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Author: Veliswa Boya
Veliswa Boya is a Senior Developer Advocate, based in South Africa and working closely with the builder community in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has fulfilled many roles in tech, which range from developer to analyst, architect to cloud engineer, and now a developer advocate. Veliswa especially enjoys working with those who are new to tech—and those getting started with AWS.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026)
At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last post for the AWS News Blog (more on this later). The AWS community is starting the […]
Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
New capabilities help optimize application performance, analyze unlimited prefixes, and simplify metrics analysis through S3 Tables integration.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now integrates with Amazon S3 for seamless data access
Access FSx for NetApp ONTAP file data through S3 to enable AI/ML workloads and analytics—letting you use enterprise file data with Bedrock, SageMaker, and analytics services while it remains in your file system.
AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience
AWS Control Tower now offers Control Only Experience, enabling faster governance setup for established multi-account environments by providing access to AWS managed controls without requiring a full landing zone implementation.
Accelerate large-scale AI applications with the new Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances
Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6-B300 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which deliver 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory than previous generations, making them well suited for training and serving large-scale AI models with trillion parameters across distributed GPU clusters
Secure EKS clusters with the new support for Amazon EKS in AWS Backup
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution to back up and restore Kubernetes clusters and application data without requiring custom scripts or third-party tools.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025)
I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]
Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances
R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.