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Hey! It’s my first publish for 2026, and I’m writing to you whereas watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you’re you’re protected and heat and your information continues to be flowing!
This week brings thrilling information for purchasers operating 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 increase the capabilities obtainable to AWS clients.
Final week’s launches
I assumed these tasks, weblog posts, and information gadgets had been additionally attention-grabbing:
- Amazon EC2 G7e cases are actually usually obtainable — 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 assist for as much as 8 GPUs offering 768 GB of complete GPU reminiscence, these cases allow operating 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. Out there now in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio).
- Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates — AWS launched quarterly safety and important 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 obtainable, 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 frequent picture layers throughout repositories via blob mounting. This function helps you obtain sooner picture pushes by reusing current layers and scale back storage prices by storing frequent 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 obtainable 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 supplies particular remediation recommendation.
- Amazon Join provides conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides — Amazon Join Step-by-Step Guides now allows 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 conceal fields, change default values, or modify required fields based mostly on prior inputs. The function additionally helps computerized information refresh from Join sources, making certain brokers all the time work with present info.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Hold a glance out and ensure to enroll in these upcoming occasions:
- Better of AWS re:Invent (January 28-29, Digital) — Be part of us for this free digital occasion bringing you probably 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. Periods 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 instances, tech expo cubicles with reside demos, and networking alternatives. This free occasion consists of breakfast, lunch, and unique swag.
Be part of the AWS Builder Middle 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. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
~ micah