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AWS and NVIDIA Expand AI Partnership to Deploy 2 Million Additional Blackwell Ultra and Rubin GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their cloud infrastructure partnership, committing to deploy two million additional high-end NVIDIA GPUs across AWS global data centers in 2027 and 2028. The deployment expands on AWS's previous commitment from GTC 2026 to add one million GPUs starting in 2026, bringing total forward allocations across the multi-year cycle to three million units. The upcoming capacity will comprise NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin
August 26, 20261 min
Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk on September 30 After 21 Years
Amazon Web Services has announced that it will permanently shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026. The retirement brings an end to a 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform that served as an early foundation for modern machine learning dataset annotation and human-in-the-loop computing. In a formal notice posted to the Mechanical Turk portal, AWS stated that the decision followed an internal assessment of its service portfolio. The platform had previously halted new customer registra
August 26, 20261 min
OpenAI Integrates GPT-5.6 Family into AWS Kiro with Reported 82% Cost Drop
OpenAI has made its flagship GPT-5.6 model family available within Kiro, the spec-driven software development environment developed by Amazon Web Services. The release brings OpenAI's frontier reasoning and coding tiers, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, directly into AWS's agentic engineering platform. According to joint evaluations conducted by AWS and OpenAI on Terminal-Bench 2.1, executing complex software engineering tasks with GPT-5.6 Terra inside Kiro reduced total token expenditures by ro
August 24, 20261 min
AWS Backs Open Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for Agent Registry Federation
Amazon Web Services announced support for the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) open specification, detailing how the federation standard will integrate with AWS Agent Registry, its managed catalog for AI agents, tools, and skills currently in preview within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The alignment targets cross-platform discovery across heterogeneous enterprise stacks. While AWS Agent Registry provides centralized indexing and access controls within an AWS environment, real-world deployments fre
August 24, 20261 min
AWS Puts Continuum Security Scanning Into Claude Code, Codex, and Kiro
AWS announced on August 5 that it is integrating AWS Continuum, its automated security vulnerability scanner, into third-party coding tools including Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and the company's own Kiro agentic development environment. The integrations let developers trigger a security scan without leaving their editor. Continuum reads account configurations, identity and access management policies, network topology, and internet exposure data before deciding whether a finding is
August 6, 20261 min

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AWS and NVIDIA Expand AI Partnership to Deploy 2 Million Additional Blackwell Ultra and Rubin GPUs

Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk on September 30 After 21 Years

OpenAI Integrates GPT-5.6 Family into AWS Kiro with Reported 82% Cost Drop

AWS Backs Open Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for Agent Registry Federation

AWS Puts Continuum Security Scanning Into Claude Code, Codex, and Kiro