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Managed Knowledge Base Web Crawler, GA with the service on 17 Jun 2026, follows up to 300 URLs per minute from 10 seeds or 3 sitemaps. A 10,000-URL help center is at least 34 minutes at that cap, and the crawler still has no per-page ACL.
On 18 Sep 2026 SNS raised the payload ceiling to 1 MiB, four times 256 KiB, but only after you set MaximumMessageSize. A full 1 MiB Standard publish is 16 requests. At 50 cents per million requests, one million of those publishes cost 8 dollars before the free tier.
On September 22, 2026 AWS shipped Claude Opus 5.5 with a 1M-token context, thinking always on, and ZDR by default on Bedrock. Anthropic lists $4/$20 per million tokens. This post covers the routing call and what breaks from Opus 5.
On September 22, 2026 AWS made GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna generally available on Bedrock. OpenAI’s internal eval found Sol makes about half as many factual mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol. GPT-6.1 Sol followed on September 29, Ultrafast on October 8, and GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26 at half the price of 6.1 Sol. This post covers the lane routing.
Assemble the hold reason, aging, and promise-to-pay. Finance releases the order. The agent does not. The account-manager list still caps at 5 priorities. A hold is one of those 5, not a button.
Tell the shopper whether the order is in the return window and offer an exchange first. Do not buy the label and do not call createRefund. Where-is-my-order is about 18% of tickets; this is the next slice, not a second cashier.
DuckLake spec 1 shipped on 13 April 2026 and keeps lake metadata in a SQL database. DuckDB's architecture note puts Iceberg planning at about 100 ms per sequential S3 GET, roughly half a second before a query starts. On AWS, stay on S3 Tables when Athena, Glue, or Redshift must read the table.
Count sessions, handoffs, writes denied, and one wrong answer. At 50,000 sessions the published AgentCore silhouette is about $791 a month, which is a bill to plan, not money saved. We are not publishing a containment rate.
Run ten real lookups and three must-escalate cases before anyone outside the team sees the agent. Under 16 out of 30 on readiness, do not add a write. We are not publishing a pass rate from a client store.
Quote the customer's contract price, or say you cannot. A $5,000 auto-issue figure in the field guide is a placeholder, not your cap. A person still sends the quote. The public catalog is not the contract.
Ask for a risk brief, not a purchase order. A sample SKU at 5 days of cover is a fixture, not a client result. A buyer still sends the PO. Auto-send is an unattended purchaser.
Checked 11 Oct 2026: Jev 1.13.0 is still $0.042/MTok, now published at 80 requests/s and 100,000 tokens/s. On AWS it remains an external System-1 sidecar next to Amazon Bedrock, not a Bedrock model.
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