AWS Summit NY unveils Continuum security and AWS Context knowledge graph for agents
At AWS Summit New York, AWS agentic-AI VP Swami Sivasubramanian led a wave of agent-focused launches anchored by two new services. AWS Continuum is an AI-native security service that continuously discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates code vulnerabilities 'at machine speed,' positioned for autonomous remediation rather than human-paced triage. AWS Context is a comprehensive knowledge graph that lets agents know where to fetch the right information and take the right next step faster — directly targeting the context-fragmentation problem Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas flagged the same week.
Alongside, AWS expanded Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with web search, managed knowledge bases, and policy guardrails, introduced Amazon Quick autonomous agents, a Kiro mobile orchestration app, and Release Management in AWS DevOps Agent. It also made Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 available on Bedrock with enterprise safeguards for autonomous coding — notable given Fable 5's regulatory turbulence elsewhere. Southwest Airlines was named as a marquee customer accelerating AI adoption and cloud modernization.
Sivasubramanian framed the strategy as compounding momentum: 'More interactions give agents more context. More context leads to better outcomes. Better outcomes build trust. The more trust you have, the more work you hand off.' AWS Chief AI Officer Matt Wood echoed the theme — AI 'moving from faster answers to work that carries forward' between steps and sessions.
Competitively, this is AWS answering Microsoft's Copilot Cowork GA and Google's orchestration push with an enterprise-governance angle: security, knowledge graphs, and guardrails rather than a flashy consumer model. The breadth is also a risk — a dozen overlapping agent services can confuse buyers. HN reaction was largely positive on AgentCore, with appreciation for competition on agent-loop latency and multi-model routing. Watch adoption metrics and whether Continuum's autonomous remediation earns security teams' trust.
