Agentic development is accelerating at Amazon Web Services Inc., opening the door for a far wider range of builders to create autonomous software.
What once required deep machine learning expertise is now becoming accessible to developers across the spectrum, thanks to tools that dramatically lower the entry barrier. With SDKs such as Strands and IDEs such as Kiro, creators can code agents locally and deploy them to the cloud with full enterprise-grade governance. AWS is positioning that accessibility as a defining pillar of its platform strategy, according to Marc Brooker (pictured), vice president and distinguished engineer of agentic AI at AWS.
“There are two big things going on here,” he said. “One of them is building agents locally; building an agent on my laptop has become very accessible to normal developers. It’s no longer something that requires a lot of scientific expertise. Even for people without traditional software development skills, you can build an agent in this vibe coding mode of line by line, requirement by requirement.”
Brooker spoke with John Furrier at AWS re:Invent, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how agents, data and next-generation infrastructure are reshaping cloud development.
New-age agentic development abstracts technical friction
Several shifts are continuing the long arc of increasing abstraction in software development. The industry moved from machine code to servers, to cloud, to serverless — and now into agent-driven apps built from business requirements rather than syntax, according to Brooker.
“With agents, we’re using AI models to do that planning, to figure out that path to achieving the goals,” he said. “That means you can give them more open-ended goals, and you can give them more autonomy to go off and discover things and find facts and bring them together.”
For developers wondering where agents live in AWS, AgentCore is a new runtime that provides a serverless, secure execution environment. In essence, AgentCore is becoming the “EC2 + Lambda moment” for agentic computing, Brooker noted.
“AgentCore is the console for agents; it’s the core building block, but then you can bring in anything else in AWS or anything else outside AWS,” he said. “There are open protocols like MCP that allow you to connect to wherever your data is, whether it’s in AWS, whether it’s in one of our database services, whether it’s in S3 or in a third-party software as a service.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent:
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