- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments is an agent payment system for micropayments
- Coinbase and Stripe are the first partners to support payments that can be less than one cent
- Amazon also knows that agents will soon make larger payments for people
AI agents will soon be able to make payments on your behalf using stablecoins thanks to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, launched in preview through a partnership with Coinbase and Stripe.
The company explained in a blog post how the new system is being designed for a future where AI agents can pay for web content, APIs, MCP servers and other agents.
“Services, tools and content must be designed for people and agents,” the company declared.
Agents in Bedrock will soon be able to make payments independently
Described as the “first managed end-to-end payment” system for agents, AWS built the payment infrastructure with Coinbase and Stripe as wallet infrastructure and payment rail providers, using Coinbase’s x402 protocol, which is increasingly popular across machine-to-machine payments, but the company also announces that additional partners and protocols will be supported soon.
AWS also drew attention to increasing micropayments for access to APIs, MCP servers, web content and other agents, which can be fractions of a cent and are driven by new consumption-based models.
“There will soon be more AI agents trading than humans, and they need money built for the Internet – programmable, always-on and global,” explained Coinbase Head of Infrastructure Growth and Strategy Brian Foster.
“For agents to become meaningful economic actors, they need a way to hold and spend money,” added Privy CEO Henri Stern. “That’s why we’re excited to partner with AWS to make stablecoin wallets for agents readily available to AgentCore developers.”
While Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments is launching primarily with a focus on micropayments, AWS envisions a future where agents can also act on behalf of human users, such as booking flights or purchasing products from online merchants.
AWS says it will continue to build additional protocols, stronger buyer intent verification and end-to-end transaction lifecycle observability to support increasing agent payments going forward.
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