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AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)

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This AWS Weekly Roundup highlights several key announcements and updates across AWS services for the week of May 19, 2025:

  • Launched Strands Agents, an open-source AI agents SDK for building scalable AI applications
  • Introduced AWS Transform for modernizing .NET, Mainframe, and VMware applications using AI
  • Added cross-Region inference to Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
  • Enhanced Amazon VPC with CloudTrail logging for default resources
  • Released new EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for AI workloads
  • Improved AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline with new Docker and deployment capabilities

The roundup also includes upcoming AWS events like Summits, AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day, and AWS re:Inforce, highlighting the company's continued focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools.

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