AWS AI Updates: September 10, 2026

1. AWS and Qualcomm Signed a Multi-Generation Custom Inference Chip Deal

AWS. Qualcomm will design custom processors for AWS across multiple product generations, targeting AI inference specifically, and the two are also building optical interconnects rated at 1.6 terabits of bandwidth. The arrangement runs both directions: Qualcomm is using Amazon Bedrock to accelerate its own chip design work. The Qualcomm parts sit alongside Trainium, Graviton, and Nitro rather than replacing them, and they are aimed at cost-efficient inference. This is Qualcomm’s third major data center customer since June, after Meta and Microsoft. Source

2. Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Added Two APIs for Debugging Document-Level ACLs

AWS. CheckIngestedDocumentAcl answers whether a specific user can access a given document, and GetIngestedDocumentAcl returns the full access control list for a document. A new Document Access Control section in the console does the same lookups by document ID and user email. The target problem is the ambiguity that shows up when a user does not see an expected document in retrieval results and there is no way to tell whether the cause is an ACL misconfiguration or a retrieval issue. Source

3. Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Now Ingests Confluence Data Center Natively

AWS. Confluence Data Center joins the native data source connector list for Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, so self-hosted Confluence deployments can be indexed without a custom ingestion pipeline. This follows the ServiceNow connector and the user-managed setup option for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence shipped the week prior. Source

4. AWS Transform for .NET Modernization Reached GA Through the CLI

AWS. The agentic .NET modernization service can now be driven from a single command line invocation, either interactively or scripted into an existing pipeline to run autonomously. It handles language version upgrades, framework migration, performance optimization, and codebase analysis, and supports custom transformations. The service is available in eight regions with 50,000 free agent minutes per month before paid usage begins. Source