Deploying AG-UI Agents to Production with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The Agent-User Interaction Protocol (AG-UI) standardizes how AI agents communicate with user applications. But deploying those agents means the same manual work: configuring SSE endpoints, writing auth middleware, managing session isolation, and setting up auto-scaling. None of that is your agent logic. All of it had to be built before you could ship. Amazon recently announced native AG-UI support in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime across 14 AWS regions. You bring your agent code in a container, set one protocol flag, and AgentCore handles the rest. So I deployed Strands Agents to learn how it actually works end-to-end. This post covers everything I picked up, including what AgentCore is and the full deployment flow from a local server to a live UI. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an agentic platform for building, deploying, and operating agents securely at scale. AgentCore Runtime is a fully managed hosting environment. You bring your agent code in a cont