Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Adds Autonomous Payment Capabilities in Preview

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AWS has launched AgentCore Payments in preview, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, MCP servers (Model Context Protocol — a standard for connecting agents to external tools), web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it is billed as the first managed payment infrastructure purpose-built for autonomous agents, handling wallet authentication, transaction execution, spending governance, and observability. The announcement signals a shift toward agents that can transact in production without developers building bespoke billing or credential-management plumbing from scratch.