Part 1: Why I Chose Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (And...

I built a production AI agent on AWS. Not a demo, not a proof of concept — a real system with persistent memory, guardrails, CI/CD pipelines, and users who depend on it not going down at 2am. The thing nobody tells you: the hard part isn't the AI. The hard part is the infrastructure around it. This series is my attempt to document everything I had to figure out the hard way — from architecture decisions in Part 1 all the way to cost optimisation in Part 6. The companion demo repo is at github.co