AWS Embeds AI Security Scanning Directly Into Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at Black Hat 2026

AWS launches Continuum at Black Hat 2026, embedding AI-powered security scanning directly into Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to automatically detect, validate, and fix vulnerabilities in real time, while also expanding its Security Hub marketplace and deploying new GuardDuty tools to combat emerging AI-era threats like shadow agents and credential-based cost harvesting.

• AWS announces at Black Hat USA 2026 that its Continuum platform integrates directly into Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, embedding AI-powered security vulnerability scanning at the point where developers write code regardless of which AI model they use.
• Continuum operates through a four-phase agent-team loop — discovery, prioritization, validation, and remediation — automatically identifying, confirming, and fixing code vulnerabilities at machine speed, with customers paying a single price while AWS absorbs underlying AI model token costs.
• AWS simultaneously expands its Security Hub Extended marketplace to 23 curated partner solutions across 10 categories, adding supply chain security with Chainguard and Socket, while also deploying new GuardDuty capabilities to detect shadow agents and a rising threat called cost harvesting, where attackers exploit compromised cloud credentials to steal free AI inference.