Unlike Microsoft’s IQ stack, which ties agents to a unified semantic data layer, governance, and ready-made business-context tools, Nova Forge aims to provide enterprises raw frontier-model training power in the form of a toolkit to build custom models with proprietary data, rather than a pre-wired, workflow-ready AI platform.
But it still requires too much engineering lift to adopt, analysts say.
AWS is finally positioning agentic AI, Bedrock, and the data layer as a unified stack instead of disconnected services, but according to Linthicum, “It’s still a collection of parts that enterprises must assemble.”
