With the new integration of Coinbase’s x402 discovery layer and wallet infrastructure into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, AWS are now able to create agents that will be able to autonomously discover services, procure them in USDC, and perform any necessary tasks without the need of a human to do any subscription management, checkout flows, or any form of manual tasks.

This is interesting, as this is the first native crypto component that is completely hosted in AWS, and still retains enterprise-specific requirements like:

\- spending limits

\- approval workflows

\- transaction audits

\- compliance checks

\- automated wallet management that keeps the agents separate from the private environments

All Base and Solana transactions get settled in Base, and the Base settlement layer will process Base transactions in roughly 200 milliseconds at a cost of less than 1 cent for a settle.

While Base still lacks other Consumer and Utility applications, this is the beginning of a new Base adoption phase that is different than any other phase, as now Agentic Commerce infrastructure will be live to perform transactions.

We are still in the early phases, however, with the support for payments in this new manner, Amazon Agent Payments will be much more practical than we previously thought.

The Integration of Amazon Bedrock and Coinbase x402 Payments: A New Era for Amazon and Agentic Commerce on Base