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Amazon is so hopelessly behind in AI, nothing they produce aside from cloud infrastructure is actually good

The big threat to AWS is that coding agents dont need all of their complicated infrastructure, which was built for humans. Agents can use low level primitives, i.e. just a raw server

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Hi I'm Albert Zhao, one of the blog authors. Strands harness is meant to be deployed outside of AWS too. I got it running on Cloudflare Containers and Modal before this launch (deployment docs coming soon). We just want to keep making a really good harness, esp since Strands is born from a lot of internal headbanging around building agents

I believe that you just want to make a really good harness, but is that all amazon wants it to be or do they want more?

Yeah Strands powers thousands of agents at Amazon, so we all really benefit from being open source thanks to improvements/github issues from the community. Our focus is making agents run easily and reliably in prod

The sales pressure from them on their agent core stuff has been really shocking over the last six months. Never seen anything like it.

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