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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to two new regions

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports two additional AWS regions, enabling users to deploy agents closer to their end users with reduced latency.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in two new AWS regions: US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). This platform allows engineers to build, connect, and optimize agents quickly, using any framework and model, while ensuring security at the infrastructure level. With this expansion, customers can run agents closer to their users, reducing latency. Features such as agent runtime, identity and access control, policy management, session persistence, tool connectivity, evaluations, and observability are available in these regions at launch.

Why it matters

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform for building, connecting, and optimizing agents; this update enables users to run agents with lower latency.

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