Building an AI-Powered News App with AWS Bedrock and Strands Agents

A fully serverless AI powered news app built with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Bedrock, and a SwiftUI client. What if your news feed actually understood what you care about? Not just broad categories like tech or sports, but specific interests like AI agents, Formula 1, or decentralized finance. That question led me to build NewsAI , a fully serverless, AI powered personalized news application running entirely on AWS with a native iOS client built using SwiftUI. In this article I walk through The architecture The AWS services involved How the Strands Agents SDK connects everything to Claude on Amazon Bedrock This project demonstrates how modern AI infrastructure can power real world developer applications with almost zero operational overhead. Architecture Overview Everything is serverless No servers to manage No containers to orchestrate Just Lambda functions, DynamoDB, and Claude doing the reasoning through Amazon Bedrock. AWS Services Used Service Purpose AWS Lambda Handles the application