Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale

This article announces the general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, content, and services securely at scale.

• Integrates with Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets for stablecoin-based microtransactions
• Supports multiple payment protocols including x402 and Machine Payment Protocol (MPP)
• Introduces "upto" scheme for dynamic pricing and true pay-per-inference models
• Payment sessions enforce spending caps and expiry times to prevent unauthorized transactions
• Provides comprehensive observability with audit trails, logs, and transaction metrics via CloudWatch
• Enables use cases including paywalled web content access, pay-per-inference model switching, and conversational booking
• Available through AWS Console, CLI, coding assistants, and open-source framework integrations

AgentCore Payments abstracts payment complexity, allowing developers to deploy transacting agents in production with built-in security and spending controls.