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Glad New Yr! I hope the vacations gave you time to recharge and spend time together with your family members.
Like yearly, I took a number of weeks off after AWS re:Invent to relaxation and plan forward. I used a few of that downtime to plan the subsequent cohort for Grow to be a Options Architect (BeSA). BeSA is a free mentoring program that I, together with a number of different Amazon Net Companies (AWS) staff, volunteer to host as a approach to assist folks 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 may be nonetheless time to submit your concept for the World 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 via biweekly workshops, AWS Person Teams, and AWS Builder Middle sources.
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 utterly 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 submit 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 bought my consideration since our final Week in Overview on December 15, 2025:
- Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb cases – New M8gn and M8gb cases are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to ship as much as 30% higher compute efficiency than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn cases function the most recent sixth era AWS Nitro Playing cards, and supply as much as 600 Gbps community bandwidth, the very best community bandwidth amongst network-optimized EC2 cases. M8gb supply as much as 150 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth to supply larger EBS efficiency in comparison with same-sized equal Graviton4-based cases.
- 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 atmosphere. For instance, you’ll be able to 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, protecting use instances together with safety, value, sturdiness, and operations. With this launch, you’ll be able to search, uncover, allow, and handle these controls immediately from AWS Management Tower to control extra use instances throughout your multi-account atmosphere.
- AWS Rework helps community conversion for hybrid information heart migrations – Now you can use AWS Rework for VMware to mechanically convert networks from hybrid information facilities. This removes guide 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 akin to digital non-public 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 software 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 immediately in your Amazon EC2 APIs to ensure constant placement of sources. AZ IDs are constant and static identifiers that characterize 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 may map to completely different bodily areas. This mapping made it troublesome to make sure sources had been at all times 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 should 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 implausible begin to 2026. Glad constructing!
– Prasad