AWS rolls out autonomous AI agents to bolster Nvidia-led cloud push
Software giant Amazon unveiled three artificial intelligence (AI) agents — Kiro, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps — on Tuesday.
In a blog post, the company said the frontier agents are "autonomous, scalable, and independent of human intervention."
The development comes after Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit on Tuesday laid out plans to adopt Nvidia’s technology in its AI computing chips as part of the former’s efforts to get major AI customers using its services.
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The Kiro autonomous agent is designed for software development, the tech giant wrote. It focusses on software development workflows, handling tasks such as bug triage, code coverage improvements, and multi-repository changes.
Developers can assign tasks directly from GitHub, and the agent learns from earlier work to handle similar tasks better in the future. Teams can also connect Kiro to tools like Jira and Slack so it can keep track of ongoing projects and updates, the blog post reads.
The AWS Security Agent checks software for risks during early design stages and when code is updated. It also performs automated penetration tests, which is normally a slow, manual process, and provides fixes along with its findings.
The AWS DevOps Agent assists teams when outages or performance issues occur. It looks at logs, alerts, and recent changes to quickly pinpoint what went wrong. AWS said the agent has been able to identify root causes in most internal tests. It also reviews past incidents to recommend ways to make systems more reliable.
By automating routine development, security, and operations tasks, the new agents can help teams focus on more important work while still keeping control over final decisions, said AWS.
Meanwhile, in a recent development, Amazon said it would invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capacity for US government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector.
Last month, OpenAI signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon that will give OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its AI models.
In a blog post, the company said the frontier agents are "autonomous, scalable, and independent of human intervention."
The development comes after Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit on Tuesday laid out plans to adopt Nvidia’s technology in its AI computing chips as part of the former’s efforts to get major AI customers using its services.
Amazon AI agents
The Kiro autonomous agent is designed for software development, the tech giant wrote. It focusses on software development workflows, handling tasks such as bug triage, code coverage improvements, and multi-repository changes.
Developers can assign tasks directly from GitHub, and the agent learns from earlier work to handle similar tasks better in the future. Teams can also connect Kiro to tools like Jira and Slack so it can keep track of ongoing projects and updates, the blog post reads.
The AWS Security Agent checks software for risks during early design stages and when code is updated. It also performs automated penetration tests, which is normally a slow, manual process, and provides fixes along with its findings.
The AWS DevOps Agent assists teams when outages or performance issues occur. It looks at logs, alerts, and recent changes to quickly pinpoint what went wrong. AWS said the agent has been able to identify root causes in most internal tests. It also reviews past incidents to recommend ways to make systems more reliable.
By automating routine development, security, and operations tasks, the new agents can help teams focus on more important work while still keeping control over final decisions, said AWS.
Meanwhile, in a recent development, Amazon said it would invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capacity for US government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector.
Last month, OpenAI signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon that will give OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its AI models.
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