Amazon standardizes agent development with Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Web Services launched Bedrock AgentCore, a standardized framework for building and deploying AI agents in enterprise environments. The platform provides a unified architecture for managing conversation state, integrating knowledge bases for RAG, and defining agent capabilities, with claims of up to 60% infrastructure cost savings.
- Bedrock AgentCore is framework-agnostic, officially supporting popular open-source frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and LangGraph, allowing developers to avoid vendor lock-in. - The platform is composed of modular services—including Runtime, Gateway, Memory, Identity, and Observability—that can be used independently or together to manage the agent lifecycle. - AgentCore's serverless Runtime provides complete session isolation using dedicated microVMs for each user session to prevent data leakage and supports long-running asynchronous tasks for up to eight hours. - The Gateway service transforms existing APIs, AWS Lambda functions, and services like Salesforce and Slack into standardized, agent-ready tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with minimal code. - AgentCore Memory provides both short-term (session-based) and long-term (persistent) context, with an "episodic memory" feature designed to help agents learn from past interactions to improve decision-making. - New capabilities announced by AWS VP of Agentic AI, Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, include an AgentCore Policy service to set natural language-based boundaries on agent actions and an Evaluations service with 13 pre-built evaluators to monitor agent quality. - For enhanced agent capabilities, AgentCore includes pre-built tools like a secure Code Interpreter for executing Python code and a Browser Tool for interacting with websites to gather real-time information. - General availability was announced on October 13, 2025, adding enterprise security features like VPC support, AWS PrivateLink, and identity-aware authorization through AgentCore Identity.
