Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026

By Dustin Ward

Today at the AWS Summit in New York City, Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of Agentic AI, provided the day’s keynote. Here’s our roundup of the biggest announcements from the event: New in agents customers create We’re introducing new capabilities on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: connecting AI agents to organizational, web, and paid knowledge, helping teams find…

Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a new set of capabilities that enables developers to build enterprise-grade generative AI applications with their proprietary data in minutes. Organizations building agentic AI applications need secure, reliable, and up-to-date access to enterprise-wide data to deliver accurate, fast, and trusted outcomes. Managed Knowledge Base abstracts away the…

Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview)

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview), a new capability of AWS Transform for continuous, autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation at scale. AWS Transform already helps enterprises migrate out of data centers, modernize mainframe and Windows applications, and handle the undifferentiated work of software maintenance: upgrading Java versions, swapping deprecated frameworks, and…

AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a new release management capability in AWS DevOps Agent that is now available in preview. AWS DevOps Agent is your always-available teammate that spans software changes and operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments. The practice of DevOps aims to make software change and operations smooth and increasingly autonomous, and AWS DevOps…

AWS Security Agent adds threat modeling, Kiro power and Claude Code plugin, and more

By Dustin Ward

At re:Invent 2025, we previewed AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum), a frontier agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle across all your environments. You can perform on-demand penetration testing customized to your application, discovering and reporting security risks verified through exploitability testing. Since the preview, we announced general availability…