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


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WHO I AM
Sadaomi Nishi a.k.a West
Sales rep in Japan who loves technology and community
AWS Community Builder, Microsoft MVP
Huge Pokémon Lover
AWS Global Community Gatherings


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


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


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WHY I CHOSE THIS TOPIC
AWS Global Community Gatherings
maybe I gotta
speak something


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AGENDA
Overview
AWS Global Community Gatherings
Comparison
Future Outlook


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OVERVIEW
Overview
AWS Global Community Gatherings
Comparison
Future Outlook


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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


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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
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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
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COMPARISON
Overview
AWS Global Community Gatherings
Comparison
Future Outlook


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COMPARISON
AWS Global Community Gatherings


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COMPARISON
AWS Global Community Gatherings


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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.
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Key Features:


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COMPARISON
AWS Context
AWS Global Community Gatherings
Architecture:


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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


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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
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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.


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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.


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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.


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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


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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
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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.
→
→
→
→
→
→


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COMPARISON
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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


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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


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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


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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
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▶
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FUTURE OUTLOOK
Overview
AWS Global Community Gatherings
Comparison
Future Outlook


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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.


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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.


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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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Japan Standard Time (JST)


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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.


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FAQ
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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.


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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


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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


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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/


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