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AWS blog: choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock

AWS argues per-million-token pricing is the wrong comparison metric for production generative AI workloads, which buy outcomes like resolved support tickets rather than tokens. The post is a technical how-to for picking among OpenAI models available on Amazon Bedrock.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS adds prefix-aware routing to SageMaker Inference

The technique splits LLM prompts into a fixed context portion (instructions, reference documents, conversation history) and a variable user-input portion, routing requests so shared prefixes are reused to cut latency.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS details model caching to cut SageMaker HyperPod cold starts

AWS blog post explains how model caching on SageMaker HyperPod shrinks the gap between pod request and serving traffic, which is dominated by two sequential downloads: the inference server container image from Amazon ECR and the model weights.

LaunchDevelopers1 source

TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 hits Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 is now generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, enabling video and image search by meaning. AWS says media, sports analytics, education, security, and retail teams need to find specific moments in video, which remains largely unsearchable today.

How-ToAI Agents2 sources

AWS publishes guides for Amazon Quick Automate agentic workflows

Four AWS posts cover Amazon Quick Automate, a multi-agent automation capability in Amazon Quick Suite, including an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow and Outlook email automation. One guide cites a Gartner study finding AI saves sellers nearly five hours a week.

How-ToAI Agents1 source

AWS introduces Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn agents

The Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM) scores agent quality at the turn level, targeting failures single-turn evaluation misses, where one early mistake corrupts later turns. AWS applies its first dimension, correctness, in the post.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B deployed on SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on August 12, 2026 — the first Qwen-Max-class model shipped as open weights, with 2.4T total parameters and 95B activated per token. AWS published a guide for serving it on SageMaker HyperPod via vLLM.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS offers Ray Serve containers for TorchServe workloads

TorchServe is no longer actively maintained, with no planned updates, bug fixes, or security patches. AWS introduces Ray Serve Deep Learning Containers to support and simplify migration of TorchServe workloads.

LaunchAI Models2 sources

GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI arrives on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now available on Amazon Bedrock, running on the Bedrock inference engine built for high performance, security, and scale. AWS says organizations are already running agents that write code, analyze data, and automate complex workflows on it.

How-ToDevelopers2 sources

AWS posts two-part guide on MLflow-SageMaker Model Registry sync

AWS published a two-part blog series on governing models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync. Part 1 covers automating model registration between MLflow and the registry; Part 2 extends governance across accounts.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

DiDi builds contact center QA on Amazon Bedrock

DiDi's International Business Group built an intelligent contact center QA system on Amazon Bedrock, covering Spanish and Portuguese across ride-hailing, food delivery, and financial services.

How-ToDevelopers4 sources

AWS publishes AgentCore agent lifecycle and migration guides

AWS AI Blog released four technical guides on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, covering memory lifecycle policies, AI-driven development, migrating agentic workloads, and auto-generating architecture diagrams. The posts target advanced users and include practical how-to content.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS Bedrock knowledge base customization with Textract

AWS blog details customizing Bedrock knowledge bases for large, complex documents using Amazon Textract. It addresses parsing multi-page utility bills with inconsistent formats and dense tables.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS shows how to run OpenAI Codex with LiteLLM on ECS and Bedrock

AWS published a guide for deploying OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock, aimed at providing centralized enterprise controls for generative AI coding agents. The setup helps developers understand repositories, write code, run tests, and complete multi-step engineering tasks.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS blog details generative AI for scaling support ops

AWS AI Blog outlines using generative AI to handle rising ticket volumes, meet SLAs, and keep documentation current without proportional headcount increases. The post is a technical guide for modernizing support operations on AWS.

LaunchEducation1 source

AWS Trinity: Agentic AI for student transition planning

Trinity is a conversational AI solution built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps students with disabilities take ownership of postsecondary planning. It was co-authored with University Startups.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1

Fable 5.1 scores 55.8% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 in Claude Code, ahead of Fable 5 (42%) and Opus 5 (52.3%). Priced the same as Fable 5, with API cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

Atos upskills 400 engineers in agentic AI with AWS

Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI, moving from theory to delivery. The program used AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker to build real-world capability.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS guide covers securing Amazon Quick from POC to production

AWS post walks through permission models for Amazon Quick Agents, Flows, and Spaces, noting pilots that work for ten users often break when five departments are added. Agents can return data outside their intended scope.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

Connect AgentCore MCP server to Amazon Quick

AWS blog shows how to connect an AgentCore Runtime hosted MCP server to Amazon Quick, enabling standardized, secure access to files, databases, and APIs for AI agents.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

AWS named Leader in Forrester Wave for AI Infrastructure

AWS received the highest score in the Strategy category in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025, which evaluated 13 providers. The recognition reflects AWS's commitment to flexible AI infrastructure.

LaunchDevelopers8 sources

AWS launches Agent Registry and ARD spec for agent discovery

AWS Agent Registry manages agents, tools, and skills at scale, addressing discovery and governance challenges. The Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) open specification enables cross-environment discovery for agents.

LaunchDevelopers1 source

SageMaker Feature Store adds batch write and record discovery

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports batch write and record discovery, enabling efficient ingestion and retrieval of features for ML models. The feature is available in the AWS Management Console and via the SDK.

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Deepgram adds enhanced metrics to Amazon SageMaker AI observability

Deepgram's self-hosted speech AI now exposes billing, capacity, and cost metrics through Amazon SageMaker AI Enhanced Metrics, addressing the observability trade-off of vendor-locked containers. The integration enables capacity planning and cost management directly from SageMaker.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

NVIDIA MPS on EC2 cuts ASR inference costs by 75%

AWS, NVIDIA, and Heidi detail how NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2 reduces automatic speech recognition (ASR) inference costs by 75% while meeting strict latency requirements. The post targets low GPU utilization per request.

LaunchDevelopers9 sources

AWS adds governance, evaluation, and async features to Bedrock AgentCore

AWS announced new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore capabilities: AgentCore Evaluations for testing any agent framework, cross-account knowledge base connections, a Gateway for governing tool access, natural-language policy authoring, web search domain/date filters, and async invocation patterns. McKinsey reports ~80% of organizations have encountered risky AI agent behavior.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS SageMaker AI script mode in SDK v3 enables BYOM

AWS updated its 2021 script mode guide for SageMaker AI SDK v3, letting users run custom training and inference code on managed framework containers without building Docker images. The post covers setup and usage for bring-your-own-model workflows.

LaunchDevelopers1 source

AWS adds new Ray capabilities to SageMaker HyperPod

AWS announced new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod, integrating Ray with the purpose-built infrastructure for foundation model training and serving. Ray is an open-source framework for scaling distributed Python workloads.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS shows how to build AI knowledge management system

AWS AI Blog details building an AI-powered knowledge management system using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases to preserve institutional knowledge. The post addresses the challenge of 'tribal knowledge' loss when employees leave.

LaunchDevelopers1 source

AWS unveils Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP)

ADOP on AWS aims to cut data engineering timelines from weeks to hours by automating ETL, quality checks, semantic models, and compliance validation. It is designed for teams standing up new data sources.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

AWS Bedrock reduces RAG costs with query-aware compression

AWS introduces query-aware compression on Amazon Bedrock to cut input tokens sent to foundation models in RAG workloads, lowering costs at scale. The technique compresses context based on the query before it reaches the model.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

AWS vector solutions: Build agentic AI where your data lives

AWS highlights vector search as the retrieval layer for agentic AI, enabling accurate, contextual, and grounded agents. The post covers vector solutions across Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Neptune Analytics, OpenSearch Service, and S3.

How-ToHealth1 source

AWS Bedrock secures healthcare FHIR APIs with AI

AWS shows how to use Amazon Bedrock to build intelligent security for healthcare FHIR APIs, balancing open patient data access with strict data protection. The approach reduces manual maintenance of static security rules and compliance gaps.