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AWS News Feb 09 - Feb 15
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- AWS News Weekly
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- Feb 16, 2026
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- 969
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Summary
This week: Bedrock adds six open-weight models through Project Mantle with higher quotas and OpenAI API compatibility, CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules let you silence notifications during maintenance without losing visibility, and MSK now manages Kafka topics directly through AWS APIs. Plus new EC2 M8azn instances hit 5GHz, Aurora Global Database automates cross-region upgrades, and Lake Formation scales to hundreds of thousands of shared tables. Compute EC2 M8azn : 5GHz (highest cloud frequency), 2x M5zn performance EC2 C8id/M8id/R8id : 43% better perf, 3x memory bandwidth, flex network/EBS Outposts : C8i/M8i/R8i support, 20% better perf, same power AI/ML Bedrock : 6 open-weight models (DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, GLM 4.7, MiniMax 2.1) Bedrock Project Mantle : Distributed inference, OpenAI API compatible, higher quotas Bedrock GovCloud : 25x higher Claude Sonnet 4.5 quotas (5M tokens/min) SageMaker HyperPod : Console node management, one-click SSM sessions Database Aurora Global DB : Auto minor upgrades across all regions, single action Aurora DSQL : Identity columns and sequences for auto-increment IDs RDS/Aurora : Configure backup settings during snapshot restore RDS PostgreSQL : 5 new versions, pg_stat_monitor extension OpenSearch Serverless : Collection Groups, shared compute across KMS keys Analytics Athena : 1-min capacity reservations, 4 DPU minimum, up to 95% savings Lake Formation : 100K+ tables cross-account sharing via wildcards S3 Tables : Partition/sort order in CreateTable API MSK : Topic management via AWS APIs/console, no Kafka client needed MSK Express : Free broker logs Operations CloudWatch Alarm Mute : Silence during maintenance, auto-trigger on expiry EKS Auto Mode : Enhanced logging to CloudWatch/S3/Firehose Elastic Beanstalk : GitHub Actions integrati…