Build Club Perth - April - Getting Started with AWS Free Tier

​This month we’re getting hands-on with John Marshall taking us through a talk on Getting Started with AWS Free Tier — a practical session for anyone who’s been curious about cloud but hasn’t known where to begin (or has been nervous about accidentally racking up a bill 😅).

​We’ll walk through setting up your AWS account securely, finding your way around the Console, and understanding exactly what the Free Tier gives you. Then we’ll build real things: a static website with S3 & CloudFront, a serverless API with Lambda + DynamoDB + API Gateway, a full-stack app with Amplify, and an event-driven notification pipeline using SNS & SES — all within the free tier, all in about 30 minutes.

​We’ll then be joined Martyna Kaca in a second session taking things to the enterprise scale — how organisations actually manage AWS costs at size. We’ll cover multi-account governance, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and the tooling teams use to get visibility and control across complex cloud environments. If you’ve ever wondered how a company with hundreds of AWS accounts keeps spending under control, this is the session for you.

​Two sessions, one evening — from your first S3 bucket to org-level cost governance.

​See you on the 20th! 😅

​​The Essentials:

​​📍 Where: Hosted by our friends at Curtin Entrepreneurs Hub

​​🕒 When: Monday 20th April 5:30pm

​​💧 Bring: Your laptop and a water bottle.

​​⚠️ Note: In-person only! Please only rego if you are in Perth and definitely coming and can stay for the session. It helps us with catering numbers.

​​Huge thanks to our supporters: WADSIH, Curtin Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship, Bloom, DDD Perth, and AI.SEA for making this happen.

​​👇 Secure your spot now!

​​#BuildClub #AWS #PerthTech #AI #WAInnovation