AWS Summit 2026 × Microsoft Build - Update Showdown

AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Summit 2026 × Microsoft Build Update Showdown Sadaomi Nishi

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WHY I CHOSE THIS TOPIC AWS Global Community Gatherings recap of Microsoft Build

WHY I CHOSE THIS TOPIC AWS Global Community Gatherings recap of AWS Summit

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AGENDA Overview AWS Global Community Gatherings Comparison Future Outlook

OVERVIEW Overview AWS Global Community Gatherings Comparison Future Outlook

OVERVIEW AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Summit NYC 2026 Microsoft Build 2026 Dates June 17, 2026 — one day June 2–3, 2026 — two days Venue Javits Center, New York City San Francisco Headliners Swami Sivasubramanian Satya Nadella Theme Agents at machine speed · Context intelligence “AI alone won’t change your business — the system running it will” Key Announcement Areas Bedrock AgentCore · Kiro (mobile, updates) · AWS Continuum · AWS Context MAI models · Maia 200 · Microsoft IQ · Agent 365 · MXC

OVERVIEW Dates AWS Global Community Gatherings Both are racing to AWS Summit NYC 2026 Microsoft Build 2026 own the context June 17, 2026 — one day June 2–3, 2026 — two days layer. Venue Javits Center, New York City San Francisco Headliners Swami Sivasubramanian Satya Nadella Theme Agents at machine speed · Context intelligence “AI alone won’t change your business — the system running it will” Key Announcement Areas Bedrock AgentCore · Kiro (mobile, updates) · AWS Continuum · AWS Context MAI models · Maia 200 · Microsoft IQ · Agent 365 · MXC 8

OVERVIEW Dates AWS Global Community Gatherings Models are becoming AWS Summit NYC 2026 Microsoft Build 2026 commodities. Context might be the moat. June 17, 2026 — one day June 2–3, 2026 — two days Venue Javits Center, New York City San Francisco Headliners Swami Sivasubramanian Satya Nadella Theme Agents at machine speed · Context intelligence “AI alone won’t change your business — the system running it will” Key Announcement Areas Bedrock AgentCore · Kiro (mobile, updates) · AWS Continuum · AWS Context MAI models · Maia 200 · Microsoft IQ · Agent 365 · MXC 8

COMPARISON Overview AWS Global Community Gatherings Comparison Future Outlook

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings

COMPARISON AWS Context A shared context layer for AI agents WHY WE NEED IT: “Agents are only as intelligent as the context they can reason over. “ AWS Context unifies this scattered context into one governed layer for agents. AWS Global Community Gatherings Key Features:

COMPARISON AWS Context AWS Global Community Gatherings Architecture:

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Context × Microsoft IQ Announcement Event Announcement History Structure Data Sources AWS Context Microsoft IQ AWS Summit NYC 2026 (Jun 17, 2026) Microsoft Build 2026 (Jun 2, 2026) Announced as a new service First introduced at Ignite 2025 (Nov 2025) as 3 IQs: Work IQ / Fabric IQ / Foundry IQ, then unified at Build 2026 with the addition of Web IQ (4-layer structure, GA) Single service (Knowledge Graph) 4-layer architecture: Work IQ / Fabric IQ / Foundry IQ / Web IQ Data lakes, DWs, DBs, streams, tribal knowledge Work IQ = M365 / Fabric IQ = OneLake / Foundry IQ = knowledge bases / Web IQ = the Web

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Context × Microsoft IQ AWS Context Microsoft IQ What It Builds Knowledge graph (auto-mapping) Semantic understanding layer (continuously built) Openness Published to Amazon S3 in Apache Iceberg format Within M365 tenant boundary (A2A / MCP / REST) Coming Soon (not GA) GA (Microsoft IQ unified) / Work IQ APIs GA on Jun 16, 2026 Availability Essence of the Difference Data-platform-native, single graph Federation of four origin-specific IQs

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COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings Key Features: AgentCore Harness A managed runtime for productiongrade AI agents WHY WE NEED IT: ”If the model is the brain, the harness is the body. ” Production agents need tool wiring, memory, observability, and isolation. Harness turns all that into configuration — two APIs, minutes to ship.

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings Key Features: Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base A fully-managed RAG pipeline for enterprise agents WHY WE NEED IT: "The end of DIY RAG." Building RAG means stitching together connectors, parsers, vector stores, and retrievers — every team reinventing the wheel. Managed Knowledge Base ships all of it as one service, callable by agents through AgentCore Gateway.

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings Key Features: Web Search on AgentCore A managed, low-latency web search tool for AI agents WHY WE NEED IT: "No more third-party search APIs." Giving agents web access used to mean Tavily, Brave, or Bing — with data egress, rate limits, and vendor lock-in. Web Search on AgentCore taps Amazon's own web index (used by Alexa+, Quick, Kiro) with zero data egress, MCP-native.

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings Amazon Bedrock AgentCore × Microsoft Agent Framework + MXC Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Microsoft Agent Framework + MXC AWS Summit NYC 2026 (Jun 17, 2026) Microsoft Build 2026 (Jun 2, 2026) AgentCore GA (Oct 2025) → Harness GA at Summit 2026 Agent Framework 1.0 GA (Apr 2026) → Agent Harness / Hyperlight / MXC announced at Build 2026 Structure Unified platform (Runtime / Memory / Gateway / Identity / Observability) Multi-layer: Agent Framework / Agent Harness / MXC / Foundry / Windows 365 for Agents Execution Unit Hyperlight micro-VM (cloud) + MXC policyCloud-side microVM (up to 8-hour sessions) driven sandbox (OS-local) Announcement Event Announcement History

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings Amazon Bedrock AgentCore × Microsoft Agent Framework + MXC Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Microsoft Agent Framework + MXC Philosophy Cloud-native managed runtime OS/local-integrated + cloud hybrid Model Support Model-agnostic (Bedrock/OpenAI/Gemini) Model-agnostic (.NET / Python) OS Support Cloud-only (OS-agnostic) Windows / Linux / macOS (via MXC) Harness: GA Agent Framework: GA / Agent Harness, Hyperlight: preview / MXC: Early Preview Availability Essence of the Difference Delivered as a cloud service Delivered as an OS capability

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COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings Key Features: AWS Continuum AI-native security at machine speed WHY WE NEED IT: "Telemetry Context Reasoning Actions." The old model — collect telemetry, query it, build dashboards — can't keep up. Frontier models like Claude Mythos find vulnerabilities at machine speed, generating exponential backlogs. Continuum closes the loop: discover prioritize validate remediate, all at the same speed attackers operate. → → → → → →

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Continuum × Microsoft MDASH AWS Continuum Microsoft MDASH AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness (codename MDASH) Announcement AWS Summit NYC 2026 (Jun 17, 2026) Microsoft Build 2026 (Jun 2, 2026; technical reveal May 13) Philosophy "Telemetry → Context → Reasoning → Actions." "The model is one input. The system is the product." Architecture Single multi-model platform (modelagnostic) 100+ specialized AI agents × multiple models in a 5-stage pipeline Full Name

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Continuum × Microsoft MDASH AWS Continuum Microsoft MDASH Discover → Prioritize → Validate → Remediate Prepare → Scan → Validate → Dedup → Prove Builds reproducible exploits in sandbox Dynamically proves exploits via AddressSanitizer (C/C++) Learn Mode → Enforce Mode (graduated trust) Human review by default, integrated into Defender Portal Integrations GuardDuty / Security Hub / Security Agent Microsoft Defender / GitHub Code Security / Copilot Autofix Benchmark (Not publicly disclosed) CyberGym 96.55% (top leaderboard score) Availability Gated Preview Expanded Preview 5 Phases Validation Mode Control Essence of the Difference Integrated into the cloud platform layer Integrated into the code development lifecycle

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings ONE MORE THING — AWS Summit NYC 2026 AWS WAF — Bot Control for AI traffic monetization Content providers can now meter, price, and collect payment from AI bots accessing their content Status: GA ▶ AWS Transform — Continuous Modernization Autonomously scans repos to detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt at scale Status: Preview ▶ AWS DevOps Agent — Release Management Reviews code changes for release readiness and runs autonomous release testing Status: Preview ▶ Kiro iOS App Run autonomous engineering work from mobile; sessions continue seamlessly when you open your laptop Status: Gated Preview ▶ Amazon S3 Annotations Attach queryable context directly to S3 objects for AI agents ▶ Status: GA

COMPARISON AWS Global Community Gatherings ONE MORE THING — Microsoft Build 2026 Microsoft Scout The first Autopilot — an always-on personal agent built on OpenClaw, grounded in Work IQ Experimental Release (Frontier program) ▶ Status: Seven new MAI Models Microsoft AI's biggest first-party release: MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.5 (+Flash), MAITranscribe-1.5, MAI-Voice-2 (+Flash) Status: Mixed (Image/Voice GA; Thinking-1 Private Preview in Foundry) Azure Cobalt 200 VMs ▶ Arm-based VMs delivering up to 50% better generational performance over Cobalt 100, designed for scaleout, cloud-native, and Linux-based agentic AI workloads Status: Early Access Preview ▶ GitHub Copilot App Agent-native desktop experience for directing multiple agents in parallel — available in Technical Preview for existing Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. No waitlist. Status: Technical Preview Pro / Pro+ / Business / Enterprise Agent Control Specification (ACS) A new governance specification for agent behavior across the enterprise Status: Preview ） ▶ （ ▶

FUTURE OUTLOOK Overview AWS Global Community Gatherings Comparison Future Outlook

FUTURE OUTLOOK AWS Global Community Gatherings What comes next? Context will be the battlefield. Governance will be the entry ticket. → AWS Context GA the race becomes visible Without Continuum or equivalent governance, enterprises won't let agents in Models handle the stimulus and the response. The space in between? That's still ours.

FUTURE OUTLOOK AWS Global Community Gatherings What comes next? Will AI take my job? Maybe. Will AI make me obsolete? Context will be the battlefield. Governance will be the entry ticket. → AWS Context GA the race becomes visible Without Continuum or equivalent governance, enterprises won't let agents in Models handle the stimulus and the response. The space in between? That's still ours.

FUTURE OUTLOOK AWS Global Community Gatherings What comes next? Absolutely not… if you evolve. Context will be the battlefield. Governance will be the entry ticket. → AWS Context GA the race becomes visible Without Continuum or equivalent governance, enterprises won't let agents in Models handle the stimulus and the response. The space in between? That's still ours.

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FAQ AWS Global Community Gatherings What's the difference between AWS Context and Microsoft IQ? AWS Context builds a graph from data. Microsoft IQ builds semantic understanding from work. Is the model performance race over? Not over, but the axis of differentiation is shifting from models to context. When will AWS Context become generally available? As of Summit NYC 2026, it was announced as "coming soon." No GA date has been confirmed. Do you need an M365 Copilot license to use Microsoft IQ? No. Work IQ APIs are consumption-based and independent of M365 Copilot licensing. What's the difference between Kiro and the GitHub Copilot App? Kiro is AWS's agentic IDE. The GitHub Copilot App is a GitHub-native desktop for directing multiple agents. Same concept, different ecosystems.

FAQ AWS Global Community Gatherings How does this apply to non-engineers? Always-on agents like Scout and Amazon Quick work without prompts. Non-engineers increasingly become the ones deciding what agents should do — not how to build them. How do AWS and Microsoft differ on governance? AWS automates security at machine speed with Continuum. Microsoft gives IT admins a unified control plane via Agent 365, built on Entra, Purview, and Defender. Will AI take engineers' jobs? As Werner Vogels put it: "Will AI make me obsolete? Absolutely not… if you evolve." The work changes, but the judgment, the design, the meaning — that's still ours.

REFERENCES AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Summit NYC 2026 AWS Official Blog: Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-the-aws-summit-in-new-york-2026/ AWS Machine Learning Blog: Context intelligence for your data and AI agents at scale https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/context-intelligence-for-your-data-and-ai-agents-at-scale/ About Amazon: New ways to make AI agents more effective at work https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-summit-nyc-2026-ai-agents

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-the-aws-summit-in-new-york-2026/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/context-intelligence-for-your-data-and-ai-agents-at-scale/
• https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-summit-nyc-2026-ai-agents

REFERENCES AWS Global Community Gatherings Microsoft Build 2026 Microsoft News: Build 2026 Official Announcements https://news.microsoft.com/build-2026/ Microsoft Blog: Be yourself at work — Build 2026 https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/06/02/microsoft-build-2026-be-yourself-at-work/ Microsoft 365 Blog: Introducing Microsoft Scout https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-youralways-on-personal-agent/ Microsoft AI: Building a hill-climbing machine — Launching seven new MAI models https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/ Azure AI Foundry Blog: New MAI models in Microsoft Foundry https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/new-mai-models-in-microsoft-foundryacross-text-image-voice-and-speech/4524632

• https://news.microsoft.com/build-2026/
• https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/06/02/microsoft-build-2026-be-yourself-at-work/
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/
• https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/new-mai-models-in-microsoft-foundry-across-text-image-voice-and-speech/4524632

REFERENCES AWS Global Community Gatherings Microsoft Build 2026 Azure Blog: New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-cobalt-200-vms-deliver-50-performance-improvementfully-optimized-for-modern-agentic-ai-workloads/ GitHub Blog: Copilot App — The agent-native desktop experience https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-app-the-agent-native-desktop-experience/ Microsoft Build 2026 Book of News (GitHub Official Repo) https://github.com/microsoft/Build26-news/blob/main/news.md Azure Blog: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-build-2026-building-agentic-apps-with-microsoft-fabricand-microsoft-databases/

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-cobalt-200-vms-deliver-50-performance-improvement-fully-optimized-for-modern-agentic-ai-workloads/
• https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-app-the-agent-native-desktop-experience/
• https://github.com/microsoft/Build26-news/blob/main/news.md
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-build-2026-building-agentic-apps-with-microsoft-fabric-and-microsoft-databases/

AWS Global Community Gatherings AWS Summit 2026 × Microsoft Build Update Showdown Sadaomi Nishi