AWS launches Continuum AI platform for code vulnerabilities

Amazon Web Services has launched a new AI-powered security platform designed to automate the detection and repair of software vulnerabilities. The platform, called AWS Continuum, was announced on June 17 and is now available in a gated preview. It aims to address what the company describes as a breaking point in enterprise security, where traditional methods of collecting and monitoring security data can no longer handle the volume of vulnerabilities discovered by modern AI tools.

Continuum for code vulnerabilities, the platform's first capability, manages the entire lifecycle of a security flaw, from discovery through to remediation. The system is model-agnostic, leveraging multiple frontier AI models, including those like Claude Mythos, which can find vulnerabilities and analyze complex attack paths at machine speed. AWS stated that this capability has led to an exponentially growing backlog of flaws that overwhelms conventional security workflows.

The platform operates by reasoning over both structured data within a customer's AWS environment, such as infrastructure and code, and unstructured data like internal documents and business priorities. This context allows it to...