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AWS has placed roughly 20 AI services into maintenance mode, including Bedrock Agents, Amazon Kendra, and Q Business. Some were launched less than two years ago. Existing customers keep running workloads with security patches only, but new signups close July 30. The successor map points to Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon Quick Suite.
AWS is putting $1 billion in cloud credits on the table for U.S. intelligence agencies to migrate off legacy on-premises systems, while simultaneously opening classified cloud infrastructure to defense contractors for the first time through AWS Secret Cloud for Industry.
AWS is spending $1 billion to put thousands of its own AI engineers inside customer organizations to build agentic systems in days, not months. The NFL, Southwest Airlines, Cox Automotive, and the Allen Institute are already working with FDE teams.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes a managed payments layer that lets autonomous agents pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents in real time using stablecoin micropayments. Coinbase provides x402 wallet infrastructure, Stripe handles fiat on-ramps via Privy, and AWS enforces spending controls at the infrastructure layer. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing agent-driven commerce for premium content.