AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments Goes Live with Stripe and Coinbase — AI Agents Transact via Stablecoins

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Amazon Web Services launched Bedrock AgentCore Payments, enabling AI agents to make real-time stablecoin micropayments for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built on Coinbase's x402 HTTP-native payment protocol and Stripe's Privy wallet, developers choose between payment providers. Available in preview across four regions. This creates the first major cloud-native payment rail purpose-built for agent-to-agent commerce, with plans to expand to hotel bookings and merchant payments.