AWS announces general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents and debuts EC2 instances powered by Graviton5

AWS announced the general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, a managed service that enables AI agents to securely access and operate desktop applications through WorkSpaces environments without requiring application modernization or custom integrations. The offering targets workflows where agents need to interact with legacy or proprietary desktop software, reducing the need for custom integrations or re-architecting applications.

The company also launched EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, which AWS says deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, a 5x larger cache, the fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local NVMe storage options for the C9gd variant. These instances are positioned for compute-intensive workloads, including AI model training and inference.

AWS introduced a new AWS CloudFormation Express mode that speeds up infrastructure deployment, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. The feature is available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.

Additional updates include Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS, which allow users to reverse cluster upgrades within seven days without rebuilding clusters, and ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager for automated issuance and renewal of public TLS certificates using standard tooling.

The roundup also highlighted performance optimizations for Amazon OpenSearch Service for log analytics, with AWS reporting up to 4x better price-performance on internal benchmarks while retaining full-text search capabilities. Amazon SageMaker AI was updated to support container image caching, enabling up to 2x faster end-to-end scaling for generative AI models during scale-out events.

AWS also announced changes to the availability status of several services, including the renaming of Amazon Bedrock Agents to Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic and the planned sunset of Amazon WorkSpaces PCoIP and Pool variants.