InfoQ - AWS

AWS Releases Loom, an Open-Source Reference Platform for Governing AI Agents at Enterprise Scale

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:04:00 GMT

AWS released Loom, an open-source reference platform on AWS Labs for governing AI agents at scale. Built on Strands Agents and Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, it implements RFC 8693 token exchange for identity propagation through delegated actor chains, config-driven deployments without runtime code generation, and mandatory tagging. AWS positions it as an example, not a managed service.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS Introduces CloudFormation Express Mode for Faster Infrastructure Deployments

Renato Losio — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:59:00 GMT

AWS has recently introduced CloudFormation express mode, a deployment option that can reduce infrastructure deployment times by marking stack operations complete once resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for full resource stabilization.

By Renato Losio

AWS Continuum to Enable Agentic Code Security for Enterprises

Gianmarco Nalin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced AWS Continuum, a new integrated security platform to automate the discovery, enforcement, and remediation of security issues across codebases, dependencies, and applications. AWS Continuum launches with four agentic capabilities, aiming at the entire vulnerability lifecycle: penetration testing, code review, threat modelling, and code vulnerabilities.

By Gianmarco Nalin

AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:04:00 GMT

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and routes inference to Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Removing a Hidden Round Trip from a Multi-Region AWS API

Suresh Gururajan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT

When a series of regional outages forced a rethink of a multi-region AWS API, the team discovered that an obstacle to global failover was hiding in plain sight: a pre-flight discovery call baked into every client session years earlier as the only available option. This article describes what it took to remove it, and what the rollout actually cost.

By Suresh Gururajan