A two-day hackathon build where a humanoid walks an inspection route, captures imagery, and an agent on Bedrock checks each assembly against its bill of materials. What the cloud pipeline looked like, and what a hackathon proves versus what it doesn't.
AWS quietly shipped two open-source answers to two different agent problems. I deployed both, wired them together, then tried to break the architecture. Here is what holds, what doesn't, and the pattern for letting customers 'create agents' without losing governance.
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.
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.
Boulder uses 9 Strands agents on Bedrock AgentCore to generate, deploy, and maintain full-stack apps on AWS Amplify — with self-healing builds and self-improving prompts.
Enterprise workflows often require interacting with web applications that lack APIs. Traditional automation scripts are brittle and break when UIs change.