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Case study Bayer Crop Science

How Bayer Crop Science built a multi-agent decision engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Bayer Crop Science built the Agentic Decision Engine, a multi-agent natural language interface over its Connected Decision Engine for ML workflows, hosted on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with help from AWS Unified Operations. In its first phase it answers about 80 percent of user questions without an engineer involved.

The problem

Bayer runs hundreds of governed ML model configurations over genomics, field trial and imagery data. As adoption grew, understanding results became the bottleneck, because explaining a failure or a result meant piecing together APIs, documentation, metadata stores, dashboards and logs. Users needed to know which system to inspect.

How they did it

  1. Place a supervisor agent in front of 22 specialist agents, each scoped to one domain with its own tools and data sources.
  2. Run LangGraph orchestration on the AgentCore runtime and store checkpoints in DynamoDB so workflows can resume.
  3. Register OpenAPI specs with AgentCore Gateway so REST APIs become MCP tools, scoped per agent.
  4. Handle identity with Microsoft Entra ID for users, IAM for service calls and Gateway outbound authorization for CDE services.
  5. Add custom CloudWatch metrics and alarms for tool errors, throttling, timeouts and output validation failures.
  6. Attribute cost with Bedrock application inference profiles, invocation logging and IAM principals, then run reviews and load tests before a gated launch.

Results

  • As reported by AWS, ADE resolves about 80 percent of user questions without an engineer in the loop.
  • As reported by AWS, the Troubleshooting Agent cut a diagnosis from over an hour to under 10 minutes.
  • As reported by AWS, caching the stable prompt prefix cut input-token cost by 20–30 percent.
  • As reported by AWS, using AgentCore Gateway instead of a server per API cut per-API integration overhead by more than 99 percent, and more than 100 users have adopted ADE.

As reported by the source (AWS Machine Learning Blog customer case study); AgentGid did not measure these figures.

Takeaway. Scope tools and IAM permissions per specialist agent, persist workflow state outside the runtime, and monitor task failures rather than just HTTP success.
AgentGid's take

This suits a platform team with solid AWS, IAM and identity experience, plus a real catalog of internal APIs and data sources to expose. LangGraph is free, but the real spend is Bedrock usage and the ops work, and the 80 percent, under-10-minute and 20–30 percent cost figures are all AWS-reported. If you'd rather start lighter, Strands Agents (Free (OSS)) is an open-source option.

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