AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026) | Amazon Web Services

AWS’s weekly roundup added Claude Sonnet 4.6 support in Amazon Bedrock.

Kiro launched in AWS GovCloud regions, broadening options for regulated workloads.

AWS also introduced new Agent Plugins for AWS to help build AI agents.

Additional updates covered EC2 HPC, SageMaker Inference, nested virtualization, and Aurora default encryption settings.