Introduction
This week brings significant announcements from AWS, including the general availability of two powerful autonomous agents and important updates to service lifecycle status. These developments promise to enhance cloud operations and security testing while helping customers plan for service transitions.
AWS DevOps and Security Agents Now Generally Available
At re:Invent last year, AWS introduced the concept of frontier agents — autonomous tools that work across multiple steps to achieve outcomes, operating continuously until tasks are complete. The first two, AWS DevOps Agent and AWS Security Agent, have now moved from preview to general availability.
AWS DevOps Agent assists with cloud operations by investigating incidents, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR), and preventing issues proactively. Customers including United Airlines, Western Governors University (WGU), and T-Mobile have already adopted it to accelerate incident response and simplify large-scale operations. WGU reported resolution times dropping from hours to minutes. During the preview, customers experienced up to 75% lower MTTR and 3 to 5 times faster resolution. For more details, see Sébastien’s preview blog post and the GA announcement.
AWS Security Agent
AWS Security Agent brings continuous, context-aware penetration testing into the development lifecycle, operating like a human pen tester. Customers such as LG CNS, HENNGE, and Wayspring are seeing strong results. LG CNS teams estimate over 50% faster testing and ~30% lower costs, along with significantly fewer false positives. Learn more in Esra’s preview blog post and the GA announcement.
Both agents are designed to work across AWS cloud, multicloud, and on-premises environments. They serve as always-available teammates that handle heavy lifting, allowing teams to focus on what matters most.
AWS Service Lifecycle Changes
When an AWS service or feature changes availability, AWS provides guidance in the AWS Product Lifecycle Changes page, including alternatives and migration support. The following updates were made on March 31, 2026.
Services in Maintenance
The following services have moved to maintenance status:
- AWS App Runner
- AWS Audit Manager
- AWS CloudTrail – Lake
- AWS Glue – Ray jobs
- AWS IoT FleetWise
- Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) – Readiness Check
- Amazon Comprehend – Topic Modeling, Event Detection, and Prompt Safety Classification
- Amazon Rekognition – Streaming Events and Batch Image Content Moderation
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) – Message Data Protection (MDP)
Services in Sunset
The following services are now in sunset:
- AWS Service Management Connector
- Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
- Amazon WorkMail
- Amazon WorkSpaces – Thin Client
Services Reaching Sunset
Additionally, Amazon Chime SDK – Proxy Sessions is now reaching sunset status.
These lifecycle changes help customers plan for transitions and minimize operational disruption. For full guidance, refer to the AWS Product Lifecycle Changes page.