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New AWS and IBM Agentic Collaborations Showcased at IBM Think 2026

At IBM Think 2026, AWS and IBM will showcase the breadth and depth of our strategic collaboration spanning agentic AI, mainframe modernization, autonomous databases and enterprise automation. AWS is excited to be back at IBM Think as a Premier and Partner Plus Day sponsor. If you’re attending, we’d love to see you—here are several ways to connect with us and dive deeper into the announcements shared here: 

Stop by Booth #611 to see how AWS and IBM are working together to: 

✅ Build intelligent agents for real-world use cases 

✅ Scale AI globally with confidence 

✅ Deliver solutions faster through AWS Marketplace 

Join the AWS team at in the following sessions and activities:

  • Architecting the Next Generation of Enterprise AI Join AWS, IBM, and Merck to explore how organizations are architecting the next generation of enterprise AI—powered by agentic systems. Tuesday, May 5 | 2:00 PM | Room 209 (Level 2)
  • Bourbon & Bites with AWS Looking for more ways to connect? Join AWS—IBM Consulting’s #1 strategic cloud partner—for a unique bourbon tasting experience.  Tuesday, May 5 |  4:30 PM | Room MCEC 105 
  • Exclusive Client & Partner Luncheon Take a break from the conference and join AWS for an exclusive luncheon with a select group of clients and partners. Enjoy meaningful conversations, new insights, valuable networking, a curated dining experience, and light trivia with prizes.  Wednesday, May 6 |  12:00 PM | Room MCEC 105 

As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and Managed Cloud Services Provider IBM continues to expand the ways customers can leverage the best of both platforms to innovate faster, modernize with confidence, and operate more efficiently. These innovations represent a fundamental shift in how enterprises can modernize, secure, and scale their most important workloads.

Here’s a closer look at the recent milestones from the IBM and AWS collaboration — spanning agentic AI, mainframe modernization, infrastructure innovation, and AWS Marketplace expansion.

Agentic AI

At the heart of this collaboration is a shared commitment to bringing agentic AI into the enterprise.

IBM Bob: Agentic IDE with Amazon Bedrock

IBM Bob, the agentic integrated development environment (IDE), leverages Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock for AI-powered code generation. Now generally available, IBM Bob brings the power of foundation models to developers, enabling accelerated code understanding, intelligent refactoring, and AI-driven impact analysis. Bob can also be used by mainframe developers for COBOL, PL/I, Java, and Assembler applications — all within a modern developer experience connected to z/OS LPARs. IBM Bob is also being made available on AWS Marketplace in the second half of 2026. 

Read more: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-28-introducing-ibm-bob-ai-development-partner-that-takes-enterprises-from-ai-assisted-coding-to-production-ready-software 

While IBM Bob brings AI-powered intelligence to mainframe development, the collaboration extends well beyond z/OS. On the enterprise automation front, IBM watsonx Orchestrate is deepening its connection to AWS with a native Amazon Bedrock integration.

 watsonxOrchestrate with Native Amazon Bedrock Integration 

IBM watsonx Orchestrate, IBM’s agentic AI and automation platform for creating, deploying, and managing AI agents, now features native integration with Amazon Bedrock. Joint clients can start using Bedrock-hosted models including OpenAI GPT-OSS-120B models out-of-the-box as part of the watsonx Orchestrate SaaS offering. This new capability complements the existing Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) option by providing IBM-hosted access to Amazon Bedrock models directly within watsonx Orchestrate. Whether clients are building AI-powered assistants for HR, procurement, or sales, or orchestrating complex multi-agent workflows, this integration gives them immediate access to the industry’s leading foundation models — no additional configuration required.

Read More: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ibm-redhat/ibm-watsonx-orchestrate-now-supports-gpt-oss-120b-on-amazon-bedrock/ 

And for developers looking to build these agentic workflows even faster, a new integration between Amazon Kiro and the watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit makes it possible to go from idea to deployed agent — without writing a single line of code.

Amazon Kiro+ watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit (ADK) 

Clients can now use Amazon Kiro with the IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit (ADK) extension and model context protocol servers to create agents, build tools, and design multi-agent workflows with watsonx Orchestrate and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — all without coding, using Vibe Coding. This integration brings together the best of AI-assisted development and enterprise agent orchestration, enabling developers and business users alike to rapidly prototype and deploy agentic workflows.

Read More: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ibm-redhat/build-ai-agents-with-ibm-watsonx-orchestrate-adk-and-kiro-on-aws/ 

Infrastructure & Data

The power of agentic AI isn’t limited to application development — it’s also transforming how enterprises manage their data. IBM Db2 Genius Hub brings autonomous, AI-driven database operations to AWS. 

IBM Db2 Genius Hub Powered by Amazon Bedrock

IBM has launched Db2 Genius Hub , a next-generation, AI-powered data management console powered by Amazon Bedrock that introduces autonomous database capabilities for Db2 environments running on Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS. Db2 Genius Hub is now generally available on AWS Marketplace, enabling clients to manage all Db2 instances — including Db2 Warehouse SaaS and Amazon RDS for Db2 — from a single platform. 

The platform shifts database operations from reactive troubleshooting to proactive, agentic-based resilience through three core operational areas: 

  • Agentic Maintenance — Automates recurring tasks such as engine updates, patching, health checks, performance optimization, and backup/recovery.
  • Agentic Healing — Continuously analyzes workload behavior and system signals toidentifyanomalies early and prevent issues before they impact users. 
  • Agentic Response — Shortens time to resolution with what-changed analysis, multi-step investigation, and deep log analysis.

Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ibm-redhat/announcing-ibm-db2-genius-hub-on-aws-marketplace/ 

Watch the Video:  http://d2xp0djr8ef6jq.cloudfront.net/IBM+Db2+Genius+Hub+on+AWS.mp4

As these AI and automation capabilities mature, ensuring they meet the highest standards of security and compliance is essential — especially for public sector customers.

IBM Software Solutions Achieve FedRAMP Authorization on AWS GovCloud

IBM has achieved FedRAMP authorization for 11 AI and automation software solutions — including several watsonx products — deployed exclusively on AWS GovCloud (U.S.). This milestone, enabled by the IBM-AWS Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA), represents a four-fold increase in IBM’s FedRAMP portfolio and gives federal agencies secure, compliant access to enterprise AI capabilities: 

  • AI: watsonx.ai,watsonx.governance,watsonx.data, watsonx.data integration, watsonx.data intelligence, and watsonx Orchestrate 
  • Automation: Verify,Turbonomic,Instana, Concert, and Maximo Application Suite 

Learn more: IBM Expands FedRAMP Portfolio with Authorization of 11 Software Solutions 

Beyond security and compliance, the collaboration is also delivering tangible infrastructure performance gains.

IBM Spectrum Symphony support for AWS Graviton 

IBM Spectrum Symphony, the enterprise-grade workload management platform for compute- and data-intensive applications, now supports AWS Graviton instances. Customers can now procure this via AWS Marketplace. Customers running high-performance computing, financial risk modeling, and analytics workloads can now take advantage of the price-performance benefits of Graviton processors while leveraging Spectrum Symphony’s advanced scheduling and resource management capabilities. 

Mainframe Modernization

Performance optimization is just one dimension of modernization. For customers with significant mainframe investments, AWS and IBM continue to provide clear, proven pathways to hybrid cloud.

Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and AWS

AWS and IBM are publishing an updated and expanded version of our joint technical guide, Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and AWS, which details five proven patterns for customers to modernize their IBM Z investments while leveraging the power of AWS Cloud. Originally published in 2022, this refresh reflects significant advances in, real-time data streaming, agentic AI integration, and enterprise automation.

The five modernization patterns include: 

  • Real-Time Data Sharing Between z/OS and AWS 
  • Synchronizing Mainframe Data with AWS 
  • Simple and Secure API Access to New Channels 
  • Hybrid Storage with AWS Cloud Storage 
  • Enterprise Automation Across z/OS and AWS 

AWS marketplace expansion:

Underpinning all of these innovations is a growing commitment to making IBM solutions easily accessible through AWS Marketplace — reducing friction and accelerating time to value for joint customers.

IBM and AWS have continued to expand IBM Portfolio available on AWS Marketplace

In recent months, we’ve launched several new IBM products and capabilities: Cloudability Premium for advanced rightsizing and automated commitment purchasing; Cloudability Governance, now generally available, which brings cost estimation and FinOps policy enforcement directly into GitHub and Terraform workflows before infrastructure is deployed; IBM OpenPages, an AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) SaaS solution bringing integrated risk management, regulatory compliance, and audit functions into a single environment on AWS; IBM watsonx.data integration, a unified control plane for batch, streaming, and unstructured data pipelines with native connectors for Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams; the IBM Instana MCP Server, enabling natural language observability queries from Kiro CLI and Kiro IDE; and IBM Granite 4.0 models, now available on AWS Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. We’ve also expanded the family of IBM Maximo Application Suite Essentials SaaS offerings—covering asset maintenance, visual inspection, space management, capital planning, and lease management—giving you a straightforward entry point into Maximo on AWS. 

You can find these and other IBM solutions on AWS Marketplace: 

Looking Ahead 

These announcements reflect the accelerating momentum of the AWS and IBM strategic collaboration. From agentic AI and autonomous databases to mainframe modernization, FedRAMP-authorized government solutions, and proactive cloud cost governance, we’re making it easier than ever for customers to innovate across hybrid cloud environments while maintaining the security, compliance, and operational excellence their businesses demand. 

To learn more, visit IBM and AWS partnership page or stop by AWS booth #611 at IBM Think. 

Hemant Mohan

Hemant Mohan

Hemant is a highly skilled and experienced Business Development professional with over 18 years of experience across management consulting, customer success, and business development. Hemant has led several large digital transformation initiatives across a variety of industries including retail, state and local government, hi-tech, and telecommunications. Currently serving as a Global Alliance Leader for Strategic Alliances at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hemant is responsible for worldwide partner strategy and management. He collaborates closely with AWS and partner product, marketing, and sales executives to identify new market development opportunities and develops joint innovation and go-to-market strategies. Hemant holds a Master’s in Information Systems (MIS) Management degree from the Carnegie Mellon University and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.

John Epperly

John Epperly

John is the Global Managing Director for IBM’s Strategic Partnership with AWS. In this role John is responsible for the 360-degree relationship with AWS with a major focus on growing our collective business through the AWS Marketplace. Previously, John was the Vice President of Data, AI & Automation software sales in IBM’s Financial Services Market. John has over 25 years of experience in enterprise software sales both as an individual contributor and as a sales leader. John holds an undergraduate degree in Finance and an MBA from Lehigh University.