Serverless Agents: Real-World Tooling with Strands SDK, MCP & AWS • Akshatha Laxmi • GOTO 2025

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Serverless 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOserverless
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Akshatha Laxmi - Solution Architect at AntStack

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ABSTRACT
In the real world, agents do not merely reason—they act.
In this presentation, I walk through how to reveal real functionality to LLM agents using Strands SDK, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AWS Lambda. From a minimal weather tool, I'll demonstrate how to create agent tools that are modular, stateless, and production-ready. We'll walk through how MCP allows tool execution in a language-model-friendly way, and how serverless architecture makes those tools easy to deploy, scale, and maintain.

The goal: building agents that don't just simulate intelligence, but actually use it. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:34 Problem with traditional AI agents
01:53 Model Context Protocol (MCP)
06:23 Strands SDK
07:26 Example: Weather tool
10:22 Example: Database agent
12:42 Example: Tool definition
15:25 Patterns & best practices
17:11 Security
18:51 Scaling & evolution
19:37 Key takeaways
20:52 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025/sessions/3859

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