Artificial Intelligence

AWS launches frontier agents for security testing and cloud operations

I’m excited to announce that AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing and AWS DevOps Agent are now generally available, representing a new class of AI capabilities we announced at re:Invent called frontier agents. These autonomous systems work independently to achieve goals, scale massively to tackle concurrent tasks, and run persistently for hours or days without constant human oversight. Together, these agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. In preview, customers and partners report that AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from weeks to hours and the AWS DevOps Agent supports 3–5x faster incident resolution.

Scalable voice agent design with Amazon Nova Sonic: multi-agent, tools, and session segmentation

In this post, you’ll learn how to use Amazon Nova Sonic, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands BidiAgent to build scalable, maintainable voice agents that handle these challenges efficiently, resulting in more responsive and intelligent customer interactions. We’ll explore three popular architectural patterns for voice agents, highlighting their trade-offs and best practices for minimizing latency.

Extending conversational memory in Kiro CLI using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory

In this post, we demonstrate how you can extend the conversational memory of Kiro CLI by implementing a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory. You can use Kiro CLI to interact with AI agents of Kiro directly from your terminal. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory is a fully managed service that allows AI agents to retain information from past interactions, creating more intelligent and context-aware conversations. By implementing a custom MCP server, you can provide Kiro CLI with tools to store and retrieve conversation context, monitor memory usage, and manage the underlying Bedrock Agent Core Memory infrastructure.

Accelerate ML feature pipelines with new capabilities in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store

Today, we’re announcing three new capabilities available in SageMaker Python SDK v3.8.0. In this post, we walk through each capability with code examples you can use to get started. For complete end-to-end walkthroughs, see the accompanying notebooks for Lake Formation governance and Iceberg table properties in the SageMaker Python SDK repository.

Implementing programmatic tool calling on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show three ways to implement Programmatic tool calling (PTC) on Amazon Bedrock: a self-hosted Docker sandbox on ECS for maximum control, a managed solution using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter, and an Anthropic SDK-compatible path through a proxy for teams that prefer that developer experience.

Prompting Amazon Nova 2 for content moderation

In this post, you learn how to prompt Amazon Nova 2 Lite for content moderation using structured and free-form approaches, grounded in the MLCommons AILuminate Assessment Standard. The prompting techniques use the AILuminate taxonomy as an example, but they work equally well with your own custom moderation policy. You can swap in your own category definitions and the prompt structure stays the same. We also benchmark the content moderation capabilities of Amazon Nova 2 Lite against several foundation models (FMs) on three public datasets.

Aderant transforms cloud operations with Amazon Quick

In this post, we share how Aderant used the AI-powered capabilities of Amazon Quick to unify search across six vendor systems and automate documentation workflows, achieving 90 percent faster search times and 75 percent documentation acceleration, and how others can apply these approaches to their operations.

Integrate Atlassian Confluence Cloud with Amazon Quick

In this post, you will learn how to set up the Confluence Cloud integration with Quick. This includes creating a knowledge base for semantic search, setting up Actions to query and manage Confluence pages, and organizing resources in Quick Spaces. Quick integrates with your current enterprise technology stack, from internal knowledge repositories and corporate intranets to business-critical applications and AWS data services.

Build custom code-based evaluators in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you will implement four Lambda-based custom code evaluators for a financial market-intelligence agent, register each with AgentCore, and run them in on-demand and online modes. You will also see how to combine custom code-based evaluators with built-in evaluators and how to call other AWS services for grounded fact-checking, PII detection, and real-time alerting.

Restrict access to sensitive documents in your Amazon Quick knowledge bases for Amazon S3

In this post, we walk through how to configure document-level ACLs for your S3 knowledge base in Amazon Quick. You will learn how to set up and verify an ACL configuration that enforces document-level permissions across chat and automated workflows.

Improve bot accuracy with Amazon Lex Assisted NLU

In this post, you will learn how to implement Assisted NLU effectively. You will learn how to improve your bot design with effective intent and slot descriptions, validate your implementation using Test Workbench, and plan your transition from traditional NLU to Assisted NLU for both new and existing bots.