All In at AWS Community Day Midwest

Six Feet Up is proud to join AWS Community Day Midwest 2026 as a Bronze Sponsor, taking the stage for two talks, and hosting a cybersecurity card game.

The 8th annual one-day, user-run technical conference is planned, organized, and delivered entirely by AWS user group leaders across the region. It will take place June 24 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Indianapolis, right in our backyard.

Deep Roots in the AWS Community

Our connection to this event runs deeper than a sponsorship. AWS has been part of our toolkit since the early days of cloud.

Our CTO and co-founder Calvin Hendryx-Parker and field CTO Chris Williams are both AWS Heroes, a distinction Amazon awards to individuals recognized by the broader developer community for their leadership and contributions. There are fewer than 50 AWS Heroes in the United States, and we have two of them.

Calvin also founded IndyAWS, the monthly Indianapolis AWS user group that helps make AWS Community Day Midwest possible each year. Supporting events like Community Day is part of how we give back to the community that has shaped our work.

Six Feet Up on Stage

Our team will be presenting two sessions and hosting an interactive cybersecurity card game at this year's event.

IAM Drift Is Quietly Killing Your Cloud Security

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, AWS Hero and Six Feet Up CTO, walks through a proven maturity model for using Cloud Custodian to detect high-risk IAM artifacts, automate owner notifications, and apply staged remediation across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Write your compliance guardrails once and run them everywhere.

Reclaim Your Cloud: Intro to Cloud Custodian

Six Feet Up Senior Software Engineer Jeff Licquia introduces Cloud Custodian, the open source, Python-based governance tool that lets you write YAML policies to catch misconfigurations in real time, run compliance scans on a schedule, and automatically cut costs from idle resources. You'll leave with practical examples and a clear plan to automate governance without vendor lock-in.

Play B0rks With Us

We're also hosting an interactive session of B0rks, an open source cybersecurity card game that draws from MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, and the Cyber Kill Chain. Teams face realistic attack scenarios and race to propose credible mitigations across five kill-chain stages.

See You There

We look forward to connecting with fellow AWS enthusiasts and being part of a day built by and for the community.

If you're attending, come find the Six Feet Up team. Use code sixfeetup_20 for 20% off your ticket at midwestcommunityday.com.