AWS DevOps Agent is GA and included with Support plans. But it doesn't replace your custom agents -- it complements them. Here's the hybrid pattern: what to buy, what to build, and how MCP bridges the gap.
Your AI agent has access to tools that perform real actions -- approving expenses, querying databases, modifying infrastructure. Prompt-based guardrails don't survive adversarial inputs. Here's how AgentCore Gateway + Cedar policies create a deterministic enforcement layer that operates independently of the agent's reasoning.
AWS released the Agent Toolkit for AWS on May 6, 2026 -- a managed MCP server exposing the full AWS API surface to autonomous agents. I shipped an infrastructure agent the same week. Here's the two-phase safety pattern that lets you hand an agent the keys to your account without waking up to a $10K bill.
I woke up to 204 pull requests from a single autonomous agent running overnight. 12 hours, ~$900 in Bedrock tokens, 509 failed builds, zero features shipped. Prompt-only safeguards all failed. Here's the 3-layer fix — hard kill switch, atomic circuit breakers, drift observability — that now prevents runaway agents.
Your RPA estate has 50 bots. Some should become AI agents, some should stay as bots, some need a hybrid pattern. Here is a repeatable, weighted scoring rubric — and the 5 migration patterns it maps to.
A curated summary of the most important AWS announcements from February 2026 — from Bedrock AgentCore deep dives to new EC2 instances and the European Sovereign Cloud.
A hands-on walkthrough of deploying OpenClaw on AWS using AgentCore Runtime for serverless agent execution, Graviton ARM instances, and multi-model Bedrock access — from CloudFormation template to customizing the agent's personality.
Enterprise workflows often require interacting with web applications that lack APIs. Traditional automation scripts are brittle and break when UIs change.