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Fiti AWS Scholar Group Kenya!
Final week was an unimaginable whirlwind: a spherical of meetups, hands-on workshops, and profession discussions throughout Kenya that culminated with the AWS Scholar Group Day at Meru College of Science and Know-how, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and periods on the whole lot 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 Group Day on the earth, with over 1,500 attendees on March seventh. This occasion began with a keynote speech on constructing an AI-driven growth crew by Jeff Barr, and included over 100 technical and neighborhood expertise periods, lightning talks, and workshops corresponding to Recreation Days, Builders Card Challenges, and networking events.
Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS information…
Final week’s launches
Listed here 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 typically accessible 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 scientific workflows in days.
- Coverage in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now typically accessible — Now you can use centralized, fine-grained controls for agent-tool interactions that function outdoors your agent code. Safety and compliance groups can outline instrument entry and enter validation guidelines utilizing pure language that mechanically converts to Cedar, the AWS open-source coverage language.
- Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous personal AI brokers — You possibly can deploy a personal AI assistant by yourself cloud infrastructure with built-in safety controls, sandboxed agent periods, one-click HTTPS, and gadget pairing authentication. Amazon Bedrock serves because the default mannequin supplier, and you’ll hook up with Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord.
- AWS proclaims pricing for VPC Encryption Controls — Beginning March 1, 2026, VPC Encryption Controls transitions from free preview to a paid function. You possibly can 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 mechanically apply no matter engine, occasion household, dimension, or AWS Area.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk now gives AI-powered surroundings evaluation — When your surroundings well being is degraded, Elastic Beanstalk can now accumulate latest occasions, occasion well being, and logs and ship them to Amazon Bedrock for evaluation, offering step-by-step troubleshooting suggestions tailor-made to your surroundings’s present state.
- AWS simplifies IAM function creation and setup in service workflows — Now you can create and configure IAM roles immediately inside service workflows by way of a brand new in-console panel, with out switching to the IAM console. The function helps Amazon EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Glue, CloudFormation, and extra.
- Speed up Lambda sturdy features growth with new Kiro energy — Now you can construct resilient, long-running multi-step functions and AI workflows sooner with AI agent-assisted growth in Kiro. The facility dynamically hundreds 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 defend session-based multiplayer video games in opposition to DDoS assaults with a co-located relay community that authenticates consumer visitors utilizing entry tokens and enforces per-player visitors limits, at no extra price to GameLift Servers clients.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, be sure you keep watch over the What’s New with AWS web page.
From AWS neighborhood
Listed here are my private favourite posts from AWS neighborhood and my colleagues:
- I Constructed a Moveable AI Reminiscence Layer with MCP, AWS Bedrock, and a Chrome Extension — Discover ways 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 functions.
- When the Mannequin Is the Machine — Mike Chambers constructed an experimental app the place an AI agent generates an entire, 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
Verify your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions:
- AWS Group GameDay Europe — Assume you understand AWS? Show it on the AWS Group GameDay Europe on March 17, a gamified studying occasion the place groups compete to resolve real-world technical challenges utilizing AWS companies.
- 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 possibly can obtain 20% off occasion passes by way 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, be taught greatest practices, and community with trade friends and specialists. Upcoming Summits embrace Paris (April 1), London (April 22), and Bengaluru (April 23–24).
- AWS Group Days — Group-led conferences the place content material is deliberate, sourced, and delivered by neighborhood leaders. Upcoming occasions embrace 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. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
