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How AWS Marketplace is using AI agents to meet the rising demand for AI agents

How AWS Marketplace is using AI agents to meet the rising demand for AI agents

Just_Super/ E+ via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways AWS Marketplace uses AI agents to meet the rising demand for AI agents.  Agent-powered marketplaces extend support to due diligence and deployment.  Larger enterprise apps still require human sales teams.  AWS Marketplace, one of the most well-known application marketplaces catering to enterprises of all sizes, is seeing rapid growth of its stable of AI agents, along with a rising number of traditional application offerings. A year ago, “AI agents” ranked 64th among keyword searches across the marketplace, but now ranks in third place, reported Matt Yanchyshyn, vice president of AWS Marketplace & Partner Services. Last year, the marketplace had about 1,000 agent offerings. This year, there are more than 4,000, he told ZDNET. Overall, there are now almost 40,000 applications.  Also: Business adoption of AI agents tripled this year – as measurable ROI emerges When it comes to application marketplaces, however, the AI agent story goes much deeper, as agents are making your jobs easier in the software development …

AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push

AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push

Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model. AWS announced at Black Hat USA 2026 this month that its Continuum platform for code vulnerabilities will integrate directly into Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, alongside AWS’s own Kiro IDE. The move embeds AWS security tooling at the point where developers write code, regardless of which AI model they use to do it. Simultaneously, AWS expanded Security Hub Extended — its curated, single-bill security marketplace launched in February — with a 10th security category focused on supply chain protection, bringing in Chainguard and Socket as partners. Together, the announcements are AWS’s most sweeping attempt yet to position itself as the default security control plane for enterprise software development in the AI era — a role that carries enormous commercial implications as the global cloud infrastructure market surpasses $143 billion per quarter, …

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to Superblocks will be able to offer vibe coding to the company’s business users, and those apps will not send data or information externally to model providers or databases. The apps will spin up Amazon Aurora databases within the company’s private cloud, not, for instance, create external Supabase databases, the vibe-coding database of choice. The apps will also integrate with Amazon Bedrock, the cloud giant’s AI app development/AI gateway/inference platform. Essentially, these apps will automatically fall under IT’s management and security, rather than be rogue applications. “We’re going to bring it to your data inside your private cloud,” Superblocks co-founder and CEO Brad Menezes tells TechCrunch of vibe coding. “The big thing about that is data never leaves. … It’s their AWS account and basically secure with all of the auditing, all of the encryption, all of the …

AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees

AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees

A glitch with Amazon Web Services’ billing operation led some customers to believe they owed the world’s fifth most valuable company billions of dollars. Oops! Bill Radjewski, who runs CollegeFootballData.com, was one of the affected customers. This morning, he woke up to a jarring email alert from AWS: He had racked up more than $1.5 billion in usage fees, and his August 1 bill was on track to be upwards of $3 billion. “I’ve had this account for 6+ years and in that time my monthly spend has never exceeded $0.02,” Radjewski tells WIRED in an email. He shared screenshots of his three most recent monthly AWS invoices. They each came out to $0.01. Based on replies to the AWS Support account on X, Radjewski is not alone. Others have received similarly shocking quotes: $22 billion; $75 billion; $110 billion. “Blud why did you hit me with a cost of 5 million USD what did I even do,” one user wrote. “Please explain man my heart will explode.” When reached for comment, Amazon spokesperson Aisha …

AWS enters the context layer race with a graph that learns from agents, not manual curation

AWS enters the context layer race with a graph that learns from agents, not manual curation

Building a context layer between enterprise data stores and AI agents is bespoke work, with no standard service to automate or maintain the graphs over time. Amazon is making a direct play to change that. Amazon on Wednesday entered the space, announcing a series of three products it’s positioning as a context intelligence stack for AI agents. The centerpiece is AWS Context, a new knowledge graph service that gets smarter through agent usage over time. AWS also announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Annotations and a preview of skill assets in AWS Glue Data Catalog. The context layer is now a contested architectural category with no shortage of options from different vendors. AWS is entering that market with a different architectural premise: that the graph should learn from how agents use it automatically, without human re-curation. “Your agents now get smarter without you having to rebuild anything from scratch,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Agentic AI at AWS, during his AWS Summit NYC keynote. “This service automatically builds a knowledge graph from all …

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

Europe is done with American Big Tech. Well, sort of. Since the start of President Donald Trump’s chaotic second administration last year, concerned governments and companies across the continent have accelerated plans to end their near-total reliance on technology from US firms. Alongside political declarations, home-grown European tech development, and millions in additional funding, a WIRED analysis has documented dozens of public instances of companies, governments, NGOs, and education establishments stepping away from US technology companies in favor of open source or local alternatives. It is likely the tip of the iceberg. “The aggressive policies by the Trump administration, attacking international law, as well as the EU and democratic principles, has led to several wake-up calls,” says Marietje Schaake, a non-resident fellow at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center and a former member of the European Parliament. The moves are widespread—and growing. Last week, the European Commission launched its official long-term plans to rely less on US technology. The European Parliament has switched the default search engine on its devices from Google to the French alternative …

How a boy and his eagle in Mongolia inspired Siyuan Aw’s debut picture book

How a boy and his eagle in Mongolia inspired Siyuan Aw’s debut picture book

He is also already at work on his next book, incidentally bird-themed as well. Unlike the stark, sparse landscapes of Mongolia, the treatment this time is lush, bold and tropical. Inspired by his travels in the Amazon and the Andes, it will draw on myth, magic and indigenous knowledge, where hornbills serve as plant teachers and spiritual messengers. Incidentally, a pair of them has recently taken to visiting his home, sometimes perching on his canvas. Beyond that, he refuses to say more. “I shan’t break the spell,” he said with a laugh. Reflecting on his journey, Aw said loss has changed the way he moves through the world. “Sometimes growth comes from letting go. From travelling without a map, being open, and allowing ourselves to be part of a bigger narrative.” Our Wings As One is available at Kinokuniya Singapore, Woods in the Books, Littered with Books, Wardah Books, Book Bar, Eliko, and other major and independent bookstores. Source link

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, and DuckDuckGo installs are climbing from users who want Google to stop forcing AI into search and just give them links.  Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what happens when the AI-pilled and the AI-skeptical are both right at the same time, plus three deals worth knowing about and Waymo’s new robotaxi hitting the road.  Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.  Source link

Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved

Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved

Over time, the tech industry has developed and deployed variations on the fat-tree architecture. But the design has room for improvement. It’s generally reliable, but also rigid, inefficient, and requires complex cabling. As in, actual physical cables. If you’ve ever been in a data center or an office building’s server room, you’ve likely seen nests of colorful cables spilling out of metal racks. Cabling is one of the greatest costs in networking, Rehder says, and Amazon’s global data centers are currently connected with 20 million kilometers of fiber optic cables. That’s roughly the distance it would take to travel from Earth to the moon and back 25 times. In 2012, as the demand for cloud computing services was exploding, a group of researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, including Godfrey, introduced a concept known as Jellyfish. Fixed network designs in use at the time were struggling to meet growing demand, so the researchers proposed a “high-capacity network interconnect which, by adopting a random graph topology, yields itself naturally to incremental expansion.” They believed this random …

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Cloud data storage giant Snowflake has signed a new $6 billion five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services, the companies announced on Wednesday. Snowflake has always run on AWS, though obviously, these days, it is also available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. For comparison on just how big this deal is for these companies, Snowflake has sold $7 billion worth of its services via AWS Marketplace total since it was founded in 2012, AWS says. So this new contract is close to all the money it has ever brought in from that cloud. It can do that because Snowflake’s customers are accelerating their spending on AWS as of late, Snowflake says, doubling in 2025 to $2 billion for that calendar year alone. What’s driving the growth is, naturally, AI. Snowflake has been offering its AI building tool, Cortex AI, for a couple of years now. It’s a tool that makes sense: Snowflake is where much of an enterprise’s data lives. The AI tool can provide features like a text interface for database queries (just ask, …