Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic available on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of Claude Opus 4.8 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's latest Opus model, delivering longer autonomous runs, deeper reasoning, and reliable tool use across multi-step workflows—with a 1M-token context window for working across long documents, entire codebases, and multi-stage projects.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of Claude Opus 4.8 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's latest Opus model, delivering longer autonomous runs, deeper reasoning, and reliable tool use across multi-step workflows—with a 1M-token context window for working across long documents, entire codebases, and multi-stage projects.
How Amazon is building AI that takes action in the real world
Amazon is building AI agents that combine reliable foundation models with purpose-built infrastructure to deliver incredible accuracy on real-world tasks. AI agents represent a fundamental shift in how artificial intelligence works. Unlike chatbots that respond to isolated prompts or generative AI that creates content on demand, agentic AI systems are software that can reason, plan, and act to accomplish goals with little to no human involvement.
Amazon is building AI agents that combine reliable foundation models with purpose-built infrastructure to deliver incredible accuracy on real-world tasks. AI agents represent a fundamental shift in how artificial intelligence works. Unlike chatbots that respond to isolated prompts or generative AI that creates content on demand, agentic AI systems are software that can reason, plan, and act to accomplish goals with little to no human involvement.
Amazon is now using Japan's iconic Shinkansen bullet trains to deliver packages
Amazon has announced the launch of package delivery using Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains, an initiative set to cut both delivery times and CO₂ emissions. Traveling at speeds of up to 200mph, the Shinkansen network is famed for its high level of punctuality, enabling Amazon to provide faster and more secure deliveries to the Hakodate, Aomori, and Kanazawa areas. Packages are transported using non-passenger space on three routes connecting Amazon operations in the Greater Tokyo area with central and northern Japan.
Amazon has announced the launch of package delivery using Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains, an initiative set to cut both delivery times and CO₂ emissions. Traveling at speeds of up to 200mph, the Shinkansen network is famed for its high level of punctuality, enabling Amazon to provide faster and more secure deliveries to the Hakodate, Aomori, and Kanazawa areas. Packages are transported using non-passenger space on three routes connecting Amazon operations in the Greater Tokyo area with central and northern Japan.
The radical network redesign that led AWS to forge a more resilient cloud
AWS has become the first company to build a flat data center network at scale, using an approach inspired by random graph theory—an idea that had been gathering dust in academia for decades. Their achievement is a breakthrough that will deliver greater reliability and performance for AWS customers, save billions of dollars in hardware, and lower CO2 emissions across a growing number of grids where the company operates. The company began rolling out the new network design in Spain and Germany in 2025, and will implement it across the majority of its data centers globally in 2026.
AWS has become the first company to build a flat data center network at scale, using an approach inspired by random graph theory—an idea that had been gathering dust in academia for decades. Their achievement is a breakthrough that will deliver greater reliability and performance for AWS customers, save billions of dollars in hardware, and lower CO2 emissions across a growing number of grids where the company operates. The company began rolling out the new network design in Spain and Germany in 2025, and will implement it across the majority of its data centers globally in 2026.
