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AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is generally available in two US regions. It sandboxes exploits, ranks by business impact and opens fix PRs you approve.
AWS's TorchNeuron makes Trainium2 and Trainium3 a native PyTorch device, so .to('neuron') and torch.compile work. Apache-2.0 public beta opens 20 October.
Amazon's October posts describe an open-source physical AI toolchain on AWS, wired to NVIDIA Isaac and Cosmos. The sample repo is Apache-2.0, and its status table still marks edge deployment planned.
AWS open-sourced Strands Box on 7 October as a developer preview. The repo license is Apache-2.0, and the README limits local runs to macOS on Apple silicon, with Dogwood policies on top of OS isolation.
An incomplete S3 multipart upload can leave billable parts behind even when no finished object appears. Here is how to find and clear them.
A GitHub Actions job can use OpenID Connect to obtain short-lived AWS credentials. The role trust policy decides which job may deploy.
AWS Open Source Blog (Sep 30, 2026) released Dogwood Local Engine under Apache 2.0: an embeddable library that issues allow/deny on agent tool-call requests under temporal history. The harness must enforce.
Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI entered public preview (AWS what’s-new Sep 29, 2026)—not generally available. AWS-native IAM/CloudTrail/human approval/durable sessions/MCP/skills as AWS states. Preview regions us-east-1, us-west-2, us-east-2. No additional BMA charge in preview beyond underlying resources (subject to change at GA).
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 (model ID claude-sonnet-5-5): $2/$10 input/output, $0.20 cache reads, $2.50 cache writes. Anthropic claims 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5, up to 30% less per task, Terminal-Bench 70.6% / CursorBench 55.5%. Haiku 5.5 coming weeks.
OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.159.0 (2026-09-29) adds opt-in instant_interrupt, richer native Mermaid, draft/blank-session recovery, and default .aws sandbox protection—plus Windows MCP launch fixes. Chores drop prompt_suggestions and the plugin-creator skill. Jump past live 0.156; ignore 0.158 alphas.
AWS GA’d direct Iceberg/Parquet lake queries from Aurora PostgreSQL (2026-09-30) via embedded DuckDB and aurora_analytics—no ETL. Join live ops rows (incl. uncommitted) with the lake. PG 17.11+/18.6+; no extra feature fee (compute + S3).
AWS S3 Vectors (Sep 30, 2026) adds ENHANCED index mode that filters metadata before similarity search, plus $startsWith. AWS claims up to 5× more matching vectors on highly selective filters—vendor figure, not house-verified. No extra cost; CLASSIC until you upgrade.
AWS's Rust SDK release of September 25 carries the Well-Architected Agent, a generative AI service that reviews an AWS environment and ranks fixes for cost, security, performance and resilience.
