Accelerating AI Agent Deployment with AgentCore Runtime & Gateway Training Course

AgentCore Fundamentals

• AgentCore components and architecture
• Distinguishing between Runtime and Gateway roles and responsibilities
• Development workflows and environment configuration

Packaging and Deployment with Runtime

• Agent packaging formats and dependency management
• Setting up environment variables and secrets
• Practical lab: Deploying a baseline agent to Runtime

Securing Access with Gateway

• Authentication, authorisation, and token management strategies
• Implementing rate limiting, quotas, and abuse prevention measures
• Practical lab: Publishing a secure Gateway endpoint

Tool and API Integrations

• Designing stable contracts for external tool interactions
• Webhook patterns and asynchronous callbacks
• Practical lab: Integrating a third-party data API

Observability and Operations

• Structured logging, tracing, and metrics collection
• Dashboards for monitoring reliability and cost visibility
• Practical lab: Implementing request tracing and alerting

Release Engineering and CI/CD

• Agent versioning and maintaining backward compatibility
• Automated testing for prompts, tools, and workflows
• Practical lab: Constructing a CI/CD pipeline for agents

Scaling and Resilience Patterns

• Horizontal scaling and concurrency control
• Blue/green and canary deployment strategies for safe releases
• Incident response and rollback procedures

Conclusion and Next Steps