- 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 agents will soon make bigger payments to humans
AI agents will soon be able to make payments on your behalf using stablecoins with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, previewed through a partnership with Coinbase and Stripe.
The company explained in a blog post how the emerging system is designed for a future in which 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 said.
Bedrock agents will soon be able to make payments autonomously
Described as the “first end-to-end managed payments system” for agents, AWS has built the payments infrastructure with Coinbase and Stripe as wallet infrastructure and payment rail providers, using Coinbase’s x402 protocol which is increasingly popular for machine-to-machine payments, but the company also says other partners and protocols will be supported soon.
AWS has also drawn attention to the rise of micropayments for access to APIs, MCP servers, web content and other agents, which can cost fractions of a cent and are fueled by emerging consumption-based models.
“There will soon be more AI agents than humans transacting, and they need money that is built for the Internet – programmable, always-on, and global,” explained Brian Foster, head of growth and infrastructure strategy at Coinbase.
“For agents to become meaningful economic players, they need a way to store and spend money,” added Henri Stern, CEO of Privy. “That’s why we’re excited to partner with AWS to make stablecoin wallets for agents easily accessible to AgentCore developers.”
While Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments launches primarily with a focus on micropayments, AWS predicts a future in which agents will also be able to transact on behalf of human users, such as booking flights or purchasing products from online merchants.
AWS says it will continue to develop additional protocols, stricter verification of buyer intent, and end-to-end observability of the transaction lifecycle to support the increase in agent payments in the future.
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