AWS Summits within the northern hemisphere have largely concluded however the enjoyable and studying hasn’t but stopped for these of us in different elements of the globe. The group, prospects, companions, and colleagues loved a day of studying and networking final week on the AWS Summit Mexico Metropolis and the AWS Summit Jakarta.
- Photograph by Nelly Andrade (AWS Summit Mexico Metropolis)
- Photograph by Shafraz Rahim (AWS Summit Jakarta)
Final week’s launches
These are the launches from final week that caught my consideration:
- OpenAI open weight fashions on AWS — OpenAI open weight fashions (gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b) at the moment are out there on AWS. These open weight fashions excel at coding, scientific evaluation, and mathematical reasoning, with efficiency akin to main alternate options.
- Amazon Elastic VMware Service — Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a brand new AWS service that permits you to run VMware Cloud Basis (VCF) environments instantly inside your Amazon Digital Personal Cloud (Amazon VPC), is now usually out there.
- Automated Reasoning checks — Automated Reasoning checks, a brand new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails coverage that was previewed throughout AWS re:Invent, is now usually out there. Automated Reasoning checks helps you validate the accuracy of content material generated by basis fashions (FMs) in opposition to a site information. Learn extra in Danilo’s put up on how this may also help stop factual errors that may be attributable to AI hallucinations.
- Multi-Area software restoration service — In this put up, Sébastien writes concerning the announcement of Amazon Utility Restoration Controller (ARC) Area swap, a completely managed, extremely out there functionality that permits organizations to plan, observe, and orchestrate Area switches with confidence, eliminating the uncertainty round cross-Area restoration operations.
Further updates
I believed these tasks, weblog posts, and information gadgets have been additionally fascinating:
Upcoming AWS occasions
Preserve a glance out and make certain to join these upcoming occasions:
AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — AWS’s flagship annual convention providing collaborative innovation by way of peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives.
AWS Summits — Be a part of free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Developing quickly are the summits at São Paulo (August 13) and Johannesburg (August 20).
AWS Group Days — Be a part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and business leaders from all over the world: Australia (August 15), Adria (September 5), Baltic (September 10), Aotearoa (September 18), and South Africa (September 20).
Be a part of the AWS Builder Heart 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. Examine again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
– Veliswa.