#721: AWS News: Amazon Nova Premier takes on complex tasks and model distillation, and more

In this episode of the AWS Podcast, you'll hear how Cohere Health®, uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to optimize the accuracy and efficiency of health plan medical necessity reviews. Cohere Review Resolve™ analyzes both structured and unstructured data–such as clinical records, patient notes, and faxes, quickly identifying and surfacing evidence to validate the medical necessity of a requested treatment.

In this episode, Simon speaks with Joe Magerramov (VP & Distinguished Engineer) to explore the transformative impact of AI-assisted coding on software development workflows. Joe shares his team's real-world experience achieving a 10x increase in code throughput using agentic development, but warns that simply bolting AI agents onto existing practices is like "adding a turbocharger to a car with narrow tires and old brakes." We dive deep into the critical infrastructure changes needed to sustain high-velocity development, including the mathematics of bug probability at scale, innovative testing approaches inspired by aviation industry practices, and the evolution of CI/CD pipelines that can handle dozens of commits per hour rather than per day. The conversation reveals why the biggest opportunity isn't just writing more code faster, but using AI to make previously impractical engineering practices economically viable—from comprehensive end-to-end testing with fake dependencies to rapid feedback loops that prevent the entire development pipeline from grinding to a halt when issues arise.

Discover how customer are leveraging AWS to modernize SAP systems. Tushar Srivastava (Principal Account Manager) talks about the role SAP plays in an enterprise, the modernization challenges faced by customers and how AWS helps in that modernization journey. Through the conversation we will learn about the options that exist and how can customers make smart choices and leverage all that AWS has to offer in the context of SAP systems. Tushar has written a book ‘Modernizing SAP with AWS’, published by Springer Nature, which takes the reader on an SAP Modernization journey through the lens of ‘Nimbus Airlines’, a fictional company running SAP. Join us for an engaging conversation around SAP Modernization, Tushar’s motivation in writing the book and some key learnings for customers looking to embark on their own SAP modernization program. https://a.co/d/9auwYxf

For the past 6 years, Werner has published his annual tech predictions, where he’s covered everything from sports and simulation, to smart energy innovation and quantum to AI-supported software development, even the role companies will play in educating the next generation of engineers. I sat with Werner to discuss why he makes predictions and what he sees coming in 2026 and beyond. You’re in for a treat.

It is the end of re:Invent! Simon and Jillian share some updates and also take a moment to reflect on 2025.