I think you’re missing that Strands Agents are open source models released by AWS, not an external startup that Amazon is paying.
Yes, this is more of less an advert, using their internal adoption as a case study
I yearn for the day of going back to make v. buy, not buy v. buy
You're (understandably) a bit mixed up here. Strands Agents is an agent SDK. Strands Decider is a decision model.