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 time breaks and shutting out on a few 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 solution to wind down actions for the yr. The primary one was hosted in Johannesburg final Friday with Durban and Cape City arising subsequent.

Final week’s launches
These are the launches from final week that caught my consideration:
- Kiro is now accessible for each developer — Since its launch greater than 90 days in the past, greater than 100,000 builders have joined the waitlist to strive Kiro out. The waitlist is gone so if you wish to check out this spec-driven method to coding with AI, enroll now.
- Amazon EC2 Capability Supervisor — In case you’re utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) at scale function a whole lot of occasion varieties throughout a number of Availability Zones and accounts, utilizing On-Demand Cases, Spot Cases, and Capability Reservations, you’ll be happy to be taught that EC2 Capability Supervisor is now accessible to offer you a centralized answer to observe, analyze, and handle capability utilization throughout all account and AWS Areas from a single interface.
- Amazon EBS Quantity Clones — Typically you want manufacturing knowledge to check a repair in a non-production setting earlier than implementing it in manufacturing. Often you’d take an EBS snapshot of this knowledge after which create a brand new quantity from that snapshot, in the meantime coping with the operational overhead of this course of. Be taught in regards to the availability of Amazon EBS Quantity Clones, a brand new functionality so that you can create on the spot point-in-time copies of your EBS volumes inside the identical Availability Zone.
Further updates
I assumed these initiatives, weblog posts, and information gadgets had been additionally attention-grabbing:
Upcoming AWS occasions
Hold a glance out and ensure to enroll in these upcoming occasions:
AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — AWS flagship annual convention providing collaborative innovation by means of peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives.
Be a part of the AWS Builder Middle to be taught, 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.

