Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails, protocol-agnostic payment orchestration, and production-ready observability.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, allowing agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale. This service, in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe, enables agents to autonomously pay for paid APIs, MCPs, and content with just a few lines of code. AgentCore payments offers key features like wallet support, integrating with Coinbase and Privy wallets for cost-effective microtransactions.
Developers can set up payment capabilities by providing wallet API keys and secrets, and AgentCore stores developer credentials securely. The service uses short-lived tokens to instruct wallets to perform operations like transaction signing. AgentCore payments is protocol-agnostic, supporting x402 and Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) protocols, and now includes the "upto" scheme for variable pricing.
Pay-per-use endpoints are discoverable through a curated list of high-quality endpoints. Transactions are scoped to payment sessions with maximum spend amounts and expiry times, providing security and observability. AgentCore payments integrates with Amazon CloudWatch and AgentCore Observability for comprehensive monitoring, helping developers maintain visibility and audit agent spending behavior.
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