Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore
TL;DR
Together, Motorway and AWS built an end-to-end evaluation pipeline that reduced incorrect results from 1 in 8 queries to 1 in 50 and cut issue detection time from hours to minutes. The pipeline combines the Strands Agents SDK with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed service for deploying and operating AI agents at scale. This post shows you how to build the pipeline for your own agents.
Nauti's Take
The payoff is concrete: a clean evaluation pipeline cut errors from 1 in 8 to 1 in 50 queries — the difference between a demo agent and one you trust in production. The limit: the blueprint leans heavily on AWS services like Bedrock AgentCore, which means lock-in.
Teams running agents seriously should adopt the eval discipline but choose their tooling deliberately.
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