I’ve been impressed by all of the actions that tech communities all over the world have been internet hosting and taking part 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 few of the actions we’ve initiated this 12 months. The tech group in South Africa is taking part in Amazon Q Developer coding challenges that my colleagues and I are internet hosting all through this month as a enjoyable strategy to wind down actions for the 12 months. 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 obtainable 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 strategy to coding with AI, join 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 Cases, Spot Cases, and Capability Reservations, you’ll be happy to study that EC2 Capability Supervisor is now obtainable to offer you a centralized answer 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 knowledge to check a repair in a non-production surroundings 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 concerning 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 similar Availability Zone.
Further updates
I assumed these tasks, weblog posts, and information objects have been additionally fascinating:
Upcoming AWS occasions
Maintain 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 via 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 one more Weekly Roundup!
– Veliswa.

