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Markets2026-08-02 · source-backed
Per AWS's own documentation, the agent product Amazon launched in November 2023 entered maintenance mode: no new customers, model catalog frozen as of that date, so every model released after July 30 is AgentCore-only. Existing allowlisted accounts keep access with no EOL announced. If you standardized on Bedrock Agents, you just inherited a migration you didn't schedule. This is the second time in two years that a hyperscaler's managed-agent abstraction became a legacy tier before most teams finished adopting it.
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AWS announced August 6 that agents can now run on your own EC2 instances while AgentCore handles provisioning, patching, scaling, and lifecycle. Complements the existing microVM runtime, targeting sustained or specialized-hardware workloads that need the full EC2 instance-type...
AWS made the managed AgentCore harness generally available on June 18. You define model, tools, skills, and memory with CreateHarness, then run it with InvokeHarness. It ships multi-model support (Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, LiteLLM), mid-session context preservation, built-in br...
Willison's August 2 roundup lays out "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" (July 24, Microsoft-shepherded, now 235 signatory companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combinator, the Linux Foundation, and OpenAI after initially abstaining); Anthropic's separate July 27 rebutta...
The deal is backed by a $50B Amazon investment and 2GW Trainium capacity commitment. GPT-5.5 pricing: $5/$30 per 1M input/output tokens with 1M context. For builders on AWS, you can now use GPT-5.5 with existing IAM, PrivateLink, and CloudTrail. No new security model. The mult...
The largest AI infrastructure deal in history: Amazon invests $50B in OpenAI ($15B initial + $35B conditional) to make AWS the exclusive third-party cloud for OpenAI Frontier — a platform for deploying teams of AI agents with shared context, built-in governance, and enterprise...
AWS's August 21 post stages agent tool governance as Connect, Control, Catalog and Harden, from one SSO-backed MCP endpoint for a 1-20 user pilot through identity-aware authorization with PII redaction and self-service tool publishing at 100+ users. It supports Cognito-backed...
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