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🚀 Amazon expanded availability of TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.2 to US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and Europe (Frankfurt) via Amazon Bedrock. Pegasus 1.2 is a video-first language model optimized for long-form video understanding, video-to-text generation, and temporal reasoning across visual, audio, and textual signals. The regional rollout brings the model closer to customers' data and end users, reducing latency and simplifying deployment architectures. Developers can now build enterprise-grade video intelligence applications in these regions.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now previews Web Bot Auth, a draft IETF protocol that cryptographically identifies AI agents to websites. The feature automatically generates credentials, signs HTTP requests with private keys, and registers verified agent identities to reduce CAPTCHA interruptions and human intervention in automated workflows. It streamlines verification across major providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, and HUMAN Security, and is available in nine AWS Regions on a consumption-based pricing model with no upfront costs.

🎥 TwelveLabs' Marengo Embed 3.0 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, providing a unified video-native multimodal embedding that represents video, images, audio, and text in a single vector space. The release doubles processing capacity—up to 4 hours and 6 GB per file—expands language support to 36 languages, and improves sports analysis and multimodal search precision. It supports synchronous low-latency text and image inference and asynchronous processing for video, audio, and large files.

🖼 Amazon Bedrock now offers four new image-editing tools in Stability AI Image Services: Outpaint, Fast Upscale, Conservative Upscale, and Creative Upscale. These additions expand the platform's Edit, Upscale, and Control capabilities, enabling creators to perform targeted edits and resolution enhancements with greater precision. The tools are accessible via the Bedrock API and are initially supported in US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), and US East (Ohio).

🌐 Web Grounding is now generally available as a built-in tool for Nova models, usable today with Nova Premier via the Amazon Bedrock tool use API. It retrieves and incorporates publicly available information with citations to support responses, enabling a turnkey RAG solution that reduces hallucinations and improves accuracy. Cross-region inference makes the tool available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon). Support for additional Nova models will follow.

🚀 Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a unified embedding model designed for agentic RAG and semantic search across text, documents, images, video, and audio. The model handles inputs up to 8K tokens and video/audio segments up to 30 seconds, with segmentation for larger files and selectable embedding dimensions. Both synchronous and asynchronous APIs are supported to balance latency and throughput, and Nova is available in Amazon Bedrock in US East (N. Virginia).

🎞️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports AVI, MKV, and WEBM video formats and the AV1 and MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) codecs, expanding coverage for archival, multi-track, and web-based videos. The service also delivers up to 50% faster image processing to accelerate extraction of visual insights. BDA is available in eight AWS Regions, enabling organizations to process native formats and streamline GenAI workflows.

🔒 Amazon announced that Amazon Nova models now support customizable content moderation settings for approved business use cases that require processing or generating sensitive content. Organizations can adjust controls across four domains—safety, sensitive content, fairness, and security—while Amazon enforces essential, non-configurable safeguards to protect children and preserve privacy. Customization is available for Amazon Nova Lite and Amazon Nova Pro in the US East (N. Virginia) region; customers should contact their AWS Account Manager to confirm eligibility.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock Guardrails offers configurable, cross-model safeguards to protect generative AI applications from encoding-based attacks that attempt to hide harmful content using encodings such as Base64, hexadecimal, ROT13, and Morse code. It implements a layered defense—output-focused filtering, prompt-attack detection, and customizable denied topics—so legitimate encoded inputs are allowed while attempts to request or generate encoded harmful outputs are blocked. The design emphasizes usability and performance by avoiding exhaustive input decoding and relying on post-generation evaluation.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock now automatically enables serverless foundation models in each AWS Region, removing the prior per-model enablement step and retiring the Model Access page and PutFoundationModelEntitlement IAM permission. Access is managed through standard AWS controls—IAM and Service Control Policies (SCPs)—so account- and organization-level governance remains intact. Existing model restrictions enforced by IAM or SCPs continue to apply, and previously enabled models are unaffected. Administrators should transition to scoped IAM/SCP policies and patterns such as wildcards and NotResource denies to maintain least-privilege control.

🔓 Amazon Bedrock now automatically enables access to all serverless foundation models by default in all commercial AWS regions. This removes the prior manual activation step and lets users immediately use models via the Amazon Bedrock console, AWS SDK, and features such as Agents, Flows, and Prompt Management. Anthropic models remain enabled but require a one-time usage form before first use; completing the form via the console or API and submitting it from an AWS organization management account will enable Anthropic across member accounts. Administrators continue to control access through IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs).

🚀 Claude Haiku 4.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock, offering near-frontier performance comparable to Claude Sonnet 4 while reducing cost and improving inference speed. The model targets latency-sensitive and budget-conscious deployments, excelling at coding, computer use, agent tasks, and vision-enabled workflows. Haiku 4.5 supports global cross-region inference and is positioned for scaled production use; consult Bedrock documentation, the console, and pricing pages for region and billing details.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock has expanded regional access to several foundation models, adding DeepSeek-V3.1, OpenAI open-weight models (20B, 120B), and multiple Qwen3 variants. The update makes DeepSeek-V3.1 and Qwen3 Coder-480B available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and brings OpenAI open-weight and additional Qwen models to US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Customers can deploy these models locally to meet data residency needs, reduce latency, and enable faster AI-powered experiences.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity centralizes and secures identities and credentials for AI agents, integrating with existing identity providers such as Amazon Cognito to avoid user migration and rework of authentication flows. It provides a token vault encrypted with AWS KMS, native AWS Secrets Manager support, and orchestrates OAuth 2.0 flows (2LO and 3LO). Declarative SDK annotations and built-in error handling simplify credential injection and refresh workflows, helping teams deploy agentic workloads securely at scale.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available, offering an agentic platform to build, deploy, and operate agents securely at scale without infrastructure management. It adds VPC support, extended eight-hour runtimes, session isolation, and initial Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol support. Identity, Gateway, and Observability features provide secure authorization, tool discovery, and CloudWatch/OTEL monitoring.

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now offers vector search generally available with Valkey 8.2, enabling indexing, searching, and updating billions of high-dimensional embeddings from providers such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with microsecond latency and up to 99% recall. Key use cases include semantic caching for LLMs, multi-turn conversational agents, and RAG-enabled agentic systems to reduce latency and cost. Vector search runs on node-based clusters in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and existing Valkey or Redis OSS clusters can be upgraded to Valkey 8.2 with no downtime.

⚠️This Unit 42 proof-of-concept shows how an attacker can use indirect prompt injection to silently poison an AI agent’s long-term memory, demonstrated against a travel assistant built on Amazon Bedrock. The attack manipulates the agent’s session summarization process so malicious instructions become stored memory and persist across sessions. When the compromised memory is later injected into orchestration prompts, the agent can be coerced into unauthorized actions such as stealthy exfiltration. Unit 42 outlines layered mitigations including pre-processing prompts, Bedrock Guardrails, content filtering, URL allowlisting, and logging to reduce risk.

🧠 You can now run asynchronous batch AI inference inside Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines to enrich and ingest very large datasets for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. The same AI connectors previously used for real-time calls to Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and third parties now support high-throughput, offline jobs. Batch inference is intended for offline enrichment scenarios—generating up to billions of vector embeddings—with improved performance and cost efficiency versus streaming inference. The feature is available in regions that support OpenSearch Ingestion on domains running 2.17+.

📧 Amazon Connect now provides generative AI-powered email conversation overviews, suggested actions, and draft responses to help agents resolve customer emails faster and more consistently. Administrators enable the capability by adding the Amazon Q in Connect block to contact flows before an email is assigned to an agent. Outputs can be customized with knowledge bases and tailored prompts to align responses with company tone and policies. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Q in Connect is offered.

🚀 The open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server is now available for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a standardized interface that enables developers to analyze, transform, and deploy production-ready AI agents within their preferred development environments. The release includes one-click installation and integrates with agentic IDEs like Kiro and AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, and the Amazon Q Developer CLI. Developers can use natural language to iteratively build agents, convert agent logic to the AgentCore SDK, and deploy into development accounts. Documentation and installation instructions are published in the MCP Server GitHub repository, with additional implementation guidance and pricing details available in the AgentCore documentation and pricing resources.