Category: Announcements

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and efficiency to each workload.

Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers what’s new in Opus 5.5, practical guidance, and how to start building with the model on Amazon Bedrock.

Skills let you encode domain-specific procedures as reusable, portable instructions for agents, but a fluent answer doesn’t prove the agent picked the right skill or followed it. Learn how to measure skill selection and instruction following with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations.

xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work, with a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels. It runs on both the bedrock-mantle and bedrock-runtime endpoints, with Converse API and cross-Region inference support.

Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches in year-to-date across two deployment paths: fully managed endpoints and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference. This post reviews each launch, from inference recommendations and capacity-aware instance pools to tiered KV caching and disaggregated prefill and decode.

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and explicit prompt caching to reduce latency and input costs.

Today we are announcing the new AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore built for the speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency that production agents demand. It reclaims memory as sessions release it and delivers consistent cold starts regardless of image size or concurrency.

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS. It uses real-time GPU signals to send each inference request to the best-suited pod, cutting first-token latency by up to 82% with no changes to your model servers or client applications.

Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping recruiters identify strong candidates more efficiently while providing applicants with a flexible interview experience. Informed by decades of Amazon’s hiring science, Amazon Connect Talent provides transparency for every assessment, interview, and candidate score, enabling recruiters to stay in control of final hiring decisions.

AI agents on foundation models often misapply healthcare and life sciences decision frameworks, citing the right guideline but applying it incorrectly. This post shares 38 open-source agent skills across 11 HCLS domains that close this gap, with installation steps, three worked use cases, and a 410-prompt evaluation showing a 70-86% win rate.