The first half of 2025 has seen an unprecedented acceleration in artificial intelligence-driven innovation as enterprise technology undergoes a major shift. Trends like AWS AI agents, real-time observability and smarter data architectures are redefining how organizations operate and scale.

For Amazon Web Services Inc., the first six half of the year has included a focus on Amazon OpenSearch. OpenSearch is a multifaceted service that functions as a search engine, a vector database and a log analytics platform all in one, according to Nandini Ramani (pictured), vice president of search, observability and cloud ops at AWS.

Nandini Ramani of AWS talks with John Furrier of theCUBE during the AWS Mid-Year Leadership Summit.

“It’s got multifaceted things, each of them very applicable to this agentic world,” Ramani said. “I have the CloudWatch, which is my flagship product for both Amazon and AWS, for troubleshooting and observability. I also have CloudTrail for governance and things like that. I have other services as well, but this portfolio of things in an agentic world, I think, are disproportionately important.”

Ramani spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier at the AWS Mid-Year Leadership Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed AWS AI agents and how data observability and infrastructure innovation are reshaping enterprise technology strategies.

AWS AI agents gain traction but work to be done

Despite all of the advances, it’s essential to meet customers where they are, Ramani explained. While advancements like AI agents are gaining traction, many organizations still operate with monoliths and mainframes.

“Of course, gen AI can help you in the migration, and it can make plans for you. It can even refactor COBOL into Java,” she said. “We have a wide spectrum here, where we have to meet the customer where they are. In terms of agents, I think we have to see where the puck is going, and the puck is going very fast.”

Ultimately, the key differentiator will be how easily users can consume vast amounts of data and whether the experience supports seamless interaction, according to Ramani. That could include agents for every small task.

“I remember when we went from monoliths to microservices. We shifted too far on one end. That’s the thing with agents to see,” she said. “It’s easy. Now we have MCP servers, not just to talk to the tools, but from agent to agent. We’ve got to watch where it’s going, and be thoughtful about what is that user experience?”

Agents are proliferating and becoming complex, distributed systems that require effective observation. Without proper monitoring, a company might wake up to find that agents have made significant changes, Ramani added.

“I’ve had customers ask me, ‘With my developers, we have performance cycles. We know how they’re doing.’ We’re going to need things like that for agents,” she said. “We need proactive detection of vulnerabilities and things like that in code before it goes into production. There’s so many layers and aspects to this.”

In the past six months, AWS has launched many capabilities that are already helping customers, according to Ramani. There’s also much more on the way as technology continues to evolve.

“The next phase, I think, is going to be, how do we make all this usable?” she said. “Next time I see you at re:Invent, we’re going to have so many more agents. We are going to have so many more tools.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Mid-Year Leadership Summit:

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