Dive Brief:
- AWS launched Quick Suite, an agentic AI platform for enterprise users, in a Thursday announcement. The product centralizes research, business intelligence and automation services, the company said.
- Users will be able to analyze data using natural language prompts, scour internal and external information sources and automate processes through Quick Suite, according to a blog post.
- Amazon's business intelligence tool, QuickSight, will now be made available as a component of Quick Suite, the company said. Existing QuickSight customers will be upgraded to Quick Suite, which is now generally available.
Dive Insight:
Software vendors have deployed a recent flurry of agentic AI product launches and upgrades as they vie for enterprise customers. Hyperscalers, including AWS, have especially leaned into the trend.
Last week Microsoft unveiled new features inside Azure AI Foundry to support the development and governance of multiagent systems. The company also launched the Microsoft Agent Framework in public preview, which supports orchestration of agentic systems for enterprise customers.
On Thursday, Google Cloud rolled out Gemini Enterprise, its enterprise-grade agentic AI tools and includes a central governance framework to support audits and monitoring. Gemini Enterprise gives customers access to a network of agents from more than 100,000 partners, the company said.
As the leading hyperscaler, AWS is able to leverage its widespread presence in the enterprise amid the battle for agentic AI spending. The provider attracted about one-third of the nearly $100 billion that enterprises spent on cloud during Q2, according to Synergy Research Group.
It's still early days for agentic AI, and much of the opportunity for AWS lies ahead of it, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in July during an earnings call for Q2 2025.
"I'm very optimistic about, as we get to a bigger scale, what's going to happen to AWS on the AI side," Jassy said. "I think we have a set of services that is unique top to bottom in the stack."
CIOs can help their businesses navigate the myriad of AI options available by focusing on end users, said Joe Mariano, senior director analyst at Gartner.
"As new AI services come online, leaders must remember to bring the employees along for the ride by assessing their current understanding of AI-enabled technologies and incentivizing how the AI tools can make their jobs easier and more productive," Mariano said in an email to CIO Dive.
Just 18% of employees feel their organization is effective at adding generative AI tools into daily workflows, according to Gartner data.
"The options are just becoming more plentiful, and I would expect this to continue to grow," Mariano said. "We have not reached a point of one-size-fits-all AI."
