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AWS is ready to power AI agents that can handle busywork instead of just chatting

Swami Sivasubramanian standing on stage in front of a screen with the words “Enhancing AWS services with generative AI”
AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian at the AWS Summit event. | Image: Amazon

During the AWS Summit in New York on Wednesday, Amazon launched Agents for Bedrock, which will let companies build AI apps that can automatically do tasks on their own, like booking a flight for users instead of just telling them about it. AI agents are the assistant that actually gets a restaurant reservation instead of just giving suggestions on where to eat.

“I believe this will supercharge developers who wanted an easier way to build agents and at the same time customize the data the models read,” Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and machine learning at AWS, tells The Verge. “Building agents took so much time even with how advanced generative AI is now, but we’re making it so developers can access exactly the models they…

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