AWS AI News

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available

AWS made Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore generally available, giving AI agents built-in live web retrieval with a few lines of code. The launch was part of a broad agentic push at AWS Summit New York that also expanded AgentCore with managed knowledge bases and policy guardrails.

2026-06-21

AWS DevOps Agent goes GA with Datadog, PagerDuty and LaunchDarkly integrations

AWS made its DevOps Agent generally available, with integrations across Datadog's MCP Server, PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly and the Kiro IDE for autonomous incident resolution. The system aims to resolve production incidents in minutes rather than hours by automating root-cause analysis, feature-flag orchestration, and triage.

2026-06-21

Amazon in talks to sell custom AI chips, challenging Nvidia dominance

Amazon is reportedly in talks to sell its custom AI chips to other companies in a bid to cut into Nvidia's ~90% accelerator dominance amid shortages and high costs. SVP Peter DeSantis said Amazon expects its own AI models to be competitive with frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI within the next year.

2026-06-21

AWS launches Continuum, an AI-native vulnerability management platform

At AWS Summit New York, AWS unveiled Continuum, an AI-native security service that discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates code vulnerabilities at machine speed. It was part of a broad security and agent push that also included Kiro CLI for accelerating security investigations.

2026-06-21

Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs now GA

AWS launched EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. They deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and 2.1x graphics performance versus the prior G6 generation, targeting inference, graphics, and analytics workloads.

2026-06-21

AWS Summit NY: Continuum security and AWS Context knowledge graph headline agentic push

At AWS Summit New York, AWS unveiled Continuum, an AI-native security service that continuously discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates code vulnerabilities at machine speed, and AWS Context, a knowledge graph that helps agents find the right information faster. The company also expanded Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Quick autonomous agents, and is reportedly in talks to sell its custom AI chips to other companies.

2026-06-20

AWS launches Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for enterprise RAG

At AWS Summit New York, Amazon introduced Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed service that simplifies enterprise retrieval-augmented generation. It provides native data connectors, Smart Parsing for multi-format data prep, and an Agentic Retriever for multi-step queries, abstracting away storage, embeddings, and model-selection infrastructure while integrating with AgentCore Gateway.

2026-06-18

AWS adds Web Search and continuous learning to Bedrock AgentCore

AWS launched a fully managed Web Search tool for Bedrock AgentCore that grounds agent responses in current, cited web knowledge with zero data egress from the customer's secured environment. AgentCore also gained features connecting agents to organizational, web, and paid knowledge, plus production debugging and scalable controls.

2026-06-18

AWS unveils Continuum, an AI-native 'security at machine speed' platform

At Summit NYC, AWS announced Continuum, a security platform that shifts from the collect-store-query-dashboard model toward telemetry, context, reasoning, and autonomous action. AWS also added STRIDE-based threat modeling and a Claude Code plugin to its Security Agent, enabling repo and PR scanning with remediation.

2026-06-18

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails launches InvokeGuardrailChecks API for agentic AI

AWS launched a resourceless InvokeGuardrailChecks API for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, letting developers apply individual safety checks at any point in agentic AI applications without creating guardrail resources. It offers per-request control over which safeguards run at each step of an agent loop, returning numeric severity and confidence scores.

2026-06-17

AWS brings OpenAI's GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Bedrock in preview

At AWS Summit New York, AWS expanded its OpenAI partnership, bringing GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview. The move broadens Bedrock's frontier-model lineup the same week AWS revoked Anthropic's export-controlled Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

2026-06-17

Amazon S3 annotations attach up to 1GB of queryable context to objects for AI agents

At AWS Summit New York, Amazon S3 launched annotations letting users attach up to 1GB of rich, mutable, queryable context directly to objects. The feature is purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintaining separate metadata systems.

2026-06-17

Amazon S3 Vectors now returns up to 10,000 similarity-search results per query

Amazon S3 Vectors can now return up to 10,000 similarity-search results per query, a 100x increase from the prior limit. The higher cap helps multi-stage retrieval pipelines that need a larger candidate set for reranking and aggregation.

2026-06-17

Amazon's Jassy reportedly flagged Fable jailbreak to White House before crackdown

Reuters and The Information report Amazon CEO Andy Jassy first raised concerns about a Fable jailbreak with the White House, preceding the government directive ordering Anthropic to block foreign nationals from Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The episode complicates the Amazon-Anthropic strategic partnership and, per the Washington Post, sets a precedent for intervening in deployed models via export-control authorities.

2026-06-16

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization to let publishers charge AI bots

AWS WAF announced AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that lets content owners and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. Owners can set a price, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.

2026-06-16

AWS Nitro Isolation Engine formally verifies the Nitro hypervisor

AWS introduced the Nitro Isolation Engine, applying formal verification to the hypervisor at the heart of the AWS Nitro System — a significant confidential-computing advance strengthening guarantees that customer data stays secure and isolated for sensitive workloads.

2026-06-14

SageMaker AI adds serverless fine-tuning for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron 3 Nano via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), letting teams adapt the 30B model to custom domains and workflows without managing infrastructure.

2026-06-14

Amazon secures $17.5B loan for AI capex as Bezos's Prometheus hits $41B valuation

Amazon secured a $17.5 billion delayed-draw term loan facility to fund its AI-driven capital-expenditure ramp, following a five-part C$14 billion debt offering in Canada. Separately, Jeff Bezos's new AI startup Prometheus was valued at $41 billion in a blockbuster raise, and AWS signed a $4 billion AI deal with Pinterest for visual search.

2026-06-13

Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code draws developer buzz for token efficiency

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused agentic model built on Kimi K2.6, on Hugging Face. It improves real-world long-horizon coding and reduces thinking-token usage by ~30% versus its predecessor. The community framed it as a serious open-source challenger to leading proprietary coders, with its Hugging Face page hitting 406 points on Hacker News.

2026-06-13

AWS launches Graviton5-powered M9g/M9gd EC2 instances; Claude Fable 5 GA on Bedrock

AWS made Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances generally available on the new Graviton5 processor, delivering up to 25% faster compute, 35% faster ML inference, and 30% faster database performance versus Graviton4. Claude Fable 5 simultaneously became generally available on Amazon Bedrock for agentic workloads.

2026-06-12

Apache Spark 4.0 reaches general availability on Amazon EMR

AWS announced general availability of Spark 4.0 across EMR Serverless, EMR on EC2 and EMR on EKS, adding Spark Connect, the Variant data type, SQL scripting, Python API improvements and streaming enhancements. SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks also gained EMR Serverless support.

2026-06-11

AWS launches Neuron Agentic Development to automate Trainium kernel tuning

AWS announced Neuron Agentic Development, a collection of AI agents and skills for developers building on AWS Trainium and Inferentia, aiming to replace manual hand-tuning of kernels with an agent-driven workflow. The release deepens AWS's effort to make its custom AI silicon more accessible to developers.

2026-06-11

Claude Fable 5 reaches general availability on Amazon Bedrock

AWS announced the general availability of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS, bringing Mythos-level capabilities to all customers with built-in safeguards. AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian said the model can sustain complex tasks for days without intervention and understands diagrams and tables nested in documents, while running under the security, identity and data controls enterprises already use on Bedrock.

2026-06-10

Amazon taps Corning to power US AI data centers; Corning shares jump 9%

Corning shares rose 9% after striking a deal to supply Amazon's US AI data centers, which Corning's CEO called a milestone for American manufacturing. Amazon's largest AI data center has come online powering Anthropic's workloads without Nvidia chips, underscoring Amazon's push to build a resilient domestic AI infrastructure base.

2026-06-10

AWS Lambda Managed Instances expand to all commercial Regions

AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) — which run Lambda functions on managed EC2 instances for specialized compute and EC2 pricing advantages — are now available in all commercial AWS Regions except Tel Aviv, Bahrain, UAE, and Auckland, while retaining Lambda's operational simplicity.

2026-06-09

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 lands in Amazon RDS Preview with native graph queries

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 is now testable in the RDS Database Preview Environment. PostgreSQL 19 introduces native graph query support via SQL Property Graph Queries, letting developers evaluate the pre-release with full managed-database benefits ahead of GA.

2026-06-09

AWS adds AI-powered root-cause investigations for cost anomalies via Amazon Q

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now uses Amazon Q to analyze the root cause of detected anomalies, correlating cost data with CloudTrail events and resource activity to return a plain-language explanation in minutes — cutting work that traditionally took FinOps and engineering teams hours.

2026-06-09

New Amazon Bedrock console optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs

AWS launched a redesigned Bedrock console that lets users browse and compare the latest models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and get project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled, copy-ready code snippets. The experience is optimized for the bedrock 'Mantle' endpoint supporting recent GPT, Claude and open-weight models via OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs.

2026-06-08

Amazon commits $50B to government AI and supercomputing capacity

Amazon announced a $50 billion investment to build 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and GovCloud regions. The move reflects a strategic focus on federal AI adoption and national-security positioning, alongside new agentic Amazon Connect solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience and healthcare.

2026-06-08

Bedrock AgentCore Runtime adds interactive terminal shells into agent sessions

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports interactive shells via a new InvokeAgentRuntimeCommandShell API, opening a persistent, PTY-backed terminal into a running agent session over WebSocket. It complements one-shot execution with a full terminal experience—colors, tab completion, Ctrl sequences—inside an isolated microVM. AWS also extended its MCP Server to support cross-account and cross-role access.

2026-06-08

Amazon unveils natural-language Proteus warehouse robot in $12B Europe push

Amazon revealed an upgraded Proteus autonomous mobile robot that workers can direct with conversational prompts — no programming required — as part of a €10 billion ($11.6B) European fulfilment investment. Unlike the current Proteus (deployed at 25 US sites, limited to dock areas, ~400kg loads), the new model operates across warehouse floors and figures out priorities and routes itself, due in Europe in the first half of 2027.

2026-06-07

AWS makes OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 and Codex generally available on Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 and the Codex coding agent at first-party pricing with no added fees, running on Bedrock's next-generation inference engine with isolated queues, automated capacity management, and unified IAM/VPC/KMS controls. GPT-5.4 reached AWS GovCloud (US-West) on June 3. Separately, Anthropic signed a $30B infrastructure deal to deploy Claude on AWS.

2026-06-05

AWS open-sources ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible database backed by PostgreSQL

AWS open-sourced ExtendDB, a Rust implementation of the DynamoDB wire protocol that stores data in PostgreSQL while supporting the full API surface — offering a path to DynamoDB compatibility without AWS lock-in.

2026-06-03

AWS brings Claude Opus 4.8 to Bedrock and previews OpenAI-powered Managed Agents

Amazon Web Services made Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 available on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS, and separately announced Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI in preview for faster long-running agentic tasks. The dual move consolidates frontier models from both leading labs onto Bedrock as AWS deepens its Anthropic bet.

2026-06-02

Claude Opus 4.8 now available on Amazon Bedrock

AWS made Claude Opus 4.8 available on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS, exposing the model's 1M-token context window and multi-step workflow capabilities. AWS separately expanded Service Quotas visibility for its bedrock-mantle endpoint, which serves OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.

2026-06-01

Amazon shuts down internal token leaderboard, warns against 'tokenmaxxing'

Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell told staff to stop 'tokenmaxxing,' shutting down an internal token-usage leaderboard and urging employees to use AI to solve real business problems rather than for its own sake. The move reflects a broader corporate pivot away from free-wheeling AI spending.

2026-06-01

AWS launches Bedrock AgentCore Payments so agents can transact via micropayments

Amazon Bedrock launched AgentCore Payments, a suite letting AI agents autonomously make micropayments for web content, APIs and other agents. Built with Coinbase and Stripe, it aims to make agents economically active by letting them discover, evaluate and pay for resources within their operational loops.

2026-05-31

AWS Brings Claude Opus 4.8 to Bedrock, Launches Native Claude Platform Inside AWS Accounts

AWS made Claude Opus 4.8 generally available on Bedrock and became the first cloud to host Anthropic's native Claude Platform inside customer AWS accounts with unified credentials and billing. AWS also announced Bedrock AgentCore Payments with Coinbase and Stripe.

2026-05-29

AWS Unveils Random Network Graph (RNG) Datacenter Network Design

AWS detailed a new datacenter network architecture called Random Network Graph (RNG) that boosts throughput and reliability via a power-free fiber-optic cable management system and a custom network protocol — engineered for AI-scale traffic patterns.

2026-05-29

AWS revamps Partner Central with Bedrock AgentCore agents, claims 40% admin-time reduction

AWS revamped its Partner Central hub with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automate administrative tasks, funding workflows and co-sell opportunity management. The company claims a 40%+ reduction in partner administrative time. The hub also connects to MCP servers so partners can integrate Partner Central with their existing IT tools.

2026-05-27

Uber reportedly burns full-year AI budget in 4 months after Claude Code rollout

Energy News Beat reports Uber exhausted its full-year AI budget in roughly four months after rolling out Claude Code across engineering, with token-based billing breaking enterprise forecasting. The story is becoming the canonical example developers and CFOs cite when arguing that current AI pricing models are unsustainable at production scale.

2026-05-27

ServiceNow crosses $1B in AWS Marketplace transactions as enterprise AI procurement consolidates

ServiceNow surpassed $1B in cumulative AWS Marketplace transactions, underscoring how enterprises are concentrating AI procurement through hyperscaler marketplaces for governance and compliance. A separately disclosed (then redacted) SpaceX S-1 detail also reveals underlying economics of the Anthropic–AWS infrastructure relationship.

2026-05-25

Bedrock becomes operational layer for enterprise AI as Q1 token volume exceeds all prior years combined

AWS is repositioning Bedrock from a managed-model marketplace into the operational layer for enterprise AI — hosting models, managing inference, supporting agent runtimes, enabling orchestration, and providing cost, security and governance controls. AWS disclosed Q1 2026 tokens processed on Bedrock exceeded all previous years combined, marking an inflection point from isolated experimentation to integrated AI operational systems.

2026-05-22

AWS Hits GA on Claude Platform, Expands OpenAI Partnership Bringing OpenAI Models to Bedrock

AWS reached general availability for Claude Platform on AWS — letting customers access Anthropic's native Claude experience through their AWS accounts with no separate credentials, a cloud-first. Andy Jassy also announced an expanded OpenAI partnership bringing OpenAI models, Codex, and Bedrock integrations to AWS, and AWS released Advanced Prompt Optimization in Bedrock with built-in evaluation feedback loops across up to five models.

2026-05-21

AWS explains why Bedrock AgentCore chose Cedar to secure agentic workflows

AWS's security blog published a deep-dive on why Bedrock AgentCore adopted the Cedar policy language for agent authorization. The team argues LLM non-determinism, prompt injection, and confidently-hallucinated harmful actions need declarative, auditable policy — not guardrails baked into prompts.

2026-05-20

Amazon Bedrock launches Advanced Prompt Optimization for cross-model prompt migration

AWS announced Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization (launched May 14), a tool that optimizes prompts for any Bedrock model and lets users compare original and optimized prompts across up to five models simultaneously. It supports multimodal inputs (PNG, JPG, PDF) and includes built-in evaluation feedback loops for prompt migration.

2026-05-20

AWS Bedrock AgentCore expands: OpenSearch Agent Skills, custom code evaluators, Nova 2 moderation

AWS shipped a stack of Bedrock AgentCore expansions: OpenSearch Agent Skills (a repository of composable skills for agentic IDEs), custom Lambda-based code evaluators registered with AgentCore, and structured prompting recipes for Amazon Nova 2 Lite content moderation aligned with MLCommons' AILuminate standard. Bedrock Q1 token processing exceeded all previous years combined.

2026-05-19

AWS positions Bedrock as the operational hub for enterprise agentic AI; Q1 2026 token volume tops all prior years combined

AWS is repositioning Amazon Bedrock from model marketplace to comprehensive operational hub for enterprise AI — hosting models, managing inference, supporting agent runtimes, and orchestrating workflows. Q1 2026 Bedrock token processing surpassed all previous years combined, and Amazon's market cap is nearing $3 trillion on AI momentum.

2026-05-17

AWS brings OpenAI models to Bedrock; publishes AI Security Framework; sets Q Developer EOL

AWS expanded its OpenAI partnership, bringing the latest models to Amazon Bedrock with Managed Agents in limited preview — one day after Microsoft's exclusivity ended. It also published its AI Security Framework with a free SHIP assessment, launched Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization, and set Amazon Q Developer EOL for April 30, 2027.

2026-05-16

SageMaker JumpStart adds FLUX.2, Qwen3 speech/embedding models, GLM-5.1, and Phi-4-mini

AWS expanded SageMaker JumpStart with Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-klein-base-4B for image generation, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, three Qwen3 speech models (TTS and ASR), Z.ai's GLM-5.1-FP8, and Microsoft's Phi-4-mini-instruct for agentic and efficient inference.

2026-05-15

Amazon scraps API fees, launches Claude Platform on AWS, plans $200B AI capex

Amazon reversed planned API fees after tech-firm backlash and launched a new Claude Platform on AWS sitting alongside Bedrock, deepening its Anthropic relationship. AWS is also racing to future-proof AI data centers with $200B in 2026 capex including the modular 'Houdini' initiative.

2026-05-15

Bedrock AgentCore adds managed payments via Coinbase and Stripe

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduced managed payment capabilities, letting AI agents autonomously access and pay for APIs and services through Coinbase and Stripe integrations. AWS also released an Agent Toolkit and made AWS MCP Server generally available.

2026-05-14

Amazon merges Rufus and Alexa+ into 'Alexa for Shopping' on Amazon.com

Amazon is dropping the Rufus brand and embedding its Alexa+ LLM assistant directly into Amazon.com search and the Shopping app. Queries now return agentic AI responses alongside traditional results, unifying Amazon's two parallel shopping-AI efforts into one product.

2026-05-13

AWS publishes end-to-end agentic SRE and expands WorkSpaces AI Agents to legacy Windows

AWS detailed how to build an end-to-end agentic SRE using AWS DevOps Agent for incident correlation across observability tools and microservice architectures. Separately, Amazon WorkSpaces AI Agents (public preview) lets autonomous agents drive full desktop environments via IAM, MCP, and computer vision — including legacy Windows apps without APIs. Service Catalog also expanded to Calgary and New Zealand.

2026-05-10

S3 Vectors + Aurora PostgreSQL: SQL over billion-scale embeddings

AWS detailed how to query Amazon S3 Vectors directly from Aurora PostgreSQL using standard SQL, combining vector similarity with relational filters in a single statement. The integration targets cost-efficient, large-scale semantic search inside existing relational databases.

2026-05-09

AWS MCP Server hits general availability with full-service auth for AI agents

AWS announced GA of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol server giving AI agents and coding assistants authenticated access to all AWS services. It ships as part of the broader Agent Toolkit for AWS, alongside skills and plugins for coding agents.

2026-05-06

Tomofun deploys vision-language models on AWS Inferentia2 for pet behavior

Taiwan-based pet-tech startup Tomofun (Furbo Pet Camera) moved its vision-language inference to EC2 Inf2 instances on AWS Inferentia2 chips. AWS detailed the architecture for cost-effective VLM deployment while maintaining accuracy.

2026-05-06

GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex land on Amazon Bedrock with Managed Agents in preview

AWS expanded its OpenAI partnership, bringing GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview alongside Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI for production agentic deployments. Codex is also coming to Bedrock with OpenAI's harness integrated for faster execution and reasoning.

2026-05-06

Amazon WorkSpaces gives AI agents their own cloud desktops to drive legacy apps

AWS launched a preview that lets AI agents securely operate legacy desktop applications — mainframes, ERP systems, proprietary tools — via managed WorkSpaces environments. The service uses IAM authentication, MCP support, and computer vision so agents can tackle the 'last-mile' problem of apps without modern APIs, all inside existing security frameworks.

2026-05-06

AWS brings GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 to Bedrock with Managed Agents

AWS announced availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 on Amazon Bedrock alongside new Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI. AWS also overhauled Amazon Connect into four vertical agentic modules and launched Amazon Quick Desktop, an AI assistant for work, in preview.

2026-05-05

SageMaker adds agentic fine-tuning for Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek and Nova

Amazon SageMaker AI now ships an AI agent that helps developers customize open-weight language models including Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek and Amazon's own Nova. The feature targets teams that want guided fine-tuning workflows rather than hand-rolled pipelines.

2026-05-05

Pentagon strikes classified-network AI deals with eight providers including AWS, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA

The Department of Defense announced agreements with AWS, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Reflection and Oracle to deploy advanced AI on classified IL6 and IL7 networks. The pact is framed as the operational foundation for an 'AI-first' U.S. military, covering data synthesis, decision support and warfighter tooling.

2026-05-05

Amazon rolls out Claude Code and Codex to all employees after internal pushback against Kiro

Amazon formally rolled out Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to all corporate employees, going beyond its in-house Kiro tool after staff pressure. The move is a notable validation of third-party coding agents at hyperscaler scale and intensifies competition in the enterprise developer-tools market — even as Amazon is itself one of Anthropic's largest investors.

2026-05-05

Pentagon expands classified AI deployments with AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia

Bloomberg reports AWS and Microsoft are giving the Pentagon more direct control over AI systems on classified, closed networks, alongside expanded Nvidia hardware contracts. The deals widen frontier-AI deployment inside national-security infrastructure.

2026-05-04

Amazon Quick launches as stateful enterprise agent with M365, Workspace, Salesforce hooks

AWS unveiled Amazon Quick, a stateful agent that maintains context across enterprise apps, learns user preferences, and autonomously executes tasks. Native integrations with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce are pitched as the differentiator from point-in-time chatbots, backed by AWS's $50B OpenAI tie-up.

2026-05-03

Bedrock AgentCore launches in São Paulo region; CloudFront adds WebSocket VPC origins

Bedrock AgentCore — AWS's framework-agnostic platform to build, connect, and optimize agents — is now available in South America (São Paulo). CloudFront separately added WebSocket support through VPC origins for real-time apps in private subnets.

2026-05-03

AWS–OpenAI pact: GPT-5.5, Codex land on Bedrock with $100B commitment

AWS and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership making OpenAI's frontier models (including GPT-5.5 and 5.4), Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents available on Amazon Bedrock in limited preview. OpenAI is expanding its existing $38B AWS commitment by $100B over eight years; Amazon plans to invest $50B in OpenAI. The deal lands a day after OpenAI ended Microsoft cloud exclusivity.

2026-05-01

Bedrock AgentCore reaches GA with managed memory, identity and observability

AWS made Bedrock AgentCore generally available, providing managed agent memory, OAuth-based identity, gateway and observability primitives. Pricing is consumption-based; integrates with Claude, Llama, Nova, and the newly added OpenAI models.

2026-05-01

AWS unveils agent-centric stack at What's Next 2026: Connect Decisions, QuickSight chat, HyperPod auto-topology

At What's Next with AWS 2026, Matt Garman highlighted agent-based AI for business operations. New releases include Amazon Connect Decisions for supply chain, QuickSight chat-based document and visual creation, SageMaker HyperPod automatic topology management, AgentCore CLI, Lambda S3 Files, and managed federated connectors for Athena.

2026-04-30

Amazon Quick desktop app — knowledge-graph 'always-on' assistant

AWS launched the Amazon Quick desktop app, a knowledge-graph-based assistant that stays connected to the user, accesses local files and apps, and learns from each session. AWS is positioning Quick as a transformative agentic platform.

2026-04-29

Bedrock AgentCore adds 3-API-call agent setup, VPC egress, and a managed harness

AWS shipped a managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets developers stand up an autonomous agent in just three API calls, plus VPC egress support, an AgentCore CLI, and Claude Cowork inside Bedrock. SageMaker added unified-studio VPC support and automatic Slurm topology, S3 added five new checksum algorithms, and Connect added AI agent performance metrics. Accenture also committed to deploying Microsoft Copilot to all 743,000 employees.

2026-04-28

AgentCore goes GA — three API calls to deploy a production agent

AWS announced general availability of Bedrock AgentCore with managed runtime, memory, identity, and observability, and a new harness that cuts autonomous-agent deployment to three API calls. The release adds a CLI, persistent agent filesystem, and prebuilt skills, with consumption-based pricing and no minimums. The managed harness preview is live in initial regions.

2026-04-27

AWS Transform custom adds Learn-Scale-Improve flywheel for enterprise modernization

AWS extended Transform custom to handle modernization at the 50–200+ repository scale, where coordinating people and capturing learnings matters as much as code transformation. The Learn-Scale-Improve flywheel formalizes feedback loops to industrialize repo-by-repo migrations across an enterprise.

2026-04-27

Bedrock AgentCore: 3-API-call agent setup, VPC egress, plus Athena and SageMaker shipments

AWS introduced a managed agent harness in Bedrock AgentCore that cuts autonomous agent deployment to just 3 API calls, added secure VPC egress to AgentCore Gateway and Identity, and shipped Athena managed federated connectors, S3 checksum algorithms, SageMaker Unified Studio VPC support, and AI agent metrics in Connect.

2026-04-26

Amazon Connect adds eight new AI agent performance metrics including goal success rate and tool selection accuracy

Amazon Connect launched eight new metrics for measuring AI agent performance in customer interactions, including goal success rate, faithfulness score, and tool selection accuracy. The metrics enable enterprises to measure and continuously improve AI-driven customer interaction quality, addressing growing enterprise demand for AI agent observability.

2026-04-25

Meta signs deal for millions of AWS Graviton CPUs to power agentic AI

Meta agreed to use AWS Graviton CPUs — not GPUs — for its agentic AI workloads, signaling that real-time reasoning agents need fundamentally different infrastructure than training. The deal kicks off a new chip race centered on CPU inference.

2026-04-24

Bedrock AgentCore streamlines agent building in three decisions

AWS announced new Bedrock AgentCore features letting builders declare and run a working AI agent in just three decisions. Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop now run natively on Bedrock.

2026-04-24

AWS Expands Agentic AI Focus with Claude Opus 4.7 and Inline Agents

Amazon Web Services is heavily investing in agentic AI workflows, supporting Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock to automate complex business processes. AWS is promoting multi-agent workflows and expanding partnerships to help customers implement generative AI solutions beyond pilots, using supervisor agents to break down large tasks.

2026-04-23

AWS Launches 46 Major Service Updates Including Amazon Bio Discovery and Enhanced Bedrock

AWS announced 46 significant updates spanning compute, containers, data, analytics, and developer tools, including the launch of Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered drug discovery application. Additional updates include EC2 X8i expansion to Europe, EKS auto-scaling improvements, S3 Express One Zone inventory support, and AWS IoT Greengrass v2.17 enhancements.

2026-04-22

Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus AI Lab Nears $38B Valuation in $10B Funding Round

Jeff Bezos' secretive AI startup Project Prometheus is close to raising $10 billion in funding at a $38 billion valuation, according to Financial Times reports. The lab is focused on developing advanced AI models capable of understanding the physical world, representing Bezos' major bet on next-generation artificial intelligence beyond his Amazon and space ventures.

2026-04-22

Amazon commits $200B in 2026 AI capex and expands OpenAI partnership to $100B exclusive deal

AWS announced $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditure focused on AI infrastructure buildout. The company expanded its OpenAI relationship to a $100 billion, eight-year agreement making AWS the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier. Custom Trainium and Graviton chips surpassed $10 billion annual run rate.

2026-04-21

Amazon Expands OpenAI Partnership to $100B+ and Commits Record $200B 2026 Capex

AWS deepened its strategic partnership with OpenAI to over $100 billion over eight years, with AWS serving as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier models. Amazon announced a record $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, primarily directed at AWS AI infrastructure to support enterprise demand.

2026-04-19

Amazon Launches AI Bio Platform for Drug Discovery and Antibody Modeling

Amazon introduced AI Bio Discovery program providing cloud-based AI systems for creating digital antibody models and accelerating drug discovery workflows. The service aims to augment rather than replace scientists and contract research organizations by broadening access to computational biology tools.

2026-04-19

AWS introduces granular cost attribution for Bedrock and Model Distillation achieving 95% cost reduction

AWS launched granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock enabling detailed tracking of inference costs by use case, alongside Model Distillation capabilities that achieve 95% cost reduction and 50% latency reduction while maintaining quality. These features target enterprises seeking to optimize large-scale generative AI deployments.

2026-04-18

AWS launches Nova Multimodal Embeddings for video semantic search applications

AWS released Nova Multimodal Embeddings enabling developers to build video semantic search solutions that understand user intent and retrieve accurate results across multiple signal types simultaneously. The solution is available on Amazon Bedrock with reference implementations for rapid deployment with custom content.

2026-04-18

AWS Launches Automated Reasoning Checks for Formal Verification in Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock introduced Automated Reasoning checks using formal verification to provide mathematically proven AI validation for regulated industries. The tool addresses compliance gaps where probabilistic validation falls short, enabling auditable outputs across finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors requiring formal proof of AI decision-making correctness.

2026-04-17

Spring AI SDK for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Now Generally Available for Java Developers

AWS announced the general availability of the Spring AI AgentCore SDK, an open-source library that integrates Amazon Bedrock AgentCore capabilities into Spring AI applications. This SDK allows Java developers to build and deploy production-ready AI agents at scale using familiar Spring patterns. It significantly reduces infrastructure work, handling scalability, reliability, security, and memory management for complex multi-step AI tasks.

2026-04-16

AWS Releases Bedrock AgentCore Browser and Spring AI SDK for Production AI Agents

AWS launched Bedrock AgentCore Browser enabling AI agents to interact at the OS level for autonomous workflow automation, alongside the generally available Spring AI SDK for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The platform also introduced SageMaker HyperPod Gang Scheduling for coordinated distributed training jobs and Amazon WorkSpaces Advisor for AI-powered troubleshooting.

2026-04-15

Amazon Bedrock Adds GPT-4.1 and Llama 4 Models with Inline Agents Feature

AWS updated Amazon Bedrock to include GPT-4.1 via a cross-cloud model access preview and Llama 4 Scout and Maverick as fully managed models. A new Inline Agents capability allows developers to define agent instructions and tools dynamically at runtime without pre-configuring agents in the console. The update also expanded Bedrock Guardrails with contextual grounding checks for RAG pipelines and features Claude Mythos Preview as a gated research preview.

2026-04-14

Amazon Reports $15B AI Revenue Run-Rate as CEO Jassy Outlines AI-First Company Transformation

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed AWS is generating a $15 billion AI revenue run-rate, marking strong validation of its AI infrastructure strategy. In his third consecutive AI-focused shareholder letter, Jassy outlined plans to reinvent Amazon around AI, highlighted upcoming products including Amazon Leo internet access and Zoox autonomous ride-hailing, and emphasized AWS's position as an AI infrastructure leader. Amazon has also launched 'Project Houdini,' a modular data center initiative aimed at eliminating build delays to meet surging AI compute demand. AWS Bedrock expanded to nearly 100 supported models with multi-agent orchestration and cross-account guardrails.

2026-04-12

Amazon AI Revenue Exceeds $15B Run Rate as Jassy Defends $200B Capex with Customer Commitments

AWS CEO Andy Jassy disclosed that AWS AI revenue has exceeded a $15B annual run rate and is 'ascending rapidly' in his annual shareholder letter. He defended Amazon's $200B capital expenditure plan by noting substantial portions are backed by existing customer commitments, with monetization expected in 2027-2028. Jassy declared a 'new shift' away from Nvidia chips is underway, with Amazon's Trainium3 and Trainium4 chips nearly sold out. AWS also expanded Amazon Bedrock with multimodal retrieval capabilities for Knowledge Bases, enabling RAG applications to search across text, images, audio, and video, alongside stateful MCP client capabilities for interactive multi-turn agent workflows.

2026-04-11

AWS Bedrock Expands to ~100 Models with Cross-Account Guardrails and OpenAI-Compatible API Endpoints

Amazon Bedrock grew from ~60 to nearly 100 models spanning language, vision, audio, safety, and code workloads, including models from OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. The platform introduced Bedrock Guardrails Cross-Account Safeguards for centralized safety enforcement across AWS accounts, and added OpenAI-compatible API endpoints powered by Project Mantle, enabling developers to use existing OpenAI SDK code without modification against Bedrock's full model catalog. Additionally, Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports stateful Model Context Protocol (MCP) client capabilities, enabling interactive, multi-turn agent workflows with features like Elicitation, Sampling, and Progress notifications.

2026-04-10

Amazon Bedrock Expands to ~100 Models with Cross-Account Guardrails and OpenAI Partnership Growth

AWS announced the general availability of cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, enabling a single management-account guardrail policy to automatically enforce safety controls across every model invocation organization-wide, reducing administrative burden while maintaining account-level flexibility. This follows a major 2026 model refresh that expanded Bedrock from approximately 60 to nearly 100 models spanning language, vision, audio, safety, and code workloads from vendors including Mistral, Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, MiniMax, Moonshot, and Qwen. AWS also expanded its OpenAI partnership to a reported $138 billion, eight-year deal, with JP Morgan projecting AWS revenue growth of 29–30% across 2026.

2026-04-07

Iranian Missile Strikes Take Down AWS Data Centers in Bahrain and Dubai, Amazon Declares Hard-Down Status

Reports indicate Iranian missile strikes resulted in AWS data center outages across Bahrain and Dubai regions, with Amazon declaring hard-down status for multiple availability zones. The incident generated 149 Hacker News points and triggered serious conversation about infrastructure resilience and geopolitical risk management in cloud deployments. The event highlights the vulnerability of cloud infrastructure to regional military escalations and raises urgent questions for enterprises with workloads concentrated in Middle Eastern AWS regions.

2026-04-05

AWS Availability Zones in Bahrain and Dubai Go Offline Following Iran Military Strikes

AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai experienced significant outages after Iran carried out military strikes in the region, leaving infrastructure 'hard down' according to reports. The incident underscores geopolitical risks to cloud infrastructure in politically volatile regions and highlights the critical importance of multi-region redundancy strategies for enterprise workloads. AWS had separately announced cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails (April 3) enabling centralized enforcement of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts, and has expanded Amazon Bedrock's model portfolio to nearly 100 models covering language, vision, audio, safety, and code workloads.

2026-04-04