Accelerating AI Agent Deployment with AgentCore Runtime & Gateway Training Course

AgentCore Fundamentals

• Overview of AgentCore components and architecture.
• Distinguishing between Runtime and Gateway roles and responsibilities.
• Setting up development workflows and environments.

Deployment via Runtime Packaging

• Understanding agent packaging formats and dependencies.
• Configuring environment variables and managing secrets.
• Practical lab: Deploying a baseline agent to the Runtime.

Secure Access Management via Gateway

• Implementing authentication, authorization, and token strategies.
• Applying rate limiting, quotas, and abuse prevention measures.
• Practical lab: Publishing a secure Gateway endpoint.

Integrating Tools and APIs

• Designing stable contracts for external tool invocations.
• Utilizing webhook patterns and asynchronous callbacks.
• Practical lab: Integrating a third-party data API.

Observability and Operational Excellence

• Implementing structured logging, tracing, and metrics.
• Creating dashboards for reliability and cost insights.
• Practical lab: Setting up request tracing and alerts.

Release Engineering and CI/CD

• Managing agent versioning and backward compatibility.
• Automating tests for prompts, tools, and workflows.
• Practical lab: Constructing a CI/CD pipeline for agents.

Scaling and Resilience Strategies

• Managing horizontal scaling and concurrency controls.
• Executing blue/green and canary rollouts for safe releases.
• Developing incident response and rollback playbooks.

Summary and Future Directions