Announcing Agents for Amazon Bedrock: Introducing a simplified creation and configuration experience

The new Agents for Amazon Bedrock feature enables applications to utilize generative AI across multiple systems and data sources. These capabilities aim to simplify the creation and management of agents with the following enhancements:

Quick agent creation: Users can rapidly create agents and add instructions and action groups later, providing flexibility in the development process. Agent builder: All agent configurations can be managed in the new agent builder section of the console, offering a streamlined experience. Simplified configuration: Action groups now utilize a simplified schema that only requires listing functions and parameters without the need for providing an API schema. Return of control: Users can bypass using an AWS Lambda function and return control to the application invoking the agent, allowing direct integration with systems outside AWS or internal endpoints hosted in any Amazon VPC. Infrastructure as code: AWS CloudFormation can be used to deploy and manage agents with the new simplified configuration, ensuring consistency and reproducibility across environments. To illustrate these enhancements, let's walk through the process of creating an agent using the new simplified console:

In the Amazon Bedrock console, users can navigate to Agents and select Create Agent. They can then provide a name and description for the agent and proceed to create it without additional information. The Agent builder allows users to access and edit the overall configuration of the agent. Here, users can specify the agent's resource role, model, instructions, and additional settings. Users can add action groups, which are used by agents to interact with external systems. Action groups can be configured to return control to the invoking application, eliminating the need for a Lambda function in certain scenarios. Action group functions can be associated with Lambda functions or configured to return control to the application invoking the agent. The agent's behavior can be tested using sample inputs, and users can view detailed traces of the agent's orchestration to understand its decisions. These enhancements are available for use in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, and CloudFormation support for Agents for Amazon Bedrock is being updated to support the new simplified syntax. For further information, users can refer to the Agents for Amazon Bedrock section of the User Guide and visit the AWS community site for technical content and insights.