AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race

Re:Invent AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly – and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says.

To that end, the cloud giant has rolled out AWS Security Agent in preview today at its annual re:Invent conference. It's free to use – with usage limits – during the public preview period, but there's no word yet from Amazon as to when it will be generally available.

But unlike Google and Microsoft, AWS's approach to agentic AI for security-specific use cases seems a little more subdued with one agent – as opposed to tasking agents with all the security things.

"AWS Security Agent is a single frontier agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle across all your environments," AWS Director of Applied Science Neha Rungta told The Register. 

Security teams define corporate requirements and standards, then the agent conducts automated reviews to ensure ...