AWS Advances the Development of Agentic AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding into the field of artificial intelligence (AI) agents through a series of innovations, with the mission of promoting the construction of more systems.

AI agents are autonomous software systems with the ability to reason, plan, and adapt when performing tasks.

Their expansion represents ‘a tectonic shift in several dimensions,’ according to Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of agentic AI at AWS.

‘It revolutionises the way software is built,’ he says, although ‘it also introduces a number of new challenges for implementing and operating it, and potentially most impactfully, it changes how software interacts with the world and how we interact with software.’

At the AWS New York Summit 2025, AWS introduced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, which enables the safe deployment and operation of agents at scale.

AgentCore is a set of services within Amazon Bedrock that are designed to drive AI agents from prototype to end-use applications.

Among these services is AgentCore Runtime, which supports low-latency experiences and asynchronous loads that run for up to eight hours. In addition, the offering is framework-agnostic and provides complete session isolation.

AgentCore Browser Tool, which is model-agnostic, delivers a cloud-based browser for AI agents to interact with web pages for tasks such as filling out forms.

AgentCore Memory helps create context-aware agents by providing short- and long-term memory accuracy, AgentCore Code Interpreter allows customisation of environments with instances and session properties, and AgentCore Observability offers real-time visibility with integrated dashboards and telemetry.

Another service is AgentCore Identity, which integrates agent authentication with identity providers such as Amazon Cognito, Microsoft Entra ID and Okta.

AgentCore Gateway, meanwhile, would facilitate the use of tools alongside API transformation, Lambda functions, and existing services.

AWS has also taken the opportunity to introduce a new category in its marketplace, ‘AI Agents and Tools in AWS Marketplace,’ which provides access to these types of solutions.

In addition, the company will make a second investment of $100 million in the AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre.