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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)

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Summary

  • Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI are now in public preview, utilizing a customized Agents API integrated with AWS resources.
  • Users can select execution environments including self-hosted compute or the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime for managed sessions.
  • OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is available as an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, offering strong performance in agentic coding & professional work at roughly one-fifth the cost of GPT-6 Astra.
  • OpenAI GPT-6 Astra UltraFast mode provides a premium speed tier delivering up to 6x faster inference with up to 300 tokens per second.
  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 is released as a smarter, more efficient upgrade to Sonnet 5, with enhanced capabilities for coding & task completion.
  • SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 is added with improved mixed-document handling, dependable repo-scale coding, & enhanced browser-use agents.
  • The AWS Well-Architected Agent (preview) analyzes AWS environments to provide contextual recommendations for cost, security, performance, & resilience.
  • Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg & Parquet data without ETL pipelines or data duplication.
  • Amazon S3 Tables add support for all Apache Iceberg V3 data types, including geometry, geography, unknown, & nanosecond timestamps.
  • Amazon Chime SDK SIP Media Application & Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser are moving to Maintenance, becoming inaccessible to new customers starting October 29, 2026.
  • Amazon Managed Blockchain, Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS Backint Agent for SAP ASE, & AWS Infrastructure Composer are entering Sunset with end-of-support dates ranging from December 7, 2026, to September 30, 2027.
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk reached End of Support as of September 29, 2026.
  • Kiro workflows are introduced to enable complex tasks using multiple agents with less supervision.
  • Strands Decider 2B is released as a small, open-source decision model optimized for fast experimentation & local development.
  • AWS Partners gain access to three new Partner FDE pathways & credentials to validate proficiency in delivering production agentic AI.

Last week, we announced a public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, built on a customized version of OpenAI’s Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources. You can now build agents optimized for OpenAI models that run entirely inside AWS with the identities, permissions, and governance controls you […]

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Amazon Bedrock,Amazon S3 Tables,AWS Partner Network,AWS Well-Architected Tool,Kiro,Strands Agents,Week in Review