Amazon says new DevOps agents need no babysitting - you can try them here

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• AWS's agents are designed to relieve programmers of having to tie together tasks.
• Amazon claims the agents can run for days without human supervision.
• Amazon is entering a crowded market of vendors promising DevOps agents.

During its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Amazon's AWS introduced three agentic AI technologies that the company says will tie together the tasks surrounding mere code writing, including checking code in and out of code libraries and watching for security breaches.

The three agent offerings, dubbed frontier agents, are "a new class of AI agents that are autonomous, scalable, and work for hours or days without intervention," stated AWS in a press release. 

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