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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is in preview release and is subject to change.

What is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore?

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables you to deploy and operate highly effective agents securely, at scale using any framework and model. With Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, developers can accelerate AI agents into production with the scale, reliability, and security, critical to real-world deployment. AgentCore provides tools and capabilities to make agents more effective and capable, purpose-built infrastructure to securely scale agents, and controls to operate trustworthy agents. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services are composable and work with popular open-source frameworks and any model, so you don’t have to choose between open-source flexibility and enterprise-grade security and reliability.

Services in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore includes the following modular Services that you can use together or independently:

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

AgentCore Runtime is a secure, serverless runtime purpose-built for deploying and scaling dynamic AI agents and tools using any open-source framework including LangGraph, CrewAI, and Strands Agents, any protocol, and any model. Runtime was built to work for agentic workloads with industry-leading extended runtime support, fast cold starts, true session isolation, built-in identity, and support for multi-modal payloads. Developers can focus on innovation while Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime handles infrastructure and security—accelerating time-to-market

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

AgentCore Identity provides a secure, scalable agent identity and access management capability accelerating AI agent development. It is compatible with existing identity providers, eliminating needs for user migration or rebuilding authentication flows. AgentCore Identity's helps to minimize consent fatigue with a secure token vault and allows you to build streamlined AI agent experiences. Just-enough access and secure permission delegation allow agents to securely access AWS resources and third-party tools and services.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory

AgentCore Memory makes it easy for developers to build context aware agents by eliminating complex memory infrastructure management while providing full control over what the AI agent remembers. Memory provides industry-leading accuracy along with support for both short-term memory for multi-turn conversations and long-term memory that can be shared across agents and sessions.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter

AgentCore Code Interpreter tool enables agents to securely execute code in isolated sandbox environments. It offers advanced configuration support and seamless integration with popular frameworks. Developers can build powerful agents for complex workflows and data analysis while meeting enterprise security requirements.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser

AgentCore Browser tool provides a fast, secure, cloud-based browser runtime to enable AI agents to interact with websites at scale. It provides enterprise-grade security, comprehensive observability features, and automatically scales— all without infrastructure management overhead.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway provides a secure way for agents to discover and use tools along with easy transformation of APIs, Lambda functions, and existing services into agent-compatible tools. Gateway eliminates weeks of custom code development, infrastructure provisioning, and security implementation so developers can focus on building innovative agent applications.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability

AgentCore Observability helps developers trace, debug, and monitor agent performance in production through unified operational dashboards. With support for OpenTelemetry compatible telemetry and detailed visualizations of each step of the agent workflow, AgentCore enables developers to easily gain visibility into agent behavior and maintain quality standards at scale.

Common use cases for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

  • Equip agents with built-in tools and capabilities

    Leverage built-in tools (browser automation and code interpretation) in your agent. Enable agents to seamlessly integrate with internal and external tools and resources. Create agents that can remember interactions with your agent users.

  • Deploy securely at scale

    Securely deploy and scale dynamic AI agents and tools, regardless of framework, protocol, or model choice without managing any underlying resources with seamless agent identity and access management.

  • Test and monitor agents

    Gain deep operational insights with real-time visibility into agents' usage and operational metrics such as token usage, latency, session duration, and error rates.

Are you a first-time Amazon Bedrock AgentCore user?

If you are a first-time user of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, we recommend that you begin by reading the following sections:

For code examples, see https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-samples/.

Pricing for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore offers flexible, consumption-based pricing with no upfront commitments or minimum fees. For more information, see Amazon Bedrock AgentCore pricing.