AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)
Published: (February 9, 2026 at 03:42 PM EST)
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Source: AWS News Blog
Source: AWS News Blog
Compute
- Amazon EC2 introduces new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors.
Networking
- AWS Network Firewall announces price reductions.
- Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts for improved resiliency and workload isolation.
Security
- AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple.
- AWS STS adds validation for identity provider claims.
- Amazon CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for origins to enforce certificate‑based authentication.
AI
- Claude Opus 4.6—Anthropic’s most intelligent model—is now available in Amazon Bedrock, delivering industry‑leading performance for agentic tasks and complex coding projects.
- Amazon Bedrock adds structured outputs for consistent, machine‑readable responses that adhere to defined JSON schemas.