The company is committing an initial $1 billion to the initiative with the goal of sending five to six pods of engineers to customers for 45-day periods, said Francessca Vasquez, AWS vice president of frontier AI engineering and services.

A new AWS Forward Deployed Engineering organization will embed thousands of experts with customers to co-develop and deploy agentic AI solutions in days.

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.