AWS Summit NYC 2026 launched a suite of AI agent products spanning work, security, software delivery, and agent-building.
“The result a median 4.5x improvement in how fast correct code reaches production, with some teams hitting up to 17x.”
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14 tracked signals on agentcore.
AWS AgentCore Runtime Instances enable GPU-backed, 14-day multi-agent sessions on persistent EC2
“serverless sessions that cap at a few hours don't cut it”
AWS launches new AgentCore runtime with elastic memory reclamation and consistent cold starts for production agents.
“Agents are no longer experiments.”
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore can detect silent AI agent failures invisible to standard monitoring dashboards
“These are behavioral failures, and they look different from infrastructure issues. They complete successfully from the system's perspective.”
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available, letting developers run production-grade agents via two API calls.
“Getting it into production is where the work explodes”
AWS shows how to build multi-account AI agents querying distributed data via AgentCore Gateway and MCP.
“The goal is to let data stay where it already lives, in each line-of-business (LOB) account.”
AWS demos 7-layer agentic AI trust chain to move telco POCs into production
“it is not a question of whether Agentic AI anymore, but it is more about how to bring the trust to the agents that are built”
AWS adds per-request domain and date filters to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search
“A financial-services agent shouldn't ground its answers in an unvetted blog.”
Reactiv used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate Shopify app updates, cutting merchant config time 80%.
“Refresh my homepage with best sellers every Monday at 9 AM”
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents can query cross-account knowledge bases without copying governed data
Async invocation patterns eliminate idle compute costs when calling Bedrock AgentCore agents from serverless pipelines.
Cohere Health built multi-tenant AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate clinical prior authorization policy digitization.
Baz built a Spec Review agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate code-vs-intent validation.
“Baz set out to close this gap by building agents that could evaluate not just code, but the actual delivered experience.”
AWS demonstrates building an equipment repair assistant using Bedrock AgentCore, Nova 2 Lite, and Strands Agents SDK.