All news with #bedrock agents tag

🚀 AWS has announced TypeScript support in preview for the Strands Agents SDK, giving developers a choice between Python and TypeScript for building model-driven AI agents. The TypeScript implementation provides idiomatic, type-safe APIs with async/await and modern JavaScript/TypeScript patterns, and is designed to run in browsers, client applications, and server runtimes such as AWS Lambda and Bedrock AgentCore. AWS also introduced three SDK updates: edge device support is now GA, Strands steering is available experimentally, and Strands evaluations is in preview to help validate agent behavior.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services' AgentCore introduces preview features — Policy and Evaluations — to help teams scale agents from prototypes into production. Policy intercepts real-time tool calls via AgentCore Gateway and converts natural-language rules into Cedar for auditability and compliance without custom code. Evaluations offers 13 built-in evaluators plus custom model-based scoring, with all quality metrics surfaced in an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to simplify continuous testing and monitoring.

🔁 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming, enabling real-time, continuous conversations where agents listen and respond simultaneously and handle interruptions or context shifts mid-turn. This removes stop-start friction in voice and text agents and preserves context across exchanges. Built into AgentCore Runtime, the capability reduces months of engineering work required to implement streaming infrastructure, letting developers focus on agent experiences rather than plumbing. Available in nine AWS Regions with consumption-based pricing.

🤖 Amazon API Gateway now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) via a proxy, enabling organizations to expose existing REST APIs to AI agents and MCP clients without modifying their applications. Integrated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's Gateway, the feature performs protocol translation, indexes APIs for semantic tool discovery, and eliminates the need to host additional intermediary infrastructure. It also enforces dual authentication to verify agent identities for inbound requests while managing secure outbound connections to REST endpoints. The capability is available in nine AWS Regions and follows Amazon Bedrock AgentCore pricing.

🤖 Amazon Connect now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI-driven customer self-service and employee assistance agents to invoke standardized tools to fetch information and perform actions during interactions. Amazon Connect offers out-of-the-box MCP tools for tasks like updating contact attributes and retrieving case information, and allows flow modules to be exposed as MCP tools so business logic is reusable across deterministic and generative workflows. Organizations can also integrate custom or third-party tools via flow modules or the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to automate actions such as order lookups, refunds, and customer-record updates without human intervention.

🔐 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.

🔐 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 Web Services announced that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, AgentCore Browser, and AgentCore Code Interpreter now support VPC connectivity, AWS PrivateLink, CloudFormation, and resource tagging. These additions let developers deploy AI agents that access private resources such as databases and internal APIs without internet exposure. CloudFormation integration enables infrastructure-as-code provisioning, while tagging provides cost allocation and access-control organization. AgentCore is in preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt).

🚀 Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. BDA automates extraction of actionable insights from unstructured multimodal content—documents, images, video, and audio—helping developers accelerate GenAI-based applications like intelligent document processing and media analysis. It can run standalone or as a parser in Amazon Knowledge Bases RAG workflows and is now offered in eight AWS Regions.