Building trusted AI with data and AI governance partners on AWS

This article introduces GEAR (Governance Enabling Agentic Readiness), an AWS initiative that identifies and amplifies partners building data and AI governance accelerators for agentic AI systems.

• Only 21% of companies have mature governance models for agents despite 74% planning deployment by 2027
• Gartner predicts 60% of organizations will fail to realize AI value by 2027 due to lack of data and AI governance integration
• GEAR partners operate across three tracks: governance of agents, governance by agents, and practice/industry expertise
• Featured accelerators include Data Reply AgentOPS, DoiT GenAI Governance, New Math Duet, Quantiphi Agent Manager, and others
• Governance accelerators automate manual steps, standardize patterns, and compress implementation timelines from months to weeks
• AWS provides technical foundation through SageMaker Catalog, Lake Formation, Bedrock Guardrails, and AgentCore Policy controls

GEAR partners deliver auditable governance outcomes that satisfy compliance requirements and enable production-scale AI deployments without slowing innovation.