Uma Ramadoss from AWS explains the core concepts of Agentic AI, differentiating it from standard AI workflows. The session covers how to build agentic systems on AWS using services like Bedrock and Step Functions, and open-source frameworks like Strands SDK, emphasizing practical architecture, context enrichment, and the importance of verification.
In a presentation from Code w/ Claude, AWS advocates Du'An Lightfoot, Suman Debnath, and Banjo Obayami introduce Strands, a new open-source Python SDK for building AI agentic applications on AWS. They showcase how Strands simplifies development by focusing on three core components—models, tools, and prompts—and leverages the full reasoning power of foundation models like Claude 3.5 on Amazon Bedrock. The session includes live demos on creating a multi-tool weather agent, integrating with Modular Connected Protocol (MCP) servers for AWS documentation and diagram generation, and using Claude Code to auto-generate a complete Strands agent for AWS CDK.