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Tag: Week in Review
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora DSQL, MCP Servers, Amazon FSx, AI on EKS, and more (June 2, 2025)
It’s AWS Summit Season! AWS Summits are free in-person events that take place across the globe in major cities, bringing cloud expertise to local communities. Each AWS Summit features keynote presentations highlighting the latest innovations, technical sessions, live demos, and interactive workshops led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts. Last week, events took place at […]
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 […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)
Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community Day – Switzerland. On May 22, you can join us remotely for AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn about cutting-edge advances across compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, serverless […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)
I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)
Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Account Management updates, and more (April 28, 2025)
Summit season is in full throttle! If you haven’t been to an AWS Summit, I highly recommend you check one out that’s nearby. They are large-scale all-day events where you can attend talks, watch interesting demos and activities, connect with AWS and industry people, and more. Best of all, they are free—so all you need […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025)
Last week, we had the AWS Summit Amsterdam, one of the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) events that offers you the opportunity to learn from technical and industry leaders, and meet AWS experts and like-minded professionals. In particular, most AWS Summits have Developer and Community Lounges in their exhibition halls. A photo taken by Thembile […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025)
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last week’s launches Announcing up […]