Amazon Q Developer

AWS has published a reference architecture for a voice travel concierge that pairs Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic with Bedrock AgentCore runtime, AgentCore Gateway over MCP, and Bedrock Knowledge Bases. It deploys with a single AWS CDK script and runs against a sample airline backend with synthetic data. The post does not disclose pricing, context window, or benchmark figures for Nova 2.5 Sonic.

Amazon Bedrock now offers GLM 5.3, Z.ai's 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, through managed APIs with cross-Region inference, prompt caching and service tiers. Access is limited to eligible enterprise customers. Pricing and context window were not disclosed in AWS's announcement.

Amazon SageMaker AI has released the aws-ai-ml skill, distributed through the Agent Toolkit for AWS. It lets MCP-compatible coding agents such as Kiro, Claude Code and Codex benchmark endpoints, recommend deployment configurations and generate executable SageMaker Python SDK v3 code.

AWS has published the Quick Resource Migrator, a sample MCP server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that promotes Amazon Quick resources between AWS accounts in a single tool call. It is idempotent, never deletes from the target, and writes versioned S3 backups before every update.

AWS published a walkthrough for connecting Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock to a managed, MCP-compatible Web Search capability through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. According to AWS, the search is backed by an Amazon web index spanning tens of billions of documents, and query traffic stays within AWS infrastructure. Web Search is available in three AWS Regions; pricing is not disclosed in the post.

Amazon Web Services has released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source model that chooses among pre-decided options and returns a confidence score instead of generating text. It is inspired by TypeSafe's Jev and is small enough to run locally. Amazon says it briefly topped the Jevbench ranking for models of its size.

AWS published a reference implementation for ambient agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. S3 uploads or scheduled events create jobs that an agent runs, pausing for human input through a single ask_human tool. Each agent turn is capped at the 15-minute Lambda timeout.

Taiwan retail platform uniopen adapted Amazon Nova 2 Lite to its two-axis moderation policy using LoRA supervised fine-tuning in Amazon SageMaker AI, plus a prompt-format change. According to AWS, Per Behavior Macro F1 rose from 0.5852 to 0.8550 and Subject Type Macro F1 from 0.4162 to 0.8491, both above production targets.