A bigger role for Swami: Amazon’s agentic AI chief gets broader mandate to shape emerging tech

Swami Sivasubramanian on stage at AWS re:Invent in 2023, with a keynote slide behind him. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon just broadened the role of Swami Sivasubramanian, the VP behind AWS’s agentic AI push, expanding and renaming his organization to include emerging technologies, and giving him a larger mandate to shape AI strategy and technical direction across the cloud division. Sivasubramanian announced the change in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, saying he will now lead the “Agentic AI