York AWS User Group: Thursday 4th September 2025

Thursday 4th September 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.

First talk by Bharav Patel, AWS, on observability using OpenSearch, and second talk to-be-confirmed.

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 - 18:40: Intro/welcome
18:40 - 19:10: Talk 1: ‘Implement Observability at Petabyte scale using OpenSearch’, Bharav Patel, AWS
19:10 - 19:30: Break
19:30 - 20:00: Talk 2: To be confirmed
20:00 onwards: post-meetup drinks in The Judge's Lodging, at 9 Lendal (YO1 8AQ)

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Talk 1: Implement Observability at Petabyte scale using OpenSearch
Speaker: Bharav Patel

This session breaks down how to use logs, metrics, and traces together for full visibility into what's happening in your systems. We'll cover smart practices, throw in some machine learning to spot weird stuff automatically, and show how AI can help you make sense of all that data without drowning in it. The goal? Catch problems before they break things and keep your systems running smoothly. We'll demo these ideas using OpenSearch, but the concepts work anywhere.

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Talk 2: To be confirmed

TBC

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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.