AWS User Group Tashkent

We are proud to have EPAM Systems as a sponsor of AWS Community Day Central Asia 2026.

EPAM is a global technology company helping businesses with software engineering, digital transformation, and technology consulting.

We’re grateful to EPAM for supporting the tech community and contributing to an event that brings people, ideas, and expertise together across Central Asia.

Thank you for being part of AWS Community Day Central Asia! 🚀

🗓 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘁.

⏲ 09:00–18:00 at CAEX.

🆔 Register for FREE

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We are proud to have IT Park Uzbekistan as the General Partner of AWS Community Day Central Asia 2026.

IT Park is one of the key forces driving Uzbekistan’s technology ecosystem forward, and we’re grateful for their support in bringing the region’s cloud and tech community together.

Thank you for being part of this journey and helping us make this event happen! 🚀

🗓 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘁.

⏲ 09:00–18:00 at CAEX.

🆔 Register for FREE

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A special invitation from Jeff Barr! 👋

Jeff has a message for our community — and he’ll be joining us online on September 25th to answer your questions.

Watch his short video and get ready to bring your questions to the conference. We look forward to seeing you there!

🗓 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘁.

⏲ 09:00–18:00 at CAEX.

🆔 Register for FREE

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As we are getting closer to the conference, we want you to meet our keynote speaker.

👥 Broadcasting live from AWS.

We are pleased to welcome Jeff Barr, Vice President & Chief Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, who will give the keynote speech at AWS Community Day Central Asia.

As Chief Evangelist, Jeff spends his time with developers: authorized various AWS articles since 2004, which included new service announcements and various developer-focused content. He also speaks at community events around the world.

🤡 SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 | 09:00–18:00

🤡 CAEX, Tashkent

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🏆 AWS HERO: DENIS ASTAHOV
Pure Terraform Setup for Enterprise on AWS and How AI Can Help

On September 25, he shows how to build enterprise infrastructure using pure Terraform.

🎤 What Denis Will Cover:

– Multi-account setups using providers and assume-role patterns
– Multi-region deployments via fully dynamic provider configuration
– Setup for Global, Account, and Region level variables
– Repo/directory structures that work without a wrapper
– Why vanilla Terraform, not Terragrunt or custom scripts
– Enterprise-grade infrastructure using native Terraform alone
– How AI can help you with Terraform infrastructure

🚀 About Denis:
AWS Hero | Solutions Architect @ OpsGuru

Develops cloud solutions using Terraform.
Runs ADV-IT YouTube channel (141K+ subscribers, 18M+ views) —
one of the most popular free sources for AWS and DevOps knowledge
in the Russian-speaking community.
Professor at BCIT, teaching AWS Security.

🔗 Connect with him:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-astahov/
GitHub: https://github.com/adv4000
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adv-it

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🗓 AWS COMMUNITY DAY CENTRAL ASIA
September 25, 2026 | CAEX, Tashkent

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Lambda MicroVM vs AWS Fargate

AWS Community Builder Arman Nurgaliyev breaks down
the three compute primitives that define serverless today.

Last June, AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs.
Everyone asked: How is this different from Fargate?

September 25, Arman answers that question.

🎤 What Arman Will Cover:

– The new Lambda MicroVM primitive (launched June 2026)
– Lambda Functions: When and why to use them
– Lambda MicroVMs: The new option and when it makes sense
– Fargate: Still relevant? When to choose it
– Decision framework for picking the right compute
– Performance, cost, and operational differences
– Real-world examples of each architecture
– Serverless patterns and best practices

🚀 About Arman:
CTO @ Cloud Agnostic
AWS Community Builder (Serverless)

10 years in IT (system admin → cloud architect).
Expert in serverless and cloud-native architecture.
Recognized by AWS for contributions to the serverless community.

🔗 Connect with him:
→ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nurgaliyev/
→ Telegram: https://t.me/dev_arman


🗓 AWS COMMUNITY DAY CENTRAL ASIA
September 25, 2026 | CAEX, Tashkent

🎟 Register for FREE!

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Build an AI Call Intelligence Pipeline on AWS Bedrock

Aleksey Melnik is Head of IT at Imran, a logistics company.
He replaced a $3,000/month vendor AI add-on with a self-built pipeline.
Cost: $100-150/month. Savings: 95%+.

On September 25, he shows you how.

🎤 What Aleksey Will Cover:

– Real case study: Replacing expensive vendor AI with AWS Bedrock
– Architecting a production call-recording system
– Polling RingCentral, posting to Telegram, enriching with AI
– AWS BDA (Bedrock Data Automation) for summaries, transcripts, moderation
– Comparing BDA vs vendor-bundled AI features
– Practical async Python patterns for background enrichment
– Designing bounded-retry reliability for API flakiness
– Build-vs-buy framework for AI costs
– Running on AWS cloud instead of on-prem servers

🚀 About Aleksey:
Head of IT Imran (Logistics Company)

Aleksey spans process automation, full-stack development, vendor management.
Passionate about building things that make people's lives easier.

🔗 Connect with him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melnykoleksii

🗓 AWS COMMUNITY DAY CENTRAL ASIA
September 25, 2026 | CAEX, Tashkent

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🏆 THAT’S IT: Agentic Football Cup 2026!

🔥Huge thanks to every single one of you for coming out, coding hard, and bringing such amazing energy today! You made this event truly special.

Congrats to the winners, and shoutout to everyone who took on the challenge! 👏⚡️

📸 Event Photos
All the moments and warm smiles are right here:
👉https://disk.yandex.ru/d/i1jJJoxVVfwIiw

Thank you for being such an awesome community. See you at the next one! ⚽️💙

🚀 Meet our next speaker!

Abduvosid Malikov is an Analytics Engineer at BlueThrone.
He builds data models that turn raw event data into trusted analytics.

On September 25, he shows why ETL died and what emerged in its place.

🎤 What Abduvosid Will Cover:

– Why ETL dominated for decades (expensive storage economics)
– How cheap cloud storage (S3) changed the math
– The shift from ETL to ELT
– Moving transformation into the warehouse (SQL, not external engines)
– Why dbt exists and what problem it solved
– The analytics engineer role: bridging data engineering and analysis
– AWS data stack: S3, Athena, Redshift, and dbt
– Bringing software practices to data transformation
– A practical path into analytics engineering

🚀 About Abduvosid:
Analytics Engineer @BlueThrone (Mobile app company running 30+ applications)

Abduvosid builds data models using dbt, cloud infrastructure, and Dagster. He brings software discipline to data engineering — version control, testing, documentation, modularity.

🔗 Connect with him:
→ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-malikov/

🗓 AWS COMMUNITY DAY CENTRAL ASIA
September 25, 2026 | CAEX, Tashkent

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🥇AWS HERO: VADYM KAZULKIN

Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Java

Vadym Kazulkin is an AWS Hero. Head of Development at ip.labs.
He builds production-ready AI agents at scale.

On September 25, he shares exactly how.

🎤 What Vadym Will Cover:

– Building AI Agents with Spring AI & Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
– Implementing agents in Java
– Using MCP Streamable HTTP Client for agent communication
– The Embabel framework for intelligent path finding
– Running agents at scale on Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
– Observability in OpenTelemetry format
– Security, Memory management, and Identity controls

Why this matters: AgentCore isn't theoretical.
It's infrastructure built for real-world AI workloads.
And Vadym knows how to use it.

💼 About Vadym:
AWS Hero | Head of Development @ ip.labs

🔗 Connect with him:
→ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadymkazulkin/
→ X/Twitter: https://x.com/VKazulkin
→ GitHub: https://github.com/Vadym79
→ Website: https://vkazulkin.com

🗓 AWS COMMUNITY DAY CENTRAL ASIA
September 25, 2026 | CAEX, Tashkent

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🏆 AWS HEROES — A Program You Should Know About

Heard of AWS Heroes? They're a global group of cloud experts who share knowledge through blogs, open source, videos, conferences, and community events. Founded in 2014.

Here's the cool part: You can't apply to be a Hero (AWS nominates them internally), but there are similar programs worth your attention:

📌 AWS Community Builder
→ Application-based, 1-year renewable term
→ Exclusive learning with AWS experts
→ AWS credits + certification vouchers
→ Private Slack with direct AWS team access
→ ~2,500 builders worldwide
→ 🗓️ Next applications: January 2027

📌 AWS User Group Leader (That's Us!)
→ Run meetups in your city
→ AWS provides speakers, financial support, platform
→ No term limit — passion + commitment needed
→ Access to global organizer network

📌 AWS Student Builder Groups
→ Campus-based communities led by students 18+
→ College or university students only


💬 Here's a challenge for you:

Some of our AWS Community Day speakers ARE recognized as Heroes or Community Builders in the AWS ecosystem.

Can you guess who?

🗓 AWS COMMUNITY DAY CENTRAL ASIA
🗺 CAEX, Tashkent
🕓 09:00 – 18:00 (with coffee breaks)

Visit awsug.uz — all speaker bios, complete agenda, and session descriptions will be there!

🎟 Register now
Admission is completely FREE!

Learn more about these programs:
→ AWS Heroes: builder.aws.com/community/heroes
→ Community Builders: builder.aws.com/community/community-builders
→ User Groups: builder.aws.com/community/user-groups

See you September 25!