York AWS User Group: Wednesday 12th November 2025

Wednesday 12th November 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 Gerrard Cowburn on multi-region databases, and second by Oday Mansour on designing resilient systems.

18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, chat with more people
18:30 - 18:40: Intro/welcome
18:40 - 19:10: Talk 1: ‘Designing Resilient Systems’, Oday Mansour, AWS
19:10 - 19:30: Break
19:30 - 20:00: Talk 2: ‘Navigating Multi-Region AWS Database Choices’, Gerrard Cowburn, AWS
20:00 onwards: post-meetup drinks in The Judge's Lodging, at 9 Lendal (YO1 8AQ)

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Talk 1: Designing Resilient Systems
Speaker: Oday Mansour

(Description will be available soon.)

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Talk 2: Navigating Multi-Region AWS Database Choices
Speaker: Gerrard Cowburn

AWS customers may choose to deploy workloads across multiple Regions to meet strict resilience and regulatory requirements. Let’s explore our recently expanded multi-Region database portfolio, including Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables (both consistency modes), Amazon Aurora Global Database, and Amazon Aurora DSQL. You’ll learn how each solution approaches data consistency in- and cross-Region, and the associated failover mechanics, with a brief peek under the hood.

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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.