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AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, Amazon DynamoDB bulk put items, and more (November 9, 2026)

Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need, complete. The source stays writable except for a few […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)

The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams already trust became callable without a rewrite. In the […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)

A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the point I kept returning to is that the markets we call traditional […]

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hours of manual investigation and days of cross-team coordination.

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)

Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became something you can provision from inside the […]