Deploy an AI Agent to Production: Docker, AWS, and the Boring Bits
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A working agent on your laptop is not a deployed agent. The gap is mostly boring: a Dockerfile, secrets, a database, autoscaling, observability. Done well, it is one afternoon. Done sloppily, it is a series of 3am pages.
Here is the path from compiled graph to production on AWS. Docker image, ECS Fargate, RDS, secrets, scaling.