AWS AI Updates: September 5, 2026

1. AWS MCP Server Gets a Serverless Capability for Diagnosing Lambda Functions

AWS. The AWS MCP Server added a serverless capability that lets coding agents such as Claude Code and Kiro troubleshoot running Lambda functions and their connected resources across API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and Step Functions. The agent correlates error signals against a 7-day baseline to identify what changed, surfaces recurring errors, retrieves deployed configuration, and builds a timeline of recent changes. AWS notes the design returns comprehensive data in a single call rather than making the agent orchestrate multiple API calls, which cuts token consumption. The capability is free, works against all commercial regions, and is enabled through the Agent Toolkit for AWS via aws configure agent-toolkit. Source

2. Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Adds ServiceNow as a Native Connector

AWS. Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base can now crawl ServiceNow knowledge articles and service catalog items, including file attachments, without a custom ingestion pipeline. The connector handles crawling, metadata extraction, and incremental sync from instance credentials alone, and crawls can be scoped to specific knowledge bases, article categories, or service catalogs using sys ID inclusion lists. The target use cases are IT assistants, HR helpdesks, and support agents grounded in content organizations already maintain in ServiceNow. Source

3. Knowledge Base Connectors Get Scheduled Syncs

AWS. Data source connectors in Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base can now run on daily, weekly, or monthly sync schedules, replacing manual sync triggers and the custom scheduling workarounds teams built around them. The schedule applies to all native connectors, so a fast-moving Confluence support base can sync daily while SharePoint policy documents sync weekly and S3 reference material monthly. Source

4. SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence Connectors Accept User Credentials Instead of Service Accounts

AWS. Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base added user-managed setup (3LO) for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence, letting a developer sign in with their own third-party credentials rather than obtaining 2LO service account credentials from an administrator. The existing service account path remains for production workloads, but the new flow removes the IT coordination step that blocked prototyping an assistant grounded in internal wikis and document stores. Source

5. SageMaker Batch Transform Adds G6e Instances for Offline Inference

AWS. SageMaker AI Batch Transform now supports EC2 G6e instances, which carry up to eight NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory each alongside third-generation AMD EPYC processors. Batch Transform runs predictions against datasets in S3 without a persistent endpoint, so the addition targets offline inference on large language models and diffusion models generating images, video, and audio. Availability covers US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Source