AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)

This AWS Weekly Roundup covers the general availability of Amazon EC2 M8azn instances and several AWS service updates from the week of February 16, 2026.

• •Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are powered by 5th-gen AMD EPYC processors at 5 GHz max CPU frequency, delivering 2x compute performance, 4.3x higher memory bandwidth, and 10x larger L3 cache vs M5zn
• •Amazon Bedrock adds six open weights models including DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Next, all compatible with OpenAI API specifications
• •Amazon Bedrock expands AWS PrivateLink support to the bedrock-mantle endpoint across 14 AWS Regions
• •Amazon EKS Auto Mode adds enhanced logging via CloudWatch Vended Logs for compute autoscaling, block storage, load balancing, and pod networking
• •Amazon RDS now supports configuring backup retention period and backup window during snapshot restore for all supported database engines