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Monday again: where is my order. That pile is about 18% of helpdesk volume. Look up the scan. Do not invent a 2pm window. We are not publishing a tickets-down number.
Palaniappan POn August 19, 2026 AWS enabled live-web fetch for Bedrock Web Search in 3 US Regions. Default external_web_access is true; AmazonBedrockFullAccess still does not grant ExternalWebAccess, and the 403 does not fail the request.
Palaniappan PPick the surface instead of AgentCore versus Quick. Agent Skills are official on Harness and Strands, not Chat Agents. August 2026 list price: 500-employee Quick Professional ~$10,250/mo vs ~$791 AgentCore at 50K sessions.
Palaniappan PHarness GA Jun 17, 2026 plus Strands 1.0 primitives, and why AWS Context is still Coming soon. Reuse the ~180→95 ms Gateway canary; ship Managed KB today.
Palaniappan POn Aug 6, 2026 AgentCore Runtime Instances went GA: EC2-backed agents with sessions up to 14 days vs 8-hour microVM Runtime. Field guide: capacity providers, GPU fit, and when idle EC2 burns more than serverless.
Palaniappan POn August 5, 2026 DynamoDB GA’d native vector search: single-digit ms at 99%+ recall, up to 4096 dims, SearchVectors topK ≤ 100. Decision guide vs S3 Vectors, OpenSearch, and Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
Palaniappan PHand this to your technical lead. The store decision: one lookup this week, a person signs money, skip when a rule already works. Sample uses 9 Gateway tools and is not a client case study.
Palaniappan POn June 15, 2026 Grok 4.3 GA on Bedrock Mantle at $1.25/$2.50 per 1M. On August 19, 2026 Grok 4.6 added Converse + US Geo/Global CRIS at $2.00 to $2.20 / $6.00 to $6.60. On September 28, 2026 Grok 4.7 shipped at the same rates. Do not jump on name alone.
Palaniappan POn July 30, 2026 AWS cut Bedrock on-demand prices 80% for GPT-5.6 Luna and 20% for Terra. Luna is now $0.22/$1.32 per 1M tokens. This post covers the routing math and what not to re-price overnight.
Palaniappan POn July 24, 2026 AWS shipped Claude Opus 5 on Bedrock with 1M-token context, 128K max output, and ZDR by default. This post covers the Bedrock vs Claude Platform routing call and a lane-by-lane rollout plan.
Palaniappan PFebruary 2026 server-side tool execution via AgentCore Gateway + Responses API cut median tool-round-trip latency ~180 ms → ~95 ms on a 12-tool SaaS CRM assistant by removing the client orchestration hop.
Palaniappan PFor a multi-district LMS (~52k concurrent exam submissions in 30 min), SQS decouple + Aurora Serverless v2 held p95 submit at 410 ms, and off-peak monthly compute dropped 71% vs always-on EC2.
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