Amazon Web Services
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is Amazon's cloud computing platform, launched in 2006, providing on-demand access to computing power, storage, databases, networking, and hundreds of other services over the internet. Rather than owning physical servers, businesses can rent scalable infrastructure and pay only for what they use. Core offerings include EC2 (virtual servers), S3 (storage), RDS (databases), and Lambda (serverless computing), alongside tools for machine learning, analytics, security, and IoT. AWS serves millions of customers worldwide, from startups to large enterprises and government agencies, and holds the largest share of the global cloud infrastructure market, competing with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Its flexibility, global reach, and broad service catalog make it a foundation for modern digital infrastructure.
Amy Herzog
VP & CISO at Amazon Web Services
Why Agents Can't Be Governed Like People with Amazon Web Services VP & CISO Amy Herzog
On the 42nd episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, host Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) is joined by Amy Herzog, VP & CISO at Amazon Web Services. AWS is the world's largest cloud provider, and its active defense systems process more than 400 trillion network flows every day. Amy explains why AI changes the speed and cost of security rather than its fundamentals, why vulnerability management is collapsing from a month to minutes, and why autonomous agents need their own identity and authorization models rather than the controls built for people.