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Author: Veliswa Boya
Veliswa Boya is a Senior Developer Advocate, based in South Africa and working closely with the builder community in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has fulfilled many roles in tech, which range from developer to analyst, architect to cloud engineer, and now a developer advocate. Veliswa especially enjoys working with those who are new to tech—and those getting started with AWS.
Amazon FSx for Lustre launches new storage class with the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class provides cost-effective, virtually unlimited elastic file storage for ML and HPC workloads that automatically optimizes costs by tiering data based on access frequency.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025)
As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge AI/ML tools, and more. Right here in South Africa I attended the Data & AI Community […]
Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager
Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and web hosting platforms efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. CloudFront SaaS Manager can dramatically reduce operational complexity while providing high-performance content delivery and enterprise-grade security for every customer domain.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic Claude 3.7, JAWS Days, cross-account access, and more (March 3, 2025)
I have fond memories of the time I built an application live at the AWS GenAI Loft London last September. AWS GenAI Lofts are back in locations such as San Francisco, Berlin, and more, to continue providing collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers. Find a loft near you for hands-on access to […]
Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
Find solutions to your most critical business challenges with ease. Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets.
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications
Simplify data replication and ingestion from applications such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Zendesk, to Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift.
New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
With custom connectors and reranking models, you can enhance RAG applications by enabling direct ingestion to knowledge bases without requiring a full sync, and improving response relevance through advanced reranking models.
Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals
Gain deep visibility into AWS Lambda performance with CloudWatch Application Signals, eliminating manual monitoring complexities and improving serverless app health.