AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as Agent Tools, and More (November 2, 2026)
AWS, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
AWS's weekly roundup covers GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock, Step Functions workflows as agent tools and ML-KEM support in AWS KMS.
AWS's November 2 weekly roundup highlights OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra becoming generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with token prices at least 50% lower than GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-5.6 Terra and up to 1 million input tokens.
OpenAI reports it scored 15 points above GPT-5.6 Terra on its Agents' Last Exam evaluation.
AWS Step Functions workflows can now be exposed as AI agent tools through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway over MCP, with the agent choosing when to run a workflow and Step Functions executing each step as defined.
Other launches include post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation in AWS Key Management Service.