Amazon Web Services joined the agentic AI frenzy in a big way this week, revealing at a New York City event Wednesday a host of services and tools dubbed Agentcore that let technologists build and deploy so-called AI agents capable of automating internal tasks while potentially overhauling the way consumers interact with online businesses too.

During the keynote, there was news about updates to EventBridge and the AWS Free Tier, as well as thoughts about how agentic AI is “upending the way software is built.”

Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services. Amazon confirmed to The Register today that jobs will go at several teams at AWS, though the company declined to provide specifics on numbers, or which teams were involved. We understand around 100 jobs are at stake.

Amazon lays off hundreds from AWS as it shifts focus to AI automation, despite strong Q1 performance. The move mirrors broader tech industry workforce reductions

Developers can use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services to build foundational infrastructure for deploying and operating AI agents at scale.

The Seattle-based company said it is hiring in other areas and tried to find internal opportunities for the workers it was cutting. The laid-off employees will receive pay and benefits for 60 days and will be eligible for a severance payment, Amazon said.

Amazon Web Services on Monday released Kiro, a program that allows developers to write code with help from artificial intelligence.

Amazon confirmed layoffs in its cloud computing unit, AWS, and employees are trying to determine which teams were affected.