AWS Strands Replaced 60 Lines of LangGraph With 3. Here’s the Full Story

At work, we build agents using LangChain and LangGraph. It works, but it takes a while to get anything off the ground. When AWS dropped Strands Agents earlier this year, I was curious - is this actually simpler, or just another framework with a different name? Here’s what I found. What Even Is Strands? Strands Agents is an open source SDK from AWS, released in May 2025. The whole idea is a model-driven approach - instead of you wiring up every step of an agent’s logic, you hand the LLM a prompt and a set of tools, and let it figure out what to do.