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Products and models

• Amazon Bedrock Product · 2
• Strands Box Product

Facts we checked

Each fact was checked against the page it links to.

• AWS says it is launching Strands Box in developer preview, an open source sandbox licensed under Apache 2.0 that combines operating-system isolation with fine-grained policies for governing agent actions. Quote: "in developer preview, an open source sandbox licensed under Apache 2.0 that combines operating-system isolation with fine-grained policies for governing agent actions"

  Introducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by Dogwood · Amazon Web Services · archived copy · checked 8 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• The AWS Open Source Blog post introducing Strands Box was published on 7 October 2026 (page metadata datePublished 2026-10-07). Quote: "Introducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by Dogwood"

  Introducing Strands Box: AI agent sandboxes powered by Dogwood · Amazon Web Services · archived copy · checked 8 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• AWS's What's New entry, dated 5 October 2026, is titled "GLM 5.3 by Z.ai is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock".

  GLM 5.3 by Z.ai is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock · Amazon Web Services · checked 6 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• The AWS blog post says "Customer data is not stored in a destination Region when using cross-Region inference." and "by default, Amazon Bedrock does not store model inputs or outputs."

  Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to in-country inferencing in India · Amazon Web Services · archived copy · checked 5 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• AWS's What's New post of September 29, 2026 announces "the availability of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock in India".

  Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to India, South Korea, and Singapore · Amazon Web Services · archived copy · checked 5 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• The post says: "Direct data center water consumption is about 0.5% of total U.S. direct industrial water use". This is Amazon's own statement.

  Amazon is approach to data centers: community-focused, sustainable and efficient · Amazon · archived copy · checked 4 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• The post says of Built Together: "With Built Together, Amazon will add more than $1 billion over the next five years to what we're already doing".

  Amazon is approach to data centers: community-focused, sustainable and efficient · Amazon · archived copy · checked 4 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• Amazon's news page carries the post "Amazon's approach to data centers: community-focused, sustainable and efficient", written by Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, with page metadata dated 2026-10-02.

  Amazon is approach to data centers: community-focused, sustainable and efficient · Amazon · archived copy · checked 4 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

All 5 stories

• 8 Oct Agents and appsAWS launches open source Strands Box sandbox with action-level policy for agents
• 6 Oct Models and releasesAWS lists Z.ai's GLM 5.3 as generally available on Bedrock
• 5 Oct Models and releasesAWS lists Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 on Bedrock in India, served from Mumbai and Hyderabad.
• 4 Oct Money and computeAmazon says it dropped nondisclosure agreements with agencies on data centres and will add over $1 billion in five years.
• 4 Oct Money and computeHow spend caps work on AWS and Google Cloud

Cases

Ongoing case: Anthropic's Claude modelsOngoing case: Million-token context windowsOngoing case: Sandboxes for coding agents

Its own pages

Pages the company published that our stories cite.

• Amazon is approach to data centers: community-focused, sustainable and efficient · www.aboutamazon.com