Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared their technical expertise and experiences.
The highlight was definitely Jeff Barr, AWS Vice President & Chief Evangelist, delivering an inspiring keynote titled “Next-Generation Software Development”, which set the perfect tone for the day. The day kicked off with welcoming remarks from Vatsun Thirapatarapong, AWS Country Manager for Thailand, and was made even more special thanks to the tremendous support from both the AWS User Group volunteers and the AWS Thailand team.
Here’s a photo capturing the excitement from the event:
Last week’s AWS Launches
There are 30+ launches last week and here are some launches that caught my attention:
DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS — Channy wrote on how you can now deploy DeepSeek-R1 models in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI. This helps you to build and scale generative AI applications with minimal infrastructure investment.
Amazon S3 Tables increases table limit to 10,000 per bucket — S3 Tables now supports creating up to 10,000 tables in each table bucket, allowing you to scale up to 100,000 tables across 10 buckets within an AWS Region per account.
Amazon S3 Metadata now generally available — S3 Metadata provides automated and easily queried metadata that updates in near real-time, simplifying business analytics and real-time inference applications. It supports both system-defined and custom metadata, including integration with AWS analytics services.
AWS Amplify adds TypeScript Data client support for Lambda functions — Developers can now use the Amplify Data client within AWS Lambda functions, enabling consistent type-safe data operations across frontend and backend applications.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds Python 3.13, .NET 9, and PHP 8.4 support on Amazon Linux 2023 — AWS Elastic Beanstalk brings the latest language features and improvements to application deployments while benefiting from Amazon Linux 2023 enhanced security and performance features.
From community.aws
Here’s my top 5 personal favorites posts from community.aws:
- Deploying DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama Models on Amazon Bedrock by Manu Mishra
- Building Tile Slide by Yash
- Farm, Build, Fight! The survival RPG you never knew you needed by AgentOk
- PEP and PDP for Secure Authorization with Cognito by Jimmy Dahlqvist
- Q-Bits: Simplifying VPC configurations setup with AWS CloudFormation using Amazon Q Developer by Suruchi Saxena
Upcoming AWS and community events
Check your calendars and sign up for upcoming AWS and community events:
- AWS Korea re:Invent reCap Online, February 2-4 — A virtual event recapping key announcements and innovations from re:Invent 2023 for the Korean audience.
- AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming AWS Community Day is in Ahmedabad (February 8).
- AWS Public Sector Day London, February 27 — Join public sector leaders and innovators to explore how AWS is enabling digital transformation in government, education, and healthcare.
- AWS Innovate GenAI + Data Edition — A free online conference focusing on generative AI and data innovations. Available in multiple Regions: APJC and EMEA (March 6), North America (March 13), Greater China Region (March 14), and Latin America (April 8).
Browse more upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual developer-focused events.
AWS Community re:Invent re:Caps
Lastly, if you want to learn about top announcements and innovations from AWS re:Invent, the AWS Community shares a summary from a community perspective of these announcements so you can get up to speed. Download the AWS Community re:Invent re:Caps deck.
That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!
— Donnie
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