
AWS-AAIF: Agentic AI Foundations
Course Information

Course Name
AWS-AAIF: Agentic AI Foundations

Duration
1 Day
Overview
In this course, you’ll explore the core principles and strategies for designing Agentic AI systems using AWS services. You’ll learn how Agentic AI differs from traditional conversational systems, and how to use tools like Amazon Q, Kiro, Amazon Bedrock Agents, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build autonomous, goal-driven solutions that solve real-world problems.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for:
- Software developers new to Agentic AI seeking foundational knowledge and practical implementation skills
- Technical professionals exploring AI capabilities and interested in core components and applications of agentic AI
- Development teams evaluating Agentic AI solutions and needing to differentiate between agent types
- AWS Users expanding into Agentic AI, including current users of Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q Business, and Amazon Bedrock Agents
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Generative AI Essentials or equivalent work experience
- Basic AWS knowledge and software development experience
At Course Completion
In this course, you will learn to:
- Summarize the evolution of Agentic AI and define what makes something “agentic”
- Identify core components of agentic systems: goals, memory, tools, and environment
- Distinguish between workflow, autonomous, and hybrid agents
- Compare AWS service options for Agentic AI (Specialized, Managed, and DIY approaches)
- Describe capabilities and use cases of Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q Business, and Kiro
- Explain Amazon AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock Agents core functionalities
- Identify basic implementation patterns for Agentic AI
- Describe observability and interoperability patterns for production agentic AI systems
Course Outline
- Understanding Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Innovations powering agents
- Evolution timeline from LLMs to Agents
- Understanding Agentic AI
- Types of AI agents
- Agentic AI applications
- Workflow patterns
- Amazon Bedrock flows overview
- Demo: Amazon Bedrock Flows
- How Autonomous Agents work
- ReAct
- ReWoo
- Multi-agent collaboration
- AWS Agentic AI solutions
- Amazon Q Developer
- Amazon Q Business
- Amazon Q in AWS Services
- Kiro: AI-powered IDE with spec-driven development
- Demo: Amazon Q
- Amazon Bedrock Agents
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- Demo: Amazon Bedrock Agents
- Hands-on lab: Explore Amazon Bedrock Agents integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
- DIY solutions
- Observability and Monitoring
- Agent Interoperability
- Next steps and additional resources
- Course summary
Overview
Overview
In this course, you’ll explore the core principles and strategies for designing Agentic AI systems using AWS services. You’ll learn how Agentic AI differs from traditional conversational systems, and how to use tools like Amazon Q, Kiro, Amazon Bedrock Agents, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build autonomous, goal-driven solutions that solve real-world problems.
Audience Profile
Audience Profile
This course is intended for:
- Software developers new to Agentic AI seeking foundational knowledge and practical implementation skills
- Technical professionals exploring AI capabilities and interested in core components and applications of agentic AI
- Development teams evaluating Agentic AI solutions and needing to differentiate between agent types
- AWS Users expanding into Agentic AI, including current users of Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q Business, and Amazon Bedrock Agents
Prerequisities
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Generative AI Essentials or equivalent work experience
- Basic AWS knowledge and software development experience
At Course Completion
At Course Completion
In this course, you will learn to:
- Summarize the evolution of Agentic AI and define what makes something “agentic”
- Identify core components of agentic systems: goals, memory, tools, and environment
- Distinguish between workflow, autonomous, and hybrid agents
- Compare AWS service options for Agentic AI (Specialized, Managed, and DIY approaches)
- Describe capabilities and use cases of Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q Business, and Kiro
- Explain Amazon AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock Agents core functionalities
- Identify basic implementation patterns for Agentic AI
- Describe observability and interoperability patterns for production agentic AI systems
Course Outline
Course Outline
- Understanding Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Innovations powering agents
- Evolution timeline from LLMs to Agents
- Understanding Agentic AI
- Types of AI agents
- Agentic AI applications
- Workflow patterns
- Amazon Bedrock flows overview
- Demo: Amazon Bedrock Flows
- How Autonomous Agents work
- ReAct
- ReWoo
- Multi-agent collaboration
- AWS Agentic AI solutions
- Amazon Q Developer
- Amazon Q Business
- Amazon Q in AWS Services
- Kiro: AI-powered IDE with spec-driven development
- Demo: Amazon Q
- Amazon Bedrock Agents
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- Demo: Amazon Bedrock Agents
- Hands-on lab: Explore Amazon Bedrock Agents integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
- DIY solutions
- Observability and Monitoring
- Agent Interoperability
- Next steps and additional resources
- Course summary
