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AWS releases a tutorial on distilling a shopping agent with SeqKD on SageMaker AI

On November 3, 2026, the official AWS Machine Learning blog published a tutorial on how to build an efficient shopping agent on Amazon SageMaker AI using sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD). The tutorial uses GLM-5.3 on Amazon Bedrock as the teacher model to generate trajectories, uses the ShoppingBench scorer to retain only trajectories that solve the task, and then performs serverless SFT on the Qwen3.5-4B student model. On 324 held-out test questions, the average absolute success rate of the distilled 4B student rose from 0.297 to 0.541, essentially on par with the teacher model and mid-sized frontier models; when the teacher's reasoning process was removed and only tool calls were learned, the average success rate dropped to 0.415. The tutorial is now publicly available alongside the official blog post.

AWS publishes tutorial on distilling a shopping Agent with SeqKD on SageMaker AI

On November 3, 2026, the official AWS Machine Learning blog published a tutorial on how to build an efficient shopping agent on Amazon SageMaker AI using sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD). The tutorial uses GLM-5.3 on Amazon Bedrock as the teacher model to generate trajectories, uses the ShoppingBench scorer to retain only trajectories that solve the task, and then performs serverless SFT on the Qwen3.5-4B student model. On 324 held-out test questions, the average absolute success rate of the distilled 4B student rose from 0.297 to 0.541, essentially on par with the teacher model and mid-sized frontier models; when the teacher's reasoning process was removed and only tool calls were learned, the average success rate dropped to 0.415. The tutorial is now publicly available alongside the official blog post.

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HCLTech and AWS launch nano GCC service model

HCLTech launches an AWS-based nano GCC (Global Capability Center) service model for enterprises looking to establish AI operations with small, product-oriented teams; the offering is part of its GCC 360 suite. AWS provides cloud infrastructure, agentic AI services and offerings such as Amazon Bedrock, Kiro and AWS Transform, while HCLTech handles operating model design and implementation, initially rolling out in the Asia-Pacific region. The model targets enterprises that already have GCCs as well as mid-sized companies hoping to enter the Indian market; pricing and customer deployment details were not disclosed.

Andy Jassy reiterates that AWS can become a trillion-dollar revenue business

On October 30, 2026, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reiterated on the quarterly earnings call that AWS is expected to become a trillion-dollar annual revenue business within the next 5 to 10 years, and he expects growth rates to exceed 40% in both 2027 and 2028. He also said that cash capital expenditures in 2026 will be about $220 billion, most of it directed to AWS, and will increase significantly further in 2027. On the same day, Amazon reported its third-quarter 2026 financial results: net sales rose 12% year over year to $201.94 billion, slightly below expectations; AWS net sales rose 39.3% year over year to $45.98 billion, the highest single-quarter growth rate in nearly five years. Purchases of property and equipment in the quarter reached $77.26 billion, and free cash flow over the past 12 months swung from an inflow of $14.79 billion in the same period a year earlier to an outflow of $42.36 billion; the company maintained its full-year 2026 cash capital expenditure guidance of about $220 billion unchanged. After the results were released, the stock fell by as much as more than 10% in after-hours trading.

Jassy reiterates that AWS can become a trillion-dollar revenue business

On October 30, 2026, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reiterated on the quarterly earnings call that AWS is expected to become a trillion-dollar annual revenue business within the next 5 to 10 years, and he expects growth rates to exceed 40% in both 2027 and 2028. He also said that cash capital expenditures in 2026 will be about $220 billion, most of it directed to AWS, and will increase significantly further in 2027. On the same day, Amazon reported its third-quarter 2026 financial results: net sales rose 12% year over year to $201.94 billion, slightly below expectations; AWS net sales rose 39.3% year over year to $45.98 billion, the highest single-quarter growth rate in nearly five years. Purchases of property and equipment in the quarter reached $77.26 billion, and free cash flow over the past 12 months swung from an inflow of $14.79 billion in the same period a year earlier to an outflow of $42.36 billion; the company maintained its full-year 2026 cash capital expenditure guidance of about $220 billion unchanged. After the results were released, the stock fell by as much as more than 10% in after-hours trading.

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HCLTech and AWS launch nano GCC service model

HCLTech launches an AWS-based nano GCC (Global Capability Center) service model for enterprises looking to establish AI operations with small, product-oriented teams; the offering is part of its GCC 360 suite. AWS provides cloud infrastructure, agentic AI services and offerings such as Amazon Bedrock, Kiro and AWS Transform, while HCLTech handles operating model design and implementation, initially rolling out in the Asia-Pacific region. The model targets enterprises that already have GCCs as well as mid-sized companies hoping to enter the Indian market; pricing and customer deployment details were not disclosed.

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