Amazon Web Services VP Francessca Vasquez explains how companies are deploying AI, from pilot to production across industries.

Amazon Web Services joined the agentic AI frenzy in a big way this week, revealing at a New York City event Wednesday a host of services and tools dubbed Agentcore that let technologists build and deploy so-called AI agents capable of automating internal tasks while potentially overhauling the way consumers interact with online businesses too.

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.”

Amazon Web Services on Monday released Kiro, a program that allows developers to write code with help from artificial intelligence.

Amazon has laid off hundreds of employees in its AWS cloud division as part of a broader restructuring effort driven by the growing adoption of generative AI and CEO Andy Jassy's push to streamline operations.

Amazon is investing another $100 million in the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to real-world deployment, with a growing focus on agentic AI.

AWS is previewing a specialized storage offering, Amazon S3 Vectors, that it claims can cut the cost of uploading, storing, and querying vectors by up to 90% compared to using a vector database, a move likely to be of interest to those running generative AI or agentic AI applications in the cloud.

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