What's new in Strands Agents | Serverless Office Hours

Discover what’s new when building AI agents with Strands Agents SDK. Arron Bailiss and Murat Kaan Meral from the Strands team join Julian Wood to walk through three major updates to Strands Agents. See how the new context management compresses and offloads large tool results to reduce costs while improving accuracy. Learn how Strands Shell gives your agents safe access to filesystems and APIs without exposing credentials or your laptop. And discover how Strands Evals 1.0 lets you inject failures, test adversarial scenarios, and find the breaks before production does. We are also available to answer any of your serverless questions. Host: Julian Wood - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Serverless: https://x.com/julian_wood https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood/ Guests: Arron Bailiss - Principal Engineer, Agentic AI, AWS Murat Kaan Meral - Software Dev Engineer, AWS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkmeral/ Stream Links: Reduced cost, better isolation, and more resilience: https://strandsagents.com/blog/reduced-cost-better-isolation-more-resilience/ SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel SERVERLESS OFFICE HOURS Playlist: https://s12d.com/soh-youtube A weekly live office hours to learn about building serverless applications. We cover a separate topic each week, including what's new with serverless, deep dives into feature launches and best practices, and explorations of real-world usecases. Join us live to ask us anything you want about serverless technologies and applications. https://ServerlessLand.com Your resource for learning about serverless technology. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully managed serverless architecture.