AWS on Thursday unveiled new payment capabilities for its agentic AI platform that enables agents to autonomously access and pay for digital services without human intervention.
The AgentCore Payment feature is part of the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore system and lets AI agents pay for online services such as web content, APIs, MCP servers and even other AI agents.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and payments vendor Stripe provided wallet and payment infrastructure for the update.
The agentic payment features span wallet authentication, transaction execution, spending governance and observability.
AWS also positioned the technology in the context of a broader industry push into machine-to-machine commerce, in which AI systems independently source and purchase the tools or data they need to complete tasks.
“There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans, and they need money that’s built for the internet — programmable, always on, and global,” Brian Foster, head of infrastructure growth and strategy at Coinbase, said in an AWS blog post.
A central component of the launch is Coinbase’s x402 Bazaar MCP server (an open, decentralized payment standard) integrated with the AgentCore gateway. The Bazaar acts as a hub of x402-enabled endpoints that agents can search, discover and pay for during workflows.
AWS said in the blog that the capability turns “paid services into something agents can find and use on their own rather than requiring developers to hardcode each integration.”
The payments layer is built on the same identity and security framework already used by AgentCore, enabling Amazon to enforce infrastructure-level controls over agent behavior and spending.
Early adopters are already testing the system for real-world applications. Heurist AI, which develops infrastructure for the AI economy, is using AgentCore Payments to power a research agent.
AWS is also integrating Stripe’s wallet infrastructure as a payment connection option in preview, giving developers direct access to Stripe’s payment rails within AgentCore.
The vendor said the feature will initially focus on micropayments, with scope to take on more complex transactions in the future.
“Getting there will require deeper integration with payment ecosystems, support for additional protocols, stronger buyer intent verification, and end-to-end observability across the full transaction lifecycle,” the vendor said. “That’s the road ahead, and we’re building for it.”
AgentCore Payments entered preview today across the U.S. East, U.S. West, Europe and Asia Pacific regions.