AWS weekly roundup covering major announcements from the What's Next with AWS 2026 event. Key highlights include: Amazon Quick expanding with a desktop app, visual asset generation, and new integrations (Google Workspace, Zoom, Teams); Amazon Connect splitting into four agentic AI solutions covering supply chain, hiring, customer service, and healthcare; AWS and OpenAI deepening their partnership by bringing GPT-5.5/5.4 and Codex to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview. Additional launches include new EC2 M8in, M8ib, R8in, R8ib, C8ine, and M8ine instances now generally available, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization capabilities in preview, and AWS Lambda adding Ruby 4.0 support. Also notable: Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins are being deprecated in favor of Kiro by April 2027.

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