{"version":1,"type":"story","url":"https://digestai.news/story/aws-adds-openai-astra-sol-luna-and-claude-5-5-to-bedrock","json":"https://digestai.news/story/aws-adds-openai-astra-sol-luna-and-claude-5-5-to-bedrock.json","markdown":"https://digestai.news/story/aws-adds-openai-astra-sol-luna-and-claude-5-5-to-bedrock.md","slug":"aws-adds-openai-astra-sol-luna-and-claude-5-5-to-bedrock","headline":"AWS adds OpenAI Astra, Sol, Luna and Claude 5.5 to Bedrock","summary":"AWS published a recap of September 2026 updates for Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands, focusing on expanded model choice and agent infrastructure. These additions aim to help enterprises balance cost, latency, and performance for specific workloads, from high-volume tasks to complex reasoning.\n\nThe update also introduces Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, available in public preview. This feature allows developers to build production-ready agents while keeping data within AWS and using existing IAM permissions. Additionally, the AgentCore runtime has been optimized for lower cold start latency and pay-as-you-go pricing, while Strands Harness claims to use 28 percent fewer tokens than popular alternatives.\n\nEnterprise connectivity has improved with new native connectors for ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Zendesk in the Managed Knowledge Base. AWS also highlighted Strands Decider 2B, a small open-source model for local decision-making, and noted the availability of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and xAI’s Grok 4.6 and 4.7 models on the platform.","keyPoints":["OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock.","Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI is available in public preview.","Strands Harness is a new open source tool that uses 28 percent fewer tokens."],"whyItMatters":"This expansion gives enterprise developers more options to match specific AI models to their workload needs, potentially reducing costs and improving performance for complex agent-based applications within the AWS ecosystem.","category":{"slug":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise & Industry","url":"https://digestai.news/category/enterprise"},"entities":{"companies":["AWS","OpenAI","Moonshot AI","xAI"],"models":["GPT-6 Astra","GPT-6.1 Sol","GPT 6.1 Luna","Claude Opus 5.5","Claude Sonnet 5.5","Kimi K3"],"people":[]},"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T15:38:39Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T15:38:39Z","sourceCount":1,"hasPrimarySource":true,"sources":[{"outlet":"AWS Machine Learning Blog","title":"ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026","url":"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/icymi-what-landed-for-ai-builders-in-september-2026","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T15:38:39Z","type":"primary","primary":true,"lead":true}],"sourceNotes":null,"discussions":[],"thread":{"title":"Amazon Bedrock Becomes Enterprise AI Operating System","url":"https://digestai.news/thread/amazon-expands-seller-assistant-from-chatbot-to-operating-system-for-merchants","storyCount":10},"cite":{"text":"Digest AI, \"AWS adds OpenAI Astra, Sol, Luna and Claude 5.5 to Bedrock\", 9 October 2026, https://digestai.news/story/aws-adds-openai-astra-sol-luna-and-claude-5-5-to-bedrock","publisher":"Digest AI","title":"AWS adds OpenAI Astra, Sol, Luna and Claude 5.5 to Bedrock","datePublished":"2026-10-09T15:38:39Z","url":"https://digestai.news/story/aws-adds-openai-astra-sol-luna-and-claude-5-5-to-bedrock"},"generatedBy":"Written by Digest AI's editorial model from the linked sources; the sources are the record.","license":"Headlines, digests and key points are written by Digest AI and may be quoted with a link to the story page. Linked articles belong to their publishers. Terms: https://digestai.news/terms#reuse"}