AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code.

We’ve continuously improved features including support for multi-agent patterns, A2A protocol, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You can use a collection of sample implementations to help you get started with building intelligent agents using Strands Agents. We always welcome your contribution and feedback to our project including bug reports, new features, corrections, or additional documentation.

Here is the latest research article of Amazon Science about the future of agentic AI and questions that scientists are asking about agent-to-agent communications, contextual understanding, common sense reasoning, and more. You can understand the technical topic of agentic AI with with relatable examples, including ...