AWS publishes ‘Trust in Depth’ framework for giving agents verifiable autonomy
AWS outlines a ‘Trust in Depth’ approach to let AI agents act autonomously while maintaining control, organizing controls across four phases—Scope, Know, Bound, Observe—and combining rule-based proofs (automated reasoning) with limiting access and human judgment where proofs don’t apply. The company notes it has used automated reasoning in production for over a decade in services like IAM, Nitro Hypervisor, S3 Block Public Access, and VPC Reachability Analyzer and says it will apply the same techniques to agents.