Microsoft exec Shawn Bice returns to AWS to lead reliability push for AI agents

Microsoft exec Shawn Bice returns to AWS to lead reliability push for AI agents

Shawn Bice (LinkedIn Photo)

Microsoft security exec Shawn Bice is returning to Amazon Web Services as VP of AI Services, leading the company’s Automated Reasoning Group as AWS doubles down on making AI agents more reliable. 

Bice will report to Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon’s VP of Agentic AI, according to an internal AWS email Monday afternoon, viewed by GeekWire. 

“We are at an inflection point with Agentic AI,” Sivasubramanian wrote in the email, explaining that bringing AI and automated reasoning together is essential to building trustworthy agents. 

It’s a full-circle move for Bice. He worked at Microsoft early in his career and spent five years running AWS’s database portfolio before another former AWS leader, Charlie Bell, recruited him back to Microsoft in 2022 to help build the…

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