Amazon Bedrock AgentCore shipped payment capabilities in preview on May 7, 2026. AI agents can now hold wallets, make micropayments, and buy access to APIs and content without human intervention. The preview supports Coinbase CDP wallets and Stripe Privy wallets as payment connections, using the x402 protocol for HTTP-native stablecoin micropayments. Available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). End users fund wallets through stablecoin or fiat via debit card, and must explicitly authorize agent wallet access before the agent can transact at all. That's initial authorization, not per-action governance. The agent still decides what to do with that access at runtime. That's the plumbing. It works. Here's what it doesn't cover. Four gaps in agent payment governance Gap 1: When is the agent allowed to pay? AgentCore enforces per-session spending limits. But a spending limit is a ceiling, not a policy.…