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# Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation

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**Published:** 2026-10-07T15:50:00.000Z
**Category:** Agents
**Topics:** amazon, agent

## Summary

The RPA\-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates\. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception handling, decision quality, and maintenance economics, and to prioritize which workflows to automate first\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/beyond-hours-saved-building-the-business-case-for-agentic-automation/>)