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🔍 AWS has announced general availability of multimodal retrieval in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, enabling unified search across text, images, audio, and video. The managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow provides developers full control over ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding (including Amazon Nova multimodal), and vector storage. Users can submit text or image queries and receive relevant text, image, audio, and video segments back, which can be combined with the LLM of their choice to generate richer, lower-latency responses. Region availability varies by feature set and is documented by AWS.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock now offers a Reserved service tier that provides prioritized compute and guaranteed input/output tokens-per-minute capacity for inference workloads. Customers can reserve asymmetric input and output capacities to match workload patterns, and excess traffic overflows automatically to the pay-as-you-go Standard tier to keep operations running. The tier targets 99.5% model response uptime and is available today for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, with 1- or 3-month reservations billed monthly at a fixed price per 1K tokens-per-minute.

🚀 Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 is now available through Amazon Bedrock, giving Bedrock customers access to a high-performance foundation model at roughly one-third the prior cost. Opus 4.5 advances professional software engineering, agentic workflows, multilingual coding, and complex visual interpretation while supporting production-grade agent deployments. Bedrock adds two API features — tool search and tool use examples — plus a beta effort parameter to balance reasoning, tool calls, latency, and cost. The model is offered via global cross-region inference in multiple AWS regions.

🤖 Amazon SageMaker introduces a serverless notebook experience that consolidates SQL, Python, and natural-language workflows into a single interactive workspace for analytics and ML. The environment is backed by Amazon Athena for Apache Spark to scale from interactive queries to petabyte-scale processing without pre-provisioned infrastructure. A built-in AI agent generates code and SQL from natural-language prompts to accelerate development, and the feature is available via SageMaker Unified Studio's one-click onboarding in multiple AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports synchronous image processing, enabling low-latency extraction of structured insights from visual content. Synchronous APIs complement existing asynchronous workflows, removing the need for polling or callbacks and simplifying application architecture. BDA supports Standard Output for common analyses and Custom Output via Blueprints for industry-specific field extraction.

🚀 Beginning today, Amazon has made Amazon Bedrock available in Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain). The managed service provides secure access to a variety of foundation models and tools for building and operating generative AI applications and agents. With regional endpoints, customers can reduce latency and address data residency and compliance needs. To get started, customers can consult the Bedrock documentation and regional resources.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain). The managed service provides access to multiple foundation models and tools to build, deploy, and operate secure, scalable generative AI applications and agents. Customers in these Regions can expect lower latency, improved regional data options, and an easier path from experimentation to production.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports importing custom weights for gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, allowing customers to bring tuned OpenAI GPT OSS models into a fully managed, serverless environment. This capability eliminates the need to manage infrastructure or model serving while enabling deployment of text-to-text models for reasoning, agentic, and developer tasks. gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production and high-reasoning use cases; gpt-oss-20b targets lower-latency or specialized scenarios. The feature is generally available in US‑East (N. Virginia).

🛠️ AWS Marketplace now supports Agent-to-Agent (A2A) servers and streamlined deployment for third-party AI agents built for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. The update pre-populates required environment variables in the AgentCore console and adds AWS CLI instructions within Marketplace listings so customers can procure and deploy A2A servers directly. AWS Partners can list A2A and MCP servers and containerized AgentCore Runtime products, define vendor launch configurations, and enable flexible pricing (including free API-based SaaS) to accelerate onboarding. These capabilities reduce deployment complexity and add protocol flexibility to meet diverse customer needs.

🔔 Amazon Bedrock introduces two new inference tiers—Priority and Flex—to help customers balance cost and latency for varied AI workloads. Flex targets non-time-critical jobs like model evaluations and summarization with discounted pricing and lower scheduling priority. Priority offers premium performance and preferential processing (up to 25% better OTPS vs. Standard) for mission-critical, real-time applications. The existing Standard tier remains available for general-purpose use.

🎧 Amazon Polly now offers five new Generative TTS voices—Austrian German (Hannah), Irish English (Niamh), Brazilian Portuguese (Camila), Belgian Dutch (Lisa), and Korean (Seoyeon)—bringing the Generative engine to thirty-one voices across twenty locales. The Generative engine is generally available in three new Asia Pacific regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and all Generative voices are now available in US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), and US West (Oregon). These updates expand Amazon Polly's managed text-to-speech capabilities for conversational AI and speech content creation.

🎙️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics beyond English: Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese. BDA can transcribe audio in the detected language, generate GenAI-powered insights, and produce summaries either in the detected language or in English. It also creates multi-lingual transcripts when recordings contain more than one supported language, simplifying analysis of customer calls, meetings, education sessions, clinical discussions, and public safety audio. Support is available in eight AWS Regions.

🚀 Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock within AWS GovCloud (US‑West and US‑East) via US‑GOV Cross‑Region Inference. The model emphasizes advanced instruction following, superior code generation and refactoring judgment, and is optimized for long‑horizon agents and high‑volume workloads. Bedrock adds an automatic context editor and a new external memory tool so Claude can clear stale tool-call context and store information outside the context window, improving accuracy and performance for security, financial services, and enterprise automation use cases.

🧰 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports two deployment methods: direct code-zip upload and container-based deployment. Developers can use drag-and-drop code-zip uploads for rapid prototyping or opt for container images when they need custom runtime configurations and dependencies. The serverless, model-agnostic runtime is designed to scale for production while maintaining enterprise security. This capability is available across nine AWS Regions with consumption-based pricing and no upfront costs.

🔒 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Proxy for AWS is now generally available, offering a client-side proxy that lets MCP clients connect to remote, AWS-hosted MCP servers using AWS SigV4 authentication. It supports agentic development tools such as Amazon Q Developer CLI, Kiro, Cursor, and agent frameworks like Strands Agents, and interoperates with MCP servers built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway or Runtime. The open-source Proxy includes safety controls (read-only mode), configurable retry logic, and logging for troubleshooting, and can be installed from source, via Python package managers, or as a container to integrate with existing MCP-supported tools.

🚀 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.