I’ve been impressed by all of the actions that tech communities around the globe have been internet hosting and collaborating in all year long. Right here within the southern hemisphere we’re beginning to dream about our upcoming summer season breaks and shutting out on a number of the actions we’ve initiated this yr. The tech group in South Africa is collaborating in Amazon Q Developer coding challenges that my colleagues and I are internet hosting all through this month as a enjoyable approach to wind down actions for the yr. The primary one was hosted in Johannesburg final Friday with Durban and Cape City developing subsequent.

Final week’s launches
These are the launches from final week that caught my consideration:
- Kiro is now out there for each developer — Since its launch greater than 90 days in the past, greater than 100,000 builders have joined the waitlist to attempt Kiro out. The waitlist is gone so if you wish to check out this spec-driven strategy to coding with AI, enroll now.
- Amazon EC2 Capability Supervisor — For those who’re utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) at scale function tons of of occasion varieties throughout a number of Availability Zones and accounts, utilizing On-Demand Situations, Spot Situations, and Capability Reservations, you’ll be happy to study that EC2 Capability Supervisor is now out there to supply you a centralized resolution to watch, analyze, and handle capability utilization throughout all account and AWS Areas from a single interface.
- Amazon EBS Quantity Clones — Generally you want manufacturing information to check a repair in a non-production surroundings earlier than implementing it in manufacturing. Often you’d take an EBS snapshot of this information after which create a brand new quantity from that snapshot, in the meantime coping with the operational overhead of this course of. Study in regards to the availability of Amazon EBS Quantity Clones, a brand new functionality so that you can create instantaneous point-in-time copies of your EBS volumes inside the similar Availability Zone.
Extra updates
I assumed these initiatives, weblog posts, and information gadgets have been additionally fascinating:
Upcoming AWS occasions
Maintain a glance out and make certain to enroll in these upcoming occasions:
AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — AWS flagship annual convention providing collaborative innovation by peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives.
Be part of the AWS Builder Heart to study, construct, and join with builders within the AWS group. Browse right here for upcoming in-person and digital developer-focused occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
– Veliswa.
