AWS Agent Registry Preview

A.I. agents are software workers that call tools and data on their own, and Amazon Web Services just added a registry to keep those workers organized inside big companies. (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services said on April 9 that AWS Agent Registry is in preview inside Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It lets companies catalog agents, tools, skills, Model Context Protocol servers, and custom resources in one place. (aws.amazon.com) The service is available in five regions: United States West in Oregon, United States East in Northern Virginia, Europe in Ireland, Asia Pacific in Tokyo, and Asia Pacific in Sydney. Teams can reach it through the AgentCore console, application programming interfaces, the Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface, software development kits, or a Model Context Protocol endpoint. (aws.amazon.com) The basic problem is sprawl. Amazon Web Services said companies are starting to run hundreds or thousands of agents across Amazon Web Services, other clouds, and on-premises systems, which makes it harder to know what exists, who approved it, and whether another team already built the same thing. (aws.amazon.com) Agent Registry is built to act like an internal app store with compliance gates. Records can be added manually or pulled from live agent or Model Context Protocol endpoints, then routed through approval workflows before other teams can discover them. (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services says the registry supports both semantic search, which matches by meaning, and keyword search, which matches exact terms. The documentation also says administrators can control access with Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management credentials or custom JSON Web Tokens, and log activity with Amazon Web Services CloudTrail. (docs.aws.amazon.com) The registry sits inside Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the managed platform Amazon Web Services made generally available in October 2025 for building, deploying, and operating agents with any model or framework. Amazon Web Services said AgentCore is meant to move agent projects from prototypes into production without customers managing the underlying infrastructure. (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services and its partners are already using AgentCore as the control layer for data-heavy workloads. Hydrolix said on April 14 that it paired its content delivery network analytics product with AgentCore and the Strands Agents software development kit so operators can ask natural-language questions against petabyte-scale streaming data. (hydrolix.io) In healthcare, Labcorp said on April 14 that it built an Alzheimer’s research platform with Amazon Web Services and Datavant that uses deidentified data and advanced analytics to produce insights in minutes that previously took months of data mining. Labcorp said the system is designed for cohort discovery, disease-progression analysis, treatment-effectiveness measurement, and clinical-trial recruitment. (prnewswire.com) Amazon Web Services is betting that the next bottleneck in agent adoption is not building one agent, but keeping track of many. The preview puts that governance layer in front of customers now, before more of those software workers spread across the enterprise. (aws.amazon.com)