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OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Deploy frontier models on Bedrock’s high performance inference engine with built-in security, governance, and pay-per-token pricing.

In my last Week in Review post, I shared what I’d been hearing from customers in the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops I’ve been delivering. Last week I was back at it, this time in Denver for a two-day AI-DLC workshop, where I helped facilitate 17 teams to deliver nearly 20 separate use cases in

AWS launches the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting.

AWS rebuilt Amazon OpenSearch Serverless from the ground up for agentic AI and dynamic workloads. Get instant autoscaling and up to 60% cost savings.

We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud

There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. Helping them navigate the challenge of proving their business model requires not just technical depth but

Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed and custom transformations. You can upgrade language versions, migrate

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to 5 models simultaneously.

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton, run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU. Its integrated data lake query engine supports open table formats such as Apache Iceberg.

My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and

AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents build more effectively and efficiently on AWS.

Amazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents securely operate legacy desktop applications—without APIs or modernization—using IAM authentication, MCP support, and computer vision within existing security frameworks.

Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something

At the “What’s Next with AWS” 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthcare. AWS also expended its partnership with OpenAI, bringing models like GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advancements in Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock — and a powerful reminder of something

Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager, new C8in/C8ib EC2 instances, and more.

AWS launches Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic’s most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock’s next generation inference engine, purpose-built for generative AI inferencing and fine-tuning workloads.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Interconnect – last mile, a new capability that simplifies how you establish high-speed, private connections to AWS from your

In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with AI, but as they go from experimenting to full production, finance and

Amazon S3 Files makes S3 buckets accessible as high-performance file systems on AWS compute resources, eliminating the tradeoff between object storage benefits and interactive file capabilities while enabling seamless data sharing with ~1ms latencies.