AWS AI Updates: March 28, 2026

1. Step Functions Adds 28 Service Integrations Including Bedrock AgentCore

AWS expanded Step Functions with 28 additional services and over 1,100 new API actions, headlined by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore integration. Developers can now invoke AI agent runtimes with automatic retry handling, execute multiple agents simultaneously using Map states, and orchestrate agent infrastructure provisioning workflows directly from Step Functions. The update also adds Amazon S3 Vectors integration for automating document ingestion pipelines that populate knowledge bases for AI applications. Source

2. Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer Now Available on Amazon Bedrock

Writer’s Palmyra Vision 7B, a lightweight multimodal model trained on PixMo’s 1 million high-quality image-text pairs, is now available through Amazon Bedrock. The model handles document analysis, handwritten text extraction, chart interpretation, and image-based question answering without customers managing their own inference infrastructure. Practical applications include accessibility features, processing document submissions like forms and clinical notes, and building multimodal assistants. Source

3. SageMaker Studio Adds Kiro and Cursor IDE Support

Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports remote connections from Kiro and Cursor IDEs, allowing data scientists and ML engineers to use their preferred local development environment while accessing SageMaker’s scalable cloud compute. Users authenticate through the AWS Toolkit extension or SageMaker Studio’s web interface and connect in a few clicks, maintaining custom configurations while leveraging spec-driven development, conversational coding, and automated feature generation capabilities. Source