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Fiti AWS Scholar Neighborhood Kenya!
Final week was an unbelievable whirlwind: a spherical of meetups, hands-on workshops, and profession discussions throughout Kenya that culminated with the AWS Scholar Neighborhood Day at Meru College of Science and Know-how, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and periods on every thing from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and a complete lot of AI agent constructing.
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JAWS Days 2026 is the most important AWS Neighborhood Day on this planet, with over 1,500 attendees on March seventh. This occasion began with a keynote speech on constructing an AI-driven improvement workforce by Jeff Barr, and included over 100 technical and group expertise periods, lightning talks, and workshops equivalent to Recreation Days, Builders Card Challenges, and networking events.
Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS information…
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches and updates from this previous week that caught my consideration:
- Introducing Amazon Join Well being, Agentic AI Constructed for Healthcare — Amazon Join Well being is now usually obtainable with 5 purpose-built AI brokers for healthcare: affected person verification, appointment administration, affected person insights, ambient documentation, and medical coding. All options are HIPAA-eligible and deployable inside current medical workflows in days.
- Coverage in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now usually obtainable — Now you can use centralized, fine-grained controls for agent-tool interactions that function exterior your agent code. Safety and compliance groups can outline device entry and enter validation guidelines utilizing pure language that robotically converts to Cedar, the AWS open-source coverage language.
- Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous non-public AI brokers — You may deploy a personal AI assistant by yourself cloud infrastructure with built-in safety controls, sandboxed agent periods, one-click HTTPS, and machine pairing authentication. Amazon Bedrock serves because the default mannequin supplier, and you may connect with Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord.
- AWS broadcasts pricing for VPC Encryption Controls — Beginning March 1, 2026, VPC Encryption Controls transitions from free preview to a paid characteristic. You may audit and implement encryption-in-transit of all visitors flows inside and throughout VPCs in a area, with monitor mode to detect unencrypted visitors and implement mode to forestall it.
- Database Financial savings Plans now helps Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics — It can save you as much as 35% on eligible serverless and provisioned occasion utilization with a one-year dedication. Financial savings Plans robotically apply no matter engine, occasion household, measurement, or AWS Area.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk now presents AI-powered atmosphere evaluation — When your atmosphere well being is degraded, Elastic Beanstalk can now accumulate current occasions, occasion well being, and logs and ship them to Amazon Bedrock for evaluation, offering step-by-step troubleshooting suggestions tailor-made to your atmosphere’s present state.
- AWS simplifies IAM function creation and setup in service workflows — Now you can create and configure IAM roles straight inside service workflows by means of a brand new in-console panel, with out switching to the IAM console. The characteristic helps Amazon EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Glue, CloudFormation, and extra.
- Speed up Lambda sturdy capabilities improvement with new Kiro energy — Now you can construct resilient, long-running multi-step purposes and AI workflows sooner with AI agent-assisted improvement in Kiro. The facility dynamically masses steerage on replay fashions, step and wait operations, concurrent execution patterns, error dealing with, and deployment greatest practices.
- Amazon GameLift Servers launches DDoS Safety — Now you can shield session-based multiplayer video games in opposition to DDoS assaults with a co-located relay community that authenticates shopper visitors utilizing entry tokens and enforces per-player visitors limits, at no further price to GameLift Servers prospects.
For a full record of AWS bulletins, remember to keep watch over the What’s New with AWS web page.
From AWS group
Listed below are my private favourite posts from AWS group and my colleagues:
- I Constructed a Transportable AI Reminiscence Layer with MCP, AWS Bedrock, and a Chrome Extension — Learn to construct a persistent reminiscence layer for AI brokers utilizing MCP and Amazon Bedrock, packaged as a Chrome extension that carries context throughout periods and purposes.
- When the Mannequin Is the Machine — Mike Chambers constructed an experimental app the place an AI agent generates a whole, interactive net utility at runtime from a single immediate — no codebase, no framework, no persistent state. A thought-provoking exploration of what occurs when the mannequin turns into the runtime.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions:
- AWS Neighborhood GameDay Europe — Suppose you already know AWS? Show it on the AWS Neighborhood GameDay Europe on March 17, a gamified studying occasion the place groups compete to resolve real-world technical challenges utilizing AWS providers.
- AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2026 — Be a part of us at our AWS periods, cubicles, demos, and ancillary occasions in NVIDIA GTC 2026 on March 16 – 19, 2026 in San Jose. You may obtain 20% off occasion passes by means of AWS and request a 1:1 assembly at GTC.
- AWS Summits — Be a part of AWS Summits in 2026: free in-person occasions the place you’ll be able to discover rising cloud and AI applied sciences, study greatest practices, and community with trade friends and specialists. Upcoming Summits embody Paris (April 1), London (April 22), and Bengaluru (April 23–24).
- AWS Neighborhood Days — Neighborhood-led conferences the place content material is deliberate, sourced, and delivered by group leaders. Upcoming occasions embody Slovakia (March 11), Pune (March 21), and the AWSome Ladies Summit LATAM in Mexico Metropolis (March 28)
Browse right here for upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions, startup occasions, and developer-focused occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!