On the finish of 2025 I used to be joyful to take a protracted break to benefit from the unbelievable summers that the southern hemisphere offers. I’m again and writing my first put up in 2026 which additionally occurs to be my final put up for the AWS Information Weblog (extra on this later).
The AWS group is beginning the yr sturdy with numerous AWS re:invent re:Caps being hosted across the globe, with some communities already internet hosting their AWS Neighborhood Day occasions, the AWS Neighborhood Day Tel Aviv 2026 was hosted final week.
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Final week’s launches
Listed below are final week’s launches that caught my consideration:
- Kiro CLI newest options – Kiro CLI now has granular controls for internet fetch URLs, keyboard shortcuts on your customized brokers, enhanced diff views, and rather more. With these enhancements, now you can use allowlists or blocklists to limit which URLs the agent can entry, guarantee a frictionless expertise when working with a number of specialised brokers in a single session, to call a number of.
- AWS European Sovereign Cloud – Following an announcement in 2023 of plans to construct a brand new, impartial cloud infrastructure, final week we introduced the final availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to all clients. The cloud is able to meet essentially the most stringent sovereignty necessities of European clients with a complete set of AWS providers.
- Amazon EC2 X8i situations – Beforehand launched in preview at AWS re:Invent 2025, final week we introduced the final availability of recent memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i situations. These situations are powered by customized Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of three.9 GHz, obtainable solely on AWS. These SAP licensed situations ship the very best efficiency and quickest reminiscence bandwidth amongst comparable Intel processors within the cloud.
Further updates
These initiatives, weblog posts, and information articles additionally caught my consideration:
- 5 core options in Amazon Fast Suite – AWS VP Agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian talks about how he makes use of Amazon Fast Suite for nearly all the pieces. In October 2025 we introduced Amazon Fast Suite, a brand new agentic teammate that shortly solutions your questions at work and turns insights into actions for you. Amazon Fast Suite has turn out to be considered one of my favourite productiveness instruments, serving to me with my analysis on numerous subjects along with offering me with a number of views on a subject.
- Deploy AI brokers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore utilizing GitHub Actions – Final yr we introduced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a versatile service that helps you seamlessly create and handle AI brokers throughout totally different frameworks and fashions, whether or not hosted on Amazon Bedrock or different environments. Discover ways to use a GitHub Actions workflow to automate the deployment of AI brokers on AgentCore Runtime. This strategy delivers a scalable resolution with enterprise-level safety controls, offering full steady integration and supply (CI/CD) automation.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Be a part of us January 28 or 29 (relying in your time zone) for Better of AWS re:Invent, a free digital occasion the place we carry you essentially the most impactful bulletins and high periods from AWS re:Invent. Jeff Barr, AWS VP and Chief Evangelist, will share his highlights through the opening session.
There’s nonetheless time till January 21 to compete for $250,000 in prizes and AWS credit within the International 10,000 AIdeas Competitors (sure, the second letter is an I as in Concept, not an L as in like). No code required but: merely submit your thought, and when you’re chosen as a semifinalist, you’ll construct your app utilizing Kiro inside AWS Free Tier limits. Past the money prizes and potential featured placement at AWS re:Invent 2026, you’ll achieve hands-on expertise with next-generation AI instruments and join with innovators globally.
Earlier this month, the 2026 software for the Neighborhood Builders program launched. The applying is open till January twenty first, midnight PST so right here’s your final probability to make sure that you don’t miss out.
In the event you’re fascinated about these alternatives, be a part of the AWS Builder Middle to study with builders within the AWS group.
With that, I shut considered one of my most significant chapters right here at AWS. It’s been an absolute pleasure to write down for you and I thanks for taking the time to learn the work that my crew and I pour our absolute hearts into. I’ve grown from the shut collaborations with the launch groups and the suggestions from all of you. The Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) group has grown considerably, and I wish to dedicate extra time targeted on this group, I’m nonetheless at AWS and I stay up for assembly at an occasion close to you!
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