The internet was built for people. Now it must bend for the machines that never sleep. AWS quietly launched the next generation of its OpenSearch Serverless service on May 28, 2026. The update decouples compute from storage so the system can spin up in seconds to handle sudden bursts from AI agents and then drop to zero when those agents vanish. No more paying for idle capacity that human users rarely demanded. Amazon Web Services designed the change explicitly for workloads that spike without warning and idle without notice. Tia White, general manager for Amazon OpenSearch Service, put it plainly. “The timing is straightforward. Agents are moving from experimentation into production, and they create traffic patterns that previous infrastructure simply wasn’t designed for. They spike without warning, they go idle without notice, and enterprise needs search that keeps up without paying for empty or idle compute.” Short. Direct. And already happening at scale.…