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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 protected and heat and your information remains 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 broaden the capabilities out there to AWS clients.
Final week’s launches
I assumed these tasks, weblog posts, and information gadgets have been additionally fascinating:
- Amazon EC2 G7e situations are actually typically out there — 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 help 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 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, guaranteeing 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 lets you share widespread picture layers throughout repositories by means of blob mounting. This function helps you obtain sooner picture pushes by reusing current layers and scale back storage prices by storing widespread 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 out there in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). This function makes use of machine studying to assist determine 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 based mostly on consumer interactions. Managers can configure conditional consumer interfaces with dropdown menus that present or disguise fields, change default values, or regulate required fields based mostly on prior inputs. The function additionally helps automated information refresh from Join sources, guaranteeing brokers all the time work with present data.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Maintain 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 classes from AWS re:Invent. AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr will share highlights in the course of 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 reside 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 reside demos, and networking alternatives. This free occasion contains breakfast, lunch, and unique swag.
Be a part of the AWS Builder Heart to be taught, 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. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
~ micah