York AWS User Group: Thursday 24th April 2025

Thursday 24th April 2025;
Aviva, Wellington Row, York, YO90 1WR;
City centre, a short walk from York railway station.

Join us for our next face-to-face meetup: learn and chat about all-things AWS, and meet other cloud practitioners in the area.

Two great talks on security in GenAI, and on event driven architectures (EDA).

18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, more time for people to turn up
18:30 - 19:15: Talk 1: 'Ensure the security and reliability of your GenAI workloads with Amazon Bedrock’ - Matt Houghton, CDL
19:15 - 19:30: Break
19:30 - 20:00: Talk 2: ‘Event Driven Architectures: Gotchas’, Aled Sage, Cloudsoft
20:00 onwards: post-meetup drinks in The Judge's Lodging, at 9 Lendal

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Talk 1: Ensure the security and reliability of your GenAI workloads with Amazon Bedrock
Speaker: Matt Houghton, CDL

In this session, we will explore emerging risks associated with GenAI-based workloads and discuss strategies for testing, securing and monitoring them using Amazon Bedrock.

We will highlight and demonstrate some of the latest features announced for Amazon Bedrock, showcasing how they can help you create more effective GenAI workloads.

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Talk 2: Event Driven Architectures: Gotchas
Speaker: Aled Sage, Cloudsoft

Event Driven Architectures (EDA) are growing in popularity, giving benefits of reliability, scalability, cost and speed of innovation.

Starting with an introduction to EDA, we'll then look at when it's a good solution, and when it's not - including what can be a lot harder with EDA, and some gotchas.

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Food and drink

Food will be in the form of pizza - please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements prior to the day and we will endeavour to meet your needs. We’ll also be providing a range of drinks.

Code of conduct

Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct (https://www.meetup.com/York-Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group/pages/32649582/Code_of_Conduct/), in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS Leeds to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity

The organising team for AWS York are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run, and the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.