AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community.

The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in fields like AI, serverless, and containers together for direct collaboration, technical deep-dives, and feedback sessions with internal AWS product and service teams.

Day 1 started with an inspiring fireside chat from AWS CEO Matt Garman. From an insightful AMA with James Hamilton on Day 2 to breakout sessions from various product teams that sparked new ideas, our AWS Heroes excelled at sharing knowledge, lifting each other up, and turning conversations into collaborations. To learn more, read the attendee feedback on LinkedIn.

Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that got my attention:

• Web Search on Amazon Bedrock: Amazon Bedrock now enables OpenAI models (GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna) to browse and retrieve information from the internet, allowing AI applications to access up-to-date information beyond their training data. This capability opens new possibilities for building AI agents and applications that can answer questions using real-time web content while maintaining data residency within your secured AWS environment with zero data egress. To get started, visit the AI blog post and the Amazon Bedrock User Guide.
• Runtime Instances on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: You can now deploy and run AI agents on dedicated runtime instances through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing more control over agent execution environments with predictable performance and cost. To get started, visit Sébastien’s blog post and AgentCore documentation.
• Vector search for Amazon DynamoDB: You can store and query vector embeddings alongside your existing data in DynamoDB without managing a separate vector database. DynamoDB already supports storing memory for AI agents, and with vector search you can now add semantic retrieval over that memory for agentic grounding, with predictable performance. To learn more, visit Esra’s blog post and Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.
• AWS Transform continuous modernization now generally available: This capability helps engineering teams analyze and remediate technical debt across source code repositories at scale. You can modernize mainframe and legacy workloads with an ongoing, automated approach rather than a one-time migration event. To learn more, visit Micah’s preview blog post. You can also try the AWS Transform Kiro Power and agent plugins.
• Up to 3,000 Mbps for AWS Lambda function bandwidth: AWS Lambda functions now support increased network bandwidth, enabling data-intensive workloads and faster communication between Lambda functions and other AWS services. This feature enables functions outside a VPC that are configured with 2 GB of memory or more to access network bandwidth that scales proportionally, from 625 Mbps at 2 GB up to 3,000 Mbps at 10 GB.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New with AWS page.

Other AWS news
Here are some additional projects and news items that you may find interesting:

• Introducing Dogwood: Runtime Verification for AI Agents: AWS open-sourced Dogwood, a purpose-built governance language for AI agents to support Cedar policies and add temporal conditions. Powering Dogwood, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduced temporal policies whose decisions depend on the history of an agent’s actions within a session, not on the current request alone.
• AWS supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions: AWS announced support for Agent Plugins, an open source, vendor-neutral specification that gives AI agent extensions a common packaging format so you can package an extension once and ship it to any client, including Kiro, VS Code, Cursor, or any tool that implements the spec.
• Introducing Kiro Crew: Kiro Crew is a persistent, self-evolving workspace that keeps work moving, online or off, enabling collaborative multi-agent development workflows within the Kiro IDE. It’s built for engineering work that goes beyond a single chat session, and spans repos, tools, and days. You can run several efforts in parallel or hand work to subagents that report back, so nothing waits in line.

For a full list of AWS blog posts, be sure to keep an eye on the AWS Blogs page.

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That is all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— Channy