The internet is being rebuilt for machines
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new version of OpenSearch Serverless, designed specifically for AI agents. This infrastructure allows for rapid scaling to accommodate bursts of machine-generated traffic while minimizing costs during idle periods. The move reflects a broader trend in the tech industry to adapt cloud services for a future dominated by non-human internet activity.
- ▪AWS's OpenSearch Serverless is a fully managed search and vector database tailored for agentic workloads.
- ▪Cloudflare reports that bots accounted for 31% of overall HTTP traffic in the last six months, with AI crawlers and assistants making up a significant portion of that traffic.
- ▪The new OpenSearch Serverless decouples compute from storage, allowing for instant scaling based on demand.
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Cloud infrastructure has long been designed around humans who search, click, scroll, and stream in a steady and predictable fashion. AI agents behave differently. They can unleash a swell of activity, spinning up multiple sub-agents that query hundreds of databases, search documents, and call APIs in seconds and then disappear as quickly as they arrived. Under that premise, Amazon is redesigning a core piece of its cloud infrastructure. On Thursday, AWS launched its next generation of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database — essentially a system for storing and retrieving information at scale — that’s designed specifically for agentic workloads. AWS says the new system can instantly scale up when agents trigger tasks and scale back down to zero when idle.
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