Tag: AWS
AWS ships an open agent harness that runs outside its own cloud
Strands Harness packages the tooling developers build locally into something that deploys on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or…
AWS rewrites its agent runtime to hand memory back early
The reworked AgentCore runtime holds cold starts near two seconds as container images grow to 2GB.
AWS opens the agent inbox behind its internal Pizza Bot tool
The company rebuilt an internal tool that served more than 2,000 Amazon staff as a self-hosted inbox where…
Amazon’s new chip pact with Qualcomm comes with a $4B stake
Regulatory filings tie a $4B Amazon warrant in Qualcomm to up to $60B in chip purchases.
AWS open-sources an agent-run control plane for HyperPod clusters
InstantStart wraps EKS and SageMaker HyperPod behind one container whose web UI, API, and agent share the same…
OpenAI models run inside India on AWS Bedrock now
GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now run on Amazon Bedrock with all inference kept inside India.
AWS swallows DuckDB creator DuckLabs in database bet
The cloud giant is absorbing the team behind the wildly popular embedded analytics database while keeping it open…
Amazon adds 2 million Nvidia GPUs to its AI data centers
Amazon will deploy 2 million more Nvidia GPUs across AWS starting in 2027 as the pair expand their…
GPT-5.6 family arrives in AWS Kiro for cheaper agent builds
All three GPT-5.6 models are now inside AWS's Kiro, where spec-driven builds cut the cost of successful tasks.
AWS opens a benchmark that tests agents on live cloud work
AWS's new open-source benchmark runs agents against real resources in disposable cloud accounts.
Amazon Quick lands inside Word, Excel, and Outlook as an agent
Amazon Quick now works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook as an agentic assistant.
Danish pharma giant lets Amazon agents hunt drug targets
The pharma giant will lean on Amazon AI agents for target identification and therapy design.