As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge AI/ML tools, and more. Right here in South Africa I attended the Data & AI Community in Durban for a day of inspiration and learning from the community. In India, the AWS Community Day Bengaluru brought together hundreds of passionate tech enthusiasts for a day of learning and networking.

Last week’s launches
Here are the launches that got my attention:

• Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic – Anthropic launched the next generation of Claude models today—Opus 4 and Sonnet 4—designed for coding, advanced reasoning, and the support of the next generation of capable, autonomous AI agents. Both models are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, giving you immediate access to both the model’s advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities.
• Centralize visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS Regions and accounts with EKS Dashboard – We announced EKS Dashboard, a centralized display that enables cloud architects and cluster administrators to maintain organization-wide visibility across their Kubernetes clusters.
• AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates – We introduced the AWS Product Lifecycle page to consolidate all service availability information in one convenient location. With the AWS Product Lifecycle page, you get detailed visibility into services closing access to new customers, services that have announced end of support, and services that have reached their end of support date.
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection integrates with AWS User Notifications – You can configure sophisticated alert rules based on service, account, or other cost dimensions to identify and respond to unexpected spending changes faster using AWS User Notifications via Amazon EventBridge.
• Amazon DynamoDB local on AWS CloudShell – You can now start DynamoDB local just by using dynamodb-local alias in CloudShell to develop and test your DynamoDB tables anywhere in the console without downloading or installing the AWS CLI nor DynamoDB local.
• We are accelerating IPv6 support across AWS services. Last week, we started to support publicly access EC2 instances over IPv6 using EC2 Public DNS names, our new dual-stack endpoints to connect to AWS Organizations, and a dual-stack PrivateLink interface VPC endpoints to Amazon Lightsail. To lean more, visit What’s New for IPv6 launches.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New with AWS? page.

Additional updates
Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that you might find interesting:

• Building AI Agents with Strands – Earlier this month we announced Strands Agents, an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of code. To help you get started with this SDK, my colleague Dennis Traub has started a series of guides on how to build AI agents with Strands.
• Build Games with Amazon Q CLI campaign – If you’re located in the Asia Pacific, Japan or China region (APJC), join the campaign and create a game. Share your experience between 20th May – 20th June 2025 and a T-shirt will be shipped to you. Here is an example to build a chess game with Amazon Q CLI.
• How to secure your EC2 instances with multi-factor authentication (MFA) – You can learn how to enhance your Amazon Linux 2023 EC2 instance security by implementing MFA with Google Authenticator. This setup requires users to provide both their SSH key pair and a time-based one-time password from their application when connecting to instances, adding an essential extra layer of protection.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars and sign up for these upcoming AWS events:

• AWS Summits – Join free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Register in your nearest city: Tel Aviv (May 28), Singapore (May 29), Stockholm (June 4), Sydney (June 4–5), Washington (June 10-11), and Madrid (June 11).
• AWS re:Inforce – Mark your calendars for AWS re:Inforce (June 16–18) in Philadelphia, PA. AWS re:Inforce is a learning conference focused on AWS security solutions, cloud security, compliance, and identity.
• AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: Milwaukee, USA (June 5), and Nairobi, Kenya (June 14).

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

– Veliswa.