I have fond memories of the time I built an application live at the AWS GenAI Loft London last September. AWS GenAI Lofts are back in locations such as San Francisco, Berlin, and more, to continue providing collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers. Find a loft near you for hands-on access to AI products and services, events, workshops, and networking opportunities, that you can’t miss!

Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week.

Four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS — For some situations, you might want to enable centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts or share resources across teams, or projects within your teams. In these cases, you may be concerned about security, availability, or the manageability of granting this cross-account access. We’ve announced four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS and detail each of the methods and its unique trade-offs.

Amazon ECS adds support for additional IAM condition keys — We’ve launched eight new service-specific condition keys for Identity and Access Management (IAM). These new condition keys let you create IAM policies as well as srvice control policies (SCPs) to better enforce your organizational policies in containerized environments. You can use IAM condition keys to author policies that enforce access control based on API request context.

AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer — AWS Chatbot has been renamed to Amazon Q Developer, representing an enhancement to developer productivity through generative AI-powered capabilities. Furthermore, this update is an enhancement of our chat-based DevOps capabilities. By combining the proven functionality of AWS Chatbot with the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Q, we’re providing developers with more intuitive, efficient tools for cloud resource management.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Amazon Bedrock — We’re expanding the foundation models (FM) offerings of Amazon Bedrock and we’ve announced the availability of Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet FM in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date. It stands out as their first hybrid reasoning model capable of producing quick responses or extended thinking, meaning it can work through difficult problems using careful, step-by-step reasoning.

Other AWS news
JAWS-UG (Japan AWS User Group) is the largest AWS user group in the world, and holds JAWS Days every year with over a thousand participants from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The March 1st event started with a keynote speech on next-generation development by Jeff Barr (VP of AWS Evangelism), and included over 100 technical and community experience sessions, lightning talks, and workshops such as Game Days, Builders Card Challenges, and networking parties. If you want to experience the most active AWS community event in the world, I recommend attending next year.

Amazon Q Developer now generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas — Announced as available in preview at AWS reinvent 2024, Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas to help you build machine learning (ML) models using natural language.

Applications for the 2025 AWS Cloud Club Captains Program are still open through March 6th. AWS Cloud Clubs are student-led groups for post-secondary and independent students, 18 years old and over. Find a club near you on the Meetup page.

From community.aws
Here are some of my favorite posts from community.aws:

DevSecOps on AWS: Secure, Automate, and Have a Laugh Along the Way – Discover how DevSecOps on AWS transforms your development pipeline by integrating security from the very first commit to production deployment, by Ahmed Mohamed.

Find out how to earn 100 percent free AWS certification vouchers in Opportunity to earn free AWS Certification Vouchers, published by Anand Joshi.

In the post, Boost SaaS Onboarding & Retention with AWS AI & Automation, Kaumudi Tiwari details how to navigate endless forms, generic guides, and a cluttered interface when signing up for a new software as a service (SaaS) platform.

My colleague Dennis Traub has published helpful step-by-step guides on how to use reasoning capabilities with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet in your C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript, or Python applications. Find these posts and much more generative AI-related content in the Gen AI Space on community.aws.

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

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: Milan, Italy (April 2), Bay Area – Security Edition (April 4), Timișoara, Romania (April 10), and Prague, Czech Republic (April 29).

AWS Innovate: Generative AI + Data – Join a free online conference focusing on generative AI and data innovations. Available in multiple geographic regions: APJC and EMEA (March 6), North America (March 13), Greater China Region (March 14), and Latin America (April 8).

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: Paris (April 9), Amsterdam (April 16), London (April 30), and Poland (May 5).

AWS re:Inforce – AWS re:Inforce (June 16–18) in Philadelphia, PA, is our annual learning event devoted to all things AWS Cloud security. Registration opens in March, so be ready to join more than 5,000 security builders and leaders.

AWS DevDays are free, technical events where developers can learn about some of the hottest topics in cloud computing. DevDays offer hands-on workshops, technical sessions, live demos, and networking with AWS technical experts and your peers. Register to access AWS DevDays sessions on demand.

Create your AWS Builder ID and reserve your alias. Builder ID is a universal login credential that gives you access—beyond the AWS Management Console—to AWS tools and resources, including over 600 free training courses, community features, and developer tools such as Amazon Q Developer.

AWS Training and Certification hosts free training events, both online and in-person, that help you get the most out of the AWS Cloud. Register to gain foundational cloud knowledge or dive deep in a technical area. Join AWS experts for training events that meet your goals, such as AWS Discovery Days, in-person. and virtual events at AWS Skills Centers including the one in Cape Town.

You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events here.

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

– Veliswa

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

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