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AWS has increased key Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime quotas by up to fivefold, enabling enterprises to support more concurrent AI agents and user interactions without going through the quota-increase process that often slows production deployments.
While quota increase service requests are free themselves, the added capacity is more likely to translate into higher underlying compute and runtime consumption as enterprises expand AI deployments.
“The new default limits support up to 5,000 active concurrent sessions in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), and 2,500 in all other supported Regions (previously 1,000 and 500 respectively),” AWS wrote in its release notes.
The hyperscaler has also increased the number of interactions each AI agent can handle from 25 tokens per second to 200 tokens per second across all supported regions, which it says will enable enterprises to support more simultaneous user requests.
Further, to help enterprises scale AI applications faster during pe
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As organizations rush to move AI into production, they’re finding that the tools they rely on to monitor traditional software don’t translate cleanly to AI systems. The reason is fundamental: AI doesn’t fail as software does. It doesn’t throw clean error codes or follow predictable execution paths. It drifts, hallucinates, and degrades in ways that are often subtle, intermittent, and hard to reproduce.
The result is a growing gap between what teams think observability should provide and what current tools actually deliver. The uncomfortable truth? The AI observability tools we have today are built for yesterday’s problems.
To understand where the industry is headed, we need to look at where it is today and why that’s not enough.
AI observability today: The era of evals
Today’s AI observability landscape is dominated by one concept: evaluation.
Most tools focus on scoring model outputs after the fact. They rely on test datasets, human graders, or, increasingly, “LLM-as-a-judge” approach
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AWS is offering to help enterprises address the growing cost of retaining telemetry for talkative AI applications with a new engine for its managed Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics, which it claims can reduce storage costs by 70% and at the same time deliver better price-performance.
AI and agentic applications are generating more telemetry than conventional observability architectures were built to manage economically, forcing enterprises to balance retaining the operational data needed for security, compliance and incident response against rising related infrastructure costs.
The new engine will allow customers to continue using the same management console, APIs, security model and networking configuration as the service’s existing general-purpose engine, while storing data in Apache Parquet format and maintaining Lucene search indexes for searchable fields, AWS said.
It uses Apache Calcite to parse and optimize queries before routing analytical operations to Apa
Amazon Web Services has launched a dedicated internal organization of forward-deployed AI engineers, committing $1 billion in internal resources to help enterprise customers move beyond AI experimentation and into operational deployment. The new group will embed AWS engineers directly within client organizations to build and install purpose-built agentic systems, with an emphasis on speed and […]
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