AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn situations, 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 situations to specialised accelerated computing choices, it appears like each few months there’s a brand new occasion kind touchdown that pushes efficiency boundaries additional. As of February 2026, AWS presents over 1,160 Amazon EC2 occasion sorts, and that quantity retains climbing.

This week’s opening information is an efficient instance: The final availability of Amazon EC2 M8azn situations. These are basic function, high-frequency, high-network situations powered by fifth era AMD EPYC processors, providing the best most CPU frequency within the cloud at 5 GHz. In comparison with the earlier era M5zn situations, M8azn situations ship as much as 2x compute efficiency, 4.3x greater 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 situations goal workloads comparable to real-time monetary analytics, high-performance computing, high-frequency buying and selling, CI/CD pipelines, gaming, and simulation modeling throughout automotive, aerospace, power, and telecommunications. The situations 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 assist 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 assist autonomous coding with giant output home windows, and Qwen3 Coder Subsequent and GLM 4.7 Flash present cost-efficient options for manufacturing deployment. These fashions are powered by Challenge Mantle and supply out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specs. With the launch, you may also use new open weight fashions–DeepSeek v3.2 , MiniMax 2.1, and Qwen3 Coder Subsequent in Kiro, a spec-driven AI improvement instrument.
• Amazon Bedrock expands assist for AWS PrivateLink – Amazon Bedrock now helps AWS PrivateLink for the bedrock-mantle endpoint, along with present assist for the bedrock-runtime endpoint. The bedrock-mantle endpoint is powered by Challenge Mantle, a distributed inference engine for large-scale machine studying mannequin serving on Amazon Bedrock. Challenge Mantle offers serverless inference with high quality of service controls, greater default buyer quotas with automated capability administration, and out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specs. AWS PrivateLink assist for OpenAI API-compatible endpoints is out there in 14 AWS Areas. To get began, go to the Amazon Bedrock console or the OpenAI API compatibility documentation.
• Amazon EKS Auto Mode proclaims 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 gather logs from Auto Mode’s managed Kubernetes capabilities for compute autoscaling, block storage, load balancing, and pod networking. Every Auto Mode functionality may be configured as a CloudWatch Vended Logs supply supply with built-in AWS authentication and authorization at a decreased worth in comparison with customary CloudWatch Logs. You may ship logs to CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Knowledge Firehose locations. This function is out there in all Areas the place EKS Auto Mode is out there.
• Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now helps Assortment Teams – You need to use new Assortment Teams to share OpenSearch Compute Models (OCUs) throughout collections with completely different AWS Key Administration Service (AWS KMS) keys. Assortment Teams cut back total OCU prices by way of 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 purposes. Assortment Teams can be found in all Areas the place Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is at present out there.
• Amazon RDS now helps backup configuration when restoring snapshots – You may view and modify the backup retention interval and most well-liked backup window earlier than and through snapshot restore operations. Beforehand, restored database situations 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 out there for all Amazon RDS database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Db2) and Amazon Aurora (MySQL-Suitable and PostgreSQL-Suitable editions) in all AWS business Areas and AWS GovCloud (US) Areas at no further price.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, you should definitely regulate the What’s New with AWS web page.

Upcoming AWS occasions

Verify your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions:

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

AWS AI and Knowledge 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 steering and hands-on labs for architects, builders, and enterprise leaders.

AWS Group Days – Group-led conferences the place content material is deliberate, sourced, and delivered by group 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. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

— Esra

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