A two-day hackathon build where a humanoid walks an inspection route, captures imagery, and an agent on Bedrock checks each assembly against its bill of materials. What the cloud pipeline looked like, and what a hackathon proves versus what it doesn't.
AWS quietly shipped two open-source answers to two different agent problems. I deployed both, wired them together, then tried to break the architecture. Here is what holds, what doesn't, and the pattern for letting customers 'create agents' without losing governance.
AgentCore Harness just went GA. Here's what it solves, what it doesn't, and when you should adopt it instead of building your own agent runtime governance layer.
AWS DevOps Agent is GA and included with Support plans. But it doesn't replace your custom agents -- it complements them. Here's the hybrid pattern: what to buy, what to build, and how MCP bridges the gap.
Your AI agent has access to tools that perform real actions -- approving expenses, querying databases, modifying infrastructure. Prompt-based guardrails don't survive adversarial inputs. Here's how AgentCore Gateway + Cedar policies create a deterministic enforcement layer that operates independently of the agent's reasoning.
AWS released the Agent Toolkit for AWS on May 6, 2026 -- a managed MCP server exposing the full AWS API surface to autonomous agents. I shipped an infrastructure agent the same week. Here's the two-phase safety pattern that lets you hand an agent the keys to your account without waking up to a $10K bill.
I woke up to 204 pull requests from a single autonomous agent running overnight. 12 hours, ~$900 in Bedrock tokens, 509 failed builds, zero features shipped. Prompt-only safeguards all failed. Here's the 3-layer fix — hard kill switch, atomic circuit breakers, drift observability — that now prevents runaway agents.
Your RPA estate has 50 bots. Some should become AI agents, some should stay as bots, some need a hybrid pattern. Here is a repeatable, weighted scoring rubric — and the 5 migration patterns it maps to.
A curated summary of the most important AWS announcements from February 2026 — from Bedrock AgentCore deep dives to new EC2 instances and the European Sovereign Cloud.
A hands-on walkthrough of deploying OpenClaw on AWS using AgentCore Runtime for serverless agent execution, Graviton ARM instances, and multi-model Bedrock access — from CloudFormation template to customizing the agent's personality.
Enterprise workflows often require interacting with web applications that lack APIs. Traditional automation scripts are brittle and break when UIs change.