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

Well-Architected Data Foundations for Agentic AI: 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.

• Mystery Speaker

Well-Architecting AWS Marketplace
In this talk we will dive deep into the good, the bad and the ugly of AWS Marketplace, how to maximise traction and minimise the gotchas.

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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