Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gets Faster, Cheaper Runtime

Amazon Bedrock's next-gen AgentCore runtime is now default across 19 AWS regions, cutting session startup from 29.7 seconds to under 2 seconds and slashing memory costs by up to 68% for multi-turn agents. The new runtime scales compute on-demand, idles agents to zero, and supports heavy workloads like browser automation and local model inference with up to 8 vCPU and 32 GB memory.