Trusted identity propagation for autonomous agents across Cloud & SaaS
As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of humans — or autonomously — the question shifts from “Can the agent do this?” to “Who is the agent? Who is it acting for? And can we trace its actions end-to-end?”
Drawing from direct experience building Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, this session covers real-world identity propagation patterns, credential management for agentic workloads, and how AWS, Azure, and other platforms approach this problem differently.
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Swara Gandhi is a Senior Solutions Architect in Identity Solutions at Amazon Web Services, based in New York. She is a 15x speaker at flagship AWS events - re:Invent, re:Inforce, and AWS Summits - and a speaker at RSA Conference 2026 on trusted identity propagation for autonomous agents across cloud and SaaS.
Swara specializes in access controls, data perimeters, and policy-as-code, delivering large-scale identity features and reference architectures adopted by Fortune 100 financial institutions. She is a core contributor to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, building OAuth flows, identity propagation patterns, and zero-trust primitives for the agentic AI era.
Swara is a contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and FIDO Alliance, and serves on the IDPro Body of Knowledge Committee. She co-hosts industry webinars on bridging identity gaps across teams and systems, and is the author of widely-adopted AWS best practices, case studies, and open-source tooling for enterprise identity governance.
In 2025, Swara was recognized by the Influential Women platform for leadership and innovation in the identity space.