AWS gives AI agents four times more compute in Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Web Services has upgraded the runtime of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, its service for running AI agents, with up to four times more computing power per session, InfoWorld reported. Each agent session can now use up to eight virtual CPUs and 32GB of memory, with container images of up to 10GB.

AWS says that lets developers run heavier agent jobs inside the isolated environment, such as compiling large codebases, driving web browsers or running small models locally. The runtime now reclaims unused memory within minutes and lets idle agents scale to zero, which AWS says can cut memory use per session by up to 68% for agents that pause between turns. A new baseline pricing option sets a minimum memory allocation for always-on agents while letting them burst to four times that.

Agents can also now save their work directly to file systems such as Amazon S3 buckets, something companies previously had to build themselves.