2025-06-25

🎉 Join us for the Melbourne AWS User Group Meetup on Wednesday 25 June! 🎉

As usual, we’re back on the last Wednesday of the month in the NAB Events Hub on 395 Bourke. We’re definitely in winter now, as we’ve had a lot of cold days, so what would be better to warm you up than good company and some interesting talks about AWS?

We have two talks lined up for this month, Lovee will start with exploring the advantages VPC Lattice can bring in our architectures, and Matt will talk about the challenges that come with a solution around fall detection. And, of course, we also have our regular sections, covering what’s going on in the community and what new goodies AWS has brought us in the past month.

As a reminder, we will start with the food and socialising at 6 pm, but the actual contents of the meetup (and live stream) will begin at 6:30.

Our thanks to Mantel Group for their continued sponsorship.

See below for the full agenda. The event will be streamed on YouTube as always.

Agenda

API Destinations for Private Endpoints: From Oversight to Insight

• Lovee Jain

Level 300

In this talk, we’ll go through a real-world design challenge I faced while syncing data from a monolith to a microservice. I’ll share the different approaches I explored and highlight how EventBridge API Destinations simplify event-driven integrations. However, API Destinations were historically limited to public endpoints—until AWS re:Invent changed that!

You’ll learn how to leverage VPC Lattice to securely route events to private/internal endpoints, eliminating the need for complex setups like SQS + Lambda when they aren’t necessary. By the end, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to streamline your architecture for internal API connectivity with AWS-native solutions.

Detecting falls in Aged Care - A MLP Story

• Matthew Gillard

Level 300

Defining a Minimum Lovable Product is challenging, especially when  priorities are constantly being shifted during the product-market fit stage of a startup. Understanding end-user personas is critical to this process.

This session explores the key decisions made while building an early-stage startup that provides fall detection and notification for people primarily in the aged care sector. We’ll cover the solution architecture, real-time alerting challenges, data partitioning approaches, and other tradeoffs involved in capturing and analyzing data from sensors installed in the home or aged care facility.

Attendees will gain practical advice and actionable tips for building their own data solutions on AWS.

We are always looking for speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk hiding inside themselves. If you are interested in letting that talk out at a future event you can get in touch at the meetup, on the website (https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/), or reach out to one of the organisers on our Slack.