Uptempo Cloud Community

Join the AWS and DevOps conversation.

A public Slack workspace for people working with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitOps, and platform engineering. Ask questions, compare approaches, share useful tools, and keep the conversation going between Office Hours sessions.

  • Free to join
  • Public technical discussion
  • Hosted by Uptempo Cloud

Bring questions. Share what you learn.

The workspace is organized around the technologies and delivery decisions that show up in real AWS and DevOps work.

Ask in the right room

Put an AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub, or platform question where practitioners can discuss the actual constraints.

Compare tradeoffs

Discuss patterns, failure modes, handoff concerns, and why one implementation may fit better than another.

Continue after Office Hours

Carry useful links, release notes, open-source projects, and follow-up questions into an asynchronous channel.

A focused channel for each conversation

Join only the channels that match your work. Internal Uptempo Cloud operations remain in a separate private workspace.

#aws

AWS engineering

Organizations, landing zones, IAM, networking, security, cost, migrations, containers, and day-two operations.

#terraform

Infrastructure as code

Module design, state boundaries, provider strategy, testing, repository structure, scale, and client handoff.

#kubernetes

Kubernetes and EKS

Cluster architecture, add-ons, workload delivery, networking, observability, upgrades, and operating choices.

#github-gitops

GitHub and GitOps

Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC, reviews, environment controls, releases, and Git-driven operations.

#platform-engineering

Platform engineering

Developer workflows, paved roads, self-service boundaries, multi-account platforms, and maintainable interfaces.

#office-hours

Weekly Office Hours

Topics, questions, links, and follow-through around Thursday's public AWS and DevOps discussion.

Office Hours happens Thursday. Slack continues the thread.

Join the weekly public discussion at 3:00 PM Eastern, then use the community workspace for links, follow-up questions, and new topics.

Register for AWS Office Hours

Useful discussion requires a clear boundary

Treat the workspace as public. Share ideas and technical context—not credentials, client data, or confidential architecture.

  • Be direct and respectful. Challenge an idea without attacking the person presenting it.
  • No harassment, spam, recruiting blasts, unsolicited sales messages, or repeated self-promotion.
  • Do not post credentials, account IDs, client names, private diagrams, NDA material, or other confidential data.
  • Messages reflect the individual author. Community discussion is not verified client advice and creates no client relationship.
  • Use a private assessment or scoped engagement when the problem requires confidential context or accountable delivery.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Slack Community free?

Yes. Joining the public Uptempo Cloud Community workspace does not require a paid engagement.

Is this a support channel?

No. The workspace is for public technical discussion. It does not include response times, private troubleshooting, monitoring, incident response, or accountable project delivery.

Can I discuss a client or employer environment?

Discuss general patterns and sanitized constraints only. Do not share names, credentials, account identifiers, private diagrams, logs, proprietary code, or anything confidential.

How does Slack relate to AWS Office Hours?

AWS Office Hours is the live weekly conversation on Thursdays at 3:00 PM Eastern. Slack provides an asynchronous place for topics, links, and follow-up discussion between sessions.

Join the conversation

Choose the channels that match your work and introduce yourself when you are ready.

Join the Slack Community