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Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
When you move AI agents from prototype to production, the infrastructure challenges multiply. Your agents need to persist state across multi-step workflows that run for hours or days. They need to coordinate with other agents, share context, and sometimes access GPUs for specialized tasks.
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Automations in Snowflake CoWork (Public Preview)
Automations in Snowflake CoWork are now in Public Preview. An automation turns a one-time report into a recurring one: Snowflake CoWork re-runs your question with fresh data on the schedule you choose and emails you the results, including a summary and key metrics, along with a link that opens the full report so you can ask follow-up questions.
JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute. Your JAR must match the Scala, Java Development Kit (JDK), and Databricks Connect versions of your serverless environment version. See Create and run JARs on serverless compute .
Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta)
All Databricks-managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity Gateway . This brings Databricks-managed connectors under Unity Gateway, enabling centralized governance, access controls, and visibility alongside your other MCP servers and tools.
JAR tasks on serverless compute are now generally available
Package Scala or Java code as a JAR and run it as a task in a Lakeflow Job on serverless compute, without provisioning or managing clusters. See Create and run JARs on serverless compute .
Genie Code web search is in Beta
Genie Code can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information. Web search is disabled by default during the beta for eligible workspaces and must be turned on from the Previews page. See Search the web .
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes
- Markdown tables in Agent mode APIs (Beta) : In the Agent mode APIs, table visualizations now return as markdown instead of table visualization attachments, which improves readability. See the Agent mode API reference .
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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design, and advanced computer and browser use to demanding business workflows.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control
AWS announces the CheckIngestedDocumentAcl and GetIngestedDocumentAcl APIs for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, giving customers a self-service way to debug document access issues and audit document-level permissions.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector
AWS announces the Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers running self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances can now crawl blogs and pages from their Confluence spaces directly into their managed knowledge base.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0
AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content.
Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock continues to expand its open weight model portfolio with the same security and governance that customers rely on. Today, Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work.
The new AgentCore Runtime is now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Today, AWS announces the availability of the next generation of AgentCore Runtime , the serverless microVM compute within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The new Runtime delivers elastic memory management that reclaims unused memory throughout the session so you pay for actual usage rather than the peak, and consistent cold start times regardless of container...
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next.