Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds new features to help developers build agents faster
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This article announces new features for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to accelerate agent development and lifecycle management.
- Managed harness (preview) enables agent creation without orchestration code
- Harness manages reasoning, tool selection, execution, and response streaming
- Model-agnostic with ability to switch models mid-session
- Filesystem persistence allows agents to suspend and resume tasks
- AgentCore CLI deploys with infrastructure-as-code governance
- AWS CDK supported; Terraform support coming soon
- Pre-built skills for coding assistants via Kiro Power, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- Available in four regions for managed harness; 14 regions for CLI
- No additional charges for harness, CLI, or skills
These features streamline agent development from prototype to production deployment on a unified platform.
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