AWS Announces Agent Registry and AgentCore Platform for Enterprise AI Agent Management

AWS launched Agent Registry in preview through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and announced the broader AgentCore platform to address enterprise challenges in managing AI agents at scale. The Agent Registry stores metadata for agents, tools, MCP servers, and agent skills as structured records, indexing agents regardless of where they are built across AWS, other cloud providers, or on-premises environments. Available in five AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and three international locations, the registry supports established standards like MCP and A2A natively and offers hybrid search combining keyword and semantic matching. The platform addresses critical challenges faced by platform teams managing hundreds or thousands of agents, where lack of centralized management leads to agent sprawl, compliance risks, and wasted development effort on duplicate work. Companies like Zuora are already deploying 50 agents across multiple business functions. AWS plans to expand the registry across all AWS services and enable cross-registry federation with integrated operational intelligence.

AWS Agent Registry Launch and Core Capabilities

• ▪AWS Agent Registry is accessible through the AgentCore Console, APIs, and as an MCP server.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry indexes agents regardless of where they are built or hosted, including AWS, other cloud providers, or on-premises environments.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry supports OAuth-based access for organizations with custom identity providers.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry supports established standards like MCP and A2A natively.
• ▪MCP-compatible clients including Kiro and Claude Code can query AWS Agent Registry directly.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry stores metadata for agents, tools, MCP servers, agent skills, and custom resources as structured records.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry is available in preview in five AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland).
• ▪AWS Agent Registry is now available in preview through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

Discovery and Reuse of Existing Agent Capabilities

• ▪AWS Agent Registry allows users to search by name, descriptions, and resource type to find existing capabilities.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry uses hybrid search that combines keyword and semantic matching for agent discovery.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry automatically pulls in details when pointed to an MCP or A2A endpoint.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry can be registered with metadata manually through the console, AWS SDK, or API.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry semantic search surfaces conceptually related results, such as showing payment processing tools when searching for billing or invoicing.

Governance, Lifecycle Management, and Future Roadmap

• ▪AWS Agent Registry records are versioned to track changes over time.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry records follow an approval workflow starting as drafts, moving to pending approval, and becoming discoverable once approved.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry tracks agents across their entire lifecycle from initial development through deployment to eventual retirement.
• ▪AWS Agent Registry uses IAM policies to define who can register agents, tools, and agent skills and who can discover them.

Perspective of Zuora

• ▪Zuora is deploying 50 AI agents across Sales, Finance, Product, and Developer teams.

Perspective of AWS

• ▪AWS plans to integrate operational intelligence from AgentCore Observability into Agent Registry records, including invocation counts, latency, uptime, and usage patterns.
• ▪AWS plans to expand Agent Registry integration to span every AWS service where agents are built, including Amazon Quick and Kiro.

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