SailPoint and AWS collaborate on governance for agentic AI builds

Enterprise identity security provider SailPoint and AWS have inked a multi-year strategic agreement, establishing SailPoint as the preferred identity governance solution for agentic AI builds on AWS.

The intention is to develop a unified governance layer to manage all identities, both human and non-human, that interact with AWS services.

The collaboration intends to deliver intelligent, automated governance that enforces least privilege by analysing real-time usage data (via AWS CloudTrail) to ensure identities only have the access they absolutely need. 

It also aims to create a single, authoritative view of all access relationships between workloads, federated identities, services, and data, as well as establish automated security guardrails that continuously enforce access policies, with workflows that instantly trigger access revocation based on changes in risk, role, or behavior to ensure a perpetually secure state. 

SailPoint integrates with AWS AgentCore (Bedrock AgentCore) by discovering AI agents in AgentCore and governing them as identities in SailPoint. This integration allows SailPoint customers to govern both human and agentic identities in a single pane of glass, enabling Human-Agent attribution, lifecycle governance, access reviews, right-sizing permissions, and policy enforcement.

“For AI to be a true business accelerant, it must be built on a foundation of security," said Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint.

"Our collaboration with AWS is about providing that foundation. By building a unified identity plane, we believe we will give our joint customers the visibility and control they need to manage the complexity of an AI-driven ecosystem, allowing them to innovate boldly and securely.”  

"As customers build transformative new experiences, they need a trusted framework for security and governance," said Keshav Narsipur, VP of AWS identity and access management, cloud governance and infrastructure as code at AWS.

"This collaboration brings together SailPoint's leadership in identity with the power of AWS, enabling our customers to confidently deploy and scale their AI agents."