AWS beleives AI agents will change how enterprises work and with its new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, it hopes to make it easier to build and deploy agents in one go.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new suite of capabilities and tools designed to support customers in developing AI agents on top of AWS infrastructure. At the core of this launch is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a service that enables customers to deploy and manage advanced AI agents securely and at scale.

At AWS Summit, Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, spoke with ZDNET about how agentic AI will bring about a new way of approaching work.

Blaxel raises $7.3M seed funding to build specialized cloud infrastructure for AI agents, challenging AWS with purpose-built platform for autonomous AI systems.

AWS’ AI Agent Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic AI will boost customer and partner sales via the new cloud online marketplace.

The news arrives at a time when employers are facing growing pressure to onboard AI agents -- and also a dizzying variety of options.

Also announced was Amazon S3 Vectors, which AWS says is the first cloud object storage with native vector support for AI workloads, helping to hugely reduce the cost of storing and querying vectors, making it cost-effective to retain and use large vector datasets to enhance AI.

Amazon joined a growing list of firms, including Microsoft, Meta, and CrowdStrike in announcing layoffs this year.

For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.