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Operationalizing Multi-Agent Systems with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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Operationalizing Multi-Agent Systems with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

How Organizations Can Move Beyond LLM Pilots and Build Secure, Scalable, and Composable Agent Workflows

The promise of agentic AI has been difficult for most organizations to fully realize, leaving deployments stuck in the experimental phase due to issues like fragmentation, security risks, and a lack of operational visibility. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is architected to address this production chasm, providing a unified, enterprise-grade platform to move organizations from isolated pilots to robust, production-scale AI. The platform provides the necessary infrastructure, governance, and end-to-end observability, overcoming common struggles like security failures, sprawl, "shadow AI," and the rigidity of hardcoding tools into agent logic. By offering services for identity management, secure tool access, real-time observability, and composable memory, AgentCore enables the deployment, management, and auditing of secure, high-value, multi-step agent applications across regulated and complex environments.

Key Highlights

  • Production Chasm: While AI pilots are common, most organizations struggle to scale agents beyond the experimental phase due to deep fragmentation, critical security concerns, and limited operational visibility.

  • Active AI Systems: Agentic AI moves beyond passive LLMs for generation, creating active decision-making systems that use reasoning, planning, and tool use to execute complex, multi-step business process automation.

  • Enterprise-Grade Foundation: AgentCore provides a foundational agentic AI layer with services for Identity, Gateway (tool integration), Runtime, Observability, and Memory, offering the control plane for deploying and auditing production-ready agents at scale.

  • Security & Observability Mandate: The platform delivers core security through distinct agent identities and delegated access, while Observability, built on CloudWatch, provides granular, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) compatible traces to ensure an audit trail and debug-ready agent workflows.

  • Framework Agnostic Scale: AgentCore supports the operationalization of agents built using popular open-source frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, and LangGraph, offering enterprise governance without sacrificing developer flexibility or innovation.

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Stephanie Walter | Practice Leader, AI Stack

Stephanie Walter is a results-driven technology executive and analyst in residence with over 20 years leading innovation in Cloud, SaaS, Middleware, Data, and AI. She has guided product life cycles from concept to go-to-market in both senior roles at IBM and fractional executive capacities, blending engineering expertise with business strategy and market insights. From software engineering and architecture to executive product management, Stephanie has driven large-scale transformations, developed technical talent, and solved complex challenges across startup, growth-stage, and enterprise environments.