Three AWS Summits across the US — LA on June 10, NYC on June 17, and Washington DC on June 30–July 1 — brought a wave of announcements that all orbited a single thesis: the age of agentic AI is here, and the winners will be organizations whose agents get smarter with every decision they make. In this episode, AWS Managing Director, North America Solutions Architecture, Geries AbouAyash joins hosts Malini and Amit to break down four major Summit announcements — Graviton5, AWS Context, AgentCore Harness, and AWS Continuum — spanning next-gen CPUs for agentic workloads, a governed knowledge graph that gives agents organizational memory, production-grade agent deployment, and security at machine speed. The throughline: in the age of Agentic AI, the challenge is no longer building intelligence but operationalizing it — and as foundation models become universally accessible, competitive advantage shifts from who has the model to who can run AI securely, efficiently, and at enterprise scale.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-the-aws-summit-in-new-york-2026/

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-graviton-5-cpu-amazon-ec2

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/context-intelligence-for-your-data-and-ai-agents-at-scale/

AWS Hosts: Amit Narayanan & Malini Chatterjee

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