According to reports, Amazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents; systems that help people automate parts of their lives.

AWS CEO Matt Garman says, “agentic AI has the potential to be the next multi-billion business for AWS.”
Swami Sivasubramanian, a longtime AWS executive who previously led the company’s AI and data teams, will reportedly lead the new agentic AI group.

Amazon seems to be the latest company to join the tech industry’s shift toward AI agents.

Last week, Amazon showed off some agentic capabilities coming to Alexa+, an updated version of the company’s consumer voice assistant. In demos, Alexa+ was able to automatically book Ubers, navigate websites, and complete other tasks that humans would usually do themselves.

Amazon’s AWS unit may also be interested in developing enterprise agents, competing with Salesforce and Microsoft to create AI systems that can automate work-related tasks for customers.

The most extensive and widely used cloud in the world is Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides more than 200 fully functional services from data centers all over the world. AWS is being used by millions of customers to save costs, become more nimble, and develop more quickly. These clients include the biggest corporations, the fastest-growing startups, and top government agencies.

Compared to other cloud providers, AWS offers a greater number of services and features within those services. These include emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, data lakes and analytics, and the Internet of Things, as well as infrastructure technologies like computing, storage, and databases.