--- title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents... description: A weekly AWS roundup covers the public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, new frontier models added to Bedrock (GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-bedrock-managed-agents-powered-by-openai-q3-service-availability-updates-m62uv6rf2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026) | daily.dev og:description: A weekly AWS roundup covers the public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, new frontier models added to Bedrock (GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-bedrock-managed-agents-powered-by-openai-q3-service-availability-updates-m62uv6rf2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m62uv6rf2.png og:image:alt: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026) **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly AWS roundup covers the public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, new frontier models added to Bedrock (GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra UltraFast, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Grok 4.7), AWS Well-Architected Agent preview, Aurora PostgreSQL querying Iceberg/Parquet data, S3 Tables supporting all Iceberg V3 data types, Kiro workflows, Strands Decider, and quarterly AWS service lifecycle updates including several services moving to maintenance, sunset, or end of support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When does Amazon Managed Blockchain reach end of support? Amazon Managed Blockchain enters sunset status with end of support on September 29, 2027. Amazon DevOps Guru and AWS Backint Agent for SAP ASE also reach end of support on similar dates in late September 2027, while AWS Infrastructure Composer's standalone console ends support on December 7, 2026. These lifecycle changes were updated on September 29, 2026. _Track AWS service deprecations like this one on daily.dev to plan migrations before support ends._ ### What is Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI? It is a public preview service letting developers build AI agents optimized for OpenAI models that run entirely inside AWS, using a customized version of OpenAI's Agents API engineered to be AWS-native. It integrates with existing AWS identities, permissions, and governance controls, and supports either self-hosted compute or Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime for managed sessions. _Developers evaluating agent runtimes on AWS can follow Bedrock updates like this on daily.dev._ ### How much faster is GPT-6 Astra UltraFast mode compared to standard GPT-6 Astra? GPT-6 Astra UltraFast mode delivers up to 6x faster inference in the API, reaching up to 300 tokens per second, according to OpenAI. It is a premium speed tier built for workloads where speed matters most, available through Amazon Bedrock's inference engine for production use. _Teams comparing model speed tiers for production agents can follow releases like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more \(August 10, 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-aws-heroes-summit-web-search-on-amazon-bedrock-dogwood-kiro-crew-and-more-a-lr841anva) · AWS · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more \(February 23, 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-sonnet-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-kiro-in-govcloud-regions-new-agent-plugins-fhk9aw2i2) · AWS · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more \(September 14, 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-openai-gpt-6-astra-on-amazon-bedrock-amazon-quick-desktop-ga-kiro-for-students-cylnmw1vl) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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