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AWS AI Updates: June 5, 2026

1. Amazon Bedrock Console Redesigned Around OpenAI- and Anthropic-Compatible APIs

Amazon Bedrock. AWS launched a redesigned Bedrock console centered on an endpoint that supports the OpenAI Responses API, OpenAI Chat Completions API, and Anthropic Messages API. The experience adds side-by-side model comparison across capabilities, modality support, context windows, and service quotas, plus project-based organization that auto-adjusts code snippets as model and region selections change. Teams migrating from OpenAI or Anthropic can copy console-generated samples directly into existing client libraries without rewriting them. Source

2. SageMaker Data Agent Adds Business Context From Collibra, Atlan, and Alation

Amazon SageMaker. The SageMaker Data Agent can now ingest business metadata synced from Collibra, Atlan, and Alation, letting users query datasets in business terminology rather than technical table and column names. It searches glossary terms, metadata forms, asset summaries, and README files to map natural-language questions to the correct tables, then generates SQL or Python and plans multi-step workflows while checking governance subscriptions before granting access. The feature is available in SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks and Query Editor in all regions where the studio is supported. Source

3. SageMaker Unified Studio Adds Notebook Scheduling and Multi-Notebook Orchestration

Amazon SageMaker. SageMaker Unified Studio now supports scheduling notebook runs, parameterizing notebooks for reuse across inputs, and orchestrating multi-notebook workflows through a new Notebook Operator in the Workflows feature. Users can trigger on-demand background runs on dedicated compute without interrupting interactive sessions, or set recurring schedules for jobs such as daily reporting and model retraining. Failed runs can be diagnosed with AI-assisted troubleshooting through the SageMaker Data Agent, and schedules can be created with natural-language commands. Source

4. OpenAI GPT-5.4 Lands on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region, extending access to government and regulated customers that require data residency and sovereignty controls. The model runs on Bedrock’s inference engine with isolated queues and durable execution, and AWS states that prompts and responses are not used to train models. This is a distinct deployment from the commercial-region availability and targets workloads that cannot run outside FedRAMP-eligible infrastructure. Source

5. AWS Config Adds Tracking for Nine Bedrock and SageMaker Resource Types

AWS Config. AWS Config now records nine new resource types across Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, including Bedrock FlowAlias, AgentCore Evaluator, GatewayTarget, OnlineEvaluationConfig, and RuntimeEndpoint, plus SageMaker Cluster, Endpoint, ModelPackageGroup, and Pipeline. Accounts with all-resource recording enabled will automatically begin capturing configuration history and changes for these resources, enabling compliance rules, drift detection, and audit trails over AI/ML infrastructure. The additions let teams enforce governance across Bedrock agent and SageMaker pipeline deployments using standard Config rules and conformance packs. Source