AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)

AWS announced new EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances using Intel Xeon 6 processors.

AWS Network Firewall cut prices and removed some Advanced Inspection data charges.

Amazon Bedrock added Claude Opus 4.6 and structured outputs for JSON schema responses.

AWS Builder ID added Sign in with Apple and AWS STS began validating certain identity-provider claims.

Amazon services updated features across ECS, Config, DynamoDB, RDS, and CloudFront.