Bi-directional streaming for real-time agent interactions now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Building natural voice conversations with AI agents requires complex infrastructure and lots of code from engineering teams. Text-based agent interactions follow a turn-based pattern: a user sends a complete request, waits for the agent to process it, and receives a full response before continuing. Bi-directional streaming removes this constraint by establishing a persistent connection that carries data in both directions simultaneously.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime supports bi-directional streaming for real-time, two-way communication between users and AI agents. With this capability, agents can simultaneously listen to user input while generating responses, creating a more natural conversational flow. This is particularly well-suited for multimodal interactions, such as voice and vision agent conversations. The agent can begin responding while still receiving user input, handle mid-conversation interruptions, and adjust its responses based on real-time feedback.

A bi-directional voice chat agent can conduct spoken conversations with the fluidity of human dialogue so that users can ...