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Amazon Web Services announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments in preview, a managed payment system that enables AI agents to autonomously access and pay for resources including APIs, web content, MCP servers, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, the feature integrates payment capabilities directly into the AgentCore platform rather than as a separate module, allowing developers to set spending limits and governance controls without manually wiring billing relationships to each service provider. The announcement reflects a broader shift toward an agentic economy where agents discover, evaluate, and transact for resources in real time, though the infrastructure to support this at scale remains nascent.

AWS has launched Agent Registry in preview as part of its AgentCore platform, a centralized system for discovering, sharing, and governing AI agents across enterprises. The registry addresses three core challenges at scale: visibility into what agents exist across an organization, control over who can publish and what becomes discoverable, and reuse to prevent duplicate development effort. It indexes agents regardless of where they are built or hosted, supporting standards like MCP and A2A, and is accessible via console, APIs, and as an MCP server itself.