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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.
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.
AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)
AWS Summits in the northern hemisphere have mostly concluded but the fun and learning hasn’t yet stopped for those of us in other parts of the globe. The community, customers, partners, and colleagues enjoyed a day of learning and networking last week at the AWS Summit Mexico City and the AWS Summit Jakarta. Photo by […]
AWS Backup adds new Multi-party approval for logically air-gapped vaults
Multi-party approval for AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults enables organizations to recover their backup data even when their AWS account is compromised, by creating approval teams of trusted individuals who can authorize vault sharing with a recovery account through a separate authentication path.
Amazon FSx for Lustre launches new storage class with the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class provides cost-effective, virtually unlimited elastic file storage for ML and HPC workloads that automatically optimizes costs by tiering data based on access frequency.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025)
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 […]
Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager
Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and web hosting platforms efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. CloudFront SaaS Manager can dramatically reduce operational complexity while providing high-performance content delivery and enterprise-grade security for every customer domain.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic Claude 3.7, JAWS Days, cross-account access, and more (March 3, 2025)
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 […]
Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
Find solutions to your most critical business challenges with ease. Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets.