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From prompt engineering to agent experience
Not long ago, the craft of working with large language models was all about the prompt. You'd...
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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda for .NET 10, AWS Client VPN quickstart, Best of AWS re:Invent, and more (January 12, 2026)
At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution list, consider creating an AWS Free Tier account to receive up to $200 in credits and have 6 months of risk-free […]
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How I Used Kiro to Optimize Its Own MCP Configuration
I had a problem. My Kiro setup had accumulated 14 MCP servers over time: AWS tools, web automation,...
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Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle
After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...
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Building a Semantic Storage for Humans and AI Agents
This week at AWS re:Invent 2025, Amazon S3 Vectors reached general availability, bringing...
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Strands Agents now speaks TypeScript: A side-by-side guide
The Strands Agents SDK, which was released as open source in May 2025, recently added TypeScript...
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents
Deploy AI agents with confidence using new quality evaluations and policy controls—enabling precise boundaries on agent actions, continuous quality monitoring, and experience-based learning while maintaining natural conversation flows.
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Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model
New fast, cost-effective model supports extended thinking with adjustable reasoning depth, letting you control the balance between speed, intelligence, and cost while building AI applications for everyday workloads.
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Introducing Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Nova
New program gives organizations unprecedented access to Nova model training, enabling them to build custom frontier models that deeply embed domain expertise without the traditional barriers of cost, compute, and time.
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Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: Our new speech-to-speech model for conversational AI
Build more natural voice interactions with enhanced speech-to-speech AI—now featuring multilingual conversations, dynamic speech control, crossmodal inputs, and improved telephony integration while maintaining conversation context across tasks.
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Build reliable AI agents for UI workflow automation with Amazon Nova Act, now generally available
New AWS service helps developers build AI agents that automate browser-based tasks like form filling, search & extract, shopping & booking, and QA testing—with over 90% reliability for enterprise deployments.
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Modernizing Python Projects: Converting requirements.txt to uv in One Command
When cloning Python projects that I want to test or use for a demo, I often find out that the...
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Jupyter Deploy: Create a JupyterLab application with real-time collaboration in the cloud in minutes
Jupyter notebooks have become a popular tool for data scientists, researchers, educators and analysts who need to experiment with code, visualize data, and document their findings. Many users run Jupyter on their laptops. This creates limitations to collaborate with a distributed team because users cannot securely provide direct access to their local JupyterLab application over […]
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Never Forget a Thing: Building AI Agents with Hybrid Memory Using Strands Agents
When using (and building) AI agents, I kept running into the same frustrating problem: as...
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Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings: State-of-the-art embedding model for agentic RAG and semantic search
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is a new state-of-the-art embedding model available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the industry’s first embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single unified model, enabling cross-modal retrieval and semantic search applications with leading accuracy, at industry-leading costs.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, EC2 C8i, C8i-flex, and M8a instances, and more (October 13, 2025)
This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]
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Visualizing AI Agent Memory: Building a Web Browser for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory
When building and testing multiple AI agent frameworks with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, I realized I...
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Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock has expanded its model offerings with the addition of Qwen 3 foundation models enabling users to access and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment. These models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) and dense architectures to support diverse use cases including advanced code generation, multi-tool business automation, and cost-optimized AI reasoning.
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Token Counting Meets Amazon Bedrock
When working with large language models through Amazon Bedrock, understanding token consumption can...
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Building Production-Ready AI Agents with LangGraph and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this fifth and final deep dive of our multi-framework series, I'll show you how to build a...
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Building Production-Ready AI Agents with LlamaIndex and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this fourth deep dive of our multi-framework series, I'll show you how to build a production-ready...
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Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Pydantic AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Pydantic AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore In this...
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Building Production-Ready AI Agents with CrewAI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this second deep dive of our multi-framework series, I'll show you how to build collaborative...
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Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this first deep dive of our multi-framework series, I'll show you how to build a production-ready...
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Building Production-Ready AI Agents: A Multi-Framework Journey with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI agents are a new class of software applications that use generative AI models to reason, plan,...
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Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available
Build responsible AI applications with the first and only solution that delivers up to 99% verification accuracy using sound mathematical logic and formal verification techniques to minimize AI hallucinations and data ambiguity.
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OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS
AWS continues to expand access to the most advanced foundation models with OpenAI open weight models now available in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Accessing these new models from OpenAI on AWS, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, gives you more freedom to innovate and choose the right model for your specific use cases while maintaining complete control over your infrastructure and data.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025)
This week brings an array of innovations spanning from generative AI capabilities to enhancements of foundational services. Whether you’re building AI-powered applications, managing databases, or optimizing your cloud infrastructure, these updates help build more advanced, robust, and flexible applications. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week: Amazon DocumentDB – […]
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Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents with enterprise-grade security. It provides memory management, identity controls, and tool integration—streamlining development while working with any open-source framework and foundation model.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)
Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community Day – Switzerland. On May 22, you can join us remotely for AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn about cutting-edge advances across compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, serverless […]