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Category: Announcements

AWS Weekly Roundup

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

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week. Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure: Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances: These new Amazon EC2 […]

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available to all customers. We first announced our plans to […]

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents

Deploy AI agents with confidence using new quality evaluations and policy controls—enabling precise boundaries on agent actions, continuous quality monitoring, and experience-based learning while maintaining natural conversation flows.

Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance

Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors’ general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.