Cross-border intelligence

Policies are changing, AI is changing—Amazon put the answers in these three days in Xiamen

Where should cross-border go next year? Amazon debuts its 2027 strategy in Xiamen

2026 Amazon UK Prime Big Deal Days: Third-party seller growth reaches twice that of Amazon's own retail

How IskayPet unified corporate knowledge with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases

Learn how IskayPet, a leading pet care company in Iberia, built a multilingual corporate knowledge assistant on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases. The assistant answers employee questions across retail, veterinary, onboarding, and proc

Announcing new ways to customize models with SageMaker AI, without managing GPUs

Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now includes training sessions, generally available today. You write and coordinate your own post-training loop (custom loss functions, reward signals, or multi-turn reinforcement learning)

Write your own training loop — without managing GPUs — with Amazon SageMaker training session APIs

Amazon SageMaker AI training session APIs let you write your own LLM training loop (SFT, RL, or custom objectives) in a Python script while the service runs the GPUs. This post introduces the programming model and three SDK clients, then wa

Deploy AI in a HIPAA-eligible environment with Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick is a HIPAA-eligible service, but eligibility is not the same as compliance. This post explains who HIPAA applies to, how PHI flows through Amazon Quick, what the platform provides for regulated environments, and a step-by-step

Stream low-latency speech from AI agents using Kokoro TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly. This post shows how to stream each sentence to a Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI as the agent

Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom container and derives a

How Rescale built an AI triage agent with Strands Agents and AI-DLC

Rescale used the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) framework on AWS, with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock, to build an intelligent test-triage agent in weeks. Learn how AI-DLC structures AI-assisted development and how Rescale is s

Walmart and Amazon Expand AI Agents’ Roles in Shopping and Work

It was a big week for agentic artificial intelligence at Walmart and Amazon as the two companies outlined plans to capitalize on the technology’s momentum among consumers and enterprises. Walmart announced tools that will let customers auth

German SMEs generate over 20 billion euros in sales on Amazon

German SMEs generated more than 20 billion euros in sales through Amazon last year. Of this amount, 5.9 billion euros came from cross-border sales, according to the company. France, Austria, Italy, the United States and Spain were the main

Prime Big Deal Days 2026: 3P grew twice as fast as 1P, and discounted less

3P (Amazon Seller) grew twice as fast as 1P (Amazon Vendor) over October’s Prime Big Deal Days on Amazon UK. Here, Venture Forge CEO Andy Banks uses data covering 1.6 million products to show it wasn’t down to a few big brands or deeper dis

October 22 E-commerce Morning Brief: Amazon plans to hire 300,000 employees for the holiday season; YTO Express third-quarter revenue 19.5 billion yuan, net profit up 39.1%

Securing Quick access from corporate networks with AWS PrivateLink

Learn how to connect on-premises data sources to Amazon Quick privately with AWS PrivateLink, keeping analytics traffic off the public internet. This walkthrough covers VPC endpoints for user and API access, VPC connections for data sources

AWS Executive Says 40% of European Startups Consider Leaving Region to Scale

An Amazon Web Services executive said Wednesday (Oct. 21) that nearly 4 in 10 European startups, and over half of the fastest-growing ones, have told the company that they would consider leaving the region to scale, Reuters reported Wednesd

Adaptive agentic intelligence framework using Strands Agents

The Adaptive Agentic Intelligence Framework (AAIF), built with Strands Agents, handles routine tasks locally with small language models and routes complex requests to cloud models through Amazon Bedrock. This post walks through building AAI

How U.S. Hunger connects leaders and data using Amazon Quick

U.S. Hunger, a nonprofit addressing food insecurity, uses Amazon Quick to connect organizational data with leadership decisions. Leaders explore applicant data directly, share KPI definitions and financial context in Quick Spaces, and inves

Amazon eyes 300K holiday hires

The e-commerce giant is increasing U.S. holiday staffing by 20% compared to the past three seasons.

Selling supplements on EU marketplaces from the UK: why your stock location matters more than your listing

UK supplement brands spend weeks on their EU listings. They translate titles, test images and research keywords for Amazon.de, bol or Allegro. Then the order leaves a warehouse in England, and the buyer waits for a parcel that must clear cu

AI’s Stranded Capital Problem: When Hardware Arrives Before the Power

Amazon is reportedly taking delivery of billions of dollars in advanced Nvidia computing equipment before some of its data centers have the electricity needed to operate it. In Australia, data center operator NextDC has sharply reduced its

Amazon DSP for Brands Under $20K a Month: A 2026 Starter Guide

Amazon DSP isn’t reserved for enterprise budgets anymore, but it isn’t free money for every seller with a live listing either. If your Sponsored Products campaigns are steady and your monthly ad spend clears somewhere around $7,000 to $10,0

Amazon to recruit over 300,000 US workers for holiday season

Amazon plans to recruit more than 300,000 seasonal, part-time, and full-time staff across its US core operations network for this holiday season. The post Amazon to recruit over 300,000 US workers for holiday season appeared first on Retail

Countdown to Black Friday and Cyber Monday: 4-step self-check for Amazon FBM (Fulfilled by Merchant)