Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026)

AWS Weekly Roundup for January 2026 covering compute, networking, security, and AI service launches.

• •EC2 M8gn/M8gb instances on Graviton4 deliver up to 30% better performance; M8gn offers up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth
• •AWS Fault Injection Service now supports Direct Connect BGP failover resilience testing
• •AWS Control Tower added 176 new Security Hub controls for multi-account governance
• •ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 Spot Instances at up to 90% discount
• •NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B with 256K token context window is now available on Amazon Bedrock

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