AWS goes beyond prompt-level safety with automated reasoning in AgentCore

AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem. 

Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS is adding three new capabilities to AgentCore: "policy," "evaluations" and "episodic memory." The new features aim to give enterprises more control over agent behavior and performance. 

AWS also revealed what it calls “a new class of agents," or "frontier agents," that are autonomous, scalable and independent. 

Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP for Agentic AI, told VentureBeat that many of AWS’s new features represent a shift in who becomes a builder. 

“We are actually on the cusp of a major tectonic transformation with AI, but agentic AI is truly starting to transform what is the art of the possible, and it is going to make this one of the most ...