Building AI Agents Cheaper, Faster & Easier

Let's say there's an online e commerce business and they want to set up some sort of agent to help them out. What's their first step? Like, what do they go do to set up their first agent?

Agents need a framework. We built something which we've since open source called the Strands SDK, the Python library that you use to essentially drive agentic behavior to what we call an agentic loop, a model driven development. And you put into your code, you describe your agent behavior and then when it comes to how you want to run your agents, that's where Agent Core comes in. The whole goal of Kiro was how can we give you a user experience that actually makes it easy for you to do that? How can we help you think like that? If you're a really good developer who can think like that, you're going to be even more effective. That's very much the approach we took. What you're not doing is typing code yourself, but that's okay. That's busy work.

What is AWS doing to sort of progress agents forward?

At the most core level, we want to give you the best infrastructure to run your agents. That includes something like Bedrock that gives you LLM choice data. Then you need place to run your agents, which is Agent Core runtime. So for my team, I would recommend people go to keto.dev gives you a good idea of how we think about software development in an agentic world. And if you want to learn about Agent Core and other agentic stuff that we're doing at aws, you go to the AWS website and search for agentic AI. You'll find all the stuff that we do there. We love feedback for Kiro. For example, we have a Discord channel. Join us there, use it, tell us what you'd like to see. Our goal is to make it easier for you to build and run your agents and use that.