# AWS News Jan 19 - Jan 25

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Podcast: [AWS News Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aws-news-weekly-7066669)
Published: 2026-01-26T08:08:01+00:00
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## Resource

This week: EC2 G7e instances bring NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for 2.3x better AI inference, RDS Blue Green Deployments now complete switchovers in under 5 seconds, and QuickSight doubles SPICE capacity to 2TB. Plus Graviton 4 instances expand across Aurora and RDS, ECR adds cross-repo layer sharing, and Route 53 picks up .AI domains. Compute EC2 G7e : GA with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, 2.3x inference vs G6e EC2 M4 Max Mac : GA with M4 Max (16-core CPU, 40-core GPU), 25% faster builds EC2 C8gb/M8gb/R8gb : 48xlarge+metal sizes, 30% better than Graviton3, 300Gbps EBS Auto Scaling : Layered deletion protection via IAM condition keys + group safeguards Database Aurora/RDS R8g : Graviton4, 40% better perf, 29% better price-perf RDS Blue/Green : Switchovers under 5s (2s with Advanced JDBC Driver) RDS Oracle : Bare metal for SE2 BYOL (25% cheaper), Multi-AZ replicas for multi-tenant RDS SQL Server : Differential/log restores directly on Multi-AZ Storage & Containers ECR : Cross-repo blob mounting reuses layers, faster pushes, lower storage Analytics & AI/ML QuickSight : Reader table customization; SPICE now 2TB, 64K string length SageMaker Unified Studio : Cross-region Glue/Redshift table subscriptions SageMaker HyperPod : CloudWatch log links for lifecycle debugging Bedrock AgentCore Browser : Custom Chrome extension support Bedrock Reserved : Claude Sonnet 4.5 in GovCloud Security & IAM Access Denied Errors : Now include specific policy ARN that blocked request Resource Control Policies : Support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs Config : 13 new rules (Cognito MFA, EBS snapshot access, ECS non-root) Security Agent : GitHub Enterprise Cloud integration for AI code review Hybrid & Edge Outposts Gen2 : 20 new countries, C7i/M7i/R7i with 40% better perf Elastic VMware Service…

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