‘Data never leaves AWS’: OpenAI agents move into Amazon’s cloud

Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The product is in limited preview, says the AWS product page.

OpenAI built it with Amazon from the core of its Agents API. It added customisation so the agents work natively in AWS and with AWS resources, the company wrote in its DevDay recap.

How it works

Bedrock Managed Agents is built on OpenAI’s own agent framework, according to AWS. The managed runtime handles inference, memory and skills inside the customer’s environment. Each agent has its own identity and logs every action for auditing.

All inference runs on Amazon Bedrock, and customer data never leaves AWS, the product page says. AgentCore, Amazon’s platform for building and running agents with any model, is the default compute environment. AWS…