Library / SDK
Agents & Orchestration
Strands Agents
1Model 2driven 3agent 4SDK 5from 6AWS
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
W2
What
A model-driven SDK for building tool-using agents with a simple model-and-tool loop.
W3
Where
A Python SDK, provider-agnostic and deployable on AWS.
W4
When
Reach for it when building tool-using agents on the AWS stack.
W5
Why
A simple, provider-agnostic model-driven loop with first-party AWS support.
W6
With
Python, Amazon Bedrock or other providers, and MCP tools.
W7
Watch
AWS-maintained; Apache-2.0 open-source library, a newer project. Runs as a library you host.
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