OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering improved visual reasoning and computer use capabilities for enterprise workloads.
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Conversation logging for Conversational analytics in BigQuery is generally available
BigQuery now supports logging data agent conversations directly to a BigQuery table within the agent's project.
Improved Lakeflow Performance Observability will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Databricks is enabling improved Lakeflow performance observability by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile.
Looker (Google Cloud core) data lineage is generally available
Data lineage for Looker (Google Cloud core) is now generally available, providing end-to-end visibility for LookML dashboards and Conversational Analytics agents.
BigQuery Python user-defined functions support volume mounts in preview
Python user-defined functions in BigQuery now support volume mounts, allowing users to access dependency files directly from Cloud Storage.
QuickBooks connector is available in Beta
The managed QuickBooks connector is now available in beta, enabling incremental ingestion of accounting data into Databricks.
Looker-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is generally available
The Looker-managed MCP server is now generally available, allowing AI agents to interact with business data and LookML models without middleware.
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Web Search on AWS Bedrock now supports domain filtering and user location controls
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock now supports domain filtering to restrict sources and user location controls to improve result relevance.
AgentCore Gateway now supports Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback
AgentCore Gateway now supports Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and automatic model fallback routing. This allows developers to route traffic across multiple providers and automatically switch to healthy models if the primary destination fails.
Structured outputs for Claude models available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs for all Anthropic Claude models across both the bedrock-runtime and the bedrock-mantle endpoint. Whether you call Claude through boto3 and the bedrock-runtime APIs or through the Messages API and the bedrock-mantle endpoint, you can now receive schema-compliant JSON responses that conform to a defined...
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports Standard tier for contextual grounding checks
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers a Standard tier for contextual grounding checks, which detect and filter hallucinations by checking whether a model response is grounded in your reference source and relevant to the user's query. The Standard tier is more robust than the Classic tier.
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization now supports prompt shortening
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization now supports prompt shortening, an optional setting that reduces the length of your prompt while maintaining or improving your evaluation scores. Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes prompts for any model on Amazon Bedrock against your own evaluation criteria. Until now, optimization focused on quality alone.
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work in AWS GovCloud (US). 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 navigation.
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to AWS GovCloud and 3 Regions
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports configurable time-to-live for long-term memory
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets you set a time-to-live (TTL) on long-term memory records, so they are automatically deleted after a retention period you define. By default, long-term memory records do not expire.