AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn cases, new open weights fashions in Amazon Bedrock, and extra (February 16, 2026)

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) occasion household develop at a tempo that also surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered cases to specialised accelerated computing choices, it looks like each few months there’s a brand new occasion kind touchdown that pushes efficiency boundaries additional. As of February 2026, AWS provides over 1,160 Amazon EC2 occasion sorts, and that quantity retains climbing.

This week’s opening information is an effective instance: The overall availability of Amazon EC2 M8azn cases. These are normal objective, high-frequency, high-network cases powered by fifth era AMD EPYC processors, providing the very best most CPU frequency within the cloud at 5 GHz. In comparison with the earlier era M5zn cases, M8azn cases ship as much as 2x compute efficiency, 4.3x larger reminiscence bandwidth, and a 10x bigger L3 cache. Additionally they present as much as 2x networking throughput and as much as 3x Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS) throughput in contrast with M5zn.

Constructed on the AWS Nitro System utilizing sixth era Nitro Playing cards, M8azn cases goal workloads similar to real-time monetary analytics, high-performance computing, high-frequency buying and selling, CI/CD pipelines, gaming, and simulation modeling throughout automotive, aerospace, vitality, and telecommunications. The cases function a 4:1 ratio of reminiscence to vCPU and can be found in 9 sizes starting from 2 to 96 vCPUs with as much as 384 GiB of reminiscence, together with two naked steel variants. For extra data go to the Amazon EC2 M8azn occasion web page.

Final week’s launches

Listed here are among the different bulletins from final week:

• Amazon Bedrock provides help for six absolutely managed open weights fashions – Amazon Bedrock now helps DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Subsequent. These fashions span frontier reasoning and agentic coding workloads. DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 goal reasoning and agentic intelligence, GLM 4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 help autonomous coding with massive output home windows, and Qwen3 Coder Subsequent and GLM 4.7 Flash present cost-efficient options for manufacturing deployment. These fashions are powered by Undertaking Mantle and supply out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specs. With the launch, it’s also possible to use new open weight fashions–DeepSeek v3.2 , MiniMax 2.1, and Qwen3 Coder Subsequent in Kiro, a spec-driven AI improvement device.
• Amazon Bedrock expands help for AWS PrivateLink – Amazon Bedrock now helps AWS PrivateLink for the bedrock-mantle endpoint, along with present help for the bedrock-runtime endpoint. The bedrock-mantle endpoint is powered by Undertaking Mantle, a distributed inference engine for large-scale machine studying mannequin serving on Amazon Bedrock. Undertaking Mantle gives serverless inference with high quality of service controls, larger default buyer quotas with automated capability administration, and out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specs. AWS PrivateLink help for OpenAI API-compatible endpoints is offered in 14 AWS Areas. To get began, go to the Amazon Bedrock console or the OpenAI API compatibility documentation.
• Amazon EKS Auto Mode publicizes enhanced logging for managed Kubernetes capabilities – Now you can configure log supply sources utilizing Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs in Amazon EKS Auto Mode. This helps you acquire logs from Auto Mode’s managed Kubernetes capabilities for compute autoscaling, block storage, load balancing, and pod networking. Every Auto Mode functionality will be configured as a CloudWatch Vended Logs supply supply with built-in AWS authentication and authorization at a diminished worth in comparison with commonplace CloudWatch Logs. You may ship logs to CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Information Firehose locations. This function is offered in all Areas the place EKS Auto Mode is offered.
• Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now helps Assortment Teams – You should utilize new Assortment Teams to share OpenSearch Compute Items (OCUs) throughout collections with completely different AWS Key Administration Service (AWS KMS) keys. Assortment Teams cut back total OCU prices by a shared compute mannequin whereas sustaining collection-level safety and entry controls. Additionally they introduce the power to specify minimal OCU allocations alongside most OCU limits, offering assured baseline capability at startup for latency-sensitive functions. Assortment Teams can be found in all Areas the place Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is at the moment accessible.
• Amazon RDS now helps backup configuration when restoring snapshots – You may view and modify the backup retention interval and most popular backup window earlier than and through snapshot restore operations. Beforehand, restored database cases and clusters inherited backup parameter values from snapshot metadata and will solely be modified after restore was full. Now you can view backup settings as a part of automated backups and snapshots, and specify or modify these values when restoring, eliminating the necessity for post-restoration modifications. That is accessible for all Amazon RDS database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Db2) and Amazon Aurora (MySQL-Appropriate and PostgreSQL-Appropriate editions) in all AWS industrial Areas and AWS GovCloud (US) Areas at no extra price.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, make sure you keep watch over the What’s New with AWS web page.

Upcoming AWS occasions

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AWS Summits – Be part of AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person occasions the place you may discover rising cloud and AI applied sciences, study finest practices, and community with business friends and specialists. Upcoming Summits embody Paris (April 1), London (April 22), and Bengaluru (April 23–24).

AWS AI and Information Convention 2026 – A free, single-day in-person occasion on March 12 on the Lyrath Conference Centre in Eire. The convention covers designing, coaching, and deploying brokers with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and QuickSight, integrating them with AWS knowledge companies, and making use of governance practices to function them at scale. The agenda consists of strategic steerage and hands-on labs for architects, builders, and enterprise leaders.

AWS Neighborhood Days – Neighborhood-led conferences the place content material is deliberate, sourced, and delivered by neighborhood leaders, that includes technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming occasions embody Ahmedabad (February 28), Slovakia (March 11), and Pune (March 21).

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That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!

— Esra

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