AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops
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Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs.
The new service, currently in preview, allows users to assign agents an identity using Amazon’s Identity and Access Management service. Using those credentials, agents can access a WorkSpace at a unique pre-signed URL and drive any apps running there on the cloudy PC.
An AWS spokesperson told us the cloudy colossus recommends developers give each agent a unique identity, because doing so makes it easier to track their activities and to distinguish agentic actions from activity conducted by humans.
We’re also told that agents “connect through a managed MCP endpoint that provides governed access to desktop tools such as screenshots, mouse control, and text input.” This apparently “gives developers a controlled interface for agents to interact with the desktop while maintaining...
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