AI agents are moving faster than you thought

Feb 6, 2026

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AI agents in business aren't something that will happen in the future. They’re already here, and they're scaling a lot more rapidly than we expected.

In this episode of The Deep View: Conversations, I talk to Matt Yanchyshyn, who leads AWS Marketplace at Amazon Web Services. Yanchyshyn's team helps organizations discover, buy, and deploy software on AWS, and one of the biggest shifts they’ve seen over the past six months is the explosion of AI agents in real-world use cases.

When AWS unveiled its agent marketplace in mid-2025, the internal goal was initially to launch with 50 agents. By early 2026, that number had surged past 2,600 agents, making it the fastest-growing category in the history of the world’s largest cloud platform.

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So what’s driving that surge? Yanchyshyn breaks it down.

In this conversation, we cover:

  • Which types of AI agents are seeing the fastest enterprise adoption
  • The industries and use cases leading the charge
  • How companies are handling data security and sovereignty concerns
  • The role of multi-model orchestration in agent effectiveness
  • How AWS is using agents internally to drive lots of different wins

If you're trying to understand where AI agents are actually being deployed — not the hype, but the reality — then this conversation will reset your expectations. It will help you understand where agentic AI is already delivering business value, and where it’s heading next.

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