Tag: AWS

AWS bets one config line is enough to peel PyTorch off CUDA

TorchNeuron moves PyTorch workloads onto Trainium with a single settings change, and Amazon is aiming it squarely at…

AWS puts a cloud architect agent behind its support paywall

The Well-Architected Agent scans accounts against 65-plus services and issues fix packages, but only for customers on Business…

AWS will cut its EU cloud off the US backbone

On October 24 the European Sovereign Cloud runs for several hours without the global network, and AWS concedes…

Amazon commits $1B more to towns hosting its data centers

AWS will add more than $1B over five years for schools, energy upgrades and local grants in US…

AWS bets a 2B model that answers without writing a word

Strands Decider 2B returns calibrated choices and scores instead of generated prose, running entirely on local hardware.

AWS backs a stateless MCP spec that ends sticky sessions

The updated Model Context Protocol drops protocol-level sessions, letting any server instance handle a request.

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.