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AgentCore Runtime Gets Interactive Shells and Persistent File Systems
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AWS just closed the biggest practical gap in agentic compute: agents that forget where they are the moment a command finishes. AgentCore Runtime now gives agents persistent shell sessions — environment variables, working directories, live processes intact across commands — plus direct S3 and EFS mounts so multiple agents can read and write the same data without copying it around. That second part is the quiet story: shared file systems mean multi-agent pipelines can actually collaborate on a dataset rather than pass snapshots back and forth. Watch whether this pulls enterprise AI workloads deeper into the AWS stack and away from the lighter-weight agent frameworks trying to stay cloud-agnostic.
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AWS AgentCore Runtime now supports interactive shell sessions, giving agents persistent terminal access — including environment variables, working directories, and running processes — that survive across commands for the lifetime of a session (up to 10 concurrent shells). In the same release cycle, agents can mount Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) access points directly into runtimes, enabling agents to share datasets and prompt templates across sessions and collaborate on the same data across multiple agents. Both capabilities are available across all 15 AWS Regions where AgentCore Runtime is supported.
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