Agent Toolkit For AWS

Builds resilient, long-running, multi-step applications with AWS Lambda durable functions with automatic state persistence, retry logic, and orchestration for long-running executions. Covers the critical replay model, step operations, wait/callback patterns, error handling with saga pattern, testing with LocalDurableTestRunner. Triggers on phrases like lambda durable functions, durable execution, workflow orchestration, state machines, retry/checkpoint patterns, long-running stateful Lambda functions, saga pattern, human-in-the-loop callbacks, reliable serverless applications, context.step, context.wait, context.invoke, context.runInChildContext, withDurableExecution, DurableContext, UnrecoverableInvocationError, durable-execution-sdk, qualified ARN invocation, and durable handler replay.

Evaluates, configures, and migrates workloads to AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI). Runs Lambda functions on EC2 instances in the user's account while AWS manages provisioning, patching, scaling, routing, and load balancing. Triggers when queries mention Lambda Managed Instances, LMI, capacity providers, multi-concurrent execution environments, EC2-backed Lambda, persistent Lambda instances, PerExecutionEnvironmentMaxConcurrency, CapacityProviderConfig, cold start elimination via dedicated instances, migrating standard Lambda to managed instances, or cost comparison between standard Lambda and LMI with Savings Plans or Reserved Instances. Also covers long-running and asynchronous workloads and the 90-minute (5400s) function timeout for asynchronous and event-source-mapping (SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams / ESM) invocations, including how to raise the function timeout up to 90 minutes / 5400s and the related duration limits.

Connects an AWS Lambda function to DynamoDB with IAM roles, stream event source mapping, and read/write permissions. Use when setting up Lambda-DynamoDB integration, processing DynamoDB stream events, or deploying serverless event-driven architectures.

Performs code upgrades, migrations, and transformations using the AWS Transform (ATX) CLI. Use when upgrading language versions, migrating AWS SDKs, migrating frameworks (Angular, Vue.js, Spring Boot, React), upgrading libraries, optimizing performance, migrating x86 to Graviton, analyzing codebases / generating documentation, or defining custom transformations with natural language. Runs locally on a few repositories or at scale across hundreds via AWS Batch/Fargate.

Sets up AWS Resilience Hub v2 from scratch: creates resilience policies with SLO targets, registers systems and user journeys, onboards services with input sources, and runs a first failure mode assessment. Applies when the user wants to get started with Resilience Hub v2, create a policy, onboard a service, or run an assessment — including creating one concrete policy with specific availability/RTO/RPO targets and a DR approach for a single service (even a tier-1 one). Does not apply to FIS experiments or ARC routing controls.

Configures Amazon CloudFront content delivery across six workflows: when to use CloudFront and how it fits with AWS WAF, Shield, CloudFront Functions, Lambda@Edge, Route 53, and origins (creating a distribution, caching, and Flat Rate Pricing (FRP) versus pay-as-you-go pricing); managing custom-domain TLS certificates (ACM in us-east-1); configuring multi-tenant distributions; protecting origins with origin access control (OAC), VPC origins, and origin mutual TLS (mTLS); securing content with signed URLs and cookies, geographic restrictions, viewer mutual TLS, and edge token validation; and observing traffic with standard and real-time logs. Applicable when the customer wants to put CloudFront in front of content, choose pricing, lock an origin, restrict who can view content, or analyze logs. Not applicable for the Route 53 DNS side of a CloudFront custom domain or failover between distributions (see the route53-cloudfront skill), or for pure-Route 53 DNS work (see the route53 skill).

Deploys a Regional REST API with a custom domain name, a Lambda backend function, and a request-based Lambda authorizer using AWS CLI. Covers ACM certificate provisioning, API Gateway REST API creation, Lambda function deployment, request authorizer setup, custom domain configuration, base path mapping, and Route 53 DNS record creation. Trigger keywords: custom domain, REST API, Lambda, Route 53, API Gateway, regional endpoint, request authorizer, base path mapping.

Runs SQL analytics on SageMaker Catalog asset metadata tables exported as Apache Iceberg in S3 Tables. Covers governance queries, asset growth tracking, ownership audits, time-travel over catalog state, and metadata quality analysis. Applies when querying catalog inventory, finding assets without descriptions, comparing catalog snapshots, or auditing data ownership. Trigger phrases: catalog inventory SQL, how many assets, assets without descriptions, asset growth over time, who owns this data, catalog governance, data quality audit, catalog analytics.

Manages WhatsApp messaging through AWS End User Messaging Social. Covers managing templates (create, update, delete, library), sending messages (utility/marketing/auth templates and freeform), uploading and managing media, configuring event destinations for delivery tracking, and troubleshooting delivery failures. Applicable when a user needs to send WhatsApp messages, create or manage templates, upload media, configure delivery notifications, or diagnose messaging issues.

Configures AWS Direct Connect: choosing a connection model (dedicated, hosted, or a link aggregation group) and completing the cross connect; creating private, public, and transit virtual interfaces and bringing up BGP; reaching many VPCs through a Direct Connect gateway including cross-account transit gateway associations; encrypting traffic with MACsec or a private IP Site-to-Site VPN; making the connection resilient and tuning failover; managing link aggregation groups; SiteLink; and migrating from a virtual private gateway to a transit gateway. Use when the user wants a private, consistent network link between a data center and AWS, or operates an existing Direct Connect setup and needs to extend, encrypt, or harden it. Routes to the right per-task procedure in references. Do NOT use for transit gateway route tables and attachments (transitgateway skill), Site-to-Site VPN without Direct Connect (sitetositevpn skill), or Route 53 DNS routing (route53 skill).

Configures AWS Site-to-Site VPN: creating an IPsec VPN connection between an on-premises network and a VPC, choosing the target gateway (virtual private gateway, transit gateway, or AWS Cloud WAN), choosing static or dynamic (BGP) routing, sizing tunnel bandwidth (Standard 1.25 Gbps or Large 5 Gbps), connecting many sites through a VPN Concentrator, applying the customer gateway device configuration, making a connection highly available, and monitoring tunnels with CloudWatch. Applicable when the user wants to connect a data center or branch office to AWS over an encrypted tunnel, choose how routes are exchanged, scale throughput, consolidate sites, or diagnose a down tunnel. Routes to the right per-task procedure in references. Not for AWS Direct Connect (its own service), Client VPN for individual remote users, the transit gateway side of a VPN attachment (transitgateway skill), or Route 53 DNS work.

Operates Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). Covers streaming tables and Amazon S3 delivery - serverless, fully managed delivery from a KDS stream to Apache Iceberg tables on S3 Tables or to general-purpose S3 buckets. Includes channel setup, IAM, schemas, output key templates, CloudWatch metrics and alarms, DLQ handling, quotas, and troubleshooting. For all other KDS topics and questions, search AWS documentation and blogs instead. Triggers: Kinesis Data Streams, KDS, streaming tables, stream to S3, stream to Iceberg, stream to S3 Tables, KDS delivery, KDS channel, CreateChannel, data channel, data freshness, dead-letter queue, KDS lakehouse, serverless Kinesis delivery, Firehose alternative for KDS, zero-ops Kinesis to S3. DO NOT USE for Kinesis Data Firehose, Kinesis Video Streams, or Managed Service for Apache Flink — use dedicated skills or search documentation instead.

Configures AWS Shield Advanced for enhanced Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection: subscribing accounts and adding resource protections, enabling automatic application layer (layer 7) mitigation through AWS WAF, configuring health-based detection with Route 53 health checks, setting up Shield Response Team (SRT) access and proactive engagement, reviewing DDoS events and requesting cost protection credits, and aggregating resources into protection groups. Applicable when the user wants stronger DDoS protection for internet-facing resources (CloudFront, Application or Network Load Balancers, Elastic IP addresses, Global Accelerator, or Route 53 hosted zones), wants expert help during an attack, or wants to recover attack-driven scaling charges. Routes to the right per-task procedure in references. Not applicable for authoring AWS WAF rules (waf skill), creating Route 53 health checks (route53 skill), or org-wide Shield Advanced rollout with Firewall Manager (firewallmanager skill).

Configures AWS Transit Gateway: creating a hub and attaching VPCs, segmenting traffic with route tables, centralizing egress and inspection through a hub (appliances or a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint), forcing east-west traffic between VPCs through AWS Network Firewall, connecting on-premises networks over the transit-gateway side of a Site-to-Site VPN or Direct Connect attachment (including ECMP to aggregate bandwidth across multiple VPN tunnels), peering transit gateways across Regions, migrating from a VPC peering mesh, and routing IP multicast. Applicable when connecting many VPCs through one router, isolating environments, forcing VPC-to-VPC traffic through a central Network Firewall, reaching on-premises over the hub, linking Regions, or moving off a peering mesh. Not applicable for single-VPC routing, VPC peering between two VPCs (vpcpeering skill), Direct Connect gateway or virtual interface setup (directconnect skill), or Route 53 DNS work.

Troubleshoots failing applications by discovering and analyzing CloudWatch log groups to identify error patterns, root causes, and actionable solutions. Use when an application is experiencing failures and log-based diagnosis is needed.

Connects AI agents to remote Windows desktop applications on Amazon WorkSpaces Applications (AppStream 2.0) through the managed Agent Access MCP server, and guides reliable desktop automation. Covers connecting an agent to the MCP endpoint (SigV4, streaming URL, and Active Directory SAML/Domain Join), BLOCKING vs POLLING connect modes, the computer-use tools (screenshot, click, type, key, scroll), screenshot-budget and action-batching discipline, MCP tool forwarding (forwarded___ tools), session lifecycle and expire-on-delete, and troubleshooting connection errors. Use when building or debugging an agent that drives a remote Windows desktop or GUI application via WorkSpaces Applications / AppStream — including "dcv session not ready", "client_disconnected", 400 signing-region, POLLING/connection_status, SAML assertion, or forwarded tool questions. Not for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal/Core virtual desktops or general AppStream fleet administration unrelated to agent access.

Handles the full DMS Schema Conversion lifecycle including creating migration projects, converting database schemas to a target engine, running compatibility assessments, navigating metadata trees, exporting converted DDL to S3, applying schema changes to a target database, and converting SQL statements between database engines. Applies when migrating database schemas between heterogeneous engines using AWS DMS Schema Conversion.

Runs and interprets AWS Resilience Hub v2 failure mode assessments. Covers starting assessments, understanding findings (severity, categories, recommendations), triaging by achievability, working with AI-generated service functions, and resolving findings. Applies when the user wants to run an assessment, review findings, or understand failure modes, or has a specific finding and asks how to resolve, remediate, or fix it. Does not apply to initial setup (use resilience-hub-getting-started) or FIS experiments.

Deploy an event-driven workflow that routes S3 uploads to either Lambda or Fargate via Step Functions based on file size. Uses EventBridge to trigger a Step Functions state machine when objects are uploaded to S3. Small files are processed by Lambda, large files by a Fargate task. Includes VPC, ECR repository, ECS cluster, and scoped IAM roles. Trigger keywords: Step Functions, Fargate, Lambda, S3 event, EventBridge, ECS, ECR, file processing, workflow orchestration, serverless.

MANDATORY for Flink or Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (MSF) questions. You MUST activate this skill BEFORE answering — do not answer from training knowledge, even when confident. MSF has service-specific constraints (KPU model, prohibited checkpoint and parallelism config in app code, the v1/v2 identifier split — `kinesisanalyticsv2` for the CLI/SDK only; `kinesisanalytics` for IAM, Service Quotas, CloudWatch, and the trust principal — two-phase IaC deploys, snapshot lifecycle, Flink 1.x→2.x migration) that override generic Flink knowledge.

Configures Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to a CloudFront distribution using a custom domain. Use when setting up DNS alias records, alternate domain names (CNAMEs), ACM certificates for HTTPS, and IPv6 support for CloudFront.