--- title: Build and Run Your Own AI Agent in the Cloud | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide to building and deploying an AI agent on AWS using Strands (an open-source agent framework from AWS) and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-and-run-your-own-ai-agent-in-the-cloud-aoostzrec twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build and Run Your Own AI Agent in the Cloud | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to building and deploying an AI agent on AWS using Strands (an open-source agent framework from AWS) and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-and-run-your-own-ai-agent-in-the-cloud-aoostzrec og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aoOStzREC.png og:image:alt: Build and Run Your Own AI Agent in the Cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build and Run Your Own AI Agent in the Cloud **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 26 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to building and deploying an AI agent on AWS using Strands (an open-source agent framework from AWS) and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The tutorial walks through creating an educational subject-matter expert triage agent that routes questions across mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geography using Claude Sonnet 4.6. 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