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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

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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.

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Shadow traffic for gateways (Preview)

With this preview release, you can use a shadow traffic gateway to send all production requests to a primary service endpoint while mirroring a percentage of those requests to one or more shadow endpoints. Responses from shadow endpoints aren't returned to clients.

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ABAC DENY policies are in Beta

ABAC DENY policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. DENY policies can be used to explicitly deny the MANAGE ACCESS CONTROL privilege to prevent specified principals, including object owners, from performing access-management operations. They always take precedence over any grant. For details, see ABAC DENY policies (Beta) .

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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...

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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.

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Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS

AWS 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.

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