at the beginning of 2026, AWS has several related yet distinct components that make up its agentic and LLM abstractions.
- Bedrock is the model layer that enables access to large language models.
- Agents for Bedrock is the managed application layer. In other words, AWS runs the agents for you based on your requirements.
- Bedrock AgentCore is an infrastructure layer that enables AWS to run agents you develop using third-party frameworks such as CrewAI and LangGraph.
Apart from these three services, AWS also has Strands, an open source Python library for building agents outside of the Bedrock service, which can then be deployed on other AWS services such as ECS and Lambda.
It can be confusing because all three agentic-based services have the term “Bedrock” in their names, but in this article, I’ll focus on the standard Bedrock service and show how and why you would use it. standard Bedrock service and show how and why you would use it.
As a service, Bedrock…
https://towardsdatascience.com/an-introduction-to-aws-bedrock/
