Amazon Web Services has introduced a managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets developers stand up a working autonomous agent through configuration rather than orchestration code. The preview, paired with a new command-line interface, a persistent agent filesystem and prebuilt skills for popular coding assistants, signals that AWS sees deployment friction, rather than model quality, as the next constraint on enterprise agentic artificial intelligence.
The harness manages reasoning, tool selection, action execution and response streaming inside a dedicated microVM spun up for each session. AWS says developers can declare an agent’s model, system prompt and tools, then run it in three API calls. The managed harness preview is live in US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). AWS says the AgentCore CLI is available in 14 AgentCore regions, while other AgentCore capabilities have broader regional availability depending on…
