AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing and services platform that provides compute, storage, and AI tools for developers and companies. Recent coverage includes a partnership with Columbia to apply AI to disease research; an August 2026 roundup of AI builder product and tooling updates; and a collaboration with Qualcomm on custom AI inference chips, with Qualcomm using AWS Bedrock to assist chip design.
AWS improves HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skillsAWS published guidance on improving AI reasoning in the health and life sciences (HCLS) domain using open-source agent skills, showing practical methods and frameworks to enhance AI tools for vertical applications.
Fault-tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS with NVRxAn AWS blog explains how to achieve fault-tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx, sharing engineering practices and deployment examples to improve training reliability for large-scale jobs.
Amazon Bedrock prompt caching for cost and latencyAWS describes Amazon Bedrock prompt caching to optimize cost and latency, helping developers reduce invocation costs and improve performance when using foundation models.
HighByte achieves AWS AI CompetencyIndustrial software vendor HighByte obtained the AWS Artificial Intelligence Competency, indicating its products and implementations meet AWS AI capability requirements and may strengthen cloud‑based industrial AI deployments.
Columbia partners with AWS on AI for disease researchColumbia University and AWS are partnering to apply AI to disease research, according to the report; the article does not provide further details on scope or terms.
AWS: August 2026 AI builder highlightsAmazon AWS published an August roundup of updates for AI builders, outlining product and tooling rollouts to help build and deploy AI workloads; the changes affect developers and companies using the AWS ecosystem.
Qualcomm and AWS collaborate on AI chips and design toolsQualcomm is building custom AI inference chips for multiple AWS product generations; AWS will use Qualcomm for inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to help design those chips.
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