AI Agent Security and IAM: Lessons from AWS Scaling
Okta, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Okta argues identity is the core design primitive for scaling enterprise AI agents, drawing on AWS deployment patterns.
Okta argues that identity, not orchestration tooling, is the primitive that determines whether enterprise AI agent deployments scale safely.
Drawing on AWS scaling patterns, the post catalogs common failure modes including shared credentials, unbounded permissions, and untraceable agent actions.
It describes joint Okta and AWS approaches to agent identity issuance and authorization. The article includes 2026 data on enterprise agent deployment growth and associated incidents.