• AWS News Blog AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026) | Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. • For many in China, it’s a moment associated with reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has carried, and turning attention toward what lies ahead. • Looking forward, next week also brings Lichun, the beginning of spring and the first of the 24 solar terms. • In Chinese tradition, spring is often seen as the season when growth begins and new cycles take shape. • There’s a common saying that “a year’s plans begin in spring,” capturing the idea that this is a time to set one’s direction and start fresh. • Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week: - Amazon Bedrock enhances support for agent workflows with server-side tools and extended prompt caching - Amazon Bedrock introduced two updates that improve how developers build and operate AI agents.
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- AWS announced a series of infrastructure and AI‑tool updates in its February 2, 2026 roundup. Amazon Bedrock added server‑side tool support to its Responses API and a one‑hour prompt‑caching TTL, improving agent workflow performance and cost. SageMaker Unified Studio now offers private VPC connectivity via AWS PrivateLink, keeping data within the AWS network. Amazon S3 introduced an UpdateObjectEncryption API that lets customers change server‑side encryption on existing objects without re‑uploading. Amazon Keyspaces added table pre‑warming for instant high‑throughput readiness, while DynamoDB multi‑region strong‑consistency tables gained integration with AWS Fault Injection Service for failure testing. The post also noted China’s Laba festival and the upcoming Lichun spring marker.
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