AWS has integrated Coinbase’s x402 payment protocol and wallet infrastructure into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, giving developers a managed way to build AI agents that can discover services, make micropayments, and complete tasks using USDC.
The integration marks one of the clearest moves by a major cloud provider to bring crypto payment rails into enterprise AI agent infrastructure. Coinbase said AgentCore Payments allows AWS developers to build agents that can pay for services on their own while keeping budget controls, compliance checks, and transaction visibility in place.
AgentCore Payments is part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, allowing enterprises already building on AWS to add payment capabilities without creating new infrastructure or separate vendor relationships. Coinbase said the system handles wallet authentication, transaction signing, and payments through a single API call, while agents do not receive access to private keys.
The product also gives developers time bound spending limits, compliance controls through Coinbase’s CDP Facilitator, and logs, metrics, and dashboards across the payment lifecycle.
Coinbase said those features are intended to help enterprises move agentic commerce beyond prototypes by addressing legal, compliance, and audit requirements before agents are allowed to spend money in production.
Brian Foster, head of Infrastructure Growth and Strategy at Coinbase, said AWS developers can now build agents that move money at software speed with the trust and compliance enterprises expect.
AWS also said Stripe is joining AgentCore as a payment connection in preview, with the companies working toward broader fiat payment support beyond micropayments.
The Coinbase integration runs on x402, an open payment protocol that uses the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code to support machine native payments. Coinbase launched x402 in May 2025 as a way for APIs, apps, and AI agents to transact directly over HTTP using stablecoins.
Coinbase said settlement through AgentCore Payments happens in about 200 milliseconds on Base with USDC at less than a fraction of a cent per transaction.
The company also said AgentCore agents can connect to thousands of x402 services through Coinbase MCP integrated into AgentCore Gateway, including providers such as Exa, Messari, and Browserbase.
The announcement adds momentum to x402’s push to become an open standard for agentic commerce. Coinbase and Cloudflare announced plans for the x402 Foundation in September 2025 to promote the protocol as neutral infrastructure for AI driven payments.
Coinbase said x402 has processed more than 169 million payments across more than 590,000 buyers and 100,000 sellers in its first year.
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