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 workflow and environment setup

Packaging and Deployment with Runtime

• Agent packaging formats and dependencies
• Configuring environment variables and secrets
• Hands-on lab: Deploy a baseline agent to Runtime

Securing Access with Gateway

• Authentication, authorization, and token strategies
• Rate limiting, quotas, and abuse prevention
• Hands-on lab: Publish a secure Gateway endpoint

Tool and API Integrations

• Designing stable contracts for external tool calls
• Webhook patterns and asynchronous callbacks
• Hands-on lab: Integrate a third-party data API

Observability and Operations

• Structured logging, tracing, and metrics
• Dashboards for reliability and cost visibility
• Hands-on lab: Implement request tracing and alerts

Release Engineering and CI/CD

• Versioning agents and ensuring backward compatibility
• Automated testing for prompts, tools, and flows
• Hands-on lab: Build a CI/CD pipeline for agents

Scaling and Resilience Patterns

• Horizontal scaling and concurrency controls
• Blue/green and canary rollouts for safe releases
• Incident response and rollback playbooks

Summary and Next Steps