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.

Developers can use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services to build foundational infrastructure for deploying and operating AI agents at scale.

Agentic AI offers a number of opportunities for enterprises, but finding business-driven uses for it might be more difficult than expected.

The news arrives at a time when employers are facing growing pressure to onboard AI agents -- and also a dizzying variety of options.

Sabrina Albert (Wu) speaks at Madrona's annual meeting earlier this year in Seattle. (Madrona Photo) Sabrina Albert (Wu), a key early-stage investor at

Every industrial revolution has its skeptics and its winners. The ones who thrived didn’t dismiss the change—they embraced it, guided it and built with it.

At AWS Summit, Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, spoke with ZDNET about how agentic AI will bring about a new way of approaching work.