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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Shopify connector (Beta)
The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests e-commerce data such as products, orders, customers, inventory, fulfillments, and discounts from Shopify into Databricks. Authentication uses the Shopify OAuth client credentials grant.
Lakebase backup schedule API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically. The snapshot schedule API lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences (daily, weekly, or monthly) and how long each cadence's snapshots are retained. This API is in Beta and available to all Lakebase workspaces. See Create a backup schedule .
Claude Opus 5.5 launches with a 1M token context window and 128k output
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a default 1M token context, 128k max output and always-on adaptive thinking. It costs $4 / $20 per MTok, below Claude Opus 5, and is on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Fast mode research preview available for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API
Fast mode, in research preview, can now be used with Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API.
Claude API beta lets tools be defined inside mid-conversation system messages
With the inline-tools-2026-09-15 beta header, a tool_addition block can carry a full tool definition, so agents can add tools, change schemas or upgrade server tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. The same header covers adding and removing tools by reference.
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now available in public beta on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. A Drive is persistent storage that you mount as a directory in a Vercel Sandbox. It isn’t tied to a single sandbox, so you can reuse the same Drive across runs and different sandbox instances.
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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
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.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectors
AWS announces Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now sync Salesforce knowledge articles and Zendesk articles and community posts directly into their managed knowledge base.
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...
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, with US Geo and Global cross-Region inference. Grok 4.7 builds on Grok 4.6 with better mixed-document handling, more dependable repo-scale coding with planning and error recovery, and enhanced browser-use agents for form fills and portal...
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS
AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work ag faster speed. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet.