Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS
AWS services to run, govern and observe agents from any framework: Runtime, Gateway, Identity, Policy, Observability and Agent Registry.
Curated by Tiberiu ArvaVerified
Strengths
- Agent Registry auto-discovery across AWS Organizations
- Policy controls on agent-tool access
- Per-service consumption pricing
Practitioner note
Use it as the governance and runtime layer for agents on AWS; the registry and policy pieces are strongest when agents run on AgentCore Runtime/Gateway. Bedrock Agents (the managed agent builder) is tracked separately.
Warning
Governance posture
Reviewed 2026-09-30Regional service (including AWS GovCloud US-West); Agent Registry supports customer-managed KMS keys. No multi-cloud or sovereign option.
SourceFully managed AWS service; no self-hosted option. (saas)
SourceControl-plane API calls (e.g. Agent Registry, Gateway) are logged to AWS CloudTrail as management events.
SourceAgentCore is in scope for SOC 2 per AWS compliance validation.
SourceAgentCore is compliant with ISO 27001:2022 (plus 27017, 27018, 27701).
SourceISO 42001 is not listed on the AgentCore compliance validation page.
Infrastructure for building and governing agents, not itself an AI system placed on the market; obligations rest with the deployer. (role: not-applicable)
Proprietary AWS service; framework-agnostic agents, but registry, policy and identity are AWS-bound. (medium)
SourceEU AI Act obligations
Risk tier: Not applicable · as of 2026-08-23Source-backed information mapped from Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.
This record's EU AI Act risk tier is marked not applicable, so no tier-specific obligations attach. Deployers embedding it in an AI system in scope of the Act should assess that system's own tier.
Change history
Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.
- FeatureHigh impact
AWS released the new AgentCore Runtime (V2) with consumption-based memory billing and about 2-second P75 cold starts, in five regions.
The new AgentCore Runtime is now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore · AWS What’s New
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