2/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
Starting today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) offers Long-Term Support (LTS) on DocumentDB 5.0, enabling customers to reduce database upgrade frequency and maintenance overhead. LTS versions will receive only critical stability and security patches without introducing new features.\n To get started, create a new DocumentDB cluster engine version 5.0.0, or patch your existing engine version 5.0.0 cluster during your next maintenance window. Verify you’re running the required Engine Patch Version by connecting to your cluster and running db.runCommand({getEngineVersion: 1}). Ensure you’re running Engine Patch Version 3.0.17983 or later. This LTS release is available in all Amazon Web Services regions where DocumentDB is offered. For more details about DocumentDB LTS, and how to check to see what engine patch version you’re on, refer to the Long-Term Support (LTS) release for Amazon DocumentDB.
AWS Backup announces PrivateLink support for SAP HANA on AWS
AWS Backup now supports AWS PrivateLink for SAP HANA systems running on Amazon EC2. This enables customers to route all backup traffic through private network connections without traversing the public internet, helping organizations meet security and compliance requirements for regulated workloads.\n Customers in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government agencies often require that all traffic remain on private networks. Previously, while SAP HANA application workloads could use AWS PrivateLink for secure, private communication with AWS services, backup traffic to AWS Backup had to traverse public endpoints. With this release, you can now use AWS PrivateLink for AWS Backup storage endpoints, ensuring your SAP HANA workloads on EC2 maintain end-to-end private connectivity for both application traffic and backup data. This helps organizations subject to HIPAA, EU/US Privacy Shield, and PCI DSS regulations implement fully private data protection strategies.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Backup supports SAP HANA databases on EC2. To get started, update your Backint agent and add the backup-storage VPCE to your VPC.
Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances
Starting today, customers can create nested environments within virtualized Amazon EC2 instances. Previously, customers could only create and manage virtual machines inside bare metal EC2 instances. With this launch, customers can create nested virtual machines by running KVM or Hyper-V on virtual EC2 instances. Customers can leverage this capability for use cases such as running emulators for mobile applications, simulating in-vehicle hardware for automobiles, and running Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- BMW Group draws insights from petabytes of data with agent-based search on AWS
- Set up LucidLink with an SMF script in AWS Deadline Cloud
- Weekly Generative AI with AWS — 2026/2/9
- Post quantum (ML-DSA) code signing using AWS Private CA and AWS KMS
- How to create post-quantum signatures using AWS KMS and ML-DSA
- AWS Transfer Family enables post-quantum hybrid SFTP file transfers
- AWS Weekly — 2026/2/9
- Contributed by: Oracle Database @AWS Verification Report by Panasonic Information Systems — Verification of Closed Area Connectivity, Backup, Data Guard, and Monitoring Configurations
AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available
- Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)
AWS Big Data Blog
- Verisk cuts processing time and storage costs with Amazon Redshift and lakehouse
- Amazon OpenSearch Service 101: T-shirt size your domain for e-commerce search