Amazon's vision of 'billions' of AI agents inside every company seems premature

lastmansurfing
Dec 24, 2025
1 min read

It seems like everyone is talking about agents these days, and AWS is no exception, with a lot of talk about "frontier agents," which Amazon defines as those that are autonomous, can run for hours or days without intervention, and deliver complete outcomes rather than just tasks.

At the event, the company introduced a bunch of new features for Bedrock AgentCore, its platform for building, deploying, and managing agents. The big new thing here is Policy control, which Garman compared with guardrails or boundaries you'd give a teenager who just got a driver's license. Other new features include memory, so an agent can remember previous conversations.

Much of this is still in preview, and like the other major agent platforms—Google Agent Space (now part of Gemini Enterprise) and Microsoft Agent365—it all seems a little early to me.