AWS Summit New York 2026: New ways to make AI agents more effective at work

The announcements include AWS Continuum, a new AI-native security service, and AWS Context, a knowledge graph designed to provide agents with contextual information. Additionally, AWS unveiled new capabilities across multiple existing products: Amazon Quick, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

According to the announcement, AWS Continuum is intended to address security risks specific to AI agent deployments, though details on its technical implementation were not provided. AWS Context serves as a structured knowledge base that agents can query to reduce errors and improve decision-making. The updates to Amazon Quick involve performance enhancements, while Kiro, a conversational AI product, received new features. AWS DevOps Agent gained improved automation capabilities, and Bedrock AgentCore, the underlying service for building agents, was updated to support more complex workflows.

These announcements come amid increasing enterprise adoption of AI agents for tasks ranging from customer service to software development.