# Protect AWS Strands Agents with Datadog AI Guard

DevFeed: [Protect AWS Strands Agents with Datadog AI Guard](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/protect-aws-strands-agents-with-datadog-ai-guard-2228.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ai-guard-aws-strands-agents/>)

Author: Kola Akinnibi; Vijay George; Emmanuelle Lejeail; Alexa Levine

Published: 2026-07-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [Strands Agents](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/strands-agents.md>), [Application Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-security.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [agent observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-observability.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agent-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-observability.md>), [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-security.md>), [app-api-protection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app-api-protection.md>), [application-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-security.md>), [attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attacks.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [prompt-injection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prompt-injection.md>), [responses](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responses.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [strands-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/strands-agents.md>), [threat-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/threat-detection.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

Datadog AI Guard integrates with AWS Strands Agents through a Strands plugin that evaluates prompts, model responses, and tool interactions during agent execution. It uses Strands lifecycle hooks to monitor or block unsafe behavior, centralize enforcement, and detect multistep attacks in the context of a full agent session.

## Source excerpt

Monitor and help protect AWS Strands Agents by using Datadog AI Guard to evaluate prompts, model responses, and tool calls inline.