AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)

This AWS Weekly Roundup covers notable launches from February 9, 2026, spanning compute, networking, security, and AI.

• •New EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by Intel Xeon 6 offer up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth vs. prior gen.
• •Amazon ECS adds NLB support for Linear and Canary deployments, enabling managed incremental traffic shifting for TCP/UDP workloads.
• •AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple alongside existing Google sign-in.
• •Claude Opus 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock for agentic tasks, complex coding, and enterprise-grade workflows.
• •Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs that conform to user-defined JSON schemas for predictable production workflows.