AWS AgentCore Runtime Instances Eliminate Cold Starts for Production AI Agents

Announced at **AWS Summit New York** on **August 7, 2026**, **AgentCore Runtime Instances** bring persistent, stateful compute to **Bedrock** agents, removing the cold start penalty that plagued real-time deployments. If your AI agents take more than three seconds to respond, the bottleneck is your infrastructure — and AWS just fixed it.