"David Richardson returns to Amazon Web Services as vice president of AgentCore, the company's foundational agent infrastructure offering. A 16-year veteran of the cloud giant, Richardson was instrumental in launching AWS's Serverless business before departing in 2022 to lead developer experience and product platform at Stripe. Now back, DRR, as he's known inside Amazon, will oversee AgentCore along with related projects such as the Strands SDK and Agent Builder within Bedrock, AWS's popular AI platform."
"Joe Hellerstein, a professor at UC Berkeley and renowned database researcher, has also joined AWS as Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, according to a separate internal memo. He will play a pivotal role in advancing Kiro, AWS's agentic integrated development environment (IDE). Kiro has quickly gained traction, attracting over 100,000 users in its first week of release. Hellerstein's academic work includes leadership of the Hydro project, a framework for building distrib"
Amazon is intensifying investment in agentic AI by recruiting two senior executives to expand developer tools and infrastructure for intelligent agents. David Richardson returns to AWS to lead AgentCore, building on his role launching AWS Serverless and experience at Stripe, and will oversee Strands SDK and Agent Builder within Bedrock. Joe Hellerstein joins as Vice President and Distinguished Scientist to advance Kiro, an agentic IDE that drew over 100,000 users in its first week. AWS positions these moves to strengthen its platform offerings and developer ecosystem for building, deploying, and managing intelligent agent applications.
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