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Last week, Strands Agents, the AWS open source agent AI SDK, just hit 1 million downloads and earned over 3,000 GitHub Stars less than 4 months after launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production multi-agent AI systems in just a few lines of code.
We have continuously improved features including support for multi-agent patterns, the A2A protocol, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You can use a collection of sample implementations to help you get started building intelligent agents using Strands agents. We always welcome your input and feedback on our project, including bug reports, new features, fixes or additional documentation.
Here’s the latest research article from Amazon Science about the future of agent-based AI and the questions scientists are asking about agent-to-agent communication, context understanding, common sense reasoning, and more. You can understand the technical topic of agentic AI with related examples, including one about our personal behavior of leaving a door open or closed, locked or unlocked.
Last week’s launch
Here are some launches that caught my eye:
- Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances – New M4 Mac instances offer up to 20% better application build performance compared to Mac M2 instances, while M4 Pro Mac instances provide up to 15% better application build performance compared to Mac M2 Pro instances. These instances are ideal for building and testing apps for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari.
- LocalStack integration into Visual Studio Code (VS Code) – With LocalStack, you can emulate and test your serverless applications locally using the familiar VS Code interface without having to switch between tools or manage complex settings, simplifying the local serverless development process.
- Refactor (Preview) AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) – You can rename constructs, move resources between stacks, and reorganize CDK applications while maintaining the state of deployed resources. By using AWS CloudFormation’s refactoring capabilities with automated mapping calculation, CDK Refactor eliminates the risk of inadvertently replacing resources during code restructuring.
- AWS CloudTrail MCP Server – The new AWS CloudTrail MCP Server enables AI assistants to analyze API calls, monitor user activity, and perform advanced security analysis across your AWS environment through natural language interactions. You can explore multiple AWS MCP servers to work with AWS service resources.
- Amazon CloudFront IPv6 Origin Support – Your applications can send IPv6 traffic all the way to their origin, enabling them to meet their architectural and regulatory requirements for IPv6 adoption. End-to-end IPv6 support improves network performance for end-users connecting over IPv6 networks and also eliminates concerns about running out of IPv4 addresses for legacy infrastructure.
For a complete list of AWS announcements, be sure to check out What’s New with AWS? page.
More AWS news
Here’s some other news you might be interested in:
- City in the palm of your hand – Check out this interactive feature that explains how our AWS Trainium chip designers think like urban planners and optimize every nanometer to make data move at near-light speeds.
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Software Development Tools and Practices – Learn how Amazon developers who identified specific problems before adopting AI tools reduced costs by 15.9% year over year using our cost-to-serve-software framework (CTS-SW). They deployed more often and reduced manual interventions by 30.4% by focusing on the right problems first.
- Become an AWS Cloud Club Captain – Join a growing network of student cloud enthusiasts and become an AWS Cloud Club Captain! As a captain, you will organize events and build cloud communities while developing leadership skills. The application window is open from September 1 to 28, 2025.
Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars to sign up for these upcoming AWS events, as well as AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits:
- AWS AI Agent Global Hackathon – This is your chance to dive deep into our powerful generative AI and build something truly amazing. From September 8th to October 20th, you have the opportunity to build AI agents using the AWS AI Services Suite, compete for over $45,000 in prizes and exclusive launch opportunities.
- AWS Gen AI Lofts – You can learn AWS AI products and services in exclusive sessions and meet leading industry experts for valuable networking opportunities with investors and peers. Register in your nearest city: Mexico City (September 30-October 2), Paris (October 7-21), London (October 13-21) and Tel Aviv (November 11-19).
- AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences featuring technical discussions, workshops and hands-on labs led by AWS expert users and industry leaders from around the world: Aotearoa and Poland (September 18), South Africa (September 20), Bolivia (September 20), Portugal (September 27), Germany (October 16), Germany (October 16).
You can browse all upcoming AWS events and AWS launch events.
That’s it for this week. Check back next Monday for another weekly recap!
— Channy