CrowdStrike, together with AWS, announced new AI and cloud security integrations on AWS. Its Falcon Guardian is being extended to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Guardrails to help block prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, and malicious AI activity within the guardrail layer, with no separate deployment required. The Falcon sensor is also coming to Amazon ECS Managed Instances, including managed demons, so protection deploys automatically as ECS environments scale, before application workloads run and with less configuration drift. Both companies say the goal is to help customers adopt AI faster while keeping applications and infrastructure protected.
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| Market | US stocks |
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| Sector | Consumer Discretionary |
| Industry | Broadline Retail |
| Market cap | $2.6T |
| Close on 11/02/2026 | 245.63 |
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