Agentic AI on AWS Part 1

What is an AI agent, and how do you build one on AWS? This first video of a 3-part series covers the basics of agentic AI, following Section 4 of the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional course. You'll learn: How the Reason → Act → Observe loop works in an LLM agent The parts of Amazon Bedrock Agents: action groups, knowledge bases, guardrails, trace, versions and aliases Why Bedrock Agents Classic is in maintenance mode (closed to new customers on July 30, 2026) and why AgentCore is where AWS is heading Multi-agent workflows: supervisor mode, supervisor with routing, and common orchestration patterns Short-term vs. long-term agent memory Strands Agents vs. Agent Squad: which to use for what