[Galanwe]

I dont think this is about billing as other comments mentioned. AWS bedrock already does that.

I think AWS proposes to host actual agents, meaning you can customize their MCP servers, have them fetch and issue arbitrary requests, etc. Essentially a hosted minimal harness.

This is very much needed, as a form of "hosted claude code", allowing you to actually have the agent code, push, test from e.g. your phone.

[fnordpiglet]

Bedrock provides model inference as well as a few hosted things like agent core. This certainly provides more than bedrock, but it implies inference while fronted by aws policy and management will be farmed out to spacex and other providers. Anthropic already announced managed agents prior to this.

I would note that I don’t think I would lean towards Anthropic (operating with one 9 currently) over aws (operating with an implied 5 9’s within a region and arbitrary 9’s by composing across regions). Anthropic makes good models. They’ve yet to prove they make good operations.