Why AWS’s partner play is more powerful than ever—and how Robots & Pencils is positioned to deliver 

In our AWS Summit NYC recap series, we’ve explored the rise of agentic AI and the infrastructure upgrades making AI-native systems possible. 

But beneath the product announcements and keynote buzz, AWS made something else clear: the strength of your partnerships will define how fast—and how well—you can put this innovation to work. 

For Robots & Pencils, the AWS ecosystem isn’t just support—it’s a multiplier for speed, alignment, and delivery. 

From Tech Stack to Trust Network 

AWS isn’t just launching tools—it’s creating the environment for those tools to thrive. That means: 

• New partner categories make AI solutions easier to find and deploy 

• Training tracks and certifications speed delivery 

• Direct connections between AWS teams, partners, and customers keep strategy aligned 

We saw it up close. From booths to breakouts to one-on-one meetings, the AWS Summit felt like an inflection point—not just for the cloud, but for the partner community driving its adoption. 

AWS Is Creating the Right Categories for the Right Moment 

With the debut of the “AI Agents & Tools” category in AWS Marketplace, partners now have a faster path to visibility—and customers have a clearer path to adoption. This is a win for agile teams with real capabilities, not just market hype, and it reflects something we wrote in the first article in our AWS Summit NYC recap series: 

“AWS is moving from models to agents—and that shift demands partners who can build systems that act, not just answer.” 

Robots & Pencils is already there, and this new Marketplace category gives us—and our clients—room to move faster. 

Training Isn’t Just Available—It’s Evolving 

At the summit, we participated in several partner enablement sessions focused on agentic AI, security, and cost-optimized architecture. The message: certification isn’t a checkbox. It’s an edge. 

With AWS investing $100M more into its Generative AI Innovation Center, that advantage is about to compound. AWS wants to scale partner-led innovation—and we’re leaning in hard, upskilling across engineering, architecture, and delivery. 

In second article in our AWS Summit NYC recap series, we covered the infrastructure that supports AI. Here, we’re talking about the people. AWS knows partner talent is the force multiplier, and so do we. 

Relationships Drive Better Results—For Us and Our Client 

Our team, including EVP Scott Young, CRO Patrick Higgins, and CTO Mark Phillips, had face time with AWS sales leaders tied to our current clients, plus strategic product and solutions teams. These weren’t “check-in” conversations. They’re forward-looking, roadmap-level discussions built on shared outcomes. 

Whether we’re supporting a retail loyalty rebuild or a health tech AI rollout, these connections ensure we can act fast, align fast, and deliver fast. When your partner relationships are strong, the technology moves quicker—and the value lands sooner. 

The Ecosystem is the Advantage 

We’ve already written about the power of AWS’s newest AI tools and smarter infrastructure. But tools alone don’t create transformation—ecosystems do. That’s what AWS is building, and it’s what we’re investing in. 

Robots & Pencils isn’t just an implementer. We’re a strategic partner moving with speed, clarity, and intent—ready to deliver value inside the AWS ecosystem. 

Want to move fast and scale smart? Let’s connect. 

How AWS’s latest updates eliminate blockers and set the stage for AI-native transformation 

At the AWS Summit in New York City, intelligence wasn’t the only thing getting an upgrade. While agentic AI stole the spotlight, AWS also made quiet but critical moves to reshape the infrastructure that supports it. 

From cost-cutting vector storage to smarter metadata and new observability layers, AWS is making modernization faster, cheaper, and smarter. For teams looking to move from legacy to intelligent systems, that’s a big deal. 

If the first article in our AWS Summit NYC recap series was about what AI can do, this one’s about making sure your cloud stack is actually ready for it. 

Cloud Modernization, Reinforced 

It’s easy to get distracted by what’s new. But speed, scale, and AI-powered outcomes all depend on something foundational: modern cloud infrastructure. 

The updates announced at AWS Summit 2025 directly support that foundation—and align perfectly with how Robots & Pencils helps clients rethink legacy systems. 

AWS Is Slashing Cloud Costs Without Sacrificing Power 

S3 Vector Storage (preview) 

AWS introduced a native vector store for S3—giving teams tight integration with Bedrock, SageMaker, and OpenSearch, while reducing cost by up to 90% compared to third-party solutions. That’s not an edge case. That’s budget back in your pocket. 

Expanded Metadata & Real-Time SQL Querying 

Full metadata visibility with live inventory and journal tables means real-time insight is now baked in. It’s the kind of friction-removal that makes data usable across your org—not just readable. 

At Robots & Pencils, we’ve seen firsthand how cloud-native data optimization shortens AI time-to-value. These updates accelerate that even further. 

Observability, Debugging, and Dev Speed Just Got Easier 

EventBridge Logging Enhancements 

Lifecycle-level logging is now standard, making it easier to debug event-driven architectures—no more piecing together what happened across services. 

Kiro IDE + Model Context Protocol (MCP) 

While technically AI-adjacent, these tools boost developer velocity across the board. Kiro brings planning, debugging, and doc automation into one place. MCP helps agentic systems (or any cloud-native system) understand and interact with AWS services seamlessly. 

For modernization teams, that means less time wrangling services—and more time building smart, secure flows. 

Robots & Pencils Is Already Delivering This Way 

Our approach to modernization goes beyond lift-and-shift. We build cloud-native platforms that support intelligent apps, real-time data, and adaptive workflows—without the bloat or bottlenecks of traditional systems. 

What AWS announced this year strengthens everything we already do 

• Replace always-on costs with serverless efficiency 

• Automate observability and real-time debugging 

• Build pipelines that feed AI-native systems from day one 

From deconstructing monoliths to activating AI in production, we’re helping clients modernize with clarity, not chaos. 

Now Is the Moment to Rethink Your Stack 

The future of AI is exciting—but only if your infrastructure is ready to support it. 

AWS just made that a lot easier. And Robots & Pencils is already building on it. 

If your systems are weighed down by legacy code, redundant services, or “modern” platforms that still require constant manual oversight—now’s the time to act. 

Let’s modernize with purpose—and build a stack that’s ready for what’s next. 

Why the next wave of AI will be built on agents—and why Robots & Pencils is already ahead 

At the AWS Summit in New York City, one thing was clear: AI is no longer just answering questions—it’s taking action. From keynote to demo floor, AWS unveiled a future powered by agentic AI—intelligent systems that don’t just respond, but plan, adapt, and operate with autonomy. 

This marks a major shift. The conversation has moved from models to agents—and AWS is giving companies the infrastructure to build them at scale. 

For Robots & Pencils, this is more than momentum. It’s validation. We’ve spent years architecting systems that think, adapt, and deliver. Now, with AWS’s newest tools, that future is fully in reach—and we’re ready to help clients lead it. 

Beyond Prompts: The Rise of Autonomous Agents 

Agentic AI marks a shift from generating content to driving decisions and completing tasks. These aren’t just smarter bots—they’re systems designed to act with purpose. Think of them as AI that collaborates with your team, not just informs it. 

For builders, businesses, and end users, this leap is transformational. At Robots & Pencils, it plays directly to our strengths: engineering that scales, design that connects, and AI that delivers valuable results. 

AWS Is Building the Agentic AI Stack 

Enterprise-Grade Agent Infrastructure Is Here 

Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of Agentic AI, used his keynote to spotlight Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—a modular framework to build secure, scalable agents. Memory, identity, tool access, sandboxed code execution, and observability are all built in. It’s everything teams need to deploy AI agents that can work within real-world systems. 

Alongside AgentCore, AWS previewed S3 Vector Storage, a native, cost-effective store for embeddings that integrates directly with Bedrock, SageMaker, and OpenSearch. For teams building intelligent systems, this is a game-changer—bringing speed, scale, and cost efficiency to AI memory and context handling. 

At Robots & Pencils, we’re already designing systems that think and act. These new tools expand what’s possible. 

The Tooling Finally Matches the Vision

Agentic AI requires new workflows—and AWS delivered. 

• Kiro IDE gives developers a space to plan, debug, and document agent behavior. 

• Strands 1.0 SDK accelerates multi-agent system builds, reducing dev cycles from months to hours. 

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces APIs and knowledge servers that help agents query AWS services natively. 

These aren’t experiments. They’re accelerators. And for a company like Robots & Pencils—where agile, full-stack delivery is the norm—they remove friction and unlock faster, smarter builds. 

This Is Exactly What Robots & Pencils Was Built For 

Agentic systems need more than prompts. They need cloud-native infrastructure, data pipelines that support real-time decisions, and UX designed around action—not just output. 

That’s what we do. 

From embedded co-pilots and intelligent routing to workflow automation and secure orchestration, we’ve been building agentic foundations long before they had a name. Now, with AWS’s latest tools, we can go further—and faster. 

Ready to Move from AI Theory to AI Action? 

Agentic AI is here. AWS isn’t just talking about it—they’re building the stack to make it real. 

And Robots & Pencils is ready. 

We’ve got the engineering muscle, the UX insight, and the AWS expertise to help you build the next generation of intelligent systems—systems that don’t just assist, but act.  

Don’t wait for the future. Let’s start building it.