Vendor
AWS services to run, govern and observe agents from any framework: Runtime, Gateway, Identity, Policy, Observability and Agent Registry.
AWS
Proprietary
SaaSSOC 2License medium
Agent Control Planes
Registry, lifecycle, policy, and observability across a fleet of agents from many vendors.
An agent control plane answers: which agents exist, who owns them, what are they allowed to do, and are they healthy? Compare hyperscaler, SaaS-platform, and independent options on the scope of agents they can govern.
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Tools from the major platform vendors are listed first; independent and open-source options follow below.
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IBM agent platform whose Agentic Control Plane adds operations dashboards, policy and access governance, and a shared agent catalog.
Proprietary
SaaSOn-premLicense medium
Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft
Control plane to observe, govern and secure an organization's AI agents via a central registry, Entra, Purview and Defender.
Azure
Proprietary
SaaSLicense medium
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Salesforce (MuleSoft)
MuleSoft suite to register, route, govern and visualize agents, MCP servers and APIs across vendors using MCP and A2A.
Proprietary
SaaSHybridLicense medium
ServiceNow AI Control Tower
ServiceNow
ServiceNow hub to discover, observe, govern, secure and measure AI models and agents, including those from other platforms.
Proprietary
SaaSLicense medium
Vendor
Workday hub to register, govern and measure Workday, customer and partner AI agents alongside people and financial data.
Proprietary
SaaSLicense medium
Filtered open source and third-party tools
1 matching non-vendor tools in this filtered view.
Commercial
Vendor-neutral control center to observe, govern, evaluate and track cost of agents built on many frameworks and platforms.
Proprietary
SaaSOn-premSelf-hostedSOC 2License medium
Important notes
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: GA since October 2025; Policy GA March 2026; AWS Agent Registry GA August 2026 (preview from April 2026).
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IBM watsonx Orchestrate: Agentic Control Plane announced 2026-07-02, available on AWS and IBM Cloud.
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Kore.ai Agent Management Platform: Launched 2026-03-17; no product documentation for AMP was found, only the launch announcement.
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Microsoft Agent 365: Generally available for the Commercial segment since 2026-05-01; registry sync with AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud was announced as public preview at GA.
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MuleSoft Agent Fabric: Announced 2025-09-25; Registry, Broker and Visualizer were slated for GA in October 2025 per the announcement.
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ServiceNow AI Control Tower: Expansion announced 2026-05-05 (30 new discovery integrations, Traceloop-based observability, Veza access governance) with GA expected August 2026 per the release; GA of each piece not independently confirmed.
Recent updates
See auto-detected changes2026-09-18
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS released the new AgentCore Runtime (V2) with consumption-based memory billing and about 2-second P75 cold starts, in five regions.
Source2026-07-02
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
IBM added an Agentic Control Plane to watsonx Orchestrate with operations dashboards, policy and access governance, and a shared agent catalog, on AWS and IBM Cloud.
SourceFrequently asked questions
What is an agent control plane?
The management layer for a fleet of agents: a registry of which agents exist and who owns them, lifecycle controls to publish, pause or retire them, policy that applies across vendors, and observability of health, usage, and cost. Analysts now evaluate it as a market of its own, and vendors such as Microsoft (Agent 365) and IBM use the same term.
Do I need one if I only use one cloud platform?
Each hyperscaler ships control-plane features for its own agents. The case for a separate control plane grows once agents come from several places — SaaS apps, low-code builders, and custom code on more than one cloud — because inventory and policy then have to span all of them.
How does this relate to agent identity and guardrails?
Control planes answer which agents exist and what policy applies across the fleet. Agent identity tools answer who an agent is and what it may access. Guardrails answer whether a specific prompt, output, or action is safe right now. Many products span two layers; each is listed once under its primary purpose.
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