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Blissful New Yr! 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 subsequent cohort for Grow to be a Options Architect (BeSA). BeSA is a free mentoring program that I, together with a couple of different Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) staff, volunteer to host as a approach 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 be taught 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 acquire hands-on expertise with next-generation AI growth instruments, join with innovators globally, and entry technical enablement by means of biweekly workshops, AWS Consumer Teams, and AWS Builder Heart assets.
The deadline is January 21, 2026, and no code is required but. In case you’re chosen as a semifinalist, you’ll construct your app then. Your completed app wants to make use of Kiro for a minimum of a part of growth, keep inside AWS Free Tier limits, and be utterly authentic and never but revealed.
In case you 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 classes on-demand.
Launches from the previous couple of weeks
I’d like to spotlight some launches that acquired 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 newest sixth technology 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 increased 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 purposes deal with Direct Join Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) failover in a managed surroundings. For instance, you may validate that visitors routes to redundant digital interfaces when a major digital interface’s BGP session is disrupted and your purposes proceed to operate 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 circumstances together with safety, price, sturdiness, and operations. With this launch, you may search, uncover, allow, and handle these controls straight from AWS Management Tower to manipulate extra use circumstances throughout your multi-account surroundings.
- AWS Rework helps community conversion for hybrid information middle migrations – Now you can use AWS Rework for VMware to routinely 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 comparable to digital non-public clouds (VPCs), subnets, and safety teams.
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano obtainable 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 help, 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 straight in your Amazon EC2 APIs to ensure constant placement of assets. AZ IDs are constant and static identifiers that symbolize 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 totally different bodily areas. This mapping made it tough to make sure assets have been all the time 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 obtainable 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 Situations.
See AWS What’s New for extra launch information that I haven’t coated right here. That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
Right here’s to a implausible begin to 2026. Blissful constructing!
– Prasad
