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What a weekend!
This past August 28th, I attended the largest AWS community event in my country: “AWS Community Day Bolivia 2026.”
As a Kiro Ambassador, it is my duty and delight to showcase this wonderful tool to anyone who hasn’t yet had the pleasure of working with it. Thanks to José Verbel , who pioneered the idea in Colombia of having a booth dedicated exclusively to Kiro , we replicated his idea here in Bolivia. We were very sad that he couldn’t be with us that day, but we are hopeful it will happen soon somewhere in Latin America.
At our booth, my good friend Alejandro and I welcomed countless people, handing out massive amounts of swag to those who were able to log into Kiro Web , and even Kiro credits to the most daring ones who managed to beat our challenge of live-coding an application in Kiro and showcasing it to the audience. It was amazing to see the initiative and creativity of these folks. One of our winners even managed to get Kiro CLI running on his tablet! Plus, fortune smiled upon him in the raffle, and he took home a beautiful branded jacket.
And these are some of the apps our visitors built live, from scratch, in a matter of minutes:
I want to note that most of the people who approached us asked: why choose Kiro over other solutions? The answer is simple: quality and accessibility.
Every serious developer or development team has an initial planning stage, where they shape their future application according to technical and business criteria; this very thing can be done with Kiro . Furthermore, Kiro guides you through this process with its innate ability to generate specifications and design using SDD (Spec-Driven-Development). From there, during implementation, you can combine a set of powerful features that Kiro brings to the table to make the user’s life easier. To summarize, what surprised our visitors the most was that we weren’t just talking about a regular IDE—even one with agentic capabilities—but rather a suite of interconnected products and features:
- Out-of-the-box planning and requirements engineering capabilities: Spec-Driven-Development ( SDD ).
- Working on the go, on your way to study or work from your mobile or tablet: Kiro Cloud , Kiro Mobile.
- Need to incorporate Kiro ’s capabilities into your automation and even recover your previous work by integrating it with Kiro Cloud ?: Kiro CLI .
- Need to establish a clear architecture and rules that define the scope of assisted development?: Steering Documents .
- Need to trigger actions in response to specific events?: Hooks .
- Need to extend prompts that are recurring in your workflow?: Skills .
- Need to leverage capabilities from other services?: MCP Integrations.
- Need to combine all the above and package it?: Kiro Powers .
- Need a platform to run dozens of tasks in parallel using swarms of agents?: KiroCrew .
With this, we clarify that it’s not that other products don’t offer something similar, but rather that the difference in service quality becomes apparent when you experience the speed, stability, and accuracy of the Kiro agent. It uses Amazon Bedrock under the hood (a highly proven service in the market), and on top of that, AWS engineers add optimization layers that other products lack.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t attend to everyone who stopped by in the way we would have liked, but I believe we made an excellent impression on all of them.
Aside from the booth, as I mentioned earlier, I also gave a Strands Agents workshop, where we gave away more Kiro credits and swag, but that will be a story for another post.
Thanks to José for his idea and continuous collaboration in the planning, to Alejandro for helping me at the booth, and to the event organizers who made it incredible.
Let’s talk
If you or your company would like to know more about Kiro , feel free to write to me at srinclan@arcamo.org , or find me on my networks:
