Bedrock Brief 01 Oct 2025

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Bedrock Brief 01 Oct 2025

Welcome to another week of AI shenanigans on AWS, where the machines are learning and we're all just trying to keep up.

Amazon's been busy cooking up new toys for both consumers and developers. They've unveiled next-gen AI-powered Echo devices with fancy displays and cameras that greet you like an overeager puppy. Meanwhile, AWS is pushing for more grassroots adoption of its AI products, hoping developers will fall in love with tools like Kiro without needing a salesperson to set them up on an awkward first date. It's a classic "build it and they will come" strategy, but in the fast-moving world of AI, will it be enough?

On the hardware front, Amazon's Annapurna Labs is recruiting interns to help design custom silicon and software for AI acceleration. If you've ever dreamed of architecting chips that can process billions of parameters or building distributed systems that make ML training faster than a caffeinated cheetah, this might be your chance. Just don't expect to coast – these internships promise real projects with real impact, not just fetching coffee for the senior engineers (though there will probably be plenty of coffee involved).

Fresh Cut

  • Amazon SageMaker's managed MLflow, a tool that simplifies AI experimentation and development, is available in AWS GovCloud regions, enabling government and regulated industries to streamline their machine learning workflows and accelerate AI projects. Read announcement →
  • AWS Transform can now automatically generate Terraform modules from VMware network configurations, making it easier for developers to modernize and migrate their infrastructure while maintaining operational consistency. Read announcement →
  • AWS IAM Identity Center expands to Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro), offering centralized identity management and single sign-on across AWS services in 36 regions at no extra cost. Read announcement →
  • Developers in Phoenix can now leverage Amazon FSx for Lustre's high-performance file system for fast processing of machine learning, HPC, and other demanding workloads, bringing cloud storage closer to local applications. Read announcement →
  • Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced AI model excelling at complex tasks and coding, is available in Amazon Bedrock, allowing developers to easily integrate powerful AI capabilities into their applications. Read announcement →
  • Amazon Bedrock expands to the Middle East, allowing developers in the UAE to easily build AI applications using various foundation models without the complexity of managing infrastructure. Read announcement →
  • Amazon Bedrock expands to Asia Pacific, offering developers in Thailand, Malaysia, and Taipei access to foundation models for building generative AI applications with enhanced regional performance and data residency. Read announcement →
  • Developers in Israel can now access Amazon Bedrock's foundation models and AI tools locally, enabling faster and more efficient creation of generative AI applications. Read announcement →
  • AWS Clean Rooms now enables real-time data synchronization across collaborators' datasets by supporting incremental processing of rule-based ID mapping workflows, allowing data partners to update only new, modified, or deleted records while maintaining privacy controls. Read announcement →
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services can now connect to private VPC resources, enhancing security for AI agent deployments without exposing them to the internet. Read announcement →

The Quarry

Modernize fraud prevention: GraphStorm v0.5 for real-time inference

GraphStorm v0.5 is shaking up the fraud prevention game with its ability to deploy graph neural network models via Amazon SageMaker, turning your complex transaction data into a fraud-busting powerhouse. This latest release lets you go from model training to real-time inference faster than you can say "suspicious activity," handling graphs with billions of nodes and edges without breaking a sweat. The cherry on top? Sub-second fraud detection that'll make fraudsters wish they'd picked an easier target. Read blog →

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Core Sample

Kiro: The agentic IDE changing the way developers work || Amazon Q Podcast

Kiro, an innovative agentic IDE, is revolutionizing spec-driven development by allowing developers to describe their desired functionality in natural language. Its AI-powered system then generates production-ready code, complete with unit tests and documentation, significantly accelerating the development process. What sets Kiro apart is its ability to understand and implement complex architectural patterns, such as hexagonal architecture, directly from high-level specifications, bridging the gap between concept and implementation in a way that traditional IDEs simply can't match. Watch video →

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