Amazon AWS VP: AI agents will be biggest technology change ‘since the beginning of cloud computing’

Amazon AWS VP: AI agents will be biggest technology change ‘since the beginning of cloud computing’

Amazon’s (AMZN) AWS is getting a boost with a line of what the company refers to as “frontier agents,” AI software that Amazon said can work autonomously, perform multiple tasks simultaneously and across several agents, and do so independently.

The agents include Kiro, an autonomous agent for software development; AWS Security Agent, which is meant to ensure that business applications are secure as they’re being built; and AWS DevOps Agent, which is meant to help ensure those applications and services stay online or, when they go down, are up and running faster.

The company also announced its Tranium 3 chip is up and running on its AWS servers.

“The agentic era is arguably going to be one of the biggest technology transformations since the beginning of cloud computing,” explained Swami Sivasubramanian, the company’s vice president for agentic AI at AWS.

“It goes beyond where traditional LLMs [large language models] are,” he said. “It is actually going to move from…

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