- 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 a cent
- Amazon also knows that agents will soon make bigger payments for humans
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 emerging 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 humans and agents,” the company stated.
Bedrock agents will soon be able to make payments autonomously
Described as the “first end-to-end managed payment system” for agents, AWS built the payment infrastructure with Coinbase and Stripe as wallet infrastructure and payment lane providers, using Coinbase’s x402 protocol, which is increasingly popular in machine-to-machine payments; However, the company also announces that more partners and protocols will be supported soon.
AWS also drew attention to the rise of micropayments to access APIs, MCP servers, web content and other agents, which can amount to fractions of a cent and are being driven by emerging consumption-based models.
“There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans, and they need money built for the Internet: programmable, always-on, and global,” explained Brian Foster, head of infrastructure strategy and growth at Coinbase.
“For agents to become significant economic players, 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 agent stablecoin wallets available to AgentCore developers.”
While Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments launches primarily with a focus on micropayments, AWS predicts a future where agents will also be able to perform transactions on behalf of human users, such as booking flights or purchasing products from online merchants.
AWS says it will continue to develop additional protocols, stronger buyer intent verification, and end-to-end transaction lifecycle observability to support the rise of agent payments in the future.
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