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Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman

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Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman

The a16z Show

1 DAYS AGO
The a16z Show

The a16z Show

1 DAYS AGO
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a16z’s Raghu Raghuram sits down with AWS CEO Matt Garman to discuss how AI is reshaping the cloud, from the needs of AI-native startups to infrastructure increasingly designed for agents. Matt explains how AWS is adapting as agents write code and manage i...

Highlights

AWS CEO Matt Garman explains how cloud infrastructure is being redesigned for an agentic world, from startup access and GPU capacity to custom chips, enterprise trust, and Amazon’s own use of AI agents.
00:30
AWS protects capacity for startups
06:39
Clouds must work for agents, not just people
13:32
Agents need infrastructure that can disappear—or scale into production.
18:31
AWS is choosing ecosystem breadth over selling every GPU to the biggest labs.
22:18
Positive returns make the demand durable
24:48
AI scale now requires bringing your own power
30:59
Data centers need to communicate their benefits
35:41
Graviton became a runaway hit
43:46
Evaluation is the biggest area where customers need help
53:23
Agents write the code

Chapters

AWS’s growth and enduring startup strategy
00:00
Designing the cloud for agents at scale
12:03
The economics and physical scale of AI infrastructure
20:42
Planning the hardware, supply chain, and community footprint
25:27
From virtualization offload to Graviton and Trainium
33:17
What enterprises need before agents can operate autonomously
38:30
AWS’s internal agent-first transformation
51:14

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Matt Garman: Agentic workflows tend to perform better on AWS than anywhere else. Compute sandboxes, gateways, agent permissions versus people. A lot of those are things that we have built and are building and thinking actively about. Raghu Raghuram: The t...