AWS expands AI Competency with new Agentic AI categories

AWS announces a major expansion of the AI Competency (formerly Generative AI Competency) in the largest Specialization launch to date including 60 validated partners across three new Agentic AI categories: Agentic AI Tools, Agentic AI Applications, and Agentic AI Consulting Services. These categories help customers identify and work with AWS Partners who specialize in developing and implementing autonomous AI systems that can perceive, reason, and act with minimal human oversight. To streamline the partner validation process, AWS today launched an AI agent in AWS Partner Central that provides partners with immediate feedback on their AI Specialization applications, significantly accelerating the path to competency attainment.

As organizations move beyond AI experimentation toward production-ready autonomous systems, they need partners with proven expertise in deploying AI agents that can orchestrate complex workflows, maintain contextual awareness, and collaborate across multiple platforms. The new Agentic AI categories validate partners who can deliver sophisticated solutions and offerings using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, Amazon SageMaker AI, and other AWS AI services while maintaining strong commitments to responsible AI development, governance, and monitoring.

AWS Partners in these categories undergo rigorous technical validation and must demonstrate successful customer implementations that meet AWS's high standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence. These validated partners are uniquely positioned to help customers deploy production-grade autonomous AI systems that drive real business value.

Apply to the AWS AI Competency on Partner Central and learn more about the AWS AI Competency through our APN Blog and explore validated partners in the new Agentic AI categories.