Ultimate AWS Agents for Production AI Systems

Build the Agent. Harden the System. Run It at Enterprise Scale. Book Description Don't Build Another AI Demo. Build an Agent Enterprise Can Depend On. Enterprises are moving from AI that answers questions to AI that does the work. Ultimate AWS Agents for Production AI Systems shows how to build, deploy, and operate autonomous agents that reason, plan, call tools, and act using AWS's purpose-built stack — Amazon Bedrock for inference, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for production infrastructure, and the Strands Agents SDK for building them. The hard part is not the first prototype. It is everything after. The book is organized as the journey a production agent actually takes. You start by identifying an opportunity worth building with a Working Backwards PR/FAQ, then learn the agent loop and the AWS services that implement it. You design and deploy a single agent with Strands on AgentCore Runtime, then scale into multi-agent orchestration with router, graph, and hybrid patterns. From there the book turns to production — integrating tools through MCP and Knowledge Bases, enforcing tool-level access control and domain boundaries, instrumenting observability with evaluation and human review, and hardening for high availability, tiered models, prompt caching, and canary rollouts. By the end you will design, secure, operate, and cost-manage agent systems that carry real enterprise workloads, and lead the organizational shift that keeps them running. What you will learn ● Discover real agent opportunities using the Working Backwards methodology and PR/FAQ documents. ● Design and deploy production agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime using the Strands SDK. ● Orchestrate multi-agent systems using router, graph, and hybrid architectural patterns. Table of Contents Working Backwards Understanding Agentic AI and Autonomous Agents. AWS Agentic AI Ecosystem Designing the First Agent System Building and Deploying Agents on Bedrock Multi-Agent Orchestration Integrating Tools, APIs, and External Systems Agent Architecture Security: Building Secure Agents Observability, Evaluation, and Human-in-the-Loop Scaling to Production: High Availability and Cost Optimization Advanced Optimization and Organizational Transformation Emerging Trends and Future Directions. Index