Artificial Intelligence
Category: Amazon Machine Learning
From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock
HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), HAL delivers governed knowledge inside the tools teams already use, with no AWS credentials on the client and security anchored in Microsoft Entra ID.
Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS
Learn how to build a conversational video intelligence solution on AWS using an agentic architecture. A single Strands Agents SDK agent orchestrates Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe at runtime, deciding which service to call so you can ask natural language questions about your videos and get answers in seconds.
Use open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock
Pair OpenCode, an open-source terminal-native AI coding agent, with open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to get a secure, flexible, pay-per-use coding assistant. Learn how to configure multi-model workflows, match the right model to each task, and keep your data in your own AWS account with no infrastructure to manage.
Bring more intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and efficiency to each workload.
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers what’s new in Opus 5.5, practical guidance, and how to start building with the model on Amazon Bedrock.
Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Skills let you encode domain-specific procedures as reusable, portable instructions for agents, but a fluent answer doesn’t prove the agent picked the right skill or followed it. Learn how to measure skill selection and instruction following with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations.
How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Reactiv used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build a multi-agent AI Scheduler that autonomously refreshes Shopify merchants’ mobile apps on a schedule, reducing merchant configuration time by 80% and getting to production 33% faster.
How Trane gets building insights 60x faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In about four weeks, Trane Technologies built an AI-powered agentic solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that reduced a 20-minute, multi-screen building diagnostic workflow to a 20-second natural language interaction, a 60x improvement in time-to-insight. This post shares the architectural approach and key design decisions behind the solution.
Extending public sector intelligence with Agentforce and AWS
Public sector agencies process large volumes of unstructured evidence, such as body camera footage and scanned documents. This post shows how to combine Amazon Bedrock Data Automation with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to turn that data into structured insights and surface them through natural language queries in Salesforce Agentforce.
xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock
xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work, with a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels. It runs on both the bedrock-mantle and bedrock-runtime endpoints, with Converse API and cross-Region inference support.









