# How AI Agents' Infrastructure Access Affects AWS Risk and Development Speed

DevFeed: [How AI Agents' Infrastructure Access Affects AWS Risk and Development Speed](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-happens-when-you-give-an-ai-agent-your-aws-credentials-17770.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://encore.dev/blog/ai-agents-aws-credentials>)

Author: Ivan Cernja

Published: 2026-03-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Encore Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/encore-updates.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terraform.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines the trade-offs between keeping AI agents away from infrastructure and allowing them to generate Terraform and configure AWS resources. It argues that direct infrastructure access can speed development but increases the security and operational consequences of agent-generated changes.

## Source excerpt

The interface you give AI agents determines what they can break.