Building a prototype agent feels like simple script logic, until you realise you’re actually orchestrating an autonomous, non-deterministic distributed system.

In this 10-minute lightning talk, we look beyond the "happy path" of the new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore workshop. We’ll dissect how AgentCore handles the critical baseline plumbing (MCP gateways, ephemeral runtimes, identity brokers, and memory abstractions) and where traditional distributed systems engineering must take over: handling tool timeouts, idempotency, loop circuit breakers, and state consistency.

You’ll walk away with a clear architectural lens on what AWS manages for you versus the real-world operational patterns you still need to build to survive in production.