newsInfoQ·27 Oct 2026·Matt Saunders
AWS Shows Use of AI Agents to Triage Linux Kernel CVEs
AWS describes how its EC2 kernel team triages Linux kernel CVEs with an automated filter, an AI agent and human review.
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Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have described how the team that maintains the Linux kernel for EC2 infrastructure handles kernel CVEs. The process combines an automated filter, an AI agent and human review. The team also argues that it needs to move to newer long-term-support (LTS) kernels, as older branches collect fixes that are never backported.
By Matt Saunders