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AWS WorkSpaces Now Lets AI Agents Operate Legacy Desktop Applications Without APIs

InfoQ AI
Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS announced that Amazon WorkSpaces can now serve as managed virtual desktops for AI agents in public preview. Agents authenticate through IAM and operate legacy applications via computer vision and input simulation without APIs. Reflex benchmarks show vision agents consume 45x more tokens than API agents. By Steef-Jan Wiggers