Create AgentCore Memory

You can create an AgentCore Memory with the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Console or with the CreateMemory AWS SDK operation. When creating a memory, you can configure settings such as name, description, encryption settings, expiration timestamp for raw events, and memory strategies if you want to extract long-term memory.

When creating a AgentCore Memory, consider the following factors to ensure it meets your application's needs:

• Event retention – Choose how long raw events are retained (upto 365 days) for short-term memory.

• Security requirements – If your application handles sensitive information, consider using a customer-managed KMS key for encryption. The service still encrypts data using a service managed key, even if you don't provide a CMK For more information, see Storage encryption and security.

• Memory strategies – Define how events will be processed into meaningful long-term memories using built-in or custom strategies. If you do not define any strategy, only short-term memory containing raw events will be stored. For more information, see Long-term memory.

• Naming conventions – Use clear, descriptive names that help identify the purpose of each AgentCore Memory, especially if your application uses multiple stores.