AWS Unveils 3 AI Agents to Streamline Software Development
Notably, Clariant, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, SmugMug, Western Governors University, and Presidio are among the first to use one or more of these new agents.
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Amazon Web Services unveiled three AI agents on Tuesday which it calls “Frontier agents”.
The company claims that the agents can operate autonomously to achieve assigned goals without constant human oversight, scale massively to handle multiple concurrent tasks across teams, and run persistently for hours or even days while maintaining context and learning from ongoing work.
The Amazon subsidiary announced three frontier agents- Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent aimed to transform the software development lifecycle.
Notably, Clariant, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, SmugMug, Western Governors University, and Presidio are among the first to use one or more of these new agents.
Kiro autonomous agent, based on AWS’s existing AI coding tool Kiro, is the company’s biggest and most interesting one, as the company promises it can work on its own for days without any intervention.
“You simply assign a complex task from the backlog, and it independently figures out how to get that work done,” said Matt Garman, CEO, AWS, during his keynote at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday.
“It actually learns how you like to work, and it continues to deepen its understanding of your code and your products and the standards that your team follows over time,” he said.
The company also introduced AWS Security Agent that lets one build applications that are secured from the start across AWS, multicloud, and hybrid environments.
“The agent embeds deep security expertise throughout the development lifecycle, proactively reviewing design documents and scanning pull requests against organizational security requirements and common vulnerabilities,” read the official blog.
If one has multiple apps deployed at one go, AWS Security Agent can be easily scaled to match the demand. SmugMug, a SaaS platform for photographers, is one of the early companies to adopt the agent.
The AWS DevOps Agent will act as a testing ground for coders to assess performance issues or compatibility settings. “It learns your resources and their relationships spanning everything from observability tools, like Amazon CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk, to runbooks, code repositories, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. It maps your application resources and correlates telemetry, code, and deployment data to precisely pinpoint root causes and reduce mean time to resolution,” the blog read.
DevOps Agent notes of handling thousands of escalations within Amazon, with an estimated root cause identification rate of over 86%.
It provides targeted recommendations across four key areas: observability, infrastructure optimization, deployment pipeline enhancement, and application resilience.
AWS reported revenue growth in the third quarter to $33 billion. Recently, they were reported to spend $50 billion to build AI infrastructure for the US government
