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

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This article is the AWS Weekly Roundup for January 5, 2026, highlighting recent AWS announcements and launches from late December 2025.

  • Global 10,000 AIdeas Competition offers $250,000 in prizes; deadline January 21, 2026
  • Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances with Graviton4 processors deliver 30% better performance
  • AWS Direct Connect now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
  • AWS Control Tower adds 176 new Security Hub controls for multi-account governance
  • AWS Transform supports automatic network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model now available on Amazon Bedrock with 256K token context
  • Amazon EC2 APIs now support Availability Zone ID for consistent resource placement
  • Amazon ECS Managed Instances supports EC2 Spot Instances at up to 90% discount

The roundup emphasizes AWS's continued innovation in compute, networking, security, and AI services to start 2026.

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