Artificial Intelligence

Category: Amazon Machine Learning

From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock

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

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

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.

Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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 Trane gets building insights 60x faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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

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

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.