AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI fashions, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and extra (August 11, 2025)

AWS Summits within the northern hemisphere have largely concluded however the enjoyable and studying hasn’t but stopped for these of us in different components of the globe. The neighborhood, clients, companions, and colleagues loved a day of studying and networking final week on the AWS Summit Mexico Metropolis and the AWS Summit Jakarta.

Final week’s launches
These are the launches from final week that caught my consideration:

• OpenAI open weight fashions on AWS — OpenAI open weight fashions (gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b) are actually out there on AWS. These open weight fashions excel at coding, scientific evaluation, and mathematical reasoning, with efficiency corresponding to main options.
• Amazon Elastic VMware Service — Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a brand new AWS service that permits you to run VMware Cloud Basis (VCF) environments immediately inside your Amazon Digital Non-public Cloud (Amazon VPC), is now typically out there.
• Automated Reasoning checks — Automated Reasoning checks, a brand new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails coverage that was previewed throughout AWS re:Invent, is now typically out there. Automated Reasoning checks helps you validate the accuracy of content material generated by basis fashions (FMs) in opposition to a site data. Learn extra in Danilo’s put up on how this may help forestall factual errors that may be brought on by AI hallucinations.
• Multi-Area software restoration service — In this put up, Sébastien writes concerning the announcement of Amazon Software Restoration Controller (ARC) Area change, a totally managed, extremely out there functionality that permits organizations to plan, follow, and orchestrate Area switches with confidence, eliminating the uncertainty round cross-Area restoration operations.

Further updates
I assumed these initiatives, weblog posts, and information objects had been additionally fascinating:

Upcoming AWS occasions
Maintain a glance out and make certain to join these upcoming occasions:

AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — AWS’s flagship annual convention providing collaborative innovation via peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives.

AWS Summits — Be a part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. Developing quickly are the summits at São Paulo (August 13) and Johannesburg (August 20).

AWS Neighborhood Days — Be a part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and trade leaders from around the globe: Australia (August 15), Adria (September 5), Baltic (September 10), Aotearoa (September 18), and South Africa (September 20).

Be a part of the AWS Builder Middle to study, construct, and join with builders within the AWS neighborhood. Browse right here for upcoming in-person and digital developer-focused occasions.

That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

– Veliswa.