Session abstract
What you’ll learn
Never built an AI agent before? No problem. This beginner-friendly session takes you from zero to deployed AI agent in minutes using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands SDK. You don't need deep ML expertise, complex infrastructure knowledge, or weeks of setup—just basic Python skills and an AWS account. We'll start with the fundamentals: what makes an agent different from a chatbot, and why AgentCore exists. Then we'll live-code a simple agent using Strands (AWS's beginner-friendly framework), add a custom tool so it can take actions, and deploy it to production AWS infrastructure with a single command. Watch as AgentCore automatically handles all the hard parts: serverless scaling, session management, authentication, and monitoring. By the end, you'll have a working agent running in the cloud and understand the core concepts needed to build more sophisticated agents. Perfect for developers curious about AI agents but unsure where to start.