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AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt optimizer’s reflector engine works and shares benchmark results for the Single Agent and Sub-Agent Reflectors.

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first type with available capacity, eliminating manual retry loops and capacity-watching scripts.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring GitHub and Slack authorization code grant targets, and the end-user consent flow, and shows how to review activity in AWS CloudTrail.

Learn how to build and deploy an MCP App with interactive HTML widgets on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Because MCP Apps is a host-agnostic standard, the same server delivers the same rich experience across AI hosts like ChatGPT and Claude that support the extension.

TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 is now generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, bringing fully managed natural language search to video, image, and audio content. This walkthrough shows how to build a knowledge base powered by Marengo 3.0 and run semantic queries against your media.

A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Region inference, agents that run for up to 14 days on dedicated compute, expanded AWS GovCloud availability, and Strands Robots for physical deployment.

TorchServe is no longer maintained, leaving teams to own the entire GPU inference stack. The AWS Ray Serve Deep Learning Container is a supported, pre-tested container with the framework, GPU drivers, and serving layer already assembled. This post walks through deploying a vision-language model on Amazon EKS using the Ray Serve DLC on a single GPU node.

Amazon Quick custom permissions let you enforce least-privilege access by toggling features per user. This post walks through four patterns to automate custom permissions across the user lifecycle: a RegisterUser API parameter, account and role defaults, event-driven Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda automation, and a retroactive batch update script.

GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. It brings deeper reasoning and sharper judgment to your most demanding tasks, running on the Amazon Bedrock inference engine built for high performance, security, and scale.

Pathway’s Baby Dragon Hatchling (BDH) is a brain-inspired, post-transformer architecture that reasons in latent space instead of emitting chain-of-thought tokens. See how Pathway develops and scales BDH on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and how BDH-CQ set a new cost-efficiency mark on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark.