Agents in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — Fundamentals, Patterns, and the Agent vs Workflow Divide
> June 12, 2026
What an agent is at a fundamental level, how any agent code plugs into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the different architectural patterns an agent can follow, the full set of AgentCore platform features you can lean on, and a crisp explanation of when you want an agent versus a workflow.
Modern AI systems are no longer single prompt-response pairs. They plan, act, observe, and adapt. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the managed runtime that lets you bring that loop to production without rebuilding the scaffolding every time. This post unpacks what an agent actually is, how any agent code becomes a first-class citizen in AgentCore, every platform feature you can use, the canonical agent patterns, and the practical line between an agent and a workflow. ---
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