CrowdStrike has brought Amazon Web Services into Project QuiltWorks, the coalition it created to confront the security risks accompanying frontier artificial intelligence, the company announced at AWS Summit New York.
The addition makes AWS the first — and, according to CrowdStrike, so far the only — cloud infrastructure provider to join the initiative, which the cybersecurity firm describes as the industry’s only coalition spanning the discovery, prioritization, remediation and financial protection of AI-driven vulnerabilities. Bringing in a hyperscale cloud provider, CrowdStrike said, extends QuiltWorks to the layer where vulnerabilities ultimately live and are exploited: the cloud infrastructure that runs production workloads.
It was one of two announcements CrowdStrike made at the New York event, both framed around helping organizations securely scale AI on AWS. The second introduced new AI, cloud and next-generation SIEM capabilities on AWS, headlined by expanded Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) protections for AI applications built with Amazon Bedrock, as well as the AWS developer tools Kiro and Strands Agents.
The logic behind both moves is the same. As frontier AI accelerates the discovery of software vulnerabilities, security teams worry that attackers can wield the same capabilities to find and exploit weaknesses faster than defenders can patch them. CrowdStrike’s argument is that protection has to follow AI workloads into the cloud, where they increasingly run, rather than stopping at the endpoint.
Project QuiltWorks, which CrowdStrike positions as a cross-industry effort, is built to give organizations a shared framework for hardening cloud workloads against AI-related risk and keeping them continuously updated as new threats emerge. With AWS on board, the company said organizations running workloads on the platform that adopt the coalition’s operating framework will be continuously informed of the latest defenses.
On the second initiative, CrowdStrike said it is expanding Falcon AIDR — its tooling for identifying and managing risks in AI applications — and integrating it with AI gateway partners including Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The company also pointed to a new identity capability, Continuous Identity for AI Agents, part of its Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security line, aimed at governing the autonomous software “agents” that enterprises are beginning to deploy.
For customers, CrowdStrike said organizations running on AWS can request a Project QuiltWorks assessment, an expert review of their current security program, where they stand today and their capacity to remediate issues.
The announcements land amid an industry-wide race to make AI deployments enterprise-ready, a shift in which security, governance and auditability increasingly matter as much as raw model performance. AWS Summit New York has become one of the larger stops on the cloud provider’s calendar and a frequent venue for partners to tie product news to its platform.
CrowdStrike did not disclose pricing or availability timelines for every capability named, and several of the claims about QuiltWorks’s reach come from the company itself. Still, the direction is clear: as AI moves from experimentation into production, CrowdStrike is betting that the cloud — and the infrastructure beneath it — is where the next security battles will be fought.
