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Comfortable New 12 months! I hope the vacations gave you time to recharge and spend time together with your family members.
Like yearly, I took just a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to relaxation and plan forward. I used a few of that downtime to plan the following cohort for Grow to be a Options Architect (BeSA). BeSA is a free mentoring program that I, together with just a few different Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) workers, volunteer to host as a approach to assist individuals excel of their cloud and AI careers. We’re kicking off a 6-week cohort on “Agentic AI on AWS” beginning February 21, 2026. Go to the BeSA web site to be taught extra.
There’s nonetheless time to submit your concept for the International 10,000 AIdeas Competitors and compete for $250,000 in money prizes, AWS credit, and recognition, together with potential featured placement at AWS re:Invent 2026 and throughout AWS channels.
You’ll achieve hands-on expertise with next-generation AI improvement instruments, join with innovators globally, and entry technical enablement by biweekly workshops, AWS Person Teams, and AWS Builder Middle assets.
The deadline is January 21, 2026, and no code is required but. Should you’re chosen as a semifinalist, you’ll construct your app then. Your completed app wants to make use of Kiro for not less than a part of improvement, keep inside AWS Free Tier limits, and be fully unique and never but revealed.
Should you haven’t but caught up with all the brand new releases and bulletins from AWS re:Invent 2025, try our prime bulletins publish or watch the keynotes, innovation talks, and breakout periods on-demand.
Launches from the previous few weeks
I’d like to spotlight some launches that acquired my consideration since our final Week in Overview on December 15, 2025:
- Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb situations – New M8gn and M8gb situations are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to ship as much as 30% higher compute efficiency than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn situations function the most recent sixth technology AWS Nitro Playing cards, and supply as much as 600 Gbps community bandwidth, the very best community bandwidth amongst network-optimized EC2 situations. M8gb supply as much as 150 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth to supply increased EBS efficiency in comparison with same-sized equal Graviton4-based situations.
- AWS Direct Join helps resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service – Now you can use AWS Fault Injection Service to check how your purposes deal with Direct Join Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) failover in a managed setting. For instance, you may validate that visitors routes to redundant digital interfaces when a main digital interface’s BGP session is disrupted and your purposes proceed to operate as anticipated.
- New AWS Safety Hub controls in AWS Management Tower – AWS Management Tower now helps 176 further Safety Hub controls within the Management Catalog, protecting use circumstances together with safety, price, sturdiness, and operations. With this launch, you may search, uncover, allow, and handle these controls straight from AWS Management Tower to manipulate further use circumstances throughout your multi-account setting.
- AWS Rework helps community conversion for hybrid knowledge middle migrations – Now you can use AWS Rework for VMware to robotically convert networks from hybrid knowledge facilities. This removes handbook community mapping for environments working each VMware and different workloads. The service analyzes VLANs and IP ranges throughout all exported supply networks and maps them to AWS constructs similar to digital personal clouds (VPCs), subnets, and safety teams.
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano out there on Amazon Bedrock – Amazon Bedrock now helps NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B mannequin, NVIDIA’s newest breakthrough in environment friendly language modeling that delivers excessive reasoning efficiency, built-in device calling assist, and prolonged context processing with 256K token context window.
- Amazon EC2 helps Availability Zone ID throughout its APIs – You may specify the Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter straight in your Amazon EC2 APIs to ensure constant placement of assets. AZ IDs are constant and static identifiers that signify the identical bodily location throughout all AWS accounts, serving to you optimize useful resource placement. Previous to this launch, you had to make use of an AZ identify whereas making a useful resource, however these names might map to completely different bodily places. This mapping made it troublesome to make sure assets have been all the time co-located, particularly when working with a number of accounts.
- Amazon ECS Managed Situations helps Amazon EC2 Spot Situations – Amazon ECS Managed Situations now helps Amazon EC2 Spot Situations, extending the vary of capabilities out there with AWS managed infrastructure. You need to use spare EC2 capability at as much as 90% low cost in comparison with On-Demand costs for fault-tolerant workloads in Amazon ECS Managed Situations.
See AWS What’s New for extra launch information that I haven’t coated right here. That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
Right here’s to a unbelievable begin to 2026. Comfortable constructing!
– Prasad
