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Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

When you move AI agents from prototype to production, the infrastructure challenges multiply. Your agents need to persist state across multi-step workflows that run for hours or days. They need to coordinate with other agents, share context, and sometimes access GPUs for specialized tasks. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime microVMs provide a fully managed environment for […]

The Future of Trust Isn’t Detecting Deepfakes. It’s Proving Authenticity

For years, the deepfake video problem was easier to warn about than to demonstrate. Journalists wrote the warnings. Legislators drafted policy frameworks. Security researchers ran the simulations. And yet, despite the genuine technical threat, the forgeries themselves often remained unconvincing enough that public alarm failed to catch hold. The faces were wrong, the lip movements […]

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of vector search in Amazon DynamoDB. You can now store vector embeddings alongside your operational data in DynamoDB and run similarity searches directly against that data, without replicating it to a separate vector store. DynamoDB supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall, and is designed […]

Managed vs Self-Managed Kubernetes in 2026: True Cost and Control

The question sounds tactical. It is not. Choosing between managed and self-managed Kubernetes shapes your team’s operational burden for years, determines which compliance paths are even available to you, and ultimately decides whether your platform engineers spend their time on product-adjacent work or on etcd certificate rotation. The answer depends less on technical preference than […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to deliver packages to […]

Choosing Cloud DevOps Tools: Which Stage Should You Solve First

There is no single best DevOps tool. That statement sounds obvious, but the industry’s habit of treating toolchain decisions as popularity contests suggests the lesson hasn’t fully landed. The real question isn’t which tool is best in absolute terms – it’s which problem your pipeline has right now, and which category of tool addresses that […]

The Forbes AI 50 Is More Concentrated Than It Appears

The 2026 Forbes AI 50 is framed as a showcase of AI’s breadth. Fifty companies. Domains spanning law, medicine, music, and robotics. A portrait of a maturing industry diversifying beyond its foundational models. The concentration numbers tell a different story. The Capital Concentration That Defines the List OpenAI and Anthropic together have raised $242.6 billion […]

Hans Otharsson on the Questions Every CIO Should Ask a Modernization Vendor

1. “How will you prove that the modernized system behaves like the existing production system?” I want an answer that defines functional equivalence in measurable terms and explains how it will be demonstrated across business outputs, numeric precision, interfaces, performance, error handling, and restart behavior. The vendor should describe how it builds the baseline, generates […]