AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)

A weekly AWS roundup covering a new Student Rewards program on AWS Builder Center offering free training and certification vouchers for verified students, plus a batch of product launches: a new Local Zone in Las Vegas, a fourth Availability Zone in London with Trn3/P6 instances, batch instance termination for EC2 Auto Scaling, a visual file editor in CloudShell, Bedrock support for Grok 4.6 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 models with cross-Region inference, general availability of AgentCore payments, and AWS Glue 6.0 with 30% lower pricing and Iceberg v3 support. Also mentions updates to the AWS sign-in experience, new Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo, WorkSpaces being named a Gartner DaaS leader, and upcoming AWS Summits and Community Days.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-student-rewards-on-aws-builder-center-local-zone-in-las-vegas-and-more-august-24-2026. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.