About us
Welcome to the Melbourne AWS User Group.
We are group dedicated to the cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services. Because we are specific to AWS we can go deep into some of the technical services provided by AWS and get some great insights into how their services work.
If you want to put your application in the cloud and have already chosen AWS, or if you already have applications in the AWS cloud, then this is a great group to get helpful insights and advice from other group members.
More information is available on our website.
The Melbourne AWS User Group is not affiliated with any organisations and is independent from Amazon.
Upcoming events
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Melbourne AWS User Group #156 - February 2026
·HybridNAB Events Hub, Ground Floor, 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne, al, AU# 🎉 Melbourne AWS User Group – February Meetup 🎉
📅 Wednesday, 25 February
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)We’re kicking off 2026 properly with a deep technical session and another exciting speaker announcement coming soon 👀
This month we’re diving into Kubernetes networking changes that could directly impact your clusters — especially if you’re running Ingress-NGINX.
This month’s lineup features:- Gokul Venugopal returning with a Level 300 session on the retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX.
- Warwick Wilson shares lessons from running and evolving a production AWS Serverless orchestration platform over three years.
A huge thank you to our sponsors: 🥇 Mantel Group – Gold Sponsor, 🥈 Cevo – Silver Sponsor, 🏛 NAB – Venue Sponsor
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube as always.
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# 🗓️ Agenda
- 6:00 pm – Food & Socialising
- 6:30 pm – Introductions
- 6:40 pm – What’s New in AWS
- 6:55 pm – The Retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX (Level 300); Speaker: Gokul Venugopal
- 7:25 pm – Title coming soon (Level 200); Speaker: Warwick Wilson
- 7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
- 8:00 pm – Networking + Close
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# 🎤 Talk Details
## The Retirement of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX: Impacts, Risks, and Next Steps
Speaker: Gokul Venugopal
Level: 300
Description:
Ingress controllers are foundational to how traffic flows into Kubernetes workloads — but with the announced retirement of Ingress-NGINX, many teams are asking: what now?
In this session, Gokul will cover:- A refresher on Kubernetes Ingress and the role of Ingress-NGINX
- What the retirement means in practice
- Risks for existing clusters
- Migration paths and available alternatives
- Pros and cons of the major options
If you’re running Kubernetes in production, this is one you don’t want to miss.
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## Title Coming Soon
Speaker: Warwick Wilson
Level: 200
Description:
Warwick manages a Spatial Data supply and distribution platform for DTP, an AWS Serverless orchestration that has now been in production for nearly three years.
In this session, Warwick will walk through:- The original architecture and design decisions
- How the AWS Step Functions workflows started simple
- How they evolved over time as production realities set in
- Lessons learned operating and refining long-running serverless orchestration
If you're running or designing Step Functions in production, this is a practical, experience-driven session you won’t want to miss.
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# 🙌 Want to Speak at a Future Meetup?
We’re always looking for new speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk waiting to be shared.
If you’d like to present at a future event, reach out at the meetup, via our website:
👉 https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/13 attendees
Past events
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