At AWS re:Invent 2025, AWS announced a major expansion of its AI-partner program: the traditional “Generative AI Competency” has been broadened into new “Agentic AI” categories — reflecting a shift from simple generative models toward AI agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting more autonomously.
Under this new structure, there are three categories for validated partners: “Agentic AI Tools,” “Agentic AI Applications,” and “Agentic AI Consulting Services.” These categories are meant to help enterprises find reliable firms that can build full-fledged autonomous-AI solutions.
This change isn’t just cosmetic — AWS introduced new infrastructure and products supporting agentic workloads: among them, upgraded servers (powered by the Trainium3 chip), expanded AI-model offerings (the Amazon Nova family), and “frontier agents” designed to run complex tasks for extended periods without human supervision.
Finally, AWS and its partners are positioning these developments as the next big step for enterprises — from legacy cloud services to a future where autonomous agents help automate development workflows, security, operations, and even business-critical tasks. The goal seems to be shifting from “assistive generative AI” to “production-ready autonomous AI.”
