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AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated

AWS has introduced a method for propagating user authorization context through AI agents built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling infrastructure and downstream services to enforce access controls instead of relying on the agent itself. This approach limits data access even when an agent is manipulated, addressing the risk of unauthorized information retrieval from sources like Amazon DynamoDB tables, document repositories, SaaS platforms, and internal knowledge bases.

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AWS has detailed an approach for propagating user authorization context through AI agents, allowing access controls to be enforced by infrastructure and downstream services rather than relying on the agent itself. Customers using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore can build AI agents that pull information from Amazon DynamoDB tables, document repositories, SaaS platforms, and internal knowledge bases to answer questions and automate workflows. Without awareness of the user making a request, however, an agent could return information … More

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