Building Production AI Agents on AWS: AgentCore Harness, Strands 1.0, and the Multi-Agent Architecture that Actually Ships
Karen Pearl V. Pabilando2026-08-06T16:10:24+00:00Six months ago, "AI agents on AWS" meant duct-taping together Amazon Bedrock, a Lambda function to handle tool routing, DynamoDB for session state, CloudWatch for tracing, and a LangGraph loop you prayed would recover from a network hiccup mid-reasoning. Every team was reinventing the same infrastructure. Every demo worked; most productions did not. That changed on June 17, 2026, at AWS Summit New York, where Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian (VP of Agentic AI) announced what AWS is calling the agentic infrastructure layer: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness reaching general availability, the Strands Agents 1.0 SDK going production-grade with native multi-agent primitives, and [...]








