• AWS News Blog 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 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. • These instances offer up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation instances. • - AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions: The service has added the hourly and data processing discounts on NAT Gateways that are service-chained with Network Firewall secondary endpoints. • Additionally, AWS Network Firewall has removed additional data processing charges for Advanced Inspection, which enables Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection of encrypted network traffic.
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- AWS unveiled a suite of updates aimed at boosting performance, security, and developer experience. New EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances deliver up to 43 % higher performance and 3.3× more memory bandwidth thanks to custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. AWS Network Firewall cut hourly and data‑processing fees for NAT‑gateway chains and removed extra charges for TLS inspection. Amazon ECS now supports Network Load Balancer for linear and canary deployments. AWS Config added 30 new resource types, while DynamoDB global tables can replicate across accounts and regions. RDS introduced a richer console with auto‑generated code snippets and CloudShell access. Security-wise, Builder ID added Sign‑in with Apple, and STS now validates custom claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI, and OCI for IAM role conditions.
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