Bengaluru: Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data at AWS, believes agent AI is one of the biggest changes in technology. Beyond the generation AI system that generates text, images, or videos, go to inferable models, split goals, step-by-step, step-by-step, and use tools to execute your plans. “Agent AI will be one of the biggest changes in the tech industry,” he said, explaining that this fusion of reasoning and action unlocks a new era of AI agents.Amazon already has such agents working internally. Early experiments in software upgrades have saved the company over $250 million in capital expenditures, over 4,500 developer years. Now, Sivasubramanian says that businesses can rethink their processes and customer experiences everywhere, as it is about ensuring that all developers can build safe, accurate, and reliable agents.Its ambitions drive innovations like AWS like Amazon Bedrock, a model-independent foundation for AI development, and innovations like new platforms that remove “undifferentiated heavy lifting” of provisioning computing, identity and security, while providing up to eight hours of runtime with complete separation of complex workflows. “Agent Core is model dependent, framework dependent, unlike the rest of the industry, providing a secure runtime,” he explained. AWS introduced Kiro, an agent IDE that shifts code from a simple prompt-based generation to “spec-driven development,” encouraging developers to split their requirements into design, architecture, and tasks. “We converted software development from white coding to viable coding,” he said.AWS has also launched AI-DLC (Development Lifecycle), an open methodology that helps businesses rethink their entire software lifecycle. For example, Wipro built four production modules in just 20 hours, while startups like Dhan compressed months of development into days. These innovations have already reached India, with businesses and startups deploying agent AI in real-world ways. ApolloTyres built a “manufacturing inference” that reduces troubleshooting for 7 to 10 minutes, and built an agent-enabled analytics platform in a few weeks using the Agent Core using the Healthare IT Firm Innovaccer.The Shivas Bramanian is bullish about the role of India. “Every time I visited India, I was blown away by the creativity of the builder, both a startup, a student and a company,” he said. But he is also open about the challenges. AI agents change the way you work, but they don't change what is necessary. So people have to reskill just as IT professionals have adapted to the cloud era. AWS has already surpassed its goal of skilling 29 million people in the cloud by 2025, reaching 31 million, and within a year it has launched a program that trains 2 million AI students and early career professionals. “It's very important that our workforce embrace this transformation and prepare us for a new era of AI-Native,” he said.For developers, his advice is simple but urgent. Curiosity and continuous learning are key to prosperity. “The pace of innovation has changed by several orders of magnitude. College skills are no longer sufficient. They need to be constantly learning. Those who continue to learn with curiosity and thriving will always move on,” he said. Amazon said it plans to invest $12.7 billion in India's cloud infrastructure by 2030 to meet the growing demand for cloud services.
