The new AgentCore Runtime is now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

UpdateSep 18, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Today, AWS announces the availability of the next generation of AgentCore Runtime , the serverless microVM compute within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The new Runtime delivers elastic memory management that reclaims unused memory throughout the session so you pay for actual usage rather than the peak, and consistent cold start times regardless of container...

AI agents Pricing Regions Performance

Read AWS's release notes

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/new-agentcore-runtime-generally-available

Summaries of vendors' own notes. Product names and logos belong to their owners; logos via logo.dev.

More Amazon Bedrock releases

Amazon BedrockSep 18, 2026

Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock continues to expand its open weight model portfolio with the same security and governance that customers rely on. Today, Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work.

GAAI agentsGovernanceSecuritySource

Amazon BedrockSep 22, 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.

GALLMsGovernanceSecuritySource

Amazon BedrockSep 22, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next.

UpdateLLMsPricingSource

Amazon BedrockSep 22, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS

AWS now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next.

UpdateLLMsPricingSource

Amazon BedrockSep 23, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectors

AWS announces Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now sync Salesforce knowledge articles and Zendesk articles and community posts directly into their managed knowledge base.

UpdateUnverifiedAI agentsVector searchData integrationSource

Amazon BedrockSep 11, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0

AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content.

UpdateVector searchSecurityDeveloper toolsSource

Amazon BedrockSep 9, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control

AWS announces the CheckIngestedDocumentAcl and GetIngestedDocumentAcl APIs for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, giving customers a self-service way to debug document access issues and audit document-level permissions.

UpdateVector searchSecurityData integrationSource

Amazon BedrockSep 9, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector

AWS announces the Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers running self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances can now crawl blogs and pages from their Confluence spaces directly into their managed knowledge base.

UpdateAI agentsVector searchPricingSource

Also shipped on Sep 18, 2026

Databricks Databricks AppsSep 18, 2026

Databricks Apps telemetry is now generally available

Configuring telemetry for your Databricks apps is now generally available. Databricks Apps telemetry collects traces, logs, and metrics and persists them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol.

GAGovernanceObservabilityDeveloper toolsSource

Databricks LakebaseSep 18, 2026

Lakebase Search is generally available

Lakebase Search is now generally available. It brings scalable vector and keyword search to Lakebase projects through two Postgres extensions, so you can run semantic and exact-term search in a single database without a separate search stack: lakebase_vector adds the lakebase_ann index type for approximate nearest-neighbor vector search.

GAVector searchSQLPostgresSource

Snowflake SnowflakeSep 18, 2026

Apache Iceberg™ tables: Partition evolution (General availability)

With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of partition evolution for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables. You can now change a table's partition specification after you create the table by adding, dropping, or replacing partition fields, without rewriting existing data.

GAApache IcebergSource

Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformSep 18, 2026

xAI's Grok 4.6 is generally available

Grok 4.6 is now generally available (GA) and available for production use on the global endpoint and the US multi-region endpoint.

GARegionsSource

Google Cloud Gemini EnterpriseSep 18, 2026

Gemini Enterprise: Support for new actions (Public Preview)

Support for new actions is available in Public Preview for the following data stores: Microsoft OneDrive : Copy folder, move file, move folder, rename file, rename folder, share file or folder, and update file properties. Microsoft Outlook : Create calendar, RSVP to event, and update calendar.

PreviewLLMsSource

Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformSep 18, 2026

Agent Platform SDK for Python version 2.0.1 is available

Version 2.0.1 of the Agent Platform SDK for Python ( google-cloud-agentplatform ) is now available. This release migrates generative AI modules to the Google Gen AI SDK, decouples the agent surface from google-cloud-aiplatform into a dedicated package, and introduces restructured namespaces.

DeprecationAI agentsDeveloper toolsSource