AWS Weekly Roundup: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Forge SDK, Amazon Corretto 26, and more (March 23, 2026) | Amazon Web Services

This week’s AWS roundup highlights major updates across generative AI, data analytics, Java, serverless, logging, and Kubernetes. Notable announcements include NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock, the Nova Forge SDK for customizing models, faster Redshift queries, and expanded EKS scaling and availability guarantees. The roundup also points readers to community initiatives, developer resources, and upcoming AWS events.

Generative AI and Developer Tools

• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is now available through Amazon Bedrock.
  • Supports text generation, reasoning, summarization, and code generation.
  • Can be invoked through Bedrock’s unified API without managing infrastructure.
• Nova Forge SDK simplifies fine-tuning and customizing Amazon Nova models.
  • Enables domain-specific adaptations for enterprise use cases.
  • Handles much of the underlying customization and deployment complexity.
• Kiro for students provides free access to AI-powered development tools.
• Strands Steering Hooks reportedly achieved 100% agent accuracy, outperforming prompt engineering and rigid workflows for controlling agent behavior.

Data, Java, and Serverless Updates

• Amazon Redshift now delivers up to 7x faster execution for new, uncached queries in dashboards and ETL workloads.
  • The improvement is especially useful for workloads with high query variability.
• Amazon Corretto 26 is generally available.
  • Includes current Java features, performance improvements, and security updates.
  • Supports Amazon Linux, Windows, macOS, and Docker environments.
• AWS Lambda now exposes Availability Zone metadata for function invocations.
  • Helps with observability, troubleshooting, latency analysis, and multi-AZ architecture decisions.
• CloudWatch Logs supports log ingestion through an HTTP-based protocol, reducing the need for custom agents or SDK integrations.

Amazon EKS Enhancements

• Provisioned Control Plane clusters now receive a 99.99% SLA, compared with 99.95% for the standard control plane.
• A new 8XL scaling tier doubles Kubernetes API server request-processing capacity compared with the 4XL tier.
• The larger tier targets demanding workloads such as AI/ML training, HPC, and large-scale data processing.

AWS Community and Events

• AWS Builder Center badges recognize contributions, challenges, and community participation.
• AWS promotes community-driven learning through the “Keep Building Together” initiative.
• Upcoming events include AWS Summits in cities such as Paris, London, Bengaluru, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Stockholm; AWS Community Days in San Francisco and Romania; and the AWSome Women Summit LATAM in Mexico City.

Overall, the announcements emphasize AWS’s continued investment in enterprise AI customization, higher-performance infrastructure, improved observability, and developer communities. Teams should evaluate the new Bedrock, Redshift, Lambda, and EKS capabilities according to their workload scale, reliability, and customization needs.