AWS says AI agents can work on their own. It’s also building tools to keep them in line (opens in new tab)

The company’s latest agentic AI tools promise faster enterprise automation, but the more revealing story is the infrastructure AWS is building to monitor and contain them. The marketing pitch for enterprise AI’s autonomous agents has started to sound almost like a fairy tale: Hand one a task or objective, walk away, and it figures out the rest. It runs on its own, reasons through changing conditions, adapts as circumstances evolve, and delivers results before you think to ask. The promise of ...