Strands agents

Why Bigger Context Windows Won't Save Your Agent — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, AWS

Why Bigger Context Windows Won't Save Your Agent — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, AWS

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, developer advocate at AWS, explains why agents break when tools return huge outputs, why bigger context windows do not fix the problem because models lose the middle of long contexts, and how four context engineering strategies (externalize, select, compress, isolate) can be implemented with the open-source Strands Agents framework.

Building Agents at Cloud Scale — Antje Barth, AWS

Building Agents at Cloud Scale — Antje Barth, AWS

A deep dive into building and scaling production-ready AI agents, detailing a model-driven approach using the open-source 'Strands' SDK and a cloud-native architecture for deploying remote tools with MCP and AWS Lambda.