ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026 | Amazon Web Services
A recap of the biggest Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands updates from August 2026.
At AWS, we have long focused on making foundational technologies accessible and providing the infrastructure needed to put them to work. Amazon Bedrock, used by more than 225,000 active customers, including over 80% of Fortune 100 companies, embodies that commitment by providing access to leading models and a broad set of tools to build and scale AI, with the security, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency customers need in production. As agentic applications expand, Amazon Bedrock extends this foundation with AgentCore, which lets you build, connect, and optimize agents using any framework and model. AWS also released the Strands Agent Harness SDKas open source, giving you the flexibility to create agents and deploy them wherever you choose. Together, they help you turn model intelligence into production agents without limiting how those agents are built...
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