While the cloud services provider did release Strands Agents, an open-source AI Agents SDK last month, Google’s ADK and Microsoft’s AutoGen, which were released earlier, have “already set a high bar for open source, developer-centric software for agent creation and is more widely adopted,” said Igor Beninca, data science manager at Indicium — a AI and data consultancy firm.

Additionally, Strands Agents, unlike ADK’s and AutoGen’s integration into Vertex AI and Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry, respectively, is not natively integrated into Bedrock, although it uses a few Bedrock tools — a growing demand among developers and CIOs, Hinchcliffe pointed out.

“Customers say that Strand Agents feel stranded as they are not integrated into Bedrock, forcing them to stitch workflows manually. This breaks AWS’s promise to customers that Bedrock is a managed, secure, and scalable generative AI service,” Hincliffe said.