# Vega Guides & Netflix AI Discover • Nov 9, 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Amazon Dev News\ **Created:** [November 9, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.amazondeveloper.com/t/vega-guides-netflix-ai-discover-nov-9-2026/29928 "2026-11-09T22:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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![Amazon Developer News & Events](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/5/5f1f41a08bf1c928782767008d86f9a2b6a2a21b.png) Hey team! With the Vega 2.0 launch last week, we have a bunch of new docs and videos for you, including guides to [Hello World](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/media-player-hello-world.html) and [OS compatibility](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/upgrade-os-version-compatibility.html), and videos on [What’s New in Vega 2.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z12ROcWov8) and [React Native 0.83 on Vega OS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHd71ioj5g). If you use Kiro, the AWS team has some guides and videos for that too, and they announced [bots in Kiro Crew](https://kiro.dev/blog/crew-bots). We also have a bunch of exec interviews with AWS CEO [Matt Garman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sCWxVyx8E), SVP of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios [Mike Hopkins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9CJnDr115s), Zoox CEO [Aicha Evans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8mpK7GzqM), Ring founder [Jamie Siminoff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDh7gMQFnMg), and SVP of Amazon Devices and Services [Panos Panay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTwwznghOw). The [Kiroween 2026](https://kiroween.devpost.com/) hackathon is open now and runs online through December 4, and [Catherine Cao created a video intro for it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO3M2TKCUb0). [Web Summit](https://websummit.com/) starts today in Lisbon, and the [AI Engineer Code Summit](https://www.ai.engineer/) is tomorrow in San Francisco. * * * # ![Dev Updates](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/6/6a0516ae3c0331c57f2b2930545712e0f1e66b25.png) - ⚛ [**Vega: media playback guides and OS compatibility**](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/media-controls-issues.html) — We added a [Media Controls troubleshooting page](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/media-controls-issues.html), a [Hello World video app guide](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/media-player-hello-world.html), a [multiview streams guide](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/multiview-apps.html), and [OS compatibility guidance](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/upgrade-os-version-compatibility.html) that recommends requiring OS 2.0. - 🔘 [**Ring Appstore API: doorbell button press capability**](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/ring/release-notes.html#updated-2026-11-09) — Ring API device discovery now reports whether a doorbell sends button press events, so check it per device and choose your experience up front. - 💬 [**AWS console: Amazon Q Developer is now the AWS assistant**](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/q-developer-renamed-aws-assistant/) — AWS renamed Amazon Q Developer in the console and mobile apps to the AWS assistant; it’s free for now, and Pro subscribers keep Pro Tier. * * * # ![Dev Announcements](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/6/63f1b9a0c2bc04db5bcaf529ae62e07abbc11ba9.png) ## [🤖 **Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore**](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/web-answer-amazon-bedrock/) - Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It builds on the Web Search tool AWS launched in June and turns a plain-language question into a cited answer from current web sources, so your agents get fresh information without a search, synthesis and citation pipeline of your own. ## [🧩 **Bots in Kiro Crew**](https://kiro.dev/blog/crew-bots) - Kiro Crew now has bots that keep parallel agent sessions, like refactors, flaky-test hunts and migrations, moving while you’re away in meetings. To keep a crew running on a cloud server, see [Command your Cloud-Hosted Agent Fleet with Kiro Crew](https://builder.aws.com/content/3LhjiMBKhQuUnt63Hl2HhJ21Zuv) in Dev Posts. ## [📺 **Netflix: AI Discover TV tab**](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/introducing-ai-discover) - Netflix added an AI Discover tab on TV that lets viewers browse by mood and theme, with AI explaining each pick: a discovery pattern worth studying for Fire TV and Vega apps. * * * # ![Dev Events](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/e/e9a5e1b9b20ff11b431601b2e10aaeb6f8c8e38c.png) This season we’re heading to [AWS re:Invent 2026](https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/) in Las Vegas, where my colleague [Kourtney](https://kourtneymeiss.dev/) is leading a workshop, “Turn a Bee wearable into your re:Invent notetaking companion,” and if you’re building from home, [Kiroween 2026](https://kiroween.devpost.com/) is worth a look. We hope to see you there! | Date | Event | Location | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Oct 30 – Dec 4 | [Kiroween 2026](https://kiroween.devpost.com/) | Online | Kiro’s annual Halloween-themed hackathon: build a new app with Kiro in one of four categories for a share of $100,000+ in prizes, with submissions due December 4. | | Nov 9–12 | [Web Summit](https://websummit.com/) | Lisbon, PT | One of Europe’s largest tech conferences, with broad coverage across AI, devices, startups, and platforms. | | Nov 10–12 | [AI Engineer Code Summit](https://www.ai.engineer/) | San Francisco, US | The code-focused summit in the AI Engineer conference series, on agent and LLM development. | | Nov 30 – Dec 4 | [AWS re:Invent 2026](https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/) | Las Vegas, US | AWS’s flagship annual conference, with 1,000+ technical sessions, keynotes, workshops, and the largest cloud-community gathering of the year. Dev Advocate [Kourtney Meiss](https://kourtneymeiss.dev/) is leading a workshop, “Turn a Bee wearable into your re:Invent notetaking companion.” | * * * # ![Dev Posts](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/2/2910ab946ac629c338252b1ab84831b3b4bc9531.png) [Vega 2.0: What’s New for Fire TV Developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z12ROcWov8) leads the videos this week, and [React Native 0.83 Is Now on Vega OS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHd71ioj5g) covers the framework upgrade that comes with it. For agent builders, [How Kiro Auto uses model cascading to match the model to the work](https://kiro.dev/blog/model-cascade) explains how Kiro picks a model for each task. You’ll also find pieces on streaming AI responses, Kiro credit pooling, and conversations with [Panos Panay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTwwznghOw) and [Zoox CEO Aicha Evans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8mpK7GzqM). ## [📽 **Vega 2.0: What’s New for Fire TV Developers**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z12ROcWov8) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/6/625b13a7428509fea4ddad8fe95eae4471880ab1.jpeg "Vega 2.0: What's New for Fire TV Developers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z12ROcWov8) Vega 2.0 is generally available and already on every Fire TV device powered by Vega. [Anisha Malde](https://www.anisha.dev/), Sr. Developer Advocate at Amazon, breaks down what the move to React Native 0.83 means for your app’s speed and your debugging workflow. She also demos how Amazon Devices Builder Tools lets your AI coding assistant upgrade an existing Vega app or bring a Fire OS app over to Vega. Breaking changes now ship only in major releases, once a year, so Vega app teams can plan upgrades around them. ## [📰 **Command your Cloud-Hosted Agent Fleet with Kiro Crew**](https://builder.aws.com/content/3LhjiMBKhQuUnt63Hl2HhJ21Zuv) _By [Lucas Swanson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasjswanson)_ [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/e/e7ddb4a6f2495aa7b1d89ad34fce83c75aa35ba5.jpeg)](https://builder.aws.com/content/3LhjiMBKhQuUnt63Hl2HhJ21Zuv) This [builder.aws.com](http://builder.aws.com) guide gives your Kiro Crew a remote outpost: a cloud server that keeps agents working on your tasks around the clock while you command it from your laptop like any other crew. It wraps the setup in a starship-fleet metaphor, but underneath is a practical, security-first build with no open ports and no SSH keys to leak, plus real numbers on what keeping a crew on standby costs. It pairs with this week’s [bots in Kiro Crew](https://kiro.dev/blog/crew-bots) announcement, for agents that shouldn’t stall the moment you close the lid. ## [📽 **React Native 0.83 Is Now on Vega OS**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHd71ioj5g) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/3/394f3f0d7aa80deeaeab9b1fad5f11ae86aa5a1d.jpeg "React Native 0.83 Is Now on Vega OS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHd71ioj5g) Vega OS apps built on React Native 0.72 can now move to 0.83. In this talk from NextApp DevCon in Berlin, [Steven Moyes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stmoy/), Sr. Product Manager at Amazon, explains what the upgrade means for Fire TV apps, including better debugging, and how Amazon Devices Builder Tools lets your AI agent plan the migration for you. For written guidance to go with it, see [React Native 0.83 for Vega OS](https://developer.amazon.com/apps-and-games/blogs/2026/10/react-native-for-vega-os) on our blog. ## [📰 **How Kiro Auto uses model cascading to match the model to the work**](https://kiro.dev/blog/model-cascade) _By [Vijay Lingam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaylingam/), [Mayank Gupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayank-gupta19/), [Sudipto Nandi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudipto-nandi-2a32175/), [Neil Kulkarni](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkulkarni1/), [Jack Wang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanqiw), and [Sai Srinivas Somarouthu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saisrinivas789/)_ [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/7/7e97a0188065181053a144004655c752d8bd8532.png)](https://kiro.dev/blog/model-cascade) The Kiro team explains what actually happens when you leave a session on Auto: each session starts on one model, a background check reviews the work, and the session moves to a stronger model only when the task needs it. It’s a short, clear read on why Auto can stay close to top-model quality without running every task on the most expensive model. The internal evaluation results are the part to read when deciding whether to pin a model or trust Auto. ## [📽 **React Native at Scale: Real Decisions, Trade-Offs, and Hard Lessons | next app devCon 2026**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=facv5Rz-RlE) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/f/fc62b5cad37ff571ef1d6466e8c6f830cd746735.jpeg "React Native at Scale: Real Decisions... - Seth, Anisha, Kadi, Ghasem, Steven | next app devCon 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=facv5Rz-RlE) At next app devCon 2026 in Berlin, a panel of engineering leaders, [Seth Webster](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swebster/), [Nicola Corti](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cortinico/), [Kadi Kraman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kadi-kraman/), [Ghasem Bakhtiari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghasem-bakhtiari-/), [Michał Chudziak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalchudziak/), [Steven Moyes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stmoy/) and [Anisha Malde](https://www.anisha.dev/), compares how React Native first came into their companies. Some rewrote their apps from scratch, some added it to existing apps, and some migrated over from other cross-platform frameworks. The panel digs into the production trade-offs at millions of users and what each team would do differently today. Their answers double as a candid reference for anyone weighing React Native for Vega on Fire TV. ## [📰 **Share Kiro credits across your team with credit pooling**](https://kiro.dev/blog/credit-pooling) _By [Shweta V A](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwetavinodkumar/), [Ranjith Ramakrishnan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjithramakrishnan/), and [Krishna Parab](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnabparab/)_ [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/2/27c7be2c80e5d3115975b9e73f972450ef72f6e1.png)](https://kiro.dev/blog/credit-pooling) The Kiro team explains how credit pooling changes the way teams pay for agentic engineering work. Instead of each seat holding its own allowance, the whole team draws from one shared balance, and admins get controls over who uses what. Team leads get a clear picture of how spend stays predictable when a few heavy users and many light users share one budget. ## [📽 **Your Agent Doesn’t Need to Be Always On**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGbCNx4siEk) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/9/9a32bc40ff33c01978411b28ceac2bbfa135a5b1.jpeg "Your Agent Doesn't Need to Be Always On") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGbCNx4siEk) Most AI agents spend their lives waiting on a slow tool, a human reply, or an alert that might not arrive for weeks, and they keep a machine running the whole time. [Clare Liguori](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clareliguori/), Senior Principal Engineer at AWS working on Kiro and a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, makes the case for reactive agents that sleep as plain data and wake only when there’s work to do. She draws on Infinity, one of AWS’s experimental projects, then lays out what MCP already supports for this pattern and where the working group still wants feedback. It’s a short, practical way to stop paying for idle time. ## [📰 **How streaming works in AI agents explained with Python**](https://builder.aws.com/content/3L6Yy7qZJ2PTKTAdPv7psgVzXq2) _By [Ramses Mata](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramses-mata/)_ [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/d/dc3e98fe0178dd2c43f504b9a5e36ec755a87158.jpeg "How Streaming AI Responses Work") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSt-iafXTQ) On the AWS Developers channel, [Ramses Mata](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramses-mata/) explains why AI apps show their answers word by word, and what is actually passing between the model and the client while that happens. The video walks through streaming to the console and then to a browser. It also covers when streaming is not worth it, since errors and guardrails get harder to handle once tokens are already on screen. A companion [builder.aws.com walkthrough of streaming in Python](https://builder.aws.com/content/3L6Yy7qZJ2PTKTAdPv7psgVzXq2) goes further into why model output arrives in pieces and how those pieces reach your app over the network, then ends with a working Strands Agents build that keeps an assistant in a Fire TV, Alexa, or Vega app feeling responsive instead of stalled. ## [📽 **Kiroween 2026: Build With Kiro**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO3M2TKCUb0) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/6/60979cb3b6f92cf154474873ea4b954f60de0a7e.jpeg "Kiroween 2026: Build With Kiro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO3M2TKCUb0) Kiroween 2026 is underway, and in this kickoff on the Kiro channel, [Catherine Cao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-ying-cao-26aa207a/) shows how Kiro’s AI agents take a project from planning through implementation, testing and debugging. The video has a chapter for each place you can work with Kiro, from the IDE to the command line, so you can skip straight to the one you use and spend your time building your Kiroween project. ## [📰 **Kiro proves properties of its own harness in Lean**](https://kiro.dev/blog/harness-properties-in-lean) _By [Yaroslav Kharkov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslav-kharkov/), [Ferhat Erata](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferhaterata/), [Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/behroozomidvar/), and [Rajdeep Mukherjee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukherjeerajdeep)_ [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/5/548bfd67682e5ad7c09271bee4deadf09dacfad8.png)](https://kiro.dev/blog/harness-properties-in-lean) The Kiro team pointed formal verification at its own agentic harness. Kiro models parts of its codebase in Lean, proves theorems about those models, and checks each model against the real TypeScript, Rust, and Python code. The useful part is what happened when a property failed in the model: the team could reproduce the same bug in the shipping code. It’s a working example of proofs catching hidden bugs in production code, well outside academic projects. ## [📰 **Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture**](https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architecture/) _By [Karthik Raman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-raman-247b36104/) and [Brian Celenza](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcelenza/)_ [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/009cfb09153759ffa797f1e4fa731871da6c1ba8.jpeg)](https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architecture/) GitHub’s engineering team explains how it rebuilt Git storage so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at the same time. Git was built for people taking turns, and agentic coding breaks that assumption. Teams running coding agents in parallel will see what happens on the server when they all push at once, and which design choices let it hold up. ## [📽 **AI to Drive 40% Growth for AWS: CEO Garman**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sCWxVyx8E) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/4/41f06324e9fb1da74bd418a517d478ca421d8ab2.jpeg "AI to Drive 40% Growth for AWS: CEO Garman") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sCWxVyx8E) AWS CEO [Matt Garman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgarman/) joins [Ed Ludlow](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-ludlow-5a7b4280/) on Bloomberg Tech to lay out how AWS is funding its AI infrastructure buildout responsibly while customer demand keeps climbing. It’s a quick, high-level read on AWS’s growth outlook, and a useful one if your apps run on AWS AI services and you want to know where the investment behind them is heading. ## [📽 **Navigating Scale and Strategy at Amazon Prime Video | WSJ**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9CJnDr115s) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/b/ba18168577fb2a273c9ca58dffaa558b41cdc2f4.jpeg "Navigating Scale and Strategy at Amazon Prime Video | WSJ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9CJnDr115s) [Mike Hopkins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hopkins-543a214/), head of Amazon MGM Studios, joins WSJ’s [Jessica Toonkel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-toonkel-68a8a5/) to unpack the strategy behind Prime Video’s ad-supported tier, the MGM acquisition, and Prime Video’s push into live sports. He also touches on how generative AI tools are finding their way into Amazon MGM Studios’ production work. For streaming and ad-supported Fire TV apps, it’s context on where the biggest content bets on the platform are headed. ## [📽 **Zoox CEO on the Future of Autonomous Ride-Hailing | WSJ**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8mpK7GzqM) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/3/3d09738d6e8229a8ecad38fc8a8c026bd27b8228.jpeg "Zoox CEO on the Future of Autonomous Ride-Hailing | WSJ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8mpK7GzqM) Zoox CEO [Aicha Evans](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aicha-evans-4365731) sits down with WSJ’s [Tim Higgins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timkhiggins/) to explain why Zoox builds the whole stack itself, from a purpose-built vehicle with no driver’s seat to the ride-hailing service that runs it. It’s a short look at how she thinks about scaling robotaxis and where she wants the service to go next. ## [📽 **Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff: What Founders Should Know Before Raising Money | E196**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDh7gMQFnMg) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/7/7593d18a24f280db8f37bcee60aecdc99fcdba8e.jpeg "Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff: What Founders Should Know Before Raising Money | E196") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDh7gMQFnMg) Akamai co-founder [Randall Kaplan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/randallkaplan/) sits down with Ring founder [Jamie Siminoff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiesiminoff/) on In Search of Excellence to trace the long road before Ring, from his first campus businesses to a run of investor rejections that nearly ended an earlier company. In part one, Jamie digs into the questions every early-stage builder faces: whether you need a co-founder, how to earn a meeting with investors, and why raising too much can hurt you. His account of being straight with creditors while the business struggled is worth the watch on its own. ## [📽 **Erin Lawrence interviews Amazon Devices VP Panos Panay: New products, what they’re working on, what he’s proud of**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTwwznghOw) [![](https://d3mq594dkmpl37.cloudfront.net/original/2X/8/8c37a6d7fc2c3f85873ca0f8e8dfb7aeb62c3901.jpeg "I interview Amazon Devices VP Panos Panay: New products, what they're working on, what he's proud of") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTwwznghOw) [Erin Lawrence](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-lawrence-13ba7629/) of Tech Gadgets Canada sits down with [Panos Panay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/panos-panay-22b60ba9/), who leads Amazon’s Devices & Services organization, to talk about the latest hardware, the work he’s proudest of and where the team is heading next. It’s a look at the thinking behind the devices Fire TV, Alexa and tablet apps run on. * * * # 📬 Feedback Questions or comments? Have an item for next week’s post? [Let me know!](https://community.amazondeveloper.com/new-message?username=Moses)