Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need, complete. The source stays writable except for a few minutes at cutover. The same week, Amazon DynamoDB started loading data from S3 into tables that already exist.

The pattern I like is that neither one asks you to stop what’s running. That’s also the way to read the agent news this week. The new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime is a single field on the runtime you already have, and Web Answer is a tool you attach to a gateway you already run. Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS news…

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The new AgentCore Runtime: elastic, optimized, and consistently fast starts – If you run agents on AgentCore and haven’t tried the new runtime since it became generally available, it’s worth a look. It changes two things.…