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1. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: The Current Agent Platform2. State, Context, and AgentCore Memory

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: The Current Agent Platform

📚 Agents for Bedrock & AgentCore⏱ 12 min⭐ 85 XP⌨ Hands-on lab

Agents Are Workflow Systems

Amazon Bedrock Agents (Classic), launched in November 2023, is now called Bedrock Agents Classic: after closing to new customers on July 30, 2026, it reached formal End-of-Life (EOL) on August 11, 2026 for all feature additions. All enterprise agent workloads have transitioned to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — AWS's modular, framework-agnostic agent platform that works with any foundation model and any agent SDK (Strands Agents, LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, OpenAI Agents SDK).

AgentCore's core services can be used independently or together:

  • Runtime — serverless, session-isolated hosting for agents and tools with sub-second cold starts.
  • Gateway — turns APIs, Lambda functions, and existing services into MCP-compatible tools with zero boilerplate.
  • Memory — short-term (multi-turn) and long-term (cross-session episodic) memory, shareable across agent swarms.
  • Identity & Consent Portal (Sep 2026) — enterprise agent identity that plugs into Cognito, Okta, and Entra ID, featuring the AgentCore Consent Portal where users grant granular, time-bound OAuth permissions for agents calling enterprise SaaS (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Confluence).
  • Code Interpreter & Browser — sandboxed Firecracker microVM code execution and headless browser web automation.
  • AWS Agent Registry (GA August 2026) — centralized enterprise catalog to discover, version, test, and enforce IAM permission boundaries across company-wide agents and MCP servers.
  • Observability & Evaluations — distributed OpenTelemetry tracing and automated quality scoring with native TypeScript and Python SDKs.
Key idea: Design agents as controlled workflows, not unconstrained autonomy — bounded tools, typed inputs/outputs, cryptographic identity delegation, and human approval for high-impact actions apply universally across AgentCore.
⌨ HANDS-ON LABDesign an Operations Agent
⭐ +150 XP

Define an incident agent with escalation, diagnostics, and summary actions/tools.

1Draft tool/action definitions.
2Add explicit approval boundaries.
lab-sandbox — simulated environment
INFINITY LAB SANDBOX v2.6 — simulated shell
Type the command for the current objective. Helpers: "hint", "solution", "clear".
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OBJECTIVE 1 / 2 — type "hint" if stuck
🧪 Knowledge Check
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What happens to Amazon Bedrock Agents (Classic) starting July 30, 2026?
It is deleted immediately for everyone
It closes to new customers and moves to maintenance mode; existing customers can continue
It is renamed with no functional change
It becomes free