4 New Bedrock AgentCore Features — How We Built WA-Arena (Almost) in a Weekend
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Abstract: "While I was building this thing, AWS kept shipping the services I needed. Not one year later. While I was building. That's the reason this session exists." Six months ago I wanted to build a Well-Architected review system — six AI agents, one per WA pillar, reviewing a customer architecture in 90 seconds. I had nights and weekends. I had a laptop. I did not have an agent platform team, a Cedar policy engineer, a tool catalog I could trust, or a judge-LLM researcher. What I had was four new AgentCore services that kept shipping while I built: Harness, Registry, Policy, Evaluations. Harness killed my orchestrator loop. Registry killed my governance gap. Policy killed my "what if an agent goes rogue" fear. Evaluations killed my "is this still any good" blind spot. In this session we're going to tell you the back story of each one — what we would have had to write if the service had not shown up, and what we got to keep out of our codebase because it did. No magic. Just four services, one real project, and the receipts.
Who Should Attend: "I have an agent idea. I don't have a platform team. I don't want to spend three months building scaffolding before I can test the idea." Whether you're an engineer who wants to ship an agent system without building an agent platform under it, a solutions architect who needs to explain what AgentCore actually gives you — service by service, an SRE or platform team evaluating whether to adopt AgentCore or build the pieces yourself, or a security professional who wants to see Cedar running on real agent tool calls rather than a slide — this session is for you.
About the Speakers:
Sri Gudavalli — Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS | NAMER Financial Services. Got paged too many times for the same issue. Finally wrote it down. Then gave it to an agent. Now he sleeps. Sri focuses on GenAI/ML, Security & Compliance, and Data & Analytics for financial services customers. He is local here in the Triangle area.
Luis Salcido — Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS | US-ISV. Nearly 10 years at AWS helping customers keep their most critical workloads running. Luis works closely with ISV customers on operational excellence, reliability, and scaling best practices. Local in Raleigh at RDU11.
Agenda:
- 12:00 pm to 12:10 pm ET - Arrival & Networking
- 12:10 pm to 12:25 pm ET - The Setup — What I Needed, What I Didn't Want To Build
- 12:25 pm to 12:45 pm ET - Chapter 1 — Harness: "I Had 1200 Lines of Python and a Dream"
- 12:45 pm to 12:55 pm ET - Break
- 12:55 pm to 1:15 pm ET - Chapter 2 — Registry: "Where Did That Tool Come From?"
- 1:15 pm to 1:30 pm ET - Chapter 3 — Policy: "The Day the Agent Tried to Fix IAM"
- 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm ET - Chapter 4 — Evaluations: "How I Knew It Still Worked After the Model Swap"
- 1:45 pm to 2:00 pm ET - Q&A / Open Discussion
Venue & Parking:
WeWork One Glenwood — 1 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27603. Parking is available at the Glenwood South parking deck (directly behind the building) or metered street parking along Glenwood Ave. WeWork is on the 9th floor — check in at the front desk and mention the AWS User Group event.