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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 patrons working GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our latest graphics and AI inference cases powered by NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell structure. Together with a number of service enhancements and regional expansions, this week’s updates proceed to broaden the capabilities out there to AWS prospects.
Final week’s launches
I believed these initiatives, weblog posts, and information objects had been additionally attention-grabbing:
- Amazon EC2 G7e cases are actually usually out there — The brand new G7e cases accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Version GPUs ship as much as 2.3 occasions higher inference efficiency in comparison with G6e cases. With two occasions the GPU reminiscence and help for as much as 8 GPUs offering 768 GB of whole GPU reminiscence, these cases allow working medium-sized fashions of as much as 70B parameters with FP8 precision on a single GPU. G7e cases 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 significant 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 are actually out there, making certain Java builders have entry to the newest safety patches and efficiency enhancements.
- Amazon ECR now helps cross-repository layer sharing — Amazon Elastic Container Registry now allows you to share widespread picture layers throughout repositories via blob mounting. This characteristic helps you obtain sooner picture pushes by reusing present layers and cut back storage prices by storing widespread layers as soon as and referencing them throughout repositories.
- Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands to 4 extra areas — CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand evaluation is now out there in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). This characteristic 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 permits managers to construct dynamic guided experiences that adapt primarily based on consumer interactions. Managers can configure conditional consumer interfaces with dropdown menus that present or cover fields, change default values, or regulate required fields primarily based on prior inputs. The characteristic additionally helps computerized knowledge refresh from Join assets, making certain brokers all the time work with present info.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Maintain a glance out and make 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 essentially the most impactful bulletins and high classes from AWS re:Invent. AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr will share highlights through the opening session. Classes 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 consultants.
- AWS Group 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 classes, 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 be taught, construct, and join with builders within the AWS group. Browse for upcoming in-person and digital developer-focused occasions in your space.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
~ micah