AWS announced the preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on May 11, 2026, a managed service allowing AI agents to autonomously handle payments for API access, web content, and other agents. Developed in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, the platform automates billing and compliance, allowing users to set session-level spending limits for autonomous transactions.

The company also released the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite designed to assist coding agents with improved security and reduced token costs. This launch coincides with the general availability of managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, which provide authenticated access to AWS services, and the preview of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, which enables automated interaction with desktop environments.

AWS expanded its infrastructure with new EC2 M8idn/M8idb and R8idn/R8idb instances, powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and offer network bandwidth up to 600 Gbps, with EBS bandwidth up to 300 Gbps. Additionally, the open-source project Valkey reached 100 million Docker pulls, and AWS introduced support for querying billion-scale vectors using SQL in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

AWS announced the preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on May 11, 2026, a managed service allowing AI agents to autonomously handle payments for API access, web content, and other agents. Developed in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, the platform automates billing and compliance, allowing users to set session-level spending limits for autonomous transactions.

The company also released the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite designed to assist coding agents with improved security and reduced token costs. This launch coincides with the general availability of managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, which provide authenticated access to AWS services, and the preview of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, which enables automated interaction with desktop environments.

AWS expanded its infrastructure with new EC2 M8idn/M8idb and R8idn/R8idb instances, powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and offer network bandwidth up to 600 Gbps, with EBS bandwidth up to 300 Gbps. Additionally, the open-source project Valkey reached 100 million Docker pulls, and AWS introduced support for querying billion-scale vectors using SQL in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.