New updates on AWS GovCloud (US) | Issue #2

AWS Summit Washington, DC returns June 30–July 1, and AWS GovCloud (US) has its largest presence yet with nine dedicated sessions spanning AI, security, supercomputing, and hands-on builders sessions. Whether you're an architect, mission owner, or technology leader in the federal space, there's a session designed for where you are in your cloud journey.

Kick off the Summit with our flagship session, GVC103: Compliant innovation at scale with new AWS GovCloud (US) capabilities, for a comprehensive look at recent launches including new foundation models, AI agents, and our $50 billion federal supercomputing investment initiative, followed by a fireside chat with federal technology leaders from DoD and DoE. Then go hands-on with GVC301: Architect Compliant AI Agents with Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), a chalk talk where we live-demo and whiteboard how Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and AgentCore secure agentic AI workloads. Also don't miss GVC202: Accelerate AI mission impact with data readiness in AWS GovCloud (US), featuring real customer stories on building AI-ready data foundations.  
 
To plan your schedule, visit the AWS Summit Washington, DC page to view the full agenda and register, or download the AWS Events app, search for the sessions below, and tap the star icon to add them to your personal calendar.

Here's what practitioners need to know to get started with AgentCore in AWS GovCloud (US).

 AgentCore is accessible through the Amazon Bedrock console, the AgentCore CLI, or programmatically using the AWS SDK, giving teams flexibility in how they build and deploy agents. For framework choice, AgentCore supports Strands Agents, LangGraph, Google ADK, and OpenAI Agents SDK, so teams can build with what they know and evolve without rearchitecting. AgentCore Runtime provides session-level isolation for agent execution, preventing cross-tenant interference and data leakage, while AgentCore Gateway converts existing APIs and Lambda functions into agent-ready tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for secure access to enterprise services without custom integration work.

 Identity delegation enables agents to inherit and operate within the permission boundaries of the invoking user, natively supporting external OAuth 2.0/OIDC identity providers alongside existing IAM policies, permission boundaries, and session controls—without requiring user migration or exposing identity infrastructure to the public internet. All AgentCore services are composable: a team might start with runtime isolation for a sensitive CUI workload, add identity delegation when ready to connect their existing workforce IdP, then layer in observability as they move toward production. For teams already building with Amazon Bedrock Agents, AgentCore layers on as the production hardening infrastructure—adopt it incrementally without rewriting existing agent logic.

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