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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.
Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals
Gain deep visibility into AWS Lambda performance with CloudWatch Application Signals, eliminating manual monitoring complexities and improving serverless app health.
Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
Unleash unparalleled computing prowess and energy efficiency for memory-intensive workloads, from in-memory databases to real-time analytics, with C8g and M8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors.
AWS Weekly Roundup: S3 Conditional writes, AWS Lambda, JAWS Pankration, and more (August 26, 2024)
The AWS User Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks. One of the speakers at this event, Kevin Tuei, an AWS […]
Plan your advertising campaigns with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, now generally available
Advertisers can now leverage first-party data with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, enabling differentiated insights, audience discovery, and effective campaign planning and measurement while maintaining data privacy.
Integrate your data and collaborate using data preparation in AWS Glue Studio
With AWS Glue’s new visual interface, data teams can collaboratively build ETL pipelines, bridging the gap between analysts and engineers through an intuitive, shareable canvas.
Announcing the general availability of fully managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker
Use Amazon SageMaker with MLflow to track experiments, compare runs, register candidate models, and transition models from experimentation to production.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Passkey MFA, Malware Protection on Amazon S3, and more (June 17, 2024)
Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was amazing to reconnect with long-time friends and former colleagues, and […]
Run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+, now available in Amazon Bedrock
* 20 August: Code snippet in the post has been updated * In November 2023, we made two new Cohere models available in Amazon Bedrock (Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English). Today, we’re announcing the addition of two more Cohere models in Amazon Bedrock; Cohere Command R and Command R+. Organizations need generative artificial […]