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Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work, and costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks. This post covers its improvements and how to get started.
Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock
Enterprise RAG unlocks insights from knowledge sources like SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence, but those sources carry complex permissions. Learn how Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases enforce document-level access controls in real time, verifying permissions directly with authoritative sources at query time.
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception handling, decision quality, and maintenance economics, and to prioritize which workflows to automate first.
How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock
Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to give its 40,000+ customers grounded, sourced answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Learn how a layered, multi-agent architecture with cross-Region inference and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails delivers trusted AI at global scale.
Automate remediation post AWS DevOps Agent investigation
AWS DevOps Agent can diagnose production incidents but is kept in observe-and-report mode so it does not change resources directly. This post shows how to use AWS Lambda Durable Functions, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon Bedrock to turn its investigation summaries into pre-validated fixes an on-call engineer can approve with a single action.
Building AI builders: Playbook for closing the AI knowledge-capability gap
The biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't awareness. It's the gap between talking about AI and building with it. Here's the playbook we used to turn non-technical, customer-facing professionals into confident AI builders in six weeks, and how your organization can replicate it.
How Cornerstone OnDemand cut database diagnosis by 78% with Amazon Bedrock
Cornerstone OnDemand built Orion AI, a multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents, to turn database operations from reactive firefighting into proactive automation. A three-person team cut database diagnosis from 45 minutes to 10, a 78% reduction, in six months. See the design decisions other teams can reuse.
Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw
Off-the-shelf AI assistants forget you between conversations. This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with AgentCore memory turning disposable chats into durable, structured knowledge you can retrieve with metadata filters.
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
AWS invests in tools that help customers align with international standards for responsible AI governance. In this post, we explore the AI system impact assessment: what it is, how it improves enterprise-wide risk management, and how ISO/IEC 42005:2025 codifies best practices for conducting and documenting these assessments.
Best practices for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod administration and governance
Learn how to administer Amazon SageMaker HyperPod through Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio while preserving cluster governance. This post shows platform teams how to design infrastructure boundaries, govern access, allocate shared capacity, and operate HyperPod consistently across the organization, project, cluster, and workload control layers.
Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Spaces directly from SageMaker Studio
Data scientists and ML engineers can now create, configure, start, stop, and open Amazon SageMaker Spaces on SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters directly from SageMaker Studio. Launch JupyterLab and Code Editor environments in a few clicks, without using command-line tools.
Build a voice travel concierge with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Managed Knowledge Base and Nova Sonic
Add a voice travel concierge to an airline app with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Nova Sonic for real-time speech, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for policy answers. Travelers change seats, check delays, and ask policy questions by voice, while the agent reaches your backend through MCP tools and confirms every change before it writes.
Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock
GLM 5.3 from Z.ai is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for coding and long-horizon agentic tasks. Learn how to invoke it with the OpenAI-compatible APIs, cut cost and latency with prompt caching, and run an authorized security test with the open-source Strix agent.
Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Learn how to use them with Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, for compliance-aligned, AI-assisted development on regulated and ITAR workloads.
New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent
Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference introduces the aws-ai-ml skill through the Agent Toolkit for AWS, giving coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, and Codex deep expertise in inference optimization and benchmarking. Describe what you want, and your agent generates executable SageMaker Python SDK v3 code to benchmark, recommend, and compare deployments.
Making Amazon Quick enterprise-ready: Automated, auditable cross-account resource promotion
Promoting Amazon Quick resources (agents, action connectors, knowledge bases, flows, and spaces) from a development to a production AWS account has been a manual, error-prone chore. This post shows how to automate cross-account promotion with an idempotent, auditable MCP server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Agentic retrieval with LangChain and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base with LangChain, and see how agentic retrieval handles the multi-part questions that single-shot retrieval answers poorly. Run the same query through both paths, read the trace events, and compare what each retrieval path costs.
Downgrading user roles in Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick doesn't offer a direct console path to downgrade a user from Admin or Author to Reader. This post walks through two reliable methods: a manual delete-and-recreate approach and an AWS CLI step-down sequence that downgrades roles safely while preserving asset ownership.
Evaluating multi-agent systems for explainability and helpfulness with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Multi-agent systems need deeper guarantees than fluent responses: they must select the right tools, respect constraints, and explain their decisions. Learn how to build a Strands-based multi-agent supply chain decisioning system and evaluate it with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations using built-in, custom, and explainability evaluators.
Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern
The Adjudicated Query pattern pairs the Amazon Quick chat agent with a bounded MCP server over a deterministic rules engine to deliver provably complete, defensible compliance answers. This post walks through the reference architecture and a deployable AWS CDK sample, using lease compliance as the running example.
Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, with JWT-based inbound authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center and Amazon Cognito.
Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI
Fine-tuning teaches a small search agent your tools and environment, giving it the reliability of a frontier model at lower latency and cost. In this post, we fine-tune an LLM-powered search agent with multi-turn reinforcement learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI and share the gains we measured in retrieval quality and reliability.
Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick
With Live Data in Apps in Amazon Quick, AI-built apps query your governed Quick Sight datasets in real time instead of static, build-time snapshots. Each query runs as the person viewing the app, so row-level and column-level security apply per reader. Learn how to build, publish, and share a live-data app using natural language.
Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors
Learn how to use Amazon S3 Vectors as the persistent memory layer within the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit (NAT), deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This post shows how NAT's memory subsystem works and how to implement Amazon S3 Vectors as a custom memory provider, using a multi-agent investment research use case.
Uplifting conversion across the acquisition funnel with personalization using contextual bandits on AWS
Generative AI makes it cheap to produce personalized content at scale, but which variation do you show each customer? Amazon Payments used a multi-objective contextual bandit on Amazon SageMaker AI to personalize an acquisition funnel, achieving a high single-digit conversion lift for one audience, and learning why content, not the model, was the constraint.
Building ambient agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From event-driven signals to human-in-the-loop workflows
Ambient agents respond to events such as an Amazon S3 upload, a schedule, or an alert instead of waiting for a chat prompt. This post walks through building framework-agnostic ambient agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore using Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB, with a single ask_human tool and a Jobs page for human-in-the-loop review.
Implementing Multi-Environment Access for Claude Platform on AWS
Learn how to configure secure, multi-environment access to Claude Platform on AWS from a single subscription: cross-account SigV4 for AWS workloads, workspace-scoped API keys for developers, and OIDC federation for external environments, with workspace-level isolation in a dedicated AI Services account.
Simplify dashboard drill-down with the Amazon Quick Sight hierarchy filter
Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards. The new hierarchy filter gives dashboard authors rich, multi-level filtering in a single compact control, reducing clutter and guiding readers to the data they need in fewer steps.
How uniopen customized Amazon Nova to their retail moderation policies for production deployment
See how uniopen, a retail platform from Taiwan's Uni-President Enterprises Group, adapted Amazon Nova 2 Lite to its content-moderation policies using supervised fine-tuning in Amazon SageMaker AI and prompt optimization. Business-relevant evaluation and release gates kept quality in check.
Query claims in natural language with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
This technical how-to builds a conversational claims assistant on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that answers natural-language questions with citations. It covers ingesting claim documents from Amazon S3, querying with the AgenticRetrieveStream API, multi-turn follow-ups, metadata filters, and contextual grounding guardrails.
Build a multi-agent music production pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances gives multi-agent workflows AWS managed EC2 infrastructure with GPUs, persistent volumes, and multi-day sessions. In this post, we deploy a three-agent music production pipeline where the agents colocate on one GPU instance, share a filesystem, and hand work to each other to produce a finished track.
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