AWS re:Think Podcast

In Part 2 of our AWS Summits recap, Geries AbouAyash, AWS Managing Director, North America Solutions Architecture joins Malini and Amit to unpack what the shift to agentic AI really means for how we work. From Amazon Quick's autonomous agents ("Quick Just Does It") to Kiro on iOS, DevOps Agent, and Transform — and the infrastructure changes powering the emerging agent economy, like S3 Annotations and AWS WAF AI Traffic Monetization — the conversation goes beyond announcements to the bigger question: does AI just help us do more, or help us do more meaningful work? The throughline: AI isn't about replacing people — it's about removing undifferentiated work so builders, engineers, and leaders can spend more time where they create the greatest value.
https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro-for-ios/
https://aws.amazon.com/devops-agent/features/?trk=bdad73ef-9780-48b0-b82e-6d92ad86fcf6&sc_channel=ps
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/aws-transform-kiro-vscode/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/annotations-overview.html
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/aws-waf-ai-traffic-monetization/

AWS Hosts: Amit Narayanan & Malini Chatterjee
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Three AWS Summits across the US — LA on June 10, NYC on June 17, and Washington DC on June 30–July 1 — brought a wave of announcements that all orbited a single thesis: the age of agentic AI is here, and the winners will be organizations whose agents get smarter with every decision they make. In this episode, AWS Managing Director, North America Solutions Architecture, Geries AbouAyash joins hosts Malini and Amit to break down four major Summit announcements — Graviton5, AWS Context, AgentCore Harness, and AWS Continuum — spanning next-gen CPUs for agentic workloads, a governed knowledge graph that gives agents organizational memory, production-grade agent deployment, and security at machine speed. The throughline: in the age of Agentic AI, the challenge is no longer building intelligence but operationalizing it — and as foundation models become universally accessible, competitive advantage shifts from who has the model to who can run AI securely, efficiently, and at enterprise scale.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-the-aws-summit-in-new-york-2026/
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-graviton-5-cpu-amazon-ec2
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/context-intelligence-for-your-data-and-ai-agents-at-scale/
AWS Hosts: Amit Narayanan & Malini Chatterjee
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Modern cloud environments are evolving faster than traditional security models can keep up. In this episode, we sit down with Yarin Pinyan, VP Products at Upwind, to explore how real-time runtime visibility and behavioral baselining are reshaping how organizations detect and respond to threats, especially zero-day and supply chain attacks that emerge before signatures or CVEs exist. We’ll also discuss how AI is enabling a new generation of cloud security, where detection, investigation, and response happen continuously and automatically. The conversation highlights how organizations can reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and protect critical workloads in dynamic, cloud-native environments.
AWS MP offering: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ff3am62vjukrw?sr=0-1&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa
Website: https://www.upwind.io/
Customer success story: https://www.upwind.io/case-studies
AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Ashok Mahajan
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AI agents move at machine speed. Your security doesn't. Discover how enterprises are finding shadow agents, measuring agent ROI, and transforming agentic AI from risk to strategic value. Learn from Arti Arora Raman, CEO Founder of Portal 26 and Neil Cohen, VP of Marketing in Portal 26 how Portal26's platform capabilities mitigate enterprise challenges around AI adoption, security, ROI, and governance.
AI agents operate autonomously at machine speed, making decisions and tool calls without human approval. But most enterprises don't know which agents are running, what they're accessing, or whether they're creating value or risk.
In this episode of AWS re:Think, host Malini and Preethi explores Portal26's Agent Management Platform (AMP) and how it helps enterprises discover, secure, and measure ROI from agentic AI. We discuss the five primary agentic AI security risks—from rogue agents to agent drift—and how organizations are using agent-level visibility to transform AI from an operational risk into a strategic asset.
Learn how finance teams are tracking token consumption, how security teams are identifying high-risk agents before they cause damage, and how enterprises are finally closing the gap between AI investments and returns.
Discover how to govern AI agents at the speed they operate.
Reference: https://portal26.ai/

AWS Hosts: Preethi Ravula & Malini Chatterjee
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In this episode we explore how companies should evaluate AI agents across multiple dimensions — including correctness, tool selection, multi-turn reasoning, and safety . The conversation covers building reliable evaluation frameworks, balancing automated vs. human-in-the-loop testing, and leveraging observability to debug agent behavior in production.

Links from the Show
AgentCore Evaluation: https://github.com/awslabs/agentcore-samples/tree/main/01-tutorials/07-AgentCore-evaluations
Strands Evaluation: https://strandsagents.com/docs/user-guide/evals-sdk/quickstart/

AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee
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