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Category: AWS re:Invent
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 […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran back in June, so this post always lands as […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Invent keynote recap, on-demand videos, and more (December 8, 2025)
The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 that you can […]
Amazon Bedrock adds reinforcement fine-tuning simplifying how developers build smarter, more accurate AI models
Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models.
New serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates model fine-tuning
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
Introducing checkpointless and elastic training on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents
Deploy AI agents with confidence using new quality evaluations and policy controls—enabling precise boundaries on agent actions, continuous quality monitoring, and experience-based learning while maintaining natural conversation flows.
Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions
New Lambda capability lets you build applications that coordinate multiple steps reliably over extended periods—from seconds to up to one year—without paying for idle compute time when waiting for external events or human decisions.





