How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock

Worldwide Express (part of ShipStation Global) had built something big: approximately $5 billion in systemwide revenue, over 75 less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers and more than 130,000 customers. But that same scale had a hidden cost. Every month, $15 million in free cash flow sat frozen, locked in billing exceptions no one had resolved yet. Each one … Read more

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), providing access to OpenAI’s frontier models through two components. Work completes complex, multi-step tasks and delivers review-ready results, and Codex is a coding agent for developing, testing, and reviewing software. This walkthrough is intended for organizations whose security architecture requires model … Read more

How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026

The Amazon Quick User Group – United Kingdom is a community of Amazon Quick users in the United Kingdom who meet quarterly to exchange knowledge, share best practices, learn through hands-on sessions, and discuss their experiences using the service. These user groups function as collaborative forums where members learn, connect, and innovate together. Whether you’re … Read more

Building intent-driven UI testing with Amazon Nova Act

To scale intent-driven UI testing across its product teams, Epsilon, a data, technology, and marketing-services company and part of Publicis Groupe, turned to Amazon Nova Act. With hundreds of millions of consumer profiles and thousands of brand relationships, Epsilon needed UI testing that could keep pace with rapid application changes. The solution could not create … Read more

Lend and borrow resources across teams with AWS Batch’s quota management for SageMaker Training jobs

With the launch of AWS Batch support for Amazon SageMaker Training jobs, customers gained a new fully managed way to queue, schedule, and retry machine learning (ML) training workloads without building their own infrastructure. Instead, they use the queuing and scheduling features of AWS Batch. As organizations scale their artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) … Read more

How MoEngage turned over 400 APIs into agent tools with AgentCore Gateway

This post was co-written with Nikhil Kumar and Shakir Khan from MoEngage. When engineering teams start building AI agents, the capabilities those agents need usually already exist as internal APIs. Campaign creation, segment queries, delivery stats. The challenge isn’t building new functionality. The challenge is making hundreds of private APIs safely reachable by agents without … Read more

Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL joins the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano, Nano Omni, Super, Ultra, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning models already available on AWS. It’s a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that activates 12B parameters per token. It combines reasoning and tool use with text, image, document, and video understanding, so one model serves both text … Read more

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3

As quality assurance (QA) automation adoption grows inside an organization, a new problem appears that has nothing to do with writing tests. A platform team stands up test automation, then a second team wants to join, then a dozen more. Soon hundreds of test cases belong to different products and squads, and everyone can see … Read more

AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service

I’m proud to share that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) for Amazon Connect for the fourth consecutive year. We believe this recognition reflects years of work pushing on what’s possible in customer experience. When we launched Amazon Connect … Read more

Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock

This post was co-authored with Khaled Thabit, Meriem Boughrara, and Mohamed Desouky from Property Finder. The engineering team at Property Finder, a digital real estate application, discovered that 96.8 percent of their evaluation labels had been inherited directly from a single model’s predictions rather than verified by human experts. Their ground truth was systematically skewed … Read more

Exowatt beats frontier models on accuracy with SageMaker serverless model customization

Exowatt builds modular, dispatchable solar systems that deliver reliable power for energy-intensive applications such as AI data centers. Its flagship product, the Exowatt P3, captures solar energy through optical lenses, stores it as heat in a long-duration thermal battery, and dispatches electricity on demand through a heat engine. Unlike grid-tied photovoltaic solar systems, P3 powers … Read more

Build agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with CDK

This post builds enterprise agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). To see why that’s worth building, it helps to start with where ordinary Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) breaks down. Most RAG systems start the same way: they embed the question, fetch the nearest chunks … Read more

Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK

Updating the Amazon Sagemaker AI real-time endpoint configuration (changing the instance type, instance count, or environment variables) causes deployments through AWS CloudFormation or the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to fail. SageMaker AI requires you to deregister the scalable target before updating the endpoint, but when you deregister it, CloudFormation can’t track the AWS … Read more

Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps

With Amazon Quick Sight layer maps, you can now plot points and routes, like store locations across a city or flights leaving an airport. Geospatial maps help businesses spot patterns that are tied to location, like how a region is performing or where customers are concentrated. Amazon Quick Sight supports this with multiple map types, … Read more

How Bayer Crop Science built an agentic decision engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with AWS Unified Operations

Plant breeding decisions depend on data that spans genomics, field trials, imagery, environmental conditions, and model outputs. Bayer Crop Science runs hundreds of machine learning (ML) model configurations against this data across crops, regions, and teams, and each run needs to be repeatable and governed. To meet that requirement, Bayer built the Connected Decision Engine … Read more

Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine

Amazon Polly Generative engine now offers more natural and accurate speech output. We’re introducing an upgrade to the Amazon Polly Generative engine that delivers more expressive, more accurate speech output with low latency. The upgrade adds 14 new voices across 9 locales, including general availability of Generative voices in Hindi and Finnish for the first … Read more

How IskayPet unified corporate knowledge with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases

IskayPet’s office teams had a knowledge challenge. Answers to everyday operational questions, such as a return policy, a veterinary protocol, or an onboarding step, lived in hundreds of Microsoft SharePoint documents spread across four languages and three countries. Finding the right information in large document repositories took a long time. Every new store, country, or … Read more

Announcing new ways to customize models with SageMaker AI, without managing GPUs

Companies getting real results from AI aren’t only using foundation models (FMs) off the shelf. They’re customizing open-weight models using post-training techniques such as reinforcement learning. A model trained on your business context, product catalog, or clinical vocabulary will be more accurate for your task and cost less to run. When you build agents, your … Read more

Write your own training loop — without managing GPUs — with Amazon SageMaker training session APIs

Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) today usually forces a tradeoff between training loop control and operational simplicity. With fully managed services you select a base model, provide data and hyperparameters, and the service owns everything else, which works well when a standard, prepackaged recipe fits your problem. Less managed services give you more control, … Read more

Deploy AI in a HIPAA-eligible environment with Amazon Quick

Healthcare organizations want the same thing from AI that every other business wants: faster answers, less manual work, and insights that reach decision-makers in time to act on them. However, what makes the healthcare industry different is that the data is uniquely complex, deeply contextual, and strictly regulated. So this post starts with a few … Read more

Stream low-latency speech from AI agents using Kokoro TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

A customer asks an AI voice agent a question and waits. The agent already has an answer, it’s midway through generating a long, multi-paragraph response, but the customer hears nothing for five seconds. By the time an answer arrives, the customer is frustrated, confused, and no longer paying attention. Text-to-speech integrations create exactly that gap. … Read more

Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

A traffic spike hits your self-hosted text-to-speech (TTS) endpoint, and requests start queueing. Latency climbs past your service level objective (SLO) right when the most callers are listening. The auto scaling policy behind that endpoint was supposed to prevent this, but the target value it scales on was a guess, and guesses like that fail … Read more

How Rescale built an AI triage agent with Strands Agents and AI-DLC

Every engineering team knows the ritual, and Rescale was no exception. A nightly test suite fails. An on-call engineer pulls the logs, classifies the root cause, and routes it to the right team, only to repeat the process the next morning. At scale, across distributed services and dozens of repositories, this ritual becomes a full-time job … Read more