Introducing the Stateful Runtime Environment for Agents in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers a Stateful Runtime Environment, powered by OpenAI, to reliably run complex, multi-step AI agent workflows within AWS infrastructure.Summary
OpenAI agents are strong at reasoning, but operationalizing multi-step work reliably across real systems is challenging, often requiring developers to build complex orchestration layers on top of stateless APIs. To address this, Amazon and OpenAI have collaborated to introduce the Stateful Runtime Environment, which runs natively in Amazon Bedrock. This environment is optimized for AWS infrastructure and tailored for agentic workflows, automatically managing the 'working context' that carries forward memory, tool state, environment use, and identity boundaries across execution steps. By handling persistent orchestration and state, the Stateful Runtime allows development teams to focus on business logic rather than scaffolding, making it easier to deploy production solutions like multi-system customer support and complex finance processes with necessary reliability, governance, and security controls within the customer's existing AWS environment. This feature will be available soon.
(Source：OpenAI)