Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a significant leap in business automation technology with the introduction of its new agentic AI capabilities, announced at the AWS Summit in New York on July 16, 2025.
At the heart of this launch is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help developers securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale. AWS is bringing cloud computing principles of security, reliability, and data privacy to agentic AI with these new capabilities. According to Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP for Agentic AI, these autonomous software systems will "dramatically accelerate innovation and improve productivity across every industry" by leveraging AI to reason, plan and adapt to complete tasks, representing what he calls "a tectonic change."
AgentCore enables rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents with enterprise-grade security, providing memory management, identity controls, and tool integration—streamlining development while working with any open-source framework and foundation model. The platform includes several key components: AgentCore Runtime for low-latency serverless environments with session isolation; AgentCore Memory for managing both short-term and long-term memory with high accuracy; AgentCore Gateway to enable agents to seamlessly discover and securely connect to tools, data, and other agents; and AgentCore Runtime to deploy agents securely at scale, built for dynamic workload demands.
Complementing AgentCore is Kiro, a new AI-driven integrated development environment (IDE) that uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints. Launched in preview on July 15, Kiro aims to solve an increasingly common business headache: undocumented AI-written software that becomes difficult or impossible to maintain. The Amazon team behind the project says it's aiming to bridge the gap between rapid AI-generated software prototypes and production-ready systems that require formal specs, comprehensive testing, and ongoing documentation.
According to AWS CEO Matt Garman, Kiro is "an agentic IDE that gets developers from prototype to production with the structure that production-ready code requires." The existence of specification documents means that both AI and human developers have a reference to guide development.
"Today's investment is particularly significant as we see AI evolving from systems that simply respond to prompts to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and executing complex tasks," wrote Francessca Vasquez, vice president of professional services and agentic AI at AWS. Citing research from Gartner, AWS noted that it expects agentic AI systems to make 15% of work decisions by 2028. Several AWS customers are already testing or deploying multi-agent systems. AstraZeneca, for instance, is building a conversational analytics platform that uses a series of agents to analyze health care data, generate visualizations, and summarize findings. According to AWS, the system has reduced query response times by 50% and is designed to be reused across other parts of the company's operations.
The company stressed that its approach to agentic AI emphasizes responsible deployment, with guardrails around privacy, explainability, and governance. "We're not just building agents to reimagine services delivery — we're already transforming how AWS Professional Services operates today," Vasquez wrote.
AWS's agentic AI capabilities are available in preview, with AgentCore services offered at no charge until September 16, 2025. Standard AWS pricing applies to any additional AWS Services used as part of using AgentCore. Starting September 17, 2025, AWS will bill customers for AgentCore service usage.