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 time breaks and shutting out on a few of the actions we’ve initiated this yr. 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 method 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 attempt 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 — Should you’re utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) at scale function lots of of occasion sorts throughout a number of Availability Zones and accounts, utilizing On-Demand Situations, Spot Situations, and Capability Reservations, you’ll be happy to study 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 — Generally you want manufacturing knowledge to check a repair in a non-production atmosphere 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. Study in regards to the availability of Amazon EBS Quantity Clones, a brand new functionality so that you can create immediate point-in-time copies of your EBS volumes inside the identical Availability Zone.
Extra updates
I assumed these tasks, weblog posts, and information objects have been additionally attention-grabbing:
Upcoming AWS occasions
Maintain a glance out and be certain to join these upcoming occasions:
AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — AWS flagship annual convention providing collaborative innovation by 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. Examine again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
– Veliswa.

