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Pleased New 12 months! I hope the vacations gave you time to recharge and spend time along with your family members.
Like yearly, I took a couple of weeks off after AWS re:Invent to relaxation and plan forward. I used a few of that downtime to plan the following cohort for Develop into a Options Architect (BeSA). BeSA is a free mentoring program that I, together with a couple of different Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) workers, volunteer to host as a means 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 study extra.
There’s nonetheless time to submit your thought 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 way of biweekly workshops, AWS Person Teams, and AWS Builder Middle sources.
The deadline is January 21, 2026, and no code is required but. If you happen to’re chosen as a semifinalist, you’ll construct your app then. Your completed app wants to make use of Kiro for no less than a part of improvement, keep inside AWS Free Tier limits, and be utterly unique and never but printed.
If you happen to haven’t but caught up with all the brand new releases and bulletins from AWS re:Invent 2025, take a look at our high bulletins publish or watch the keynotes, innovation talks, and breakout periods on-demand.
Launches from the previous couple of weeks
I’d like to spotlight some launches that obtained my consideration since our final Week in Evaluation 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 newest sixth technology AWS Nitro Playing cards, and supply as much as 600 Gbps community bandwidth, the best community bandwidth amongst network-optimized EC2 situations. M8gb supply as much as 150 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth to supply larger 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 functions 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 major digital interface’s BGP session is disrupted and your functions proceed to perform as anticipated.
- New AWS Safety Hub controls in AWS Management Tower – AWS Management Tower now helps 176 extra Safety Hub controls within the Management Catalog, overlaying use instances together with safety, price, sturdiness, and operations. With this launch, you may search, uncover, allow, and handle these controls instantly from AWS Management Tower to manipulate extra use instances throughout your multi-account setting.
- AWS Rework helps community conversion for hybrid knowledge heart migrations – Now you can use AWS Rework for VMware to routinely 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 comparable to digital non-public clouds (VPCs), subnets, and safety teams.
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano accessible 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 possibly can specify the Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter instantly in your Amazon EC2 APIs to ensure constant placement of sources. 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 title whereas making a useful resource, however these names may map to completely different bodily places. This mapping made it tough to make sure sources had been all the time co-located, particularly when working with a number of accounts.
- Amazon ECS Managed Cases helps Amazon EC2 Spot Cases – Amazon ECS Managed Cases now helps Amazon EC2 Spot Cases, extending the vary of capabilities accessible with AWS managed infrastructure. You should utilize spare EC2 capability at as much as 90% low cost in comparison with On-Demand costs for fault-tolerant workloads in Amazon ECS Managed Cases.
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 an additional Weekly Roundup!
Right here’s to a unbelievable begin to 2026. Pleased constructing!
– Prasad