Amazon Web Services has introduced AgentCore payments for its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform, enabling AI agents to make on‑the‑fly crypto and fiat micropayments for external services such as paid APIs, web content, MCP servers, and even other agents. The feature, launched in preview and highlighted on AWS’s official 𝕏 account, integrates Coinbase and Stripe wallet infrastructure and uses the x402 protocol to support instant stablecoin micropayments, targeting transactions typically under one dollar or even fractions of a cent. This removes the need for developers to build bespoke billing integrations and gives agents the ability to transact autonomously during execution. Under the hood, AgentCore payments provides managed capabilities spanning wallet connection and management, payment processing, spending limits, and observability, all governed by the same identity and policy controls as other AgentCore actions. Developers can link agents to either a Coinbase wallet or a Stripe Privy wallet, fund them via stablecoins or fiat, and configure per-session and per-agent spending limits with a full audit trail of what the agent paid for and why. AWS positions this as a foundational step for "agentic commerce," enabling economically active AI agents that can autonomously pay for resources as they browse paywalled content, call metered APIs, or access paid MCP services—particularly in domains like financial services, media, and developer tooling where pay-per-use access is common.

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