Briefing

  • AWS at an event in New York City on WednesdayAWS Summitannounced agent tools AWS Continuum (for flagging and helping fix security risks) and AWS Context (which builds a search layer using enterprise data to make agents more informed).
  • The company is launching these tools as the rise of AI agents rapidly transforms how enterprises operate, reshapes the cybersecurity landscape, and creates a need to connect siloed data.
  • AWS also added features to its AI tools Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform (for modernization), and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to support agent building and deployment. Additionally, the company updatedAmazon Quick—an AI application modeled on agent assistants, released last year under the name Quick Suite.

Deep insights

In Wednesday's keynote, Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS vice president of agentic AI, said enterprises have moved from discussing and piloting AI agents to relying on them for a significant amount of work.

"If your team is still waiting for you to connect the dots, if humans are still forced to act as the orchestration layer, then your momentum will slip away from you," Sivasubramanian said.

As this shift occurs, enterprises need to strengthen and tune their data and agents, which is what AWS Context aims to do, Sriram Devanathan, AWS director of agentic AI and software modernization, told CIO Dive in an interview.

The service builds a knowledge graph from an enterprise's existing data, including business rules and domain knowledge, teaching agents how to navigate the organizational knowledge base and find correct answers. According to AWS, it acts as an organization's agent search layer, connecting all agents, with built-in governance.

Devanathan told CIO Dive that agents, whether for security or DevOps, are helping automate parts of a company's software development lifecycle. He said at some point, these agents need to communicate with each other.

"All our agents, to some extent, need to know which applications are important, which need high-priority fixes, where they run, how they run, how they are built," he said.

AWS Continuum is the company's response toAnthropic Mythosand Claude Fable, AWS vice president of security services and observability Chet Kapoor said in the keynote. The AI security service discovers security threats, informs leadership where to act, validates solutions in a sandbox, and suggests fixes for security risks.

"I call it the 'Mythos moment,'" Kapoor said. "It significantly accelerated our plans. Mythos set a new standard for discovering vulnerabilities."