9/14/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/15/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
NVIDIA’s Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba’s Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning agentic coding with long-context reasoning and lightweight text-to-video generation, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.\n These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities:
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 is optimized for agentic coding, multimodal reasoning, and long-context understanding as the NVIDIA-quantized variant of Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. This Mixture-of-Experts model contains 35B total parameters with only 3B activated per token (8 of 256 experts), supporting a 262K-token context window extendable to ~1M via YaRN scaling. Quantized to NVFP4 using NVIDIA’s ModelOpt framework, it preserves thinking across conversation turns, multi-token prediction, and tool calling for multi-step agent pipelines—all at a significantly reduced memory footprint.
Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers excels in text-to-video generation on consumer-grade hardware. Built on the diffusion transformer paradigm with a novel Video Variational Autoencoder (VAE), this 1.3B-parameter model generates high-quality, physics-consistent video clips from text prompts while requiring only 8.19 GB of VRAM. It can produce a 5-second 480p video on an RTX 4090 in approximately 4 minutes, making it one of the most accessible open-source video generation models available.
With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy any of these models with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases.
To get started with these models, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker console or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the models to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation.
Mistral AI’s Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models from the Ministral 3 family bring compact, vision-capable language models purpose-built for edge deployment and resource-constrained environments, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.\n These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities:
Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 is engineered for ultra-lightweight edge deployment with multimodal understanding. Comprising a 3.4B language model and a 0.4B vision encoder, it fits in just 8GB of VRAM in FP8 while supporting a 256K-token context window. It offers vision analysis, multilingual instruction following across dozens of languages (including English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic), strong system-prompt adherence, and native function calling with structured JSON output—all under the Apache 2.0 license.
Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 delivers frontier-class capabilities comparable to its larger Mistral Small 3.2 24B counterpart in a compact 8B form factor. Built with an 8.4B language model and a 0.4B vision encoder, it fits in 12GB of VRAM in FP8 and features an interleaved sliding-window attention pattern for faster, memory-efficient inference. It shares the same vision, multilingual, agentic, and function-calling capabilities as its 3B sibling while offering stronger reasoning and generation performance.
With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy any of these models with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases.
To get started with these models, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker console or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the models to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation.
Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Google DeepMind’s Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA’s Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring the flagship Gemma 4 31B dense architecture to enterprise workloads in both full-precision and optimized quantized variants, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.\n These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities:
Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant is built for multimodal reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows as the assistant-tuned variant of Google’s flagship 31B dense model. It handles text and image inputs (including video as frame sequences) and generates text output, with a 256K-token context window and support for over 140 languages. Ranked #3 among open models on the Arena AI text leaderboard—outcompeting models 20x its size—it features a hybrid attention mechanism interleaving local sliding-window and full global attention with native function calling for building autonomous agents.
Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 delivers the same Gemma 4 31B capabilities at a fraction of the memory footprint. Quantized with NVIDIA’s ModelOpt framework to 4-bit FP4 precision, it reduces memory usage to ~18.5 GB (68% smaller than the base model) and achieves approximately 2.5x faster inference while retaining 97–99% of the original model’s quality. Ideal for cost-efficient, high-throughput production deployments on NVIDIA RTX, DGX Spark, and data center GPUs.
With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy any of these models with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases.
To get started with these models, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker console or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the models to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation.
BM’s granite-speech-4.1-2b, Kakao’s kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and the OpenFold Consortium’s OpenFold3 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models bring specialized capabilities spanning multilingual speech recognition, bilingual agentic AI, and biomolecular structure prediction, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.\n These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities:
granite-speech-4.1-2b is purpose-built for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional speech translation (AST) across English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. This compact 2B-parameter speech-language model delivers a word error rate of 5.33% with a real-time factor of ~231, making it one of the most efficient ASR models in its class. Released under Apache 2.0, it integrates seamlessly into enterprise voice workflows for transcription, translation, and audio processing at scale.
kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct excels in bilingual Korean-English instruction following and agentic AI workflows. Developed by Kakao, it adopts a cutting-edge architecture featuring Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), activating only 3B of its 30B total parameters per forward pass for superior throughput. Post-trained with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, it supports up to 128K tokens via YaRN scaling and is designed to function as an AI collaborator that understands context and acts proactively.
OpenFold3 provides all-atom biomolecular complex structure prediction for proteins, DNA, RNA, and small-molecule ligands. Developed by the OpenFold Consortium and the AlQuraishi Lab at Columbia University, this diffusion-based model extends structure prediction beyond single proteins to model multi-chain complexes and heterogeneous biomolecular interactions. It supports computer-aided drug design and is applicable across academic and pharmaceutical research labs.
With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy any of these models with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases.
To get started with these models, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker console or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the models to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation.
AWS End User Messaging now supports Dynamic Flows in WhatsApp
AWS End User Messaging now supports dynamic WhatsApp flows so you can turn WhatsApp conversations into rich, interactive experiences that end-users complete directly in WhatsApp.\n Instead of pushing end-users to a website or a separate form to complete an interactive experience, you can instead guide them through an appointment booking, lead generation, sign-up, survey or a transaction directly in the chat. Customers can start building a flow using one of Meta’s stater templates with familiar building blocks like text inputs, date pickers, drop downs, and buttons, or customize the flow from scratch. With dynamic flows, each screen can call your own HTTPS endpoint in real time, so you can show live availability, and personalize each step in the flow for your end-users. You build and manage flows entirely in AWS End User Messaging Social, through the console or APIs. Define a flow with a JSON schema, then deliver it with a message template to reach customers where they are. WhatsApp flows are available in all regions where End User Messaging Social is available. To get started, see the User Guide.
AWS End User Messaging strengthens SMS deliverability with automatic failover
AWS End User Messaging is advancing its deliverability capabilities in phone pools. Now, customers sending through phone pools automatically benefit from automatic failover to the next best performing number in the pool when SMS delivery is impacted from downstream disruptions.\n SMS deliverability can be affected by drops or delays when trying to reach the end recipient while it’s being routed from AWS to messaging providers and eventually mobile carriers. These disruptions can hit the most important parts of your messaging program, including delivery notifications, one-time passcodes, reminders, and other time-sensitive messages. AWS End User Messaging watches for delivery delays, message failures, or drops in conversion and reroutes traffic to a more optimized delivery path. Customers do not need to take any action to receive this benefit for phone pools. If you are not sending through phone pools today, you can create one by following these instructions. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where AWS End User Messaging is available. To learn more, see the AWS End User Messaging SMS User Guide.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- 3 challenges that stand in the way of automated reasoning
- 1st AWS Life Sciences Symposium Europe: Executive Insights
- First automatic inference
- Where AI is in security: Measuring the most important metrics for building trust
- Weekly Generative AI with AWS — Week of 2026/9/7
- AWS Weekly — Week 7 September 2026/2016
AWS News Blog
AWS Open Source Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Resolve Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL lock contention with Database Insights: Part 2
- Troubleshooting row lock contention in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL: Part 1 – Understanding row lock contention in PostgreSQL
Artificial Intelligence
- Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale
- Manage end-user OAuth consent for AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- How Ninth Wave built AI-powered open finance onboarding on Amazon Bedrock
- The generative AI customization spectrum: From prompt engineering to custom models on AWS
- Automate replenishment with MMF, Databricks Genie, and Amazon Quick