Designing agentic workflows on AWS
Each pattern in this guide can be built using AWS services. Amazon Bedrock agents provide orchestration, data access, and interaction channels.
Component |
AWS service |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|
LLM reasoning |
Amazon Bedrock |
Agent logic, planning, tool use |
Tool execution |
AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon SageMaker |
Host external tools for agents |
Memory and RAG |
Amazon Bedrock knowledge base, Amazon S3, OpenSearch |
Persistent and semantic memory |
Orchestration |
AWS Step Functions |
Multistep task and agent coordination |
Event routing |
Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS |
Decoupled interagent messaging |
User interface |
Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync, SDK |
Entry points for applications or systems |
Monitoring |
Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry |
Observability and agent introspection |
