AWS User Group Meetup September 2026

👋 Hello AWS User Group Community! Join us on Thursday, 17th September 2026, for our Sep meetup at the AWS Singapore Office, IOI Central Boulevard! We’re bringing the community together again for an evening of sharing, learning, and connecting — stay tuned as we finalise the session lineup 👀 📅 Date: Thursday, 17th September 2026 🕡 Time: 6:30 PM 📍 Location: AWS Singapore; 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5 🎤 Meetup Track ✅Performance and Reliability Engineering in the AI Age 📌 Speaker: Luis Guirigay - WW Specialists Solutions Lead, AWS Performance engineering used to be about building apps that are fast, efficient, and reliable for the person on the other end. But a new reality has emerged: your workload's consumers now include autonomous agents calling your APIs and expecting deterministic latency at machine speed. Meanwhile, proving your system can handle both audiences before they arrive requires a fundamentally different approach to testing. In this session, we'll explore what performance and reliability engineering looks like when you're designing architectures that must serve humans and AI agents side by side. You'll learn how to set SLOs that actually mean something when outputs aren't deterministic, how to design for the gap between a human who'll wait three seconds and an agent that won't tolerate 200ms, and how to validate those design decisions through performance and reliability testing that simulates real mixed workloads at scale. We'll also show how to close the loop with AWS DevOps Agent for automated root cause analysis that correlates metrics across services, pinpoints regressions, and delivers fix recommendations without manual triage. ✅Modernising Your Monolithic Terraform Landscape — Transform Custom’s Agentic Approach 📌 Speaker: Badri Kesavan - Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Migration and Modernisation, AWS Every long-lived Terraform estate has one: the thousand-line main.tf nobody wants to touch, because moving resources around means Terraform plans to destroy and recreate live infrastructure. In this talk, Badri will show how to teach AWS Transform custom — in plain language, no scripting — to refactor a flat, deployed Terraform codebase into typed, per-tier modules while the running infrastructure never moves, with a no-op terraform plan as the machine-checkable proof. We'll walk through a real three-tier stack, watch the agent catch and fix its own mistakes against the validation gate, and cover the guardrails a platform team needs before pointing an agent at live state. You'll leave knowing how to author your first transformation definition and run it on your own estate. Workshop Track: (P.S Due to unforeseen circumstances, the workshop track has been postponed. Please keep a lookout on our social channels for future updates) 📢 IMPORTANT! Registration Information To ensure a smooth check-in process, please take note of the following: ✅ ✅ Confirmed attendees will receive a confirmation email before the event titled "AWS User Group Singapore: Registration Confirmed for AWS User Group Meetup – Sep 2026." You must present this email at the Level 2 Concierge to gain access to Level 5 for attendance verification. 🚶 Walk-ins (those without a confirmation email) will only be considered if the venue has not reached full capacity. Priority will be given to registered attendees with confirmation emails. 🔒 Strictly enforced: No confirmation email = walk-in. Entry not guaranteed. 💡 Pro Tip: Arrive early to avoid queues and secure your seat for the sharing sessions! Additional Highlights: 🍕 Pizza Time: Begin your evening with some delicious pizza at 6:30 PM, courtesy of our generous sponsor, AWS. Vegetarian and halal options will be available. 🍻 Post-Meetup Networking: Stick around for casual networking over drinks. Let’s forge new connections and continue the conversations! 🎁 AWS Swag & Promo Codes: Don’t miss the chance to win exclusive AWS swag and promo codes. Prizes will be drawn for attendees present at the event—so stay till the end! Connect with us here! Meetup: AWS User Group Singapore LinkedIn: AWS User Group Singapore Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nkZagBG Please reach out to us at [email protected] for collaboration or other enquiries!