Amazon’s AWS pumps £754m into new AI engineering unit

Amazon Web Services is investing $1bn (£754m) in a new division that will embed AI engineers directly with customers to help them deploy artificial intelligence systems faster.
The company said its new Forward Deployed Engineering organisation will send small teams of engineers into customer businesses to co-develop and launch agentic AI tools.
Reuters reported that AWS plans to send five to six-person engineering pods to customers for 45-day periods, with the aim of helping businesses mov