ai-agents

Harness GA Jun 17, 2026 plus Strands 1.0 primitives — and why AWS Context is still Coming soon. Reuse the ~180→95 ms Gateway canary; ship Managed KB today.

On Aug 6, 2026 AgentCore Runtime Instances went GA — EC2-backed agents with sessions up to 14 days vs 8-hour microVM Runtime. Field guide: capacity providers, GPU fit, and when idle EC2 burns more than serverless.

On August 5, 2026 DynamoDB GA’d native vector search — single-digit ms at 99%+ recall, up to 4096 dims, SearchVectors topK ≤ 100. Decision guide vs S3 Vectors, OpenSearch, and Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

Hand this to your technical lead. The store decision: one lookup this week, a person signs money, skip when a rule already works. Sample uses 8 Gateway tools — not a client case study.

On July 24, 2026 AWS shipped Claude Opus 5 on Bedrock — 1M-token context, 128K max output, ZDR by default. Here is the Bedrock vs Claude Platform routing call and a lane-by-lane rollout plan.

AWS announced Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026. This guide explains the two AWS access paths, where Sonnet 5 fits in agentic workloads, and how to evaluate adoption without model-churn.

On September 1, 2026 AWS GA’d Claude Fable 5.1 — 1M-token context, 128K output, Covered Model with 30-day retention. Fable 5 (June 9) remains the prior pin; here is the fit decision, not the press release.

Build production-ready AI agents on Bedrock with tool use, multi-step workflows, and supervisor patterns. From single agents to multi-agent orchestration.

Multi-agent supervisor pattern on Bedrock: architecture, implementation, and production deployment for scalable AI workflows.

Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic automate workflows by giving foundation models the ability to call tools (APIs, Lambda, databases). This guide covers building agents with tool definitions, testing in the console, handling errors, and scaling to production.

Harness GA June 17, Agents Classic cutoff July 30, Payments GA August 18, Memory FGAC August 28. Harness vs Runtime, Gateway Policy, and when transacting agents still should not own checkout.