Amazon and Coinbase have partnered to launch “Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments,” a new infrastructure designed to let AI agents autonomously make payments and use services. 🤖💳 The system integrates Coinbase’s x402 protocol and wallet infrastructure, allowing AI agents to discover services, execute USDC micropayments, and complete tasks without human intervention. A key feature is that AWS environments now support budget controls, compliance management, and transaction tracking, while enabling near-instant settlements on Base and Solana. The payment flow is processed with ultra-low transaction costs, highlighting a broader move toward integrating onchain automated payments into enterprise AI systems. ⚡ The market is viewing this as an early step toward building the infrastructure for the “agentic commerce” era, where AI agents could eventually purchase APIs, data, and cloud services on their own. As a result, attention is growing around the future expansion of autonomous AI-driven economic activity. 👀