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Deloitte

Level 12 Deloitte Building

20 Customhouse Quay

Wellington

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Thursday, 15th May, 2025

4:30pm to 6:30pm NZST

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Wellington May 2025 Meetup

Amazon Q Service & Terraform at Scale with Atlantis

Tēnā Koutou AWS Wellington Community,

Overview:
Welcome back to the AWS User Group Wellington Meetup Series. Join us for another enlightening meetup-up that covers two exciting topics – “Amazon Q Service” and “Terraform at Scale with Atlantis” by awesome speakers.

Special gratitude to Deloitte for providing the venue for the event.

Deloitte Wellington Office is confirmed as our venue for this meetup.
Venue details:
Deloitte Harbour Rooms
Address is: Level 12 Deloitte Building,20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington 6011

Special Note About the Venue Access: Take lifts from the ground floor to Level 12 Deloitte Reception area.

Agenda:
4:30 PM – Doors Open, Networking
5:00 PM – Talk Track #1 – Karthik Natarajan – “Amazon Q Service”
5:30 PM – Talk Track #2 – Jacob Jameson – “Terraform at Scale with Atlantis”
6:00 PM – Wrap Up, Networking, Fun, Pizza

Meetup Talk Track:
🎤 Speaker: Karthik Natarajan (LinkedIn): “Amazon Q Service!”

In this session, Karthik explores how Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant, is driving productivity gains across various domain. Attendees will discover how Amazon Q helps software developers, business intelligence analysts, and other professionals by providing fast, relevant insights and automating tasks. Karthik will also cover practical tips on utilising Amazon Q to boost overall productivity.

🎤 Speaker: Jacob Jameson (LinkedIn): “Terraform at Scale with Atlantis”

At Xero, they have hundreds of Terraform repos deploying resources over multiple cloud providers, including AWS. In this talk, Jacob will outline how Xero went from local terraform deployments to fully collaborative development and remote deployments using Atlantis and an in-house controller.

Sponsors:

A special thanks to our sponsors – AWS, Deloitte, MongoDB, CCL, Mantel group, api connects, CyberCX, inIT soluctions and Datacom for their generous financial contributions, which play a vital role in supporting the monthly expenses of AWS User Groups across Aotearoa (including Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Northland).

A big shout-out to AWS for generously providing pizza, and enhancing the overall experience for our attendees.

Our sponsors are the lifeblood of our community events, and without their support, none of this would be possible. Ngā mihi maioha!

We look forward to seeing you at the meetup! Mā te wa.

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