Swami Sivasubramanian

Career

Sivasubramanian joined Amazon in 2005 and worked on many AWS services before leading the company's broader AI and machine learning portfolio, including Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. In September 2023 Sivasubramanian joined Amazon's senior leadership team, the S-team, which lists Sivasubramanian as VP, Agentic AI.¹²

As Vice President of Agentic AI at AWS, Sivasubramanian oversees the development of AI agents that investigate, reason, and act on business problems; the team's launches include Amazon Quick Suite, Kiro, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, DevOps Agent, Security Agent, and Amazon Transform. From May 2022 to May 2025 Sivasubramanian was a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee.¹

Research

Sivasubramanian is a co-author of the 2007 paper on Dynamo, Amazon's highly available key-value store, written with Werner Vogels and other co-authors, and of the 2022 USENIX ATC paper describing Amazon DynamoDB as a scalable, predictably performant, fully managed NoSQL database service. Amazon Science lists these among Sivasubramanian's publications.⁴⁵³

Writing

Sivasubramanian writes for Amazon's news site about AWS AI products, including the October 2025 introduction of Amazon Quick Suite as an agentic AI application for work and a June 2026 post on new capabilities for AI agents announced at AWS Summit New York.¹

Work and contributions

• AWS agentic AI products (Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Kiro, Amazon Quick Suite) Proprietary product

  Amazon's author page says Sivasubramanian leads the AWS agentic AI portfolio and that the team has launched Amazon Quick Suite, Kiro, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, DevOps Agent, Security Agent and Amazon Transform; earlier, Sivasubramanian led the AWS AI and machine learning portfolio behind Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock.¹

• Dynamo: Amazon's highly available key-value store Published research

  Co-author, with Werner Vogels and others, of the 2007 ACM SOSP paper describing Dynamo, and a co-author of the 2022 USENIX ATC paper on Amazon DynamoDB.⁴⁵³

Timeline

1. 2005Joined Amazon, going on to work on many AWS services.¹
2. 2007Co-authored the paper on Dynamo, Amazon's highly available key-value store.⁴
3. 2022Co-authored the USENIX ATC paper on Amazon DynamoDB.⁵
4. May 2022Began serving on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, through May 2025.¹
5. Sep 2023Joined Amazon's senior leadership team, the S-team.¹²
6. Oct 9, 2025Introduced Amazon Quick Suite, an agentic AI application for work, on Amazon's news site.¹
7. Jun 17, 2026Wrote Amazon's post on new ways to make AI agents more effective at work from AWS Summit New York 2026.¹

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Member (May 2022 – May 2025), National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee¹

Where they work

• Amazon 39 people in the wiki

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