Good morning, everyone!
Vega SDK 0.24 launched last week, bringing React Native 0.83 to Vega! We’re all super excited to finally get this in your hands, I know you’ve been waiting (im)patiently.
On the agent side, Kiro Crew launched as an open-source agent workspace, Agent Plugins arrived as a vendor-neutral packaging standard for MCP servers and skills, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore reached general availability for its runtime instances.
On the device side, Alexa+ Early Access has started in Australia and HDR10+ Advanced is landing on Prime Video.
And our team is getting ready for Agent Conf next month in Poland, so we hope to see you there!
Dev Updates
Vega SDK 0.24 released — The release moves Vega to React Native 0.83 for better compatibility and performance, adds a WebView major-version upgrade and a new accessibility-settings Turbo Module, and lets you authenticate and enable Developer Mode from the CLI; note it requires a matching OS version, so check the release notes before upgrading.
GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1M-token context on Bedrock — If you call these models through Bedrock, the context window is now up to one million tokens; adjust your chunking and prompt-assembly limits accordingly.
Lambda console extends console-to-IDE integration to Kiro and Cursor — You can now open a Lambda function straight into Kiro or Cursor from the console, alongside the existing VS Code path.
Response streaming for .NET on AWS Lambda — .NET Lambda functions can now stream responses incrementally instead of buffering the full payload; useful for LLM output and large responses.
DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin is now GA — Kotlin developers get an idiomatic mapper for reading, writing, and querying DynamoDB; worth adopting if you’ve been hand-rolling item conversions.
Announcements
Alexa+ arrives in Australia (Early Access)
- Alexa+ began rolling out in Australia on August 6 as part of an Early Access program.
Introducing Kiro Crew
- Kiro Crew is an open-source, persistent development workspace that runs a crew of agents from your desktop, a browser, EC2, Docker, or a home VM, keeping memory, skills, and security controls across sessions.
Agent Plugins arrive as an open standard, supported by AWS and Kiro
- Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is a vendor-neutral packaging format that lets you bundle MCP servers and agent skills once and run them across any supporting client instead of re-adapting per tool.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime instances are now generally available
- AgentCore now offers persistent, managed compute for production AI agents, so long-running agents keep state across invocations rather than cold-starting each call.
Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models
- GPT models on Bedrock can now ground their answers with live web search, reducing stale-knowledge responses without you wiring up a separate retrieval layer.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search
- DynamoDB adds native vector search with single-digit-millisecond latency and 99%+ recall, so you can run semantic lookups on the same table that holds your application data.
HDR10+ Advanced debuts on Prime Video, a Samsung-Amazon first
- Prime Video becomes the first service to carry HDR10+ Advanced, adding AI-driven tone mapping and scene-by-scene motion metadata on Samsung’s 2026 TVs, extending the royalty-free HDR format your video apps can target.
Events
Gamescom runs through the end of August in Cologne, then the fall conference season fills in across Europe and the React ecosystem, from IBC in Amsterdam to React Native Connection in Paris.
| Date | Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1–31 | Gamescom | Cologne, DE | Europe’s largest games event, and we’re stopping by. |
| Sep 11–14 | IBC Show | Amsterdam, NL | The media, entertainment, and technology show where streaming-device teams gather. |
| Sep 11 | ZurichJS Conf | Zurich, CH | A JavaScript community conference in Switzerland. |
| Sep 17–18 | Agent Conf | Warsaw, PL | Developer Advocates Kourtney Meiss and Anisha Malde are giving a talk, and Giovanni Laquidara is leading a workshop. |
| Sep 24 | React Native Connection | Paris, FR | A React Native community conference we’ll be at. |
Dev Posts
Introducing Kiro Crew is the walkthrough I’d start with: a crew of agents you can run from your desktop, a browser, EC2, or a box in your basement. If you build on Vega, the refreshed sample apps for SDK 0.24 are the fastest way to see the new building blocks in working code.
Introducing Kiro Crew
AWS Dev Advocate Darko Mesaroš walks through the Kiro Crew announcement above: an open-source workspace that runs a crew of agents from your desktop, a browser, an EC2 instance, Docker, or a homelab VM, with persistent memory, skills, and a set of deliberately paranoid security controls. It’s built on the Kiro CLI already used by tens of thousands of builders inside Amazon and hundreds of external contributors. Worth a watch if you want to see how the persistent-workspace model differs from a one-off agent session.
Vega sample apps updated for SDK 0.24
Alongside the SDK release, Amazon Developer refreshed four Vega sample apps that each demonstrate a different building block for TV apps: vega-tv-interfaces-sample for recommended TV interface patterns in React Native, vega-audio-sample for a music player with album, track, search, and home UI, vega-video-sample for a W3C media player with the core multimedia features, and vega-sports-app for a themeable sports-content app. They’re a practical starting point if you’re building for Vega on 0.24.
Building and Deploying .NET AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
By Philippe El Asmar
AgentCore runs your agent code packaged as a container, and this walkthrough shows the .NET path end to end: build the agent, package it, and deploy it to the managed runtime. If you work in C# and have been watching the agent tooling land mostly in Python and TypeScript, this is the post that brings the workflow to .NET. It pairs naturally with the AgentCore GA news above.
Building a mobile streaming experience with Amazon GameLift Streams
By Benjamin Meyer, Carl Prescott, and Natasha Rooney
Streaming a game to a phone brings challenges a desktop frontend doesn’t: touch input, variable networks, and small-screen layout. This post walks through the key considerations for a dedicated mobile frontend on GameLift Streams while reusing the same backend, a useful read if you’re extending a cloud-streamed game to mobile without maintaining two stacks.
Amazon’s Zoox Robotaxi Enters the Commercial Race
Bloomberg Tech on Zoox entering its commercial phase: Aicha Evans’s team is launching paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas, the first purpose-built, steering-wheel-free AV service in the US to charge for rides.
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