Comment by hmokiguess
8 hours ago
How does this compare to https://strandsagents.com/ ? I'm interested in tools in this space, right now I'm not attached to one, but Bedrock + Serverless on Agent Core feels like the "easy guided path" though I don't like the platform lock-in
Curious about other experiences.
I’ve been playing with this stack and left wondering if Strands provides any secret sauce with Agent Core. So far it doesn’t feel that way and sometimes they even feel at odds with each other.
I think strands and agentcore don’t have a ton of overlap but I have found agentcore makes running strands frameworks pretty easy and relatively inexpensive. I like strands in that it’s the most mature (IMO) that isn’t specific to a model provider - although I found using things like vertex to require a lot of custom work to get caching and other things to work properly, the maturity is all on bedrock.
I’ll need to dig into burr - I’m not finding strands has an insurmountable maturity to it but it’s not carrying a lot of weird opinion (like some of the other OSS frameworks seem to be highly infected with) and is pretty practical in what it exposed and does, and is most like the agentic frameworks I’ve worked with inside FAANG. If burr can meet that and keep growing I’d probably look at moving to it as I also get a sense strands has a bit of the Amazon “highly probable to be abandoned once the managers and PMs get promoted” feeling.