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.”

AWS layoffs confirmed for Amazon employees inside AWS’ cloud computing and other teams at the $117 billion cloud market leader.

Kiro’s structured, agentic workflow challenges the Copilot model, offering a spec-first IDE with hooks, task orchestration, and enterprise-grade design generation.

Amazon Web Services is preparing to launch a new AI agent marketplace, according to information acquired by TechCrunch. Anthropic is expected to be one of its partners in the endeavor. The marketplace is likely to open on July 15, just after its official announcement at the AWS Summit in New York City.

AWS news in 2025 focuses on AI innovation, Nvidia partnership, agentic AI, partner programs, new chips, billions in data center investments, cloud market share and Bedrock.

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.

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.

Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services.