Category: Strands Agents

In this post, we explore what it takes to migrate a traditional text agent into a conversational voice assistant using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic. We compare text and voice agent requirements, highlight design priorities for different use cases, break down agent architecture, and address common concerns like tools and sub-agents for reuse and system prompt adaptation. This post helps you navigate the migration process and avoid common pitfalls.

In this post, we demonstrate how to build AI agents using Strands Agents SDK with models deployed on SageMaker AI endpoints. You will learn how to deploy foundation models from SageMaker JumpStart, integrate them with Strands Agents, and establish production-grade observability using SageMaker Serverless MLflow for agent tracing. We also cover how to implement A/B testing across multiple model variants and evaluate agent performance using MLflow metrics and show how you can build, deploy, and continuously improve AI agents on infrastructure you control.

You can use ToolSimulator, an LLM-powered tool simulation framework within Strands Evals, to thoroughly and safely test AI agents that rely on external tools, at scale. Instead of risking live API calls that expose personally identifiable information (PII), trigger unintended actions, or settling for static mocks that break with multi-turn workflows, you can use ToolSimulator’s large language model (LLM)-powered simulations to validate your agents. Available today as part of the Strands Evals Software Development Kit (SDK), ToolSimulator helps you catch integration bugs early, test edge cases comprehensively, and ship production-ready agents with confidence.

In this post, we show how to implement a generative AI agentic assistant that uses both semantic and text-based search using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents and Amazon OpenSearch.

In this post, we explore how ActorSimulator in Strands Evaluations SDK addresses the challenge with structured user simulation that integrates into your evaluation pipeline.

In this post, we show how to evaluate AI agents systematically using Strands Evals. We walk through the core concepts, built-in evaluators, multi-turn simulation capabilities and practical approaches and patterns for integration.

This post demonstrates how to build custom model parsers for Strands agents when working with LLMs hosted on SageMaker that don’t natively support the Bedrock Messages API format. We’ll walk through deploying Llama 3.1 with SGLang on SageMaker using awslabs/ml-container-creator, then implementing a custom parser to integrate it with Strands agents.

In this post, you will learn how to deploy Fullstack AgentCore Solution Template (FAST) to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, understand its architecture, and see how to extend it for your requirements. You will learn how to build your own agent while FAST handles authentication, infrastructure as code (IaC), deployment pipelines, and service integration.

The agent-based approach we present is applicable to any type of enterprise content, from product documentation and knowledge bases to marketing materials and technical specifications. To demonstrate these concepts in action, we walk through a practical example of reviewing blog content for technical accuracy. These patterns and techniques can be directly adapted to various content review needs by adjusting the agent configurations, tools, and verification sources.

In this post, we explore how to build a multi-agent video processing workflow using Strands Agents, Meta’s Llama 4 models, and Amazon Bedrock to automatically analyze and understand video content through specialized AI agents working in coordination. To showcase the solution, we will use Amazon SageMaker AI to walk you through the code.