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Hey! It’s my first submit for 2026, and I’m writing to you whereas watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you might be you might be secure and heat and your knowledge continues to be flowing!
This week brings thrilling information for purchasers operating GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our latest graphics and AI inference situations powered by NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell structure. Together with a number of service enhancements and regional expansions, this week’s updates proceed to increase the capabilities obtainable to AWS clients.
Final week’s launches
I assumed these initiatives, weblog posts, and information gadgets had been additionally fascinating:
- Amazon EC2 G7e situations at the moment are usually obtainable — The brand new G7e situations accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Version GPUs ship as much as 2.3 occasions higher inference efficiency in comparison with G6e situations. With two occasions the GPU reminiscence and assist for as much as 8 GPUs offering 768 GB of complete GPU reminiscence, these situations allow operating medium-sized fashions of as much as 70B parameters with FP8 precision on a single GPU. G7e situations are perfect for generative AI inference, spatial computing, and scientific computing workloads. Obtainable now in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio).
- Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates — AWS launched quarterly safety and important updates for Amazon Corretto Lengthy-Time period Supported (LTS) variations of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.2, 21.0.10, 17.0.18, 11.0.30, and 8u482 at the moment are obtainable, guaranteeing Java builders have entry to the most recent safety patches and efficiency enhancements.
- Amazon ECR now helps cross-repository layer sharing — Amazon Elastic Container Registry now allows you to share frequent picture layers throughout repositories via blob mounting. This function helps you obtain quicker picture pushes by reusing current layers and scale back storage prices by storing frequent layers as soon as and referencing them throughout repositories.
- Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands to 4 further areas — CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand evaluation is now obtainable in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). This function makes use of machine studying to assist establish efficiency bottlenecks and gives particular remediation recommendation.
- Amazon Join provides conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides — Amazon Join Step-by-Step Guides now allows managers to construct dynamic guided experiences that adapt based mostly on consumer interactions. Managers can configure conditional consumer interfaces with dropdown menus that present or conceal fields, change default values, or alter required fields based mostly on prior inputs. The function additionally helps automated knowledge refresh from Join sources, guaranteeing brokers at all times work with present info.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Preserve a glance out and be certain to enroll in these upcoming occasions:
- Better of AWS re:Invent (January 28-29, Digital) — Be a part of us for this free digital occasion bringing you probably the most impactful bulletins and prime periods from AWS re:Invent. AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr will share highlights throughout the opening session. Periods run January 28 at 9:00 AM PT for AMER, and January 29 at 9:00 AM SGT for APJ and 9:00 AM CET for EMEA. Register to entry curated technical studying, strategic insights from AWS leaders, and dwell Q&A with AWS specialists.
- AWS Neighborhood Day Ahmedabad (February 28, 2026, Ahmedabad, India) — The eleventh version of this community-driven AWS convention brings collectively cloud professionals, builders, architects, and college students for expert-led technical periods, real-world use circumstances, tech expo cubicles with dwell demos, and networking alternatives. This free occasion contains breakfast, lunch, and unique swag.
Be a part of the AWS Builder Middle to study, construct, and join with builders within the AWS neighborhood. Browse for upcoming in-person and digital developer-focused occasions in your space.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
~ micah
