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Three weeks in the past, I printed a put up concerning the new AWS Area in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an unimaginable alternative to go to New Zealand, the place I met passionate builders and offered at a number of occasions together with Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Instruments and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Golf equipment in Auckland, and AWS Group Day New Zealand.
Throughout my content material creation course of for these shows, I found a helpful function in Amazon Q CLI referred to as tangent mode. This function has reworked how I keep centered by creating dialog checkpoints that allow you to discover aspect subjects with out shedding your fundamental thread.
This function is in experimental mode, and you may allow it with q settings chat.enableTangentMode true. Attempt it out and see if it helps you.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that bought my consideration:
- New Basis Fashions in Amazon Bedrock — Amazon Bedrock expands its mannequin choice with Qwen mannequin household, DeepSeek-V3.1, and Stability AI picture providers now usually obtainable, giving builders entry to highly effective multilingual fashions and superior picture technology capabilities for textual content technology, code technology, picture creation, and complicated problem-solving duties.
- Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer Expands to Seven New Areas — Community Entry Analyzer capabilities are actually obtainable in extra areas, serving to clients analyze and troubleshoot community connectivity points throughout their VPC infrastructure with improved world protection.
- Amazon Q Developer Helps Distant MCP Servers — Amazon Q Developer now integrates with distant Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling builders to increase their AI assistant capabilities with customized instruments and information sources for enhanced growth workflows.
- AWS Step Features Enhances Distributed Map with New Information Supply Choices — Step Features introduces extra information supply choices and improved observability options for Distributed Map, making it simpler to course of large-scale parallel workloads with higher monitoring and debugging capabilities.
- Amazon Corretto 25 Typically Obtainable — Amazon’s no-cost, multiplatform distribution of OpenJDK 25 is now usually obtainable, offering Java builders with long-term help, efficiency enhancements, and safety updates for constructing trendy functions.
- Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Introduces Autoscaling — SageMaker HyperPod now helps computerized scaling capabilities, permitting machine studying groups to dynamically modify compute assets based mostly on workload calls for, optimizing each efficiency and price for distributed coaching jobs.
Extra Updates
- AWS Named Chief in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants – AWS has been acknowledged as a Chief in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, highlighting Amazon Q Developer’s capabilities in serving to builders write code sooner and extra securely with AI-powered options.
- Turn into an AWS Cloud Membership Captain – Solely a few days earlier than it closes! Be part of a rising community of pupil cloud fanatics by changing into an AWS Cloud Membership Captain! As a Captain, you’ll get to arrange occasions and construct cloud communities whereas growing management expertise. The applying window is open September 1-28, 2025.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join these upcoming AWS occasions in addition to AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits:
- AWS AI Agent World Hackathon – That is your likelihood to dive deep into our highly effective generative AI stack and create one thing actually superior. From September eighth to October twentieth, you have got the chance to create AI brokers utilizing AWS suite of AI providers, competing for over $45,000 in prizes and unique go-to-market alternatives.
- AWS Gen AI Lofts – You’ll be able to be taught AWS AI services with unique periods and meet industry-leading consultants, and have priceless networking alternatives with buyers and friends. Register in your nearest metropolis: Mexico Metropolis (September 30–October 2), Paris (October 7–21), London (Oct 13–21), and Tel Aviv (November 11–19).
- AWS Group Days – Be part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and {industry} leaders from around the globe: South Africa (September 20), Bolivia (September 20), Portugal (September 27), and Manila (October 4-5).
You’ll be able to browse all upcoming AWS occasions and AWS startup occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
Completely happy constructing!
— Donnie