Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected Meetup!

Hi Architects,

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Each month we cover off AWS best-practices across all pillars and give away drones - lots of drones 🥳

Please also note that AWS Security now requests a company name and company email where it is available. If you are a student, please list your institution and your student email address at that institution 👍

We’ll be updating throughout the month with more speakers - our speakers so far this month include:

• Tony Huang, Solution Architect, TiDB

Will your data infra keep up, if your product goes viral? Well-Architected lessons from Kimi and Manus
As AI transitions from static prompts to autonomous, action-oriented agents, traditional data architectures often break down under the pressure of unpredictable scaling and relentless write workloads. We will explore the infrastructure of two massive-scale AI platforms, Kimi and Manus, through the lens of the well-architected framework.

• Michael Wasielewski Jr., Founder Generative Security, ex-AWS

If IT is cyclical, why do we keep making the same security mistakes?
AWS first published the Well-Architected Framework in 2015, and the Gen AI Lens in 2025. But when you look at the lessons on the ground, there are some key lessons that got lost over those 10 years. Let's dive into 3 lessons buried in the well-architected documents and see how we can use security to accelerate gen AI adoption safely.

• SkillzLab Well-Architected Build Session

Well-Architecting App Build-off
In this build session, we will have a live build-off with Students competing with AWS Builders and a drone for the most upvoted well-architected app on the night.

This month's menu will include:

Pizzas Beer: Nastro Azzurro

• Wine: Big and red 🤤

So come join us at 5:30 for a 6pm SHARP start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and friendly networking after our talks :-)

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