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Agents2026-08-09 · source-backed
AWS announced August 6 that agents can now run on your own EC2 instances while AgentCore handles provisioning, patching, scaling, and lifecycle. Complements the existing microVM runtime, targeting sustained or specialized-hardware workloads that need the full EC2 instance-type range. The same-week rename of the legacy service to Bedrock Agents Classic, closed to new customers, makes the forward path unambiguous. If you're on Classic, start planning the migration now rather than when they announce an end date.
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AWS shipped per-user, per-target rate limiting August 6 covering MCP targets, inference targets and HTTP passthrough across three metrics: requests (RPS/RPM), tokens (TPM, inference only), connections (CPS). Limits scope by JWT claims ($.context.jwt.sub, .role, .azp) or IAM id...
Per AWS's own documentation, the agent product Amazon launched in November 2023 entered maintenance mode: no new customers, model catalog frozen as of that date, so every model released after July 30 is AgentCore-only. Existing allowlisted accounts keep access with no EOL anno...
AWS made the managed AgentCore harness generally available on June 18. You define model, tools, skills, and memory with CreateHarness, then run it with InvokeHarness. It ships multi-model support (Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, LiteLLM), mid-session context preservation, built-in br...
AWS's August 12 writeup details Bedrock AgentCore payments combined with an ORACLE policy engine and ICME PreFlight verification. An integrity service signs execution records inside AWS Nitro Enclaves, with the attestation document binding signing keys to enclave image measure...
Each tenant gets a dedicated Bedrock AgentCore runtime, every user session runs in its own microVM that's terminated and memory-sanitized on completion, paired with Knowledge Bases metadata filtering, Guardrails on responses, VPC Lattice for private connectivity and per-tenant...
The walkthrough covers implementing MCP tools, wiring authentication, and deploying with AWS CDK against Bedrock AgentCore and Mistral AI Studio. Steal the two-layer JWT pattern: agent identity and end-user identity as separate token layers. Most MCP server tutorials hand-wave...
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