Agents that transact: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview)

Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore announces the preview of AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, AgentCore payments is the first managed payment capabilities purpose-built for autonomous agents, handling the full payment lifecycle from wallet authentication through transaction execution to spending governance and observability. As AI agents become more capable and services shift to pay-per-use models built for machine consumption, developers need infrastructure that lets their agents transact without building bespoke billing integrations, credential management, orchestration logic, budgeting, and observability from scratch.

With AgentCore payments, developers connect a Coinbase CDP wallet or Stripe Privy wallet as a payment connection, set session-level spending limits, and their agent transacts autonomously during execution. When an agent encounters a paid resource and receives an HTTP 402 response, AgentCore handles the x402 protocol negotiation, wallet authentication, stablecoin payment, and proof delivery back to the endpoint, all without interrupting the agent's reasoning loop. Spending limits are enforced deterministically at the infrastructure layer, and every transaction is observable through the same logs, metrics, and traces developers already use in AgentCore. The Coinbase x402 Bazaar MCP server is also available through AgentCore Gateway, providing over 10,000 x402 endpoints that agents can search, discover, and pay for autonomously.

AgentCore payments is available in preview in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Learn more about it through the blog, deep dive using the documentation, and get started with the AgentCore CLI.