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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-to-Gold data pipeline lifecycle, compressing new-source onboarding from weeks to hours while keeping data governance and compliance controls inline.

Advanced (300)Thought Leadership
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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for building a governed tool gateway with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, advancing only when real governance pain demands it.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreIntermediate (200)Technical How-to
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The Verge Tech

Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations by mid-2027. This launch has been a long time coming, as Walmart was one of the last major retailers not to support Apple Pay or Google Pay. The retail giant even backed the launch of th

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DZone

Open Source as a Leadership Lab for Software Engineers

Leadership is challenging to develop in isolation. While you can practice programming, architecture, or databases independently, leadership relies on skills such as communication, influence, negotiation, feedback, conflict resolution, and decision-making, all of which require interaction with others. As leadership becomes more important for software engineers advancing in their careers, a key question arises: where can engineers practice these skills before becoming managers? Open source offers

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Reduce RAG costs on Amazon Bedrock with query-aware compression

Input tokens are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale. This post describes a query-aware context compression pattern on Amazon Bedrock: after retrieval, a smaller model filters retrieved chunks against the query before the primary model answers, reducing input tokens and cost while preserving answer quality.

Advanced (300)Amazon BedrockTechnical How-to
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Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS

Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) issues across a global fleet, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes while maintaining accuracy.

Advanced (300)Amazon BedrockAmazon SageMaker
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The Verge Tech

Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks

Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes "audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements" and it is looking to identify "alleged infringers at issue." The subpoenas give Microsoft and Discord until September 4th to produce the requeste

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