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19 August 2026 · 7 MIN READ

AWS Summer Digest — July & August 2026: The Price War, and Agents Grow Up

Two months of AWS news in one editorial pass: GPT-5.6 lands on Bedrock and gets 80% cheaper seventeen days later, AgentCore ships the full production stack for agents (persistent compute, temporal governance, native payments), AI primitives melt into DynamoDB and Lambda, and a July 30 maintenance wave quietly retires the first-generation AI portfolio. With practitioner takes and what I'm watching for la rentrée.

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