This AWS Weekly Roundup covers major AWS launches for the week of February 23, 2026, with a strong focus on AI tools, compute instances, and security improvements.
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock, offering near Opus 4.6 intelligence at lower cost for high-volume coding and knowledge work
- •Kiro, AWS's agentic AI development tool, is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for developers in regulated environments
- •New open-source Agent Plugins for AWS extend coding agents with skills to deploy applications, generate architecture recommendations, cost estimates, and infrastructure-as-code
- •Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors deliver up to 40% higher performance with 300 Gbps EFA networking for HPC workloads
- •Amazon Aurora now applies server-side encryption by default to all new database clusters using AWS-owned keys at no additional cost or performance impact
- •AWS DevOps Agent has handled thousands of escalations internally at A
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