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

This article announces the preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact and pay for services.

• AI agents can autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents
• Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe for managed payment capabilities
• Handles full payment lifecycle: wallet authentication, transaction execution, spending governance, observability
• Developers set session-level spending limits; agents transact autonomously during execution
• Supports x402 protocol negotiation for paid resources without interrupting agent reasoning
• Spending limits enforced at infrastructure layer with full transaction observability
• Coinbase x402 Bazaar MCP server provides 10,000+ endpoints for agent discovery and payment
• Available in preview in US East, US West, Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Sydney)

AgentCore Payments enables developers to build autonomous transacting agents without custom billing integrations or credential management.