll look at how AWS Regions are designed and operated for resilience, as well as key architectural patterns that AWS services use to maintain operations through disruptions. The session will provide practical insights into foundational patterns that enable mission-critical workloads to maintain availability at scale, along with best practices, design principles, and sample architectures to help you meet your resilience requirements effectively.

About the speaker
Anshika Gupta is a Technical Account Manager for ANZ at AWS.

2. Your next oncall buddy is an agent - here's how to design it
What if your next oncall buddy could investigate incidents, gather evidence, reason about likely causes, and recommend the safest next step? In this whiteboard style session, we’ll use a familiar production incident to explore how to design an agent’s decision loop: what it should know, remember, do, and when it should stop or escalate. Along the way, we’ll map those design decisions to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore capabilities such as Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Policy, Observability, and Evaluations. The goal is not just to build a smarter agent, but to design its agency deliberately.

About the speaker
Cathy is a Senior Cloud Consultant at Mantel and and an organiser of Women in Cloud Meetup.

Agenda:
5:30pm – Food and networking
6:00pm – Presentation 1. Reinforcing Resilience in the Real World with Static Stability, Fault Isolation and Multiple Regions
6:45pm – Presentation 2. Your next oncall buddy is an agent - here's how to design it
7:10pm – Quiz
7:20pm – Networking

We are incredibly grateful to our sponsors AWS (looking forward to explore their beautiful Melbourne office), HAL Systems and REA Group for supporting our community.

Join us for an evening of learning, meaningful conversations, and great company. We can’t wait to see you there!