--- title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock,... description: AWS weekly roundup for February 23, 2026 covering key launches: Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock for high-volume coding and knowledge work,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-sonnet-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-kiro-in-govcloud-regions-new-agent-plugins-fhk9aw2i2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026) | daily.dev og:description: AWS weekly roundup for February 23, 2026 covering key launches: Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock for high-volume coding and knowledge work,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-sonnet-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-kiro-in-govcloud-regions-new-agent-plugins-fhk9aw2i2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fHk9Aw2I2.png og:image:alt: AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026) **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 5 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AWS weekly roundup for February 23, 2026 covering key launches: Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock for high-volume coding and knowledge work, Kiro AI coding tool expanded to AWS GovCloud (US) regions for regulated environments, new open-source Agent Plugins for AWS enabling architecture recommendations and infrastructure-as-code generation from coding agents, Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Nova models, nested virtualization on EC2, and default server-side encryption in Amazon Aurora. Additional highlights include best practices for AWS DevOps Agent in production and community content on building with Kiro and AI agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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