AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises

AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises

AWS recently released Agent Registry in public preview as part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing enterprises a centralized catalog for discovering, sharing, and governing AI agents, tools, MCP servers, and agent skills across an organization. The registry indexes agents regardless of where they run, whether on AWS, other cloud providers, or on premises.

The problem it addresses will be familiar to any platform team that has watched agent counts climb: nobody knows what exists, who owns it, whether it’s approved, or whether the team down the hall already built the same thing. Agent sprawl compounds fast. Compliance gaps follow. Development effort gets wasted on duplicate work.

(Source: AWS Artificial Intelligence Blog Post)

There are two ways to register a record. Teams can provide metadata manually through the console, SDK, or API, specifying ownership, capability descriptions, and compliance status. Or they can point to an MCP or A2A endpoint and let the…

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