Accelerating AI Agent Deployment with AgentCore Runtime & Gateway Training Course

AgentCore Fundamentals

• Core components and architecture of AgentCore
• Distinguishing the roles and responsibilities of Runtime versus Gateway
• Setting up the development workflow and environment

Packaging and Deployment via Runtime

• Agent packaging formats and dependency management
• Configuration of environment variables and secrets
• Practical lab: Deploying a baseline agent to Runtime

Access Security with Gateway

• Strategies for authentication, authorization, and token management
• Implementing rate limiting, quotas, and abuse prevention
• Practical lab: Publishing a secure Gateway endpoint

Tool and API Integration

• Designing stable contracts for external tool interactions
• Webhook patterns and asynchronous callback mechanisms
• Practical lab: Integrating a third-party data API

Observability and Operational Excellence

• Implementing structured logging, tracing, and metrics
• Creating dashboards for reliability and cost visibility
• Practical lab: Setting up request tracing and alerts

Release Engineering and CI/CD

• Agent versioning and maintaining backward compatibility
• Automated testing for prompts, tools, and workflows
• Practical lab: Constructing a CI/CD pipeline for agents

Scaling and Resilience Strategies

• Managing horizontal scaling and concurrency controls
• Executing blue/green and canary rollouts for safe releases
• Incident response protocols and rollback playbooks

Recap and Future Directions