Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS

AWS Agent Toolkit for AWS Launch

AWS has launched the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tools and guidance to help AI coding agents build on AWS with fewer errors, lower token costs, and enterprise-grade security controls.

New Features

• Agent Skills: Over 40 skills across various services to help agents follow best practices.
• AWS MCP Server: A fully-managed server with IAM-based guardrails, observability, and sandboxed code execution.
• Agent Plugins: Bundled sets of skills and the AWS MCP server for specific use cases.

What to do

• Explore the Agent Skills for infrastructure-as-code, storage, analytics, and more.
• Use the AWS MCP Server for interacting with AWS services.
• Install Agent Plugins like AWS Core, AWS Data Analytics, and AWS Agents.

Source: AWS release notes

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