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

Amazon Web Services has launched a preview of AgentCore payments for Amazon Bedrock, introducing autonomous payment capabilities that enable AI agents to independently access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other services. Built through partnerships with Coinbase and Stripe, the service handles the complete payment lifecycle including wallet authentication, transaction execution, spending governance, and observability without requiring developers to build custom billing integrations or credential management systems. The system works by allowing developers to connect either a Coinbase CDP wallet or Stripe Privy wallet as a payment connection while setting session-level spending limits for autonomous agent transactions. When an agent encounters a paid resource and receives an HTTP 402 payment required response, AgentCore automatically manages the x402 protocol negotiation, wallet authentication, stablecoin payment processing, and proof delivery without interrupting the agent's reasoning processes. AWS enforces spending limits at the infrastructure level while providing full transaction observability through existing AgentCore logging, metrics, and tracing capabilities. The preview launch includes access to the Coinbase x402 Bazaar MCP server through AgentCore Gateway, offering agents over 10,000 searchable and discoverable x402 endpoints for autonomous transactions. AgentCore payments is currently available in four AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).