bedrock-agentcore

Bedrock AgentCore is metered across twelve distinct components — Runtime, Browser, Code Interpreter, Gateway, Identity, Memory (two tiers), Observability, Evaluations, Payments, Search, and the underlying model spend. Two of them drive 80% of the bill.

AWS just made OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and production-ready Managed Agents available inside Amazon Bedrock — wrapped in IAM, PrivateLink, Guardrails, and CloudTrail. Here is what changes for CTOs evaluating OpenAI direct vs. AWS.

Harness GA June 17, Agents Classic cutoff July 30, Payments GA August 18, Memory FGAC August 28. Harness vs Runtime, Gateway Policy, and when transacting agents still should not own checkout.