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AWS announced GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna in AWS GovCloud (US) on 24 August 2026. Three other AWS pages, including the one the announcement links to, do not list either model in GovCloud at all.
Version 1.0.0 of the anthropic Python package landed on 20 August 2026 and moved the HTTP layer to httpx2. The upgrade installs, the type checks pass, and the mocks quietly stop matching.
The npm stable tag for Claude Code still resolves to 2.1.231, published 13 August 2026. The fix for a proxy defect that silently doubled billed Amazon Bedrock calls shipped 8 days later in 2.1.239.
Bedrock now attributes bedrock-mantle cost by IAM user or role. The user guide says the finest grain is per usage type per day, tags are not retroactive, and existing CUR 2.0 exports must be recreated.
xAI announced Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens. AWS's own model card prices two of the three inference paths at $2.20 and $6.60, and publishes no long-context tier at all.
AWS made Web Search on Amazon Bedrock generally available on 4 August 2026 and told buyers to check the pricing page for costs. The pricing page has no price. Worse, the default IAM policy grants search but not external
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20% on 30 July 2026, and Amazon Bedrock passed both through automatically. Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens on both paths, which removes the pricing argument
A self-hosted control plane, shipped inside the Claude Code binary, that gives platform teams one place to manage access, policy, routing and spend for Claude Code across AWS and Google Cloud.
AWS put Bedrock Agents Classic into maintenance mode on 30 July 2026. Existing agents keep running, but new accounts get a 403 and the model catalog freezes. Here is the capability-by-capability migration map
AWS made Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base generally available on 17 June 2026. It removes the vector store, the parsing pipeline and the retrieval orchestration. It also removes some control, and it is not in
AWS put Amazon Kendra into maintenance mode on 30 June 2026 and closes it to new customers on 30 July. Migrating to Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base drops you from 32 connectors to 7.
Amazon Bedrock's new Mantle console connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more to GPT, Claude and open-weight models with IAM or a Bedrock API key. Here is how to wire each coding agent through Bedrock.
AWS's FinOps Agent entered public preview at FinOps X 2026: agentic AI that root-causes cost spikes, answers plain-language cost questions, and attributes Bedrock AI spend by model and user.
