AWS Launches AI Agent Payment Service With USDC Support
Summary
- AWS announced the launch of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, an autonomous payment service for AI agents.
- The service allows AI agents to access paid data and APIs and pay for them directly using payment methods including USDC.
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments supports Coinbase and Stripe's Privy wallets, as well as MPP and x402, and includes features to set payment limits and time windows.
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Amazon Web Services has launched a service that allows artificial intelligence agents to make payments autonomously.
AWS announced on August 19 the release of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, an autonomous payment service for AI agents. The company first previewed the service in May in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe.
The service enables AI agents to find and use paid data and application programming interfaces, or APIs, without human intervention and to pay for them directly. Supported payment methods include Circle's dollar-backed stablecoin USDC.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments also supports Privy wallets from Coinbase and Stripe. Users can fund agent wallets with traditional payment methods such as credit cards or with USDC, then authorize agents to spend those funds within preset limits.
The service includes safeguards to prevent AI errors or duplicate payments. Developers can set in advance the maximum amount an agent can spend on a single task and define the time window for payments. Requests that exceed those limits are automatically rejected at the system level, regardless of the agent's decision.
AWS also expanded the supported payment standards. In addition to Coinbase's x402 protocol, the service now includes MPP, a payment standard developed jointly by Stripe and Tempo.
JOON HYOUNG LEE
gilson@bloomingbit.ioCrypto Journalist based in Seoul