SailPoint Just Partnered with AWS on Agent Identity. Gartner Created a New Market Category for It.

Three things happened today (March 17, 2026) that confirm agent identity is no longer a niche concern: SailPoint signed a multi-year deal with AWS to become the preferred identity governance provider for AI agents running on Bedrock AgentCore. Gartner published its inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents — a new category for products that manage agent identities. Orchid Security got named as a Representative Vendor in that Gartner report for managing agent identities with zero-trust policies. Oh, and Okta's agent identity product goes GA on April 30. This is the week the enterprise decided agent identity is real. What SailPoint + AWS Actually Means The deal has three concrete pieces: AgentCore integration : SailPoint discovers AI agents running in AWS Bedrock AgentCore and treats them as identities alongside human users. Same governance plane, same lifecycle management. Unified identity graph : A single map of access relationships across humans, machines, and agents. This is where i