"We are living in times of great change” - I speak to AWS’ top AI minds to hear how it wants to open up agents (and building) to everyone

AI and agents were big focuses at AWS re:Invent 2025, with the cloud giant unveiling a host of new services and platforms to supercharge capabilities and encourage wider usage.

But with so much hype and speculation around the technology, how realistic can these lofty goals actually be? I spoke to some of the leading minds at Amazon and AWS to find out more.

Empowering with AI

"We want to empower every application developer to be an agentic developer who builds agents that are reliable, trustworthy, secure and making it super easy to build,” Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Agentic AI at AWS, starts off our briefing by boldly declaring.