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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
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.
Matt Garman describes AWS’s continued growth through cloud migration and AI, while emphasizing that startups remain central to its strategy and future customer base. He explains how agentic workloads require faster onboarding, transient resources, new permissions, secure sandboxes, and infrastructure that can scale into production. The discussion covers AWS’s enormous capital spending, power and supply-chain constraints, its custom silicon strategy, and why Graviton and Trainium matter. Garman argues that enterprise agent adoption will depend on evaluations, guardrails, trusted data environments, and customer self-sufficiency. He concludes with AWS’s internal use of agents, which is accelerating software development and changing how teams work.
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AWS protects capacity for startups
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Clouds must work for agents, not just people
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Agents need infrastructure that can disappear—or scale into production.
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AWS is choosing ecosystem breadth over selling every GPU to the biggest labs.
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Positive returns make the demand durable
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AI scale now requires bringing your own power
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Data centers need to communicate their benefits
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Graviton became a runaway hit
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Evaluation is the biggest area where customers need help
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Agents write the code