AI agents have significant potential to enhance productivity, efficiency, and decision-making—provided you have the right solution to confidently and securely deploy them to production. Quality, governance, security, and cost are key concerns, and leveraging agent ops to evaluate, monitor, and iterate on your AI agents enables faster progress toward your full business potential. This whitepaper explores how AI agents differ from other AI systems, presents top use cases, examines common challenges in building and deploying AI agents, and demonstrates how to overcome them using W&B Weave on Amazon Bedrock.