Bedrock Agents Classic closes to new AWS accounts, freezes its models
Maintenance mode blocks new agent creation and pins the model catalog to AgentCore. Also: Oracle adds Gemini to NetSuite; Pangram 4 sharpens AI detection.
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New accounts get locked out
Amazon Bedrock Agents — the config-based agent builder from November 2023 — entered maintenance mode on July 30 and is now "Bedrock Agents Classic." Accounts that haven't called CreateAgent or InvokeInlineAgent in the past 12 months now hit a 403 AccessDeniedException; prior users are allowlisted and unaffected.
The real sting: a frozen model catalog
Classic's model list is pinned as of July 30 — every model AWS ships after that date is AgentCore-only. Existing agents, Knowledge Bases, and Guardrails keep running with no end-of-life date, but new capabilities route around Classic entirely, so anything you build there starts aging immediately.
Where AWS points you: AgentCore
The migration target is Bedrock AgentCore. Its Managed Harness is the closest analog — declare a model, tools, and instructions and AWS handles compute, memory, identity, and observability — while code-defined agents support Strands, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, and the Claude Agent SDK.
Elsewhere: Oracle wires Gemini into Fusion and NetSuite
Oracle is making Google's Gemini models selectable in its AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications and NetSuite (announced July 30), with Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.1 Flash Lite among the options. If you build on Oracle's stack, Gemini is now a first-class model choice.
Also shipping: Pangram 4 sharpens AI detection
Pangram Labs released Pangram 4 on July 29 with token-level attribution that highlights exactly which spans of a document read as AI-written, plus a new image detector it claims reaches 99.5% accuracy. Handy if you're wiring moderation, plagiarism, or content-provenance checks into a product.