AWS Meetup Vienna #52 - hosted by Enspired
About the event
Autumn is arriving in Vienna — and so is our next AWS meetup! 🍂
This time we’re bringing someone who literally shaped how the world deploys infrastructure on AWS. If you’ve ever run `terraform init`, chances are high you’ve already used his code. Anton Babenko — AWS Community Hero, creator of the Terraform AWS modules (provisioned over 2 billion times worldwide), author of the Terraform Best Practices ebook, and the voice behind the Your Weekly Dose of Terraform YouTube channel — is joining us live in Vienna.
He’ll show how to close the trust gap between AI-generated Terraform and production reality. No slides-only theory: real modules, real contracts, real guardrails, live on stage. Plus: a second speaker and topic to be announced soon — stay tuned! A big thank you to enspired GmbH for hosting us and keeping the community alive! 🙌
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📍 Location enspired GmbH Wagenseilgasse 3/4, 1120 Wien
🕒 When Monday, September 28, 2026 Doors open at 17:00 for networking, food & drinks. Talks start at 18:00.
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🗓️ Agenda 17:00 – 18:00: Entry & Networking 18:00 – 18:05: Welcome and Introduction AWS Community Vienna 18:05 – 18:10: Welcome and Introduction to the sponsors (enspired) 18:10 – 18:50: "The Terraform Trust Gap: Engineering the Space Between Prompts and Production" 18:50 – 19:20: Networking break 19:20 – 20:00: "enspired by CDK" 20:00 – Open End: Networking
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"The Terraform Trust Gap: Engineering the Space Between Prompts and Production"
Speaker: Anton Babenko — AWS Community Hero / Terraform influencer / compliance.tf
About the talk: Agents can already write Terraform. That was never the hard part. The hard part is that the context going in is stale and the apply coming out is too easy to hand over, so you get code that looks right, passes your linters, even `terraform plan` passed, but still it quietly does the wrong thing in production. This talk runs one module everyone knows, `terraform-aws-modules/s3-bucket`, through the whole chain live. First I give the agent a real contract instead of a README and watch the hallucinated config disappear. Then I take one of the module's own examples and turn it into a fixture that fails the moment it drifts from the module. Then I let the agent plan changes but not apply them. A human has to approve the plan first, and apply only runs on the approved one. On stage the agent tries to apply by itself and you watch it get blocked. You leave with three things to do on Monday, every pattern working with open tooling, and an honest feedback of where the chain still breaks. No vendor account, no prompt magic.
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"enspired by CDK" Speaker: enspired GmbH — Engineering Team
About the talk: Discover how we evolved our Infrastructure as Code journey with AWS CDK — from fast early implementations to standardised, reusable, production-ready patterns and secure, universal deployments. We will share the decisions, best practices, lessons learned, and hard-earned insights that helped us understand not only how to use CDK effectively, but also when not to use it.
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💛 Sponsors: enspired GmbH — [https://www.enspired-trading.com/](https://www.enspired-trading.com/) Founded in 2020 to solve the biggest challenges in the energy industry, enspired has been pushing the boundaries of innovation since day one. Driven by the belief that technology will make the energy transition a reality, we developed a state-of-the-art optimization platform in the early days of algo trading to integrate the flexibility we need for an efficient and sustainable energy system.
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