Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Service by Service

AWS unbundled the managed agent. AgentCore is nine independently usable services — Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Identity, Policy, Code Interpreter, Browser, Observability, Evaluations, plus the Agent Registry — that work with any framework and any model. Learn what each one actually does, how Bedrock Agents Classic maps onto them, and where Strands fits.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. The thesis: an unbundled agent platform
2. Runtime and Memory — where the agent runs and what it remembers
3. Gateway, Identity, Policy — the trust boundary
4. Built-in tools, Observability, Evaluations, Registry
5. Bedrock Agents Classic: maintenance mode and the mapping
6. Strands, and what is actually GA