Deployment & Scaling · Advanced
Strands Agents and MCP on AWS: Writing the Agent Before You Deploy It
AWS's open-source agent SDK plus the Model Context Protocol — how to give a model tools in a few dozen lines, and why the framework and the runtime are separate decisions.
- 55 min lesson
- intermediate level
- AWS AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Framework choice and runtime choice are independent
- Strands Agents: model-driven loop over explicit state machines
- MCP as a portable tool interface across frameworks
- AgentCore Gateway turning existing APIs and Lambdas into MCP tools
- Tool description quality, small structured returns, idempotency
- Turn caps, tracing and asserting on tool-call sequences
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 4 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.