AWS beleives AI agents will change how enterprises work and with its new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, it hopes to make it easier to build and deploy agents in one go.

AWS laysoffs hundreds as Amazon doubles down on AI, trims bureaucracy, and refocuses on long-term growth priorities.

During the keynote, there was news about updates to EventBridge and the AWS Free Tier, as well as thoughts about how agentic AI is “upending the way software is built.”

Kiro’s structured, agentic workflow challenges the Copilot model, offering a spec-first IDE with hooks, task orchestration, and enterprise-grade design generation.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new suite of capabilities and tools designed to support customers in developing AI agents on top of AWS infrastructure. At the core of this launch is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a service that enables customers to deploy and manage advanced AI agents securely and at scale.

For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.

The news arrives at a time when employers are facing growing pressure to onboard AI agents -- and also a dizzying variety of options.

Blaxel raises $7.3M seed funding to build specialized cloud infrastructure for AI agents, challenging AWS with purpose-built platform for autonomous AI systems.

AgentCore-powered agents and other AI applications can keep their data in Amazon S3 Vectors, a new storage offering that also debuted at AWS Summit today. It’s optimized to store vectors, the mathematical structures in which neural networks encode their data. AWS says that the offering costs 90% less than alternative services.

At AWS Summit, Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, spoke with ZDNET about how agentic AI will bring about a new way of approaching work.