Microsoft VP Of Copilot Security And AI Joins AWS To Lead Agentic AI Charge At ‘Crucial Moment’

Microsoft VP Of Copilot Security And AI Joins AWS To Lead Agentic AI Charge At ‘Crucial Moment’

‘I can’t stress enough how critical AI and Automated Reasoning needs to come together to build reliable and trustworthy agents. This is the fundamental premise that drives our investment in Neurosymbolic AI, and I am excited to have Shawn [Bice] join us at this crucial moment,’ says AWS Agentic AI leader Swami Sivasubramanian in a memo to employees seen by CRN.


Amazon Web Services has hired Microsoft’s former corporate vice president of security and AI, Shawn Bice, to drive the AWS agentic AI services charge and to make AI agents more accurate.

Bice (pictured) has a total of over 20 years’ experience working at Microsoft, helping build and lead key areas such as Microsoft Security Copilot and AI Security Research, as well as Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database over his long tenure.

In an internal message sent to AWS employees…

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