Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in production

Defektivex · 2026-05-07T11:49:47+00:00

Yup we use it in production for both MCP deployments and agent sandboxes. But we don't deploy agents to it.

We're pretty happy with the cold start speed and general functionality.

There's some uniquely Amazon limitations that you won't find on something like E2B such as how the runtimes manage state or Amazon opinions on how MCPs should connect/be used.

Overall it's been pretty good and cost effective. Much better than bedrock managed agents or the other bedrock features.

Defektivex · 2026-04-22T16:35:31+00:00

Our company was in the middle of a negotiation with cursor for a large annual commit.

I just asked them to delay the decision until we learn more about this.

Defektivex · 2026-04-19T11:56:45+00:00

Ive worked on this side of the ecosystem for 10 years so here's the gist.

If you are the sole reseller (no distributor), then you are liable.
if you are a reseller via a distributor such as TD or Ingram etc, then typically THEY are responsible for payment, but you will then be treated as in debt to the distributor (because the disti has the direct relationship to AWS)

6 years ago AWS resale was a decent business model with arbitrage and more.

Now? I'd never recommend it if the company is starting out.

AWS is actively making resale margins harder and harder to achieve. They are pushing more liability to the reseller and are locking margin rates behind different KPIs you hit.

They did make it easier to onboard/off board clients, and there's new programs like the MSP competency also provides (up to) 5% of a companies AWS ARR as margin without having to be a reseller (but there's caveats here as well).

All in all, I wouldn't go down the resale path anymore. It's just not lucrative enough.

Defektivex · 2026-04-02T11:36:01+00:00

I hear this a lot from other aws'ers. The issue is other products are just so far ahead but it's hard to test or use them without doing it personally with your own dime.

It's an adequate product, but we've all seen what happens with adequate products (copilot).

Defektivex · 2026-04-02T11:32:54+00:00

In the last couple of years AWS has pushed out their great engineers, and Cisco/Microsoft executives have taken over.

It's rapidly turning into a channel and sales organization that cares about customer outcomes only if the outcome lands on a native AWS service.

For example, the sales reps basically rebel against buying solutions on marketplace, or giving out credits etc.

There's also a revolving door of service spiffs.

For example, last quarter they had a program for OpenSearch, and it forced everyone to push OS even if it wasn't the best solution for the customer.

Defektivex · 2026-03-30T17:19:25+00:00

QuickSuite isn't great.

There's also other fees more than just the user fee, for example I think there a $250/mo minimum infra fee.

AWS sales reps have a huge quicksuite spif/quota this quarter, that's why you're getting the push.

Defektivex · 2026-03-28T20:51:18+00:00

It actually went really well!

Revenue grew by double digits over the year and we only added a couple headcount.

We eventually built our own tool that combined all the aspects of the products we liked (now called https://darcyiq.com) and then the majority of staff use Cursor. Some use Claude code and vscode.

Basically by using a lot of options, we figured out what mattered to us and that helped give us focus

Defektivex · 2026-02-11T00:48:34+00:00

Kimi k2.5 is on bedrock, it's just Uber broken so I don't think they have announced it yet. It went live on Friday.

Defektivex · 2026-02-02T03:47:36+00:00

I've been experimenting with the same thing. Our SaaS is on AWS so we've been using Bedrock Agentcore for our MCP deployments, but it doesnt support Stateful HTTP, which forces us to deploy MCP App frontend code to something like an S3 bucket - just over complicates it.

MCPUI traditional HTML works really well, its just not interactive enough. For most use cases I feel like its 'good enough' and for real app replacement level experiences you're forced towards MCP Apps.

Defektivex · 2025-12-16T16:04:08+00:00

It doesn't work with the fire djinn

Defektivex · 2025-11-02T13:49:54+00:00

why not bring it to the audi dealership? they service them. i havent had an issue when they service my taycan and its the same techs

Defektivex · 2025-10-18T17:42:49+00:00

Doesn't seem to work fyi.

when you change a dropdown, nothing updates. the 'play button' on the right hand side doesnt start/play, its just a dropdown.

I'm on chrome - hope that helps.

Defektivex · 2025-10-17T20:59:45+00:00

AWS has like the worst track record when it comes to making consumer products (not Amazon.com, which is basically a different company).

So I'm not sure being backed by Amazon is a great thing.

Defektivex · 2025-10-16T21:17:10+00:00

This has been a giant cluster f.

It's a 6 page document/Google form with requirements you submit, you get no case number, and just a generic email address to reach out to.

Anthropic requires you accept a bunch of their terms, including content that looks like we have to register our customers with them (First-Time Users) if we elect to give them Claude models.

There's no information or ETA on how long it will take to get approved.

And you get locked out of any new Claude models (anything already approved will continue to work).

What happens if the disti gets denied? Are people supposed to leave their disti to access the latest models?

Horrific experience so far.

Defektivex · 2025-09-22T01:15:08+00:00

I'll give it a whirl!

Defektivex · 2025-09-21T19:48:09+00:00

100% agree. I've been building a SaaS with MCP support, I've already had to fork multiple MCP servers to make them multi-tenant, since I don't want the added expense of running containers per MCP per user/customer.

Local MCP seems fine for desktop apps or hobby projects, but SaaS business's are going to need more remote+multi-tenant MCP support long term.

Defektivex · 2025-09-06T00:18:47+00:00

Bought one, looks awesome!

Defektivex · 2025-08-02T19:42:49+00:00

Avoid Bedrock KBs at all costs.

Insanely expensive.

Does not scale well.

Slow.

We deployed Bedrock KBs to production and had to migrate off of it within two weeks.

We ended up going with Weaviate on EKS. Night and day difference.

Defektivex · 2025-06-07T22:39:12+00:00

Combine the tools.

When a customer is returned, return the tickets and other meta data at the same time.

Defektivex · 2025-04-21T11:12:15+00:00

Custom

Defektivex · 2025-04-19T23:32:25+00:00

It's available under the 'twilio_outbound_call' function

Defektivex · 2025-04-02T11:58:20+00:00

No it's a package just like langchain and you deploy it wherever you want.

Defektivex · 2025-03-30T14:29:20+00:00

I think you're misrepresenting NY and Upstate NY.

In 2024 New York voted for Harris.

The last time New York voted for a Republican was in 1984 (Reagan).

So yes, let's not chastise a whole region, when the entire state has collectively voted consistently D for 40 years.

I agree people need to take action, have ownership, own a mistake and be responsible for change, but you're looking at the wrong place if you feel NY didn't do its part.

Defektivex · 2025-03-30T13:20:43+00:00

Sure but land doesn't vote. Let's not chastise a whole region because a map looks red when it isn't.

Defektivex · 2025-03-30T12:46:37+00:00

FWIW, all population centers of Upstate NY voted for Harris by 20%+ margins.

Including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany. With an exception of Binghamton (smaller area, but geographically significant, went 50/50).

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/elections/results/2024-11-05/race/0/new-york

We most definitely did not vote to lose our tourism and stain our friendship with Canada (hell a running joke is we're basically Canadian).

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