Amazon Bedrock

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.

Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS published a setup guide for running Anthropic's Claude Code against them for regulated workloads, including ITAR. Pricing, context window and benchmark figures were not disclosed.

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.

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, targeting agentic coding, computer use, and document-heavy business workflows. OpenAI claims the model matches GPT-6 Astra on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark at roughly one-fifth the cost per task.

AWS published a reference architecture showing how to combine structured data extraction with Bedrock AgentCore, dual Claude models, and Amazon Quick to answer portfolio-wide questions that standard RAG systems get wrong. The design uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 for extraction and Claude Haiku 4.5 for independent verification, with Amazon Textract as a deterministic tiebreaker.

xAI's Grok 4.7 is now accessible through Amazon Bedrock via cross-Region inference profiles, offering a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels. The model supports the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs, with Bedrock features including prompt caching, Guardrails, and structured outputs.

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, positioned as a faster, lower-cost model for well-scoped coding and document tasks. It pairs with the recently released Claude Opus 5.5, which handles higher-judgment work.

Aderant built a serverless ticket triage system on Amazon Nova Lite that reviewed 109 tickets in its first 2.5 weeks with roughly 96% routing accuracy. The company estimates the system recovers 8-14 engineering hours per week at under $30 in total monthly operating cost.

Amazon Bedrock now supports the open source coding agent OpenCode paired with open weight models including Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, OpenAI's GPT-OSS 120B, and NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super 120B. The setup keeps inference inside a customer's AWS account with per-token pricing instead of per-seat subscriptions.

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock, positioned below flagship GPT-6 Astra for recurring coding tasks and high-volume document processing respectively. Both models cost less per API call than their GPT-5.6 predecessors, though exact pricing figures were not disclosed.

Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in Anthropic's new Claude 5.5 family, is now live on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic claims the model does more with fewer tokens than Claude Opus 5, lowering average cost per task despite unchanged headline pricing tiers.

xAI's Grok 4.6 is now available on Amazon Bedrock via both bedrock-mantle and bedrock-runtime endpoints, adding Converse API support, cross-Region inference profiles, and Bedrock Guardrails. The model offers a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels, with input pricing starting at $2.00 per million tokens on the global inference profile.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, described by the company as the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters, is now available on Amazon Bedrock. It features native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and is the first open-weight model on Bedrock to support explicit prompt caching.

Amazon has released an updated Bedrock AgentCore runtime that holds cold start latency at roughly 2 seconds regardless of container image size, versus up to 30 seconds on the previous version. The update also changes memory billing to track real-time usage instead of peak allocation.

Wood Mackenzie built APEX (Agentic Platform for Energy eXperience) on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to give three separate applications a shared runtime for identity, guardrails, memory, and scaling instead of each rebuilding the same infrastructure. The company says 88% of its internal AI proofs-of-concept never reach wide deployment, a gap it attributes to architecture rather than model quality.

Amazon Bedrock's prompt caching feature can cut input token costs by up to 90% on cache hits by storing repeated context like documents, system prompts, and tool definitions. AWS outlines six implementation patterns and pricing details, including a 25% premium for cache writes and 90% discount on cache reads.

An AWS blog post using an open-source benchmarking harness finds that GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol on Amazon Bedrock deliver lower cost-per-correct-answer than OpenAI's cost-optimized GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano, once accuracy, token efficiency, and agent turn counts are factored in. The analysis also cites a July 30, 2026 price cut of up to 80% for GPT-5.6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock.

AWS published a technical walkthrough for building MCP Apps—interactive HTML widgets rendered inside AI hosts like ChatGPT and Claude—using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's runtime and Gateway components. The reference implementation, a unicorn rental app, demonstrates host-agnostic rich UI delivered through a single MCP server.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now offers TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 as a managed embedding model, letting teams run natural language queries like 'show me the penalty kick' directly against video, audio, and image archives. The service is generally available in two AWS Regions, with pricing tied to standard Bedrock model invocation rates.

AWS's August 2026 roundup details Bedrock and AgentCore updates including million-token context for GPT-5.6 models, AgentCore runtime sessions lasting up to 14 days, OpenAI's new Daybreak Red/Blue cybersecurity models, and Claude Opus 5 availability in GovCloud with zero data retention.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering a context window of up to 1 million input tokens and deep reasoning for enterprise workflows. It is the first OpenAI model to reach OpenAI's Critical classification for cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework.

AWS published a reference architecture showing how to deploy a WhatsApp ordering assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using Nova 2 Lite for text and Nova 2 Sonic for voice, with shared cross-channel memory and MCP-based tool access to backend systems.

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 is now live on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, improving on Fable 5 in reasoning, agentic coding, and long multi-step tasks. The model ships with new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards allowing zero data retention for eligible customers through December 2026.

AWS has published a reference architecture showing how to build multi-tenant agentic document chat applications using Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base. The design handles per-user document isolation, asynchronous ingestion up to 50 MB, and agentic multi-hop retrieval with citations, offloading infrastructure work from development teams.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations now scores AI agents regardless of the framework they're built on, by reading OpenTelemetry and OpenInference instrumentation instead of requiring a specific SDK. The service automatically decodes traces from six named frameworks and extends coverage to any library following the same telemetry conventions.

Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-Region inference for three GPT-5.6 variants — Sol, Terra, and Luna — across more than 25 AWS Regions. The feature routes requests to available compute capacity via geographic or global inference profiles, without requiring code changes beyond swapping a model ID.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now lets teams write agent governance rules in plain English and automatically convert them into Dogwood, an open-source policy language, including support for time-based and cumulative constraints. The update extends Policy Authoring beyond simple parameter restrictions to rate limiting, sequential tool-call ordering, and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails integration.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe, is now generally available after a May preview. The service lets AI agents autonomously pay for paywalled content, APIs, and per-inference compute using stablecoin wallets with spending caps and audit logging.

AWS and OpenAI have made Daybreak Red (GPT-5.6 Cyber) and Daybreak Blue (GPT-5.6 Sol) available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock in US East (N. Virginia). The purpose-trained cybersecurity models run under AWS's zero-operator-access infrastructure and require enrollment in OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program.

Branded communications company First Orion adopted Amazon Nova Act as a pre-release partner in March 2025 to replace fragile Selenium and Playwright test scripts with natural-language QA automation. The shift let QA analysts author tests directly without waiting on automation engineers to translate test cases into code.

AWS published a production reference architecture for deploying Anthropic's Claude apps gateway, a self-hosted governance layer that sits between Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. The deployment pattern centralizes SSO authentication, model access policy, and spend controls for enterprise rollouts.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports temporal policies—stateful authorization rules that evaluate an AI agent's entire session history, not just individual tool calls. The feature runs at the AgentCore Gateway, outside agent code, so it cannot be bypassed by prompt manipulation or agent bugs.

AWS published a technical guide detailing two methods for keeping Claude Code inference confined to a single AWS Region: Anthropic's newer Mantle endpoint and the classic Bedrock Invoke API with application inference profiles. The right path depends entirely on which Region compliance teams require.

AWS published a suite of six Agent Skills that automate the full lifecycle of Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning policies—from rule extraction to deployment—directly from coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, and Codex. The skills wrap Bedrock's formal-logic verification APIs in structured workflows built on Anthropic's open Agent Skills format.

AWS published a technical breakdown of an MCP bridge that connects cloud-hosted AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to MCP servers running on a user's local machine. The architecture, used internally in a finance assistant with over 41,000 conversations in its first year, tunnels MCP JSON-RPC messages through WebSocket and browser native messaging.

Amazon has launched Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server-side tool that grounds foundation model responses in current web knowledge with zero data egress by default. The feature is enabled via a single parameter in the OpenAI Responses API and launches with OpenAI models on Bedrock's next-generation inference engine.

Amazon has added automated policy refinement to Automated Reasoning checks in Bedrock Guardrails, replacing manual hand-editing of formal logic with two new refinement modes. Every proposed change still requires human approval before it takes effect.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, accessible through the OpenAI-compatible Responses API. The release introduces explicit prompt caching, letting developers manually mark cache boundaries for a 90% discount on reused input tokens.

Guardoc Health built a multi-stage document processing pipeline on Amazon Nova Pro, Nova Lite, and Titan Text Embeddings to extract and classify medical conditions from clinical PDFs at scale. The company claims a 46 percent reduction in documentation errors, 70 percent fewer audit fines, and over $400K in annual ROI for a single facility.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, marking the first release in the company's fifth-generation Opus line. Anthropic claims the model matches its top-tier Claude Fable 5 intelligence at Opus-tier pricing, though specific pricing and benchmark figures remain undisclosed.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock through a new bedrock-mantle endpoint. All three models share a 272K-token context window, support image input, and let developers dial reasoning effort from none to max.

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases now offers agentic retrieval through a new AgenticRetrieveStream API that decomposes multi-part questions into sub-queries and iterates until it judges evidence sufficient. The managed model costs $4 per 1,000 agentic retrieval calls plus $1 per 1,000 underlying Retrieve API calls.

Amazon Web Services launched Managed Knowledge Base for Bedrock in general availability, offering a fully managed retrieval solution with six native enterprise connectors including SharePoint, Confluence, and Google Drive. The service handles document parsing up to 500 MB for PDFs, 2 GB for audio, and 10 GB for video, with real-time access control list verification at query time.

xAI has made Grok 4.3 generally available on Amazon Bedrock, marking xAI's debut as a Bedrock model provider. The multimodal model offers a 1 million token context window, configurable reasoning effort (none/low/medium/high), and runs on Bedrock's Mantle inference engine using OpenAI-compatible APIs.

AWS has released AgentCore, a new platform for hosting and running voice-based AI agents, integrated with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time speech capabilities. The platform uses the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect agents to backend systems and deploys each conversation in isolated microVMs.

AWS has released a cloud-deployed UX testing platform built on Amazon Nova Act, a multimodal foundation model that navigates web interfaces through visual understanding rather than hard-coded selectors. The solution processes documentation with Claude 4.5 Sonnet to generate test scenarios, executes parallel testing via ECS, and analyzes results automatically, addressing the scalability limitations of manual testing and maintenance overhead of traditional automation tools.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, introducing a three-tier system: Sol (flagship reasoning), Terra (balanced production), and Luna (fast inference). According to OpenAI, Sol scores 80 points on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index and 73.5% on ExploitBench, establishing new benchmarks while using less than half the output tokens of competing models.

Amazon Web Services has added three MiniMax models to Amazon Bedrock: M2, M2.1, and M2.5. The newest model, M2.5, uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 230 billion total parameters and 10 billion active per token, trained specifically for agent-native execution and coding tasks.

Amazon Bedrock now supports NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The launch includes OpenAI's GPT OSS models (120B and 20B parameters, 128K context) and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family (9B to 120B parameters, 1M context), providing government agencies FedRAMP High and DoD SRG Level 5-compliant AI inference on U.S. soil.

Amazon has added metadata filtering to its AgentCore Memory service for AI agents. In AWS evaluations across 151 questions, the feature improved overall question-answering accuracy from 40% to 64%, with context-dependent questions jumping from 16% to 69% accuracy. The update allows agents to filter memory retrieval by attributes like priority, department, or time range before semantic search runs.