AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service adds OpenSearch 3.5, boosting agentic AI, search relevance, and observability. New features include conversation memory, context management, and a revamped no-code agent interface. Enhanced search relevance workbench and LLM-powered evalua…
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.5
You can now run OpenSearch version 3.5 on Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch 3.5 introduces significant improvements in agentic AI capabilities, search relevance tooling, and observability features ...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-account data access, enabling unified analysis across accounts via OpenSearch UI without data replication or costly pipelines, available in all regions where OpenSearch UI is supported.
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OpenSearch UI supports Cross Account Data Access to OpenSearch domains
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-account data access, enabling users to access OpenSearch domains hosted in different AWS accounts from within a single OpenSearch UI application. W...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service lets you scale volumes over 3 TiB in-place, simplifying growth without blue/green deployments. For smaller volumes, a blue/green deployment is needed initially. Available in all regions where OpenSearch Service operates.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports in-place volume increases for all volume sizes
https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/ now extends in-place cluster volume size increases to volumes exceeding 3 TiB. With this enhancement, you can scale storage capacity a...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers OR2 and OM2 instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West), providing up to 26% higher indexing throughput than OR1 and 70% over R7g instances, with pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing.
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OpenSearch OR2 and OM2 instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service, expands availability of OR2 and OM2, OpenSearch Optimized Instance family to 12 additional regions. The OR2 instance delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughp...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Capacity Optimized blue/green deployments, allowing domain updates with insufficient capacity by applying changes in batches. This reduces extra instances and offers two strategies: Full Swap and Capacity Optimized.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces capacity optimized blue/green deployments
https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/ now offers a Capacity Optimized option for blue/green deployments, ensuring domain updates can complete even when available instance capacity...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion offers a unified endpoint for OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces, simplifying pipeline management and reducing costs. A single pipeline handles all signals, easing observability and incremental adoption. Available globally, it’s con…
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Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports a unified ingestion endpoint that can accept all three OpenTelemetry observability signals — logs, metrics, and traces — throug...
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Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a sink
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a sink, making it possible to build fully managed, end-to-end metrics ingestion pipelines ...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a sink, creating fully managed metrics pipelines without custom infrastructure. Route metrics and logs for enhanced observability, transformation, and analysis. Available globally. More d…
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers Cluster Overload and Suboptimal Sharding Strategy insights for improved cluster stability, detecting resource issues and shard imbalances with actionable recommendations at no extra cost for OpenSearch version 2.17+.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service adds new insights for improved cluster stability
https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/ has enhanced Cluster Insights with two new insights — Cluster Overload and Suboptimal Sharding Strategy. Suboptimal Sharding Strategy provides ...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch now supports Graviton4 instances (c8g, m8g, r8g), offering up to 30% better performance than Graviton3 for compute-intensive tasks. Available in new regions like Asia Pacific and Europe. Check AWS pricing page for details.
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports high-performance i7i instances with better compute and storage performance, lower latency, and enhanced security, available in multiple global regions. For pricing, visit our page.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports storage optimized i7i instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation x86 based high performance Storage Optimized i7i instances. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, ...
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Amazon OpenSearch Service expands support for Graviton4 (c8g,m8g & r8g ) instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands support for the latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (c8g...
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)
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Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups, a new capability that enables you to share OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) across collections with different AWS KMS keys. This new capability...
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Amazon OpenSearch Service improves vector database performance and cost with GPU acceleration and auto-optimization
Build and optimize large-scale vector databases up to 10 times faster and at a quarter of the cost with new GPU accelerati...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AWS KMS CMKs and increased metadata size for UI, enabling encrypted apps and complex dashboards. Available in all regions. Learn more at Amazon OpenSearch UI Developer Guide.
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Amazon OpenSearch UI supports CMK and increased metadata size
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs) and increased size for OpenSearch UI metadata. Amazon OpenSearch UI is a managed service for dashboarding and operational ana...
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a new multi-tier storage
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a new multi-tier storage option powered by OpenSearch Optimized Instances. This new architecture combines Amazon S3 cloud technology with local instance storage to ...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers multi-tier storage with OpenSearch Optimized Instances, blending S3 and local storage for better durability and performance. It includes hot and warm tiers, with the warm tier supporting write ops and automated data rotation. Av…
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Amazon OpenSearch Service announces new OI2 instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces OI2 instances, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family. The new OI2 instances delivers up to 9% higher indexing throughput compared to OR2 instances and up to 33...
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🆕 Amazon OpenSearch Service launches OI2 instances for higher indexing throughput, up to 9% better than OR2 and 33% over I8g. OI2 uses Amazon S3 for durability, offering NVMe caching and managed storage. Available in 12 regions globally.
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