AWS Retires Bedrock Agents Classic, Developers Urged to Migrate to AgentCore

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Amazon Web Services has moved Bedrock Agents into maintenance mode, now rebranding it as Bedrock Agents Classic, with the service closed to new customers from July 30, 2026. Existing agents will continue to function with no announced end-of-life date, but the platform is frozen, meaning no new features or updated AI models will be added. AWS is directing developers toward its newer Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform, which takes a different approach by letting developers write agent logic in frameworks of their choice while AWS manages the surrounding production infrastructure. A developer who built an AI-powered AWS billing monitor on the Classic platform documented the full migration process after being alerted to the change by an AWS community manager. The shift means any tutorials or projects built on the original Bedrock Agents console are effectively outdated for users with new AWS accounts.

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