Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, Powered by x402 and Coinbase

By CoinbaseMay 7, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase's x402 discovery layer and wallet infrastructure are now natively integrated into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. This helps AWS developers deploy agents that discover, make micropayments, and use services on their own. All with enterprise governance, built-in compliance, and instant USDC settlement on Base and Solana.

The promise of agentic commerce has been straightforward: agents should be able to find what they need, pay for it, and keep moving. No human or subscription management required.

However, enterprises haven’t been able to ship agents that spend money with appropriate compliance, budget controls, and audit trails. Building that from scratch kills most integrations early on.

AgentCore Payments, part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, now helps developers develop agentic payment solutions to make micropayments with x402 and Coinbase wallet infrastructure. This gives AWS developers a simple way to build agents that can discover services, pay in USDC, and complete tasks on their own.

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider, serving millions of developers and enterprises globally — and AgentCore Payments marks the first time any major cloud platform has developed a solution that helps developers build crypto micropayments directly into their agents.

“Enterprises have been telling us the same thing: they want agents that can transact, but they can't get past legal and compliance review,” says Brian Foster, Head of Infrastructure Growth at Coinbase. “AWS developers can now give their agents financial autonomy in a comprehensive managed solution. It just works."

What AgentCore Payments with Coinbase wallets can do

Before enterprises can let an agent spend money in production, they need controls and clear separation of responsibilities.

AgentCore payments is part of the Amazon Bedrock platform, which means any enterprise already on AWS can turn it on without new infrastructure or vendor relationships. AgentCore Payments, with Coinbase and x402, helps enterprise agents to:

Managed micropayments in one call. A single API call takes care of wallet authentication, transaction signing, and payment. The agent does not have access to private keys.
Budget controls. Developers set time-bound spending limits — for example, "$1.00, expires in 5 minutes. This helps make the agent stop spending within their defined limits.
Compliance built in from Coinbase. The CDP Facilitator Facilitator includes compliance controls to manage sanctions and illicit finance risks on every transaction. Coinbase provides logs, metrics, and dashboards across the entire payment lifecycle. Every transaction an agent initiates is visible end-to-end.

Full visibility. Enterprises get logs, metrics, and dashboards for every payment an agent makes, end to end.

An all-in-one agentic payments platform

Under the hood, this runs on x402 — an open protocol that uses the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code to enable machine-native payments. Settlement happens in about 200 milliseconds on Base with USDC, at less than a fraction of a cent per transaction. No accounts, no subscriptions, no checkout screens.

Access to thousands of services

Agents on AgentCore that can connect to thousands of x402 services through Coinbase MCP integrated in AgentCore Gateway— from providers like Exa, Messari, and Browserbase. These let developer’s agents search, evaluate, and make micropayments for tools at runtime without a human programming anything upfront. Great for things like data inquiries, real-time search, or setting up backend services.

Built on an open standard

x402 itself is an open, neutral protocol governed by the x402 Foundation. Both AWS and Coinbase are members of the Foundation, plus dozens of other companies from across tech and payments. In just a year, the protocol has processed more than 169M payments across 590k+ buyers and 100k+ sellers. This is battle-tested infrastructure, and it's open to everyone.