managed-agents

On September 29, 2026 AWS opened Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, in preview: 3 US Regions, no extra preview charge, and an 8-hour compute window in the AgentCore example. AWS runs the conversation. Your compute runs the tools.

AWS just made OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and production-ready Managed Agents available inside Amazon Bedrock — wrapped in IAM, PrivateLink, Guardrails, and CloudTrail. Here is what changes for CTOs evaluating OpenAI direct vs. AWS.