Amazon Bedrock now offers Canada cross-Region inference for Claude Haiku 5.5
Amazon Bedrock now offers Canada cross-Region inference (CRIS) for Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5. Customers with strict data residency requirements can now keep inference processing entirely within Canada. Canada CRIS routes requests only between ca-central-1 (Canada Central) and ca-west-1 (Canada West, Calgary).
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OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now available on Unity Gateway
Databricks now supports the OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra model via Foundation Model APIs on Unity Gateway.
Editing files in Unity Catalog volumes is now generally available
Users can now edit files stored in Unity Catalog volumes directly within the Databricks workspace file editor, eliminating the need for manual downloads and uploads.
Released pg\_pinecone
The pg_pinecone extension is now available, enabling native vector search within PostgreSQL. It allows users to perform vector searches using the local engine or offload indexing to Pinecone for larger datasets.
[Launched] Generally Available: Cost management and tagging for Claude models in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry now provides integrated cost management and tagging for Claude models within Azure Cost Management. This update ensures Claude usage is tracked under the specific Foundry resource rather than as general SaaS spend.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Preview)
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now available in preview. This vision-language model is designed for robotics applications, supporting spatial reasoning, agentic code execution, and task orchestration.
xAI's Grok 4.7 is generally available
xAI's Grok 4.7 model is now generally available for production use on global and US multi-region endpoints.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now available
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now generally available, featuring faster startup, a consistent command structure, and support for managing AI agent resources directly from the terminal.
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.
AWS Step Functions workflows now available as AI agent tools
AWS Step Functions workflows can now be used as tools for AI agents via Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. This allows agents to trigger multi-step business processes and monitor workflow execution.
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.