Agentic AI

Amazon Redshift now connects with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor to manage data warehouses directly. This integration leverages an AWS MCP server to execute authenticated API calls and utilizes curated Redshift skills to guide agents. These skills provide SQL references, metadata discovery, and best practices for data loading and materialized views to reduce errors.

• AI agents can now execute authenticated AWS API calls via the Model Context Protocol server.
• Redshift skills offer curated SQL syntax references to minimize query generation errors.
• Metadata discovery features allow schema exploration without manual SQL writing.
• Guidance covers data loading patterns, materialized views, and extensions like Pivot.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control, allowing per-user and per-tenant memory isolation via AgentCore Gateway. This feature enables OAuth (JWT) authentication and Cedar policy enforcement to restrict access based on caller identity and token claims. By moving authorization to the infrastructure layer, developers can enforce namespace-derived restrictions and operation-level permissions without custom application logic.

• Enforce per-user and per-tenant memory isolation using AgentCore Gateway.
• Integrate OAuth (JWT) authentication with Cedar policies for identity-based access.
• Restrict memory records to namespaces derived from user token claims.
• Move access control from app code to infrastructure for better security posture.
• Allow or deny specific Memory operations based on the authenticated caller.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports flexible namespace variables, allowing developers to scope long-term memories along application-specific dimensions like tenant or environment. This feature eliminates the need for duplicate strategies or overloading built-in variables by enabling fine-grained isolation in multi-tenant setups. Users define up to five keys per memory resource and supply values at runtime via the CreateEvent API, which the service substitutes into namespace templates during memory extraction.

• Define up to five flexible namespace keys per memory resource for custom scoping.
• Scope memories by tenant, org, team, or environment without duplicate strategies.
• Supply namespace values at runtime through the CreateEvent API.
• Variables are substituted into strategy namespace templates during extraction.
• Enables fine-grained access control for complex, multi-tenant applications.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions. This expansion enables engineers to build, connect, and optimize AI agents closer to end users for lower latency. All core capabilities including runtime, identity management, tool connectivity, and observability are supported at launch in these new regions.

• Bedrock AgentCore is now live in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
• New regions allow building agents closer to users to reduce latency
• Full feature set including runtime, IAM, tool connectivity, and observability is available
• Infrastructure-layer security enforcement remains consistent across the expansion