Today, we’re announcing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments (preview), a new set of features in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to instantly access and pay for what they use, such as web content, APIs, MCP servers, and other agents. We’ve built these capabilities in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, who are providing the wallet infrastructure and payment rails that power the first set of capabilities.

AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with security enforced at the infrastructure layer that agents can’t bypass. Developers from companies like Cox Automotive, Thomson Reuters, and PGA TOUR already use AgentCore to build agents that reason, plan, and act across complex workflows. With today’s announcement, those agents can also transact, using the same identity system, agent gateway, and observability they already rely on. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payment isn’t a bolted-on module, it’s native to the platform that the agent is built on, governed by the same controls as every other action the agent takes.

This marks the first managed payment capabilities purpose-built for autonomous agents, spanning the full lifecycle from wallet authentication through transaction execution to spending governance and observability, so developers can focus on what their agents do, not on how they pay.

With these capabilities, developers can build agents that can reach any resource that they need, paid or at no cost, without wiring up each billing relationship by hand. A financial research agent can dynamically access real-time market data feeds and paywalled publications, paying for the articles and data points it uses on behalf of the end user. A coding agent can call specialized APIs and paid MCP servers as it needs them, whether that’s a private package registry, a sandboxed execution environment, or a niche third-party agent that handles one thing well. As the market matures, agents can handle commercial transactions: book flights, reserve hotels, and complete purchases on behalf of users across merchant platforms.