AWS Enables Autonomous Payments for AI Agents via Coinbase and Stripe

AWS has made Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments generally available, allowing AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, web content, and other services through supported digital wallets, including Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets.

The service is designed to let enterprises deploy AI agents that can make payments without requiring a human to approve each transaction. The crypto angle is significant because AgentCore supports USDC-funded wallets and machine-payment protocols such as x402 and MPP, giving AI agents infrastructure to pay for digital services programmatically.

AWS said the launch is designed to give enterprises agentic payment capabilities with security, guardrails, and observability. The system initially supported the x402 payment protocol during its preview phase. With the general release, AWS has added support for the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP), a standard co-authored by Stripe and Tempo.

AWS is also adding payment monitoring through AgentCore Observability. Developers can track payment audit trails, logs and metrics such as transaction success rates and average transaction values through Amazon CloudWatch and AgentCore dashboards.