This post walks through building an automated podcast generator that creates engaging conversations between two AI hosts on any topic, demonstrating the streaming capabilities of Nova Sonic, stage-aware content filtering, and real-time audio generation.  ( 112 min )

In this post, we show you how to build a natural text-to-SQL solution using Amazon Bedrock that transforms business questions into database queries and returns actionable answers.  ( 115 min )

In this post, we walk through building a custom HR onboarding agent with Quick. We show how to configure an agent that understands your organization’s processes, connects to your HR systems, and automates common tasks, such as answering new-hire questions and tracking document completion.  ( 114 min )

In this post, we walk through how we fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct for tool calling using RLVR. We cover dataset preparation across three distinct agent behaviors, reward function design with tiered scoring, training configuration and results interpretation, evaluation on held-out data with unseen tools, and deployment.  ( 113 min )

In this post, we show how to implement a generative AI agentic assistant that uses both semantic and text-based search using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents and Amazon OpenSearch.  ( 115 min )

This blog post demonstrates how Windward helps enhance and accelerate alert investigation processes by combining geospatial intelligence with generative AI, enabling analysts to focus on decision-making rather than data collection.  ( 110 min )

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway provides a centralized layer for managing how AI agents connect to tools and MCP servers across your organization. In this post, we walk through how to configure AgentCore Gateway to connect to an OAuth-protected MCP server using the Authorization Code flow.  ( 114 min )

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Depot: CI was designed for humans who context-switch while waiting. Agents don’t. They’re just blocked. Depot CEO Kyle Galbraith on how they re-imagined Depot CI to close the loop: run against local patches, rerun a single job, SSH into the runner to check reality. Per-second billing, no […]  ( 3 min )

In this post, we explore how ActorSimulator in Strands Evaluations SDK addresses the challenge with structured user simulation that integrates into your evaluation pipeline.  ( 113 min )

This post describes how TGS achieved near-linear scaling for distributed training and expanded context windows for their Vision Transformer-based SFM using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. This joint solution cut training time from 6 months to just 5 days while enabling analysis of seismic volumes larger than previously possible.  ( 113 min )

In this post, we show you how to configure AWS Network Firewall to restrict AgentCore resources to an allowlist of approved internet domains. This post focuses on domain-level filtering using SNI inspection — the first layer of a defense-in-depth approach.  ( 115 min )

Through a strategic partnership with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), Rocket Close developed an intelligent document processing solution that has significantly reduced processing time, making the process 15 times faster. The solution, which uses Amazon Textract for OCR processing and Amazon Bedrock for foundation models (FMs), achieves a strong 90% overall accuracy in document segmentation, classification, and field extraction.  ( 112 min )

In this post, we go through how to use managed session storage to persist your agent's filesystem state and how to execute shell commands directly in your agent's environment.  ( 114 min )

This post demonstrates how to build an automated competitive price intelligence system that streamlines manual workflows, supporting teams to make data-driven pricing decisions with real-time market insights.  ( 114 min )

Pupdate We’ve (finally) had some warm and sunny days, so the coats have mostly been off for walks :) Bath Half $daughter0 is in her final year of her degree at Bath, and after getting into running last year she decided to run the Bath Half with some friends. That provided a good excuse for […]  ( 14 min )

Pupdate We’ve (finally) had some warm and sunny days, so the coats have mostly been off for walks :) Bath Half $daughter0 is in her final year of her degree at Bath, and after getting into running last year she decided to run the Bath Half with some friends. That provided a good excuse for […]  ( 14 min )

In this post, we introduce Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations, a fully managed service for assessing AI agent performance across the development lifecycle. We walk through how the service measures agent accuracy across multiple quality dimensions. We explain the two evaluation approaches for development and production and share practical guidance for building agents you can deploy with confidence.  ( 122 min )

In this post, you learn how to build a FinOps agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps your finance team manage AWS costs across multiple accounts. This conversational agent consolidates data from AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Compute Optimizer into a single interface, so your team can ask questions like "What are my top cost drivers this month?" and receive immediate answers.  ( 112 min )

In this post, we show you how to build a similar system for your organization. You will learn the architecture decisions, implementation details, and deployment process that can help you automate your own compliance workflows.  ( 113 min )

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement agentic QA automation through QA Studio, a reference solution built with Amazon Nova Act. You will see how to define tests in natural language that adapt automatically to UI changes, explore the serverless architecture that executes tests reliably at scale, and get step-by-step deployment guidance for your AWS environment.  ( 109 min )

I'm excited to announce that AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing and AWS DevOps Agent are now generally available, representing a new class of AI capabilities we announced at re:Invent called frontier agents. These autonomous systems work independently to achieve goals, scale massively to tackle concurrent tasks, and run persistently for hours or days without constant human oversight. Together, these agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. In preview, customers and partners report that AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from weeks to hours and the AWS DevOps Agent supports 3–5x faster incident resolution.  ( 108 min )

Traditional frameworks designed for static deployments cannot address the dynamic interactions that define agentic workloads. AI Risk Intelligence (AIRI), from AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, provides the automated rigor required to govern agents at enterprise scale—a fundamental reimagining of how security, operations, and governance work together systemically.  ( 111 min )

In this post, you'll learn how Ring implemented metadata-driven filtering for Region-specific content, separated content management into ingestion, evaluation and promotion workflows, and achieved cost savings while scaling up.  ( 113 min )

In this post, we explore the challenges that Volkswagen Group faced in producing brand-compliant marketing assets at scale. We walk through how we built a generative AI solution that generates photorealistic vehicle images, validates technical accuracy at the component level, and helps enforce brand guideline compliance alignment across the ten brands.  ( 114 min )

In this post, we show you how to use Amazon SageMaker AI to build and deploy a deep learning model for detecting solar flares using data from the European Space Agency's STIX instrument.  ( 115 min )

In this post, we walk through two use cases that help enhance the user viewing experience using agentic AI tools and frameworks including Strands Agents SDK, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon Nova Sonic 2.0. This agentic AI system uses a Model Context Protocol (MCP) to deliver a personal entertainment concierge that understands user preferences through natural dialogue.  ( 114 min )

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Clickhouse: AI isn’t replacing SREs. It’s changing how they work. The near future of observability isn’t autonomous agents, it’s collaboration. ClickHouse’s ClickStack Notebooks bring SREs and AI into a shared investigative workspace, combining human intuition with structured, reliable tooling to debug faster and think more clearly. Read […]  ( 4 min )

TL;DR QCon is one of my favourite events, and I’ve been to a lot of them over the years. 2026 was the best yet, so kudos to the programme committee and C4media organisers. The most fun bit was hosting the security track, where I got to run a mini security conference within the conference, with […]  ( 16 min )

TL;DR QCon is one of my favourite events, and I’ve been to a lot of them over the years. 2026 was the best yet, so kudos to the programme committee and C4media organisers. The most fun bit was hosting the security track, where I got to run a mini security conference within the conference, with […]  ( 15 min )

TL;DR 2026 was the best Monki Gras so far with a theme of ‘prepping craft’. A room full of techies, and a great gathering of friends, but not really a tech conference. It’s transcended tech, and become the place where the talks are about more important stuff. Monki What? Monki Gras is a London based […]  ( 15 min )

TL;DR 2026 was the best Monki Gras so far with a theme of ‘prepping craft’. A room full of techies, and a great gathering of friends, but not really a tech conference. It’s transcended tech, and become the place where the talks are about more important stuff. Monki What? Monki Gras is a London based […]  ( 15 min )

Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6). Customers in New Zealand can now access Anthropic Claude models (Claude Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5) and Amazon (Nova 2 Lite) models directly in the Auckland Region with cross region inference. In this post, we explore how cross-Region inference works from the New Zealand Region, the models available through geographic and global routing, and how to get started with your first API call. We  ( 112 min )

In this post, we walk you through how to implement a fully automated, context-aware AI solution using a serverless architecture on AWS. This solution helps organizations looking to deploy responsible AI systems, align with compliance requirements for vulnerable populations, and help maintain appropriate and trustworthy AI responses across diverse user groups without compromising performance or governance.  ( 112 min )

Last year, AWS announced an integration between Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and Amazon S3 general purpose buckets. This integration makes it straightforward for teams to use unstructured data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for machine learning (ML) and data analytics use cases. In this post, we show how to integrate S3 general purpose buckets with Amazon SageMaker Catalog to fine-tune Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct for visual question answering (VQA) using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.  ( 114 min )

Today, we’re excited to announce the new Bidirectional Streaming API for Amazon Polly, enabling streamlined real-time text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis where you can start sending text and receiving audio simultaneously. This new API is built for conversational AI applications that generate text or audio incrementally, like responses from large language models (LLMs), where users must begin synthesizing audio before the full text is available.  ( 110 min )

In this post, we explore how the multimodal foundation models (FMs) of Amazon Bedrock enable scalable video understanding through three distinct architectural approaches. Each approach is designed for different use cases and cost-performance trade-offs.  ( 111 min )

In this series of posts, you will learn how streaming architectures help address these challenges using Pipecat voice agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. In Part 1, you will learn how to deploy Pipecat voice agents on AgentCore Runtime using different network transport approaches including WebSockets, WebRTC and telephony integration, with practical deployment guidance and code samples.  ( 114 min )

In this post, we walk through the end-to-end workflow of using RFT on Amazon Bedrock with OpenAI-compatible APIs: from setting up authentication, to deploying a Lambda-based reward function, to kicking off a training job and running on-demand inference on your fine-tuned model.  ( 114 min )

In this post, we walk through how to search for available p-family GPU capacity, create a training plan reservation for inference, and deploy a SageMaker AI inference endpoint on that reserved capacity. We follow a data scientist's journey as they reserve capacity for model evaluation and manage the endpoint throughout the reservation lifecycle.  ( 113 min )

This post introduces Claude Tool use in Amazon Bedrock which uses the power of large language models (LLMs) to perform dynamic, adaptable entity recognition without extensive setup or training.  ( 112 min )

In this blog post, we show you how Reco implemented Amazon Bedrock to help transform security alerts and achieve significant improvements in incident response times.  ( 109 min )

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a Slack integration using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). You will learn how to deploy the infrastructure with three specialized AWS Lambda functions, configure event subscriptions properly to handle Slack's security requirements, and implement conversation management patterns that work for many agent use cases.  ( 112 min )

In this post, we’re excited to showcase how AWS ISV Partner Artificial Genius is using Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Nova to deliver a solution that is probabilistic on input but deterministic on output, helping to enable safe, enterprise-grade adoption.  ( 117 min )

View on sreweekly.com SRE Weekly is back! My partner is doing well, and thanks for all the kind words and well-wishes. A message from our sponsor, Costory : Tracking cloud and AI costs across AWS, GCP, and Datadog shouldn’t require three dashboards and a spreadsheet.Costory correlates cost, usage, and deployment data. Explains what changed and […]  ( 4 min )

This post explores the technical characteristics of the Nemotron 3 Super model and discusses potential application use cases. It also provides technical guidance to get started using this model for your generative AI applications within the Amazon Bedrock environment.  ( 109 min )

In this post, we explore our approach to video generation through VRAG, transforming natural language text prompts and images into grounded, high-quality videos. Through this fully automated solution, you can generate realistic, AI-powered video sequences from structured text and image inputs, streamlining the video creation process.  ( 113 min )

This post introduces Video Retrieval-Augmented Generation (V-RAG), an approach to help improve video content creation. By combining retrieval augmented generation with advanced video AI models, V-RAG offers an efficient, and reliable solution for generating AI videos.  ( 110 min )

SageMaker AI endpoints now support enhanced metrics with configurable publishing frequency. This launch provides the granular visibility needed to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve your production endpoints.  ( 110 min )

In this post, we will show you how to enforce data residency when deploying Amazon Quick Microsoft Teams extensions across multiple AWS Regions. You will learn how to configure multi-Region Amazon Quick extensions that automatically route users to AWS Region-appropriate resources, helping keep compliance with GDPR and other data sovereignty requirements.  ( 112 min )

In this post, we walk you through the process of using the Nova Forge SDK to train an Amazon Nova model using Amazon SageMaker AI Training Jobs.  ( 121 min )

Today, we are launching Nova Forge SDK that makes LLM customization accessible, empowering teams to harness the full potential of language models without the challenges of dependency management, image selection, and recipe configuration and eventually lowering the barrier of entry.  ( 111 min )

In this post, we show how to evaluate AI agents systematically using Strands Evals. We walk through the core concepts, built-in evaluators, multi-turn simulation capabilities and practical approaches and patterns for integration.  ( 116 min )

This post shows you how to build an AI-powered A/B testing engine using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon DynamoDB, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The system improves traditional A/B testing by analyzing user context  to make smarter variant assignment decisions during the experiment.  ( 116 min )

Working with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, Bark developed an AI-powered content generation solution that demonstrated a substantial reduction in production time in experimental trials while improving content quality scores. In this post, we walk you through the technical architecture we built, the key design decisions that contributed to success, and the measurable results achieved, giving you a blueprint for implementing similar solutions.  ( 112 min )

In this post, you will learn how to migrate from Nova 1 to Nova 2 on Amazon Bedrock. We cover model mapping, API changes, code examples using the Converse API, guidance on configuring new capabilities, and a summary of use cases. We conclude with a migration checklist to help you plan and execute your transition.  ( 117 min )

In this post, we’ll explore how Atos used the AWS AI League to help accelerate AI education across 400+ participants, highlight the tangible benefits of gamified, experiential learning, and share actionable insights you can apply to your own AI enablement programs.  ( 116 min )

Today at NVIDIA GTC 2026, AWS and NVIDIA announced an expanded collaboration with new technology integrations to support growing AI compute demand and help you build and run AI solutions that are production-ready.  ( 109 min )

This is Part II of a two-part series from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. In Part II, we speak directly to the leaders who must turn that shared foundation into action. Each role carries a distinct set of responsibilities, risks, and leverage points. Whether you own a P&L, run enterprise architecture, lead security, govern data, or manage compliance, this section is written in the language of your job—because that's where agentic AI either succeeds or quietly dies.  ( 113 min )

In this blog post, we introduce the concepts behind next-generation inference capabilities, including disaggregated serving, intelligent request scheduling, and expert parallelism. We discuss their benefits and walk through how you can implement them on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS to achieve significant improvements in inference performance, resource utilization, and operational efficiency.  ( 115 min )

This post explores how Workhuman transformed their analytics delivery model and the key lessons learned from their implementation. We go through their architecture approach, implementation strategy, and the business outcomes they achieved—providing you with a practical blueprint for adding embedded analytics to your own software as a service (SaaS) applications.  ( 114 min )

This blog post provides step-by-step guidance on implementing an offline feature store using SageMaker Catalog within a SageMaker Unified Studio domain. By adopting a publish-subscribe pattern, data producers can use this solution to publish curated, versioned feature tables—while data consumers can securely discover, subscribe to, and reuse them for model development.  ( 116 min )

In this post, we explain how P-EAGLE works, how we integrated it into vLLM starting from v0.16.0 (PR#32887), and how to serve it with our pre-trained checkpoints.  ( 113 min )

Today, we’re announcing two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Bedrock, TimeToFirstToken and EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage. In this post, we cover how these work and how to set alarms, establish baselines, and proactively manage capacity using them.  ( 112 min )

In this post, you will understand how Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore creates a deterministic enforcement layer that operates independently of the agent's own reasoning. You will learn how to turn natural language descriptions of your business rules into Cedar policies, then use those policies to enforce fine-grained, identity-aware controls so that agents only access the tools and data that their users are authorized to use. You will also see how to apply Policy through AgentCore Gateway, intercepting and evaluating every agent-to-tool request at runtime.  ( 115 min )

This post shows you how to build a scalable multimodal video search system that enables natural language search across large video datasets using Amazon Nova models and Amazon OpenSearch Service. You will learn how to move beyond manual tagging and keyword-based searches to enable semantic search that captures the full richness of video content.  ( 114 min )

In this post, we explore how to fine-tune a leaderboard-topping, NVIDIA Nemotron Speech Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model; Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2. Using synthetic speech data to achieve superior transcription results for specialised applications, we'll walk through an end-to-end workflow that combines AWS infrastructure with the following popular open-source frameworks.  ( 120 min )

The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center has helped 1,000+ customers move AI into production, delivering millions in documented productivity gains. In this post, we share guidance for leaders across the C-suite: CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, and Chief Data Science/AI officers, as well as business owners and compliance leads.  ( 110 min )

In this post, we show how to fine-tune a Llama model using Oumi on Amazon EC2 (with the option to create synthetic data using Oumi), store artifacts in Amazon S3, and deploy to Amazon Bedrock using Custom Model Import for managed inference.  ( 110 min )

We are excited to announce that NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano is now available as a fully managed and serverless model in Amazon Bedrock. This follows our earlier announcement at AWS re:Invent supporting NVIDIA Nemotron 2 Nano 9B and NVIDIA Nemotron 2 Nano VL 12B models. This post explores the technical characteristics of the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model and discusses potential application use cases. Additionally, it provides technical guidance to help you get started using this model for your generative AI applications within the Amazon Bedrock environment.  ( 111 min )

In this post, you will discover how to use Amazon Bedrock's Global cross-Region Inference for Claude models in India. We will guide you through the capabilities of each Claude model variant and how to get started with a code example to help you start building generative AI applications immediately.  ( 115 min )