AWS unveils 'Frontier Agents' capable of multi-day autonomous workflows
New "Kiro" and security agents move beyond chatbots to perform asynchronous engineering tasks.
The shift to asynchronous digital labor
Amazon Web Services (AWS) declared the beginning of the "agentic economy" at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, introducing a new class of software defined as "Frontier Agents." Unlike traditional AI assistants that require real-time human prompting, these agents are architected to operate asynchronously for extended durations. AWS CEO Matt Garman demonstrated agents capable of accepting high-level objectives and executing them over hours or days without human intervention, effectively commoditizing the role of junior engineering support.
The primary release, the Kiro autonomous agent, functions as a virtual software engineer. It integrates …
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