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AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now publish AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server, enabling developers to build and send messages by asking their AI coding agent in plain language. Previously, developers had to navigate multiple documentation pages and management console screens to complete messaging tasks. Now, each skill provides your agent with step-by-step, validated guidance for tasks like verifying sending identities, building branded Rich Communication Services (RCS) agents, and sending production emails. These skills integrate with popular AI coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. For example, you can as…
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AWS End User Messaging now lets businesses place and receive voice calls with their customers directly inside WhatsApp, using the same verified business identity they already use for messaging. With WhatsApp voice calling, a conversation can move seamlessly from a chat thread to a voice call without switching to a separate channel or application, so context is never lost and customers stay in the message thread where the conversation started. Voice calling works in both directions. Customers can call a business from within a WhatsApp chat, and businesses can call customers who have granted permission to be contacted. You can enable and manag…
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AWS Billing and Cost Management now offers the ListBillingViewSegments API, which returns the billing context of your account over a time period you specify. You can use the API to retrieve information about how your accounts are positioned in the billing hierarchy, such as management accounts, member accounts, or billing group primary accounts. You can also identify which accounts managed your billing relationship and the rate settings, either billable or pro forma, applied to your cost data. The API returns billing context only, not cost and usage data. You can call the API directly or through an AI agent. Your billing context can change m…
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Amazon EventBridge announces an enhanced custom event bus for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. Deploy a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts in your organization, with ordering guarantees, a simplified Subscriber resource, and improved economics at scale.
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AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Lambda durable functions enable developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. Lambda durable functions extend the Lambda programming model with new primitives in your event handler, such as "step" and "wait", allowing you to checkpoint progress, automatically recover from failures, and pause executions without incurring compute charges for on-demand functions. With availability in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud region, customers can orchestrate complex processes such as order workflows, user on…
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Docker's WeAreDevelopers keynote shows how Sandboxes, Kits, and Cloud Sandboxes give AI agents strong isolation and reproducible authority.
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Docker is bringing the open source Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF, so AI agent permissions become a neutral, vendor independent standard built on OCI.
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Docker's Sandbox Kit Specification v3 packages an AI agent's network rules, credentials, and volumes as an ordinary, pinnable OCI image.
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Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. High latency caused by geographic distance between players and servers remains one of the most common challenges in multiplayer game development. This expansion helps game developers and studios address that challenge by bringing Amazon GameLift Servers to 5 new AWS Regions and 8 AWS Local Zones worldwide. With this expansion, customers can deploy game server fleets closer to players across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, reducing latency and improving gameplay responsi…
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data. This capability simplifies data ingestion for workloads where record ordering is not required, eliminating hot partition keys and reducing time to production for streaming workloads. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. Many streaming use cases such as log aggregation, metrics collection, and …
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AWS announces Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now sync Salesforce knowledge articles and Zendesk articles and community posts directly into their managed knowledge base. Previously, bringing content from these platforms into Bedrock Knowledge Bases required building custom ingestion pipelines—now, you provide your instance credentials, and the connectors handle data crawling, metadata extraction, and incremental sync automatically. These connectors make it easy to build AI agents and assistants grounded in the …
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Amazon Connect Customer now provides routing step data in the analytics data lake, making it easier for customers to generate insights from routing decisions. Using the data lake, customers can leverage Amazon Athena and Amazon Quick to analyze trends, such as contacts queued and contacts joined at each routing step, without complex data pipelines. For example, an analyst can now report on how contacts progressed through each routing step, identify where agent matching criteria were relaxed, and measure the impact of routing step configurations on wait times and agent utilization. Routing step data is available in all AWS regions where Amazo…
