Hi Architects, Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup! **Please note that AWS have changed the address to Amazon Web Services Australia P/L Level 8, 2 Market Street Sydney, NSW 2000** 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 and our speakers so far this month include: * **Michelle Dimitrov, Partnerships Manager & AWS Alliance Lead, Scytale** **GRC Automation in the Cloud: From Architecture to Well-Architected Audit-Readiness** Michelle will walk attendees through the evolving landscape of compliance regulations and why they can no longer be an afterthought for growing businesses. We will cover how the pain points of traditional, manual GRC processes gave rise to automation, and how Scytale addresses those challenges through both its platform and consulting capabilities. The session will also explore how the AWS Well-Architected Framework ties into the compliance journey, showing how good architecture and audit readiness go hand in hand rounded off with a live platform demo and clear next steps for those looking to get started. **Derek Zheng, Director, Customer Support Engineering, agora.io** **Real-Time Voice AI at Scale: Designing Production-Ready Systems for Reliability and Performance"** Join Agora.io for a technical deep dive into building scalable, production-ready Voice AI systems. Derek explores the architecture, infrastructure, and operational strategies behind delivering low-latency, resilient real-time conversational experiences at global scale. * **Mystery Speaker** **Well-Architected Agents** In this talk we will go into the detail of not only the launch of the first Well-Architected agents from both AWS and other AWS partners (and what they can and can't do) but will also go through best-practice agentic architecture as verified by AWS senior architects. 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 :-)