Agentic AI for healthcare data analysis with Amazon SageMaker Data Agent
TL;DR
AWS launched a built-in Data Agent in SageMaker Unified Studio on November 21, 2025.
Key Points
- The agent reduces weeks of data preparation to days and days of analysis development to hours
- Use case: epidemiologists can conduct clinical cohort analysis using natural language
- The agent autonomously handles data discovery, transformation, and analysis preparation in healthcare contexts
Nauti's Take
AWS is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for agentic AI in enterprise contexts. The key move: if you're already in the AWS cloud, you now get agents built-in.
No external API, no separate tool. This is classic bundling – and a frontal attack on specialized healthcare analytics vendors.
The demo sounds plausible, but the devil is in the details: how well does the agent perform with incomplete or contradictory data? And who is liable when the AI defines the wrong cohort?
AWS remains silent on governance.
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