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Strands Agents Hands-On: Build Your First Agent

AWS ML Community NYC runs a hands-on build session at Amazon's JFK14 office in Manhattan, teaching Strands Agents, an open-source agent harness SDK, by building a customer service agent step by step.

Wed, Sep 23, 10:00 PMAmazon JFK14 · New York · NY
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Why it matters

Strands is model-agnostic, meaning the same agent code can run against different LLMs and clouds. That portability is exactly what practitioners need before they can compare providers on cost or quality.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Model-agnostic harnesses like Strands are the mechanism that makes model routing possible in practice: swap the backend model per task without rewriting the agent logic, which is a precondition for cost-based routing.

From the organizers

Hosted at Amazon's JFK14 office by AWS ML Community NYC (4,447 members); attendees build a 3-tool Strands agent and deploy it to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.