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Alternatives to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents
Summary
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an AWS platform for building, deploying, and operating agents, which AWS says works with any framework and foundation model.Source 1 Its modular services include a serverless Runtime that hosts agents, Gateway, Identity, Policy, and AWS Agent Registry.Source 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4, Source 5
Where Amazon Bedrock AgentCore sits
Six layers of running AI agents at a company, and what Amazon Bedrock AgentCore’s own public sources say it covers. Each alternative below gets the same six layers as a strip.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
How to read the strips
- 01Build agents
- 02Host and run agents
- 03Identity and access
- 04Registry and governance
- 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models
- 06Agents across organizations
- Offered
- Preview
- You build it
- Not included
- Not publicly documented
Platforms to build and run agents
5 alternatives
The group Amazon Bedrock AgentCore sits in, so listed first.
CrewAI AMP
Platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling CrewAI crews and agents
Where it sitsSource 8, Source 9, Source 10, Source 11, Source 12, Source 13
- Build agents: Offered, Crew Studio visual editor
- Host and run agents: Offered, Managed infrastructure for crews
- Identity and access: Offered, Per-deployment allow lists
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Repositories
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Custom MCP server connections
- Agents across organizations: Preview, Public A2A agents
CrewAI’s platform to deploy, monitor, and scale crews and agents in production.Source 9 Its Enterprise plan can run on CrewAI’s cloud, your own VPC, or your own infrastructure; AgentCore is a managed service in AWS Regions.Source 1, Source 14, Source 15
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents
Where it sitsSource 16, Source 17, Source 18, Source 19
- Build agents: Offered, Agent Studio low-code canvas
- Host and run agents: Offered, Agent Runtime
- Identity and access: Offered, SPIFFE-based Agent Identity
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Agent Gateway
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Gateway calls to outside agents
Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize agents.Source 16, Source 20 Its Agent Registry operates at the Google Cloud project level.Source 21 Agent Registry is free; skill scanning is billed from January 2027.Source 22
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Agent management platform to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents
Where it sitsSource 23, Source 24, Source 25, Source 26, Source 27
- Build agents: Offered, Visual builder and ADK
- Host and run agents: Offered, Agents run on watsonx Orchestrate
- Identity and access: Preview, Agent identity
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agentic Control Plane
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, A2A calls to agent endpoints
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Partner A2A agents in catalog
IBM calls it an agent management platform to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern agents, as SaaS or on premises.Source 28, Source 29 It is sold by plan; AgentCore bills by use.Source 30, Source 31 IBM’s agent identity is in private preview.Source 32
LangSmith
Platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents
Where it sitsSource 33, Source 34, Source 35, Source 36, Source 37
- Build agents: Offered, Fleet agent builder
- Host and run agents: Offered, LangSmith Deployment runtime
- Identity and access: Offered, Fleet per-agent permissions
- Registry and governance: Offered, Centralized registry in Deployment
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Fleet forwards MCP tool calls
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
LangChain describes it as a platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents.Source 38 It runs in LangChain’s cloud, or self-hosted or hybrid, on Enterprise; AgentCore is a managed service in AWS Regions.Source 1, Source 15, Source 39, Source 40
n8n
Platform for AI agents and workflows you can see and control, built visually or with code
Where it sitsSource 41, Source 42, Source 43, Source 44
- Build agents: Offered, LangChain-based AI Agent node
- Host and run agents: Offered, Your infrastructure or n8n’s
- Identity and access: Not publicly documented
- Registry and governance: Preview, Agents stored in projects
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, MCP client for external tools
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
n8n says you build AI agents and workflows in it, visually or with code, on n8n Cloud or self-hosted.Source 42, Source 45 Its Agents feature is in preview.Source 43 AWS Agent Registry can list agents outside AWS.Source 1
Agent control planes
5 alternatives
Blocks.ai
Network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company
Where it sitsSource 46, Source 47, Source 48, Source 49, Source 50
- Build agents: Not included, Use LangChain or CrewAI
- Host and run agents: Not included, You run your agent
- Identity and access: Offered, Machine identity per agent
- Registry and governance: Offered, Private registry and Admin Console
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Private network for every agent
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Partners share only chosen agents
Blocks.ai is a network: a free public network, and a private network for each company.Source 49, Source 51 Blocks.ai doesn’t build or host agents.Source 46, Source 47 On the Pro tier, partner companies can join as their own organizations.Source 51, Source 52
Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft 365 control plane to discover, manage, govern, and secure AI agents
Where it sitsSource 53, Source 54, Source 55, Source 56, Source 57
- Build agents: Not included, Use your chosen framework
- Host and run agents: Not included, You host your agent
- Identity and access: Offered, Entra Agent ID
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent registry in admin center
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Preview, Tooling Gateway for MCP servers
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A Microsoft 365 control plane for agents built and run elsewhere, with agent identities in Microsoft Entra.Source 53, Source 54, Source 55, Source 58 It is licensed per user; AgentCore is billed by use.Source 31, Source 59
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms
Where it sitsSource 60
- Build agents: Offered, Agent brokers in Agent Script
- Host and run agents: Offered, Agent brokers on CloudHub 2.0
- Identity and access: Offered, Omni Gateway authentication and authorization
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry in Anypoint Exchange
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Omni Gateway in request path
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms.Source 61 MuleSoft says it applies control to agents wherever they run, and its scanners pull agent metadata from AgentCore into one searchable registry.Source 62
ServiceNow AI Control Tower
What ServiceNow calls a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI
Where it sitsSource 63, Source 64, Source 65
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Scoped OAuth tokens (community docs)
- Registry and governance: Offered, AI inventory tied to CMDB
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, AI Gateway (community docs)
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
ServiceNow describes it as a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI.Source 64 Its connector for Amazon discovers AgentCore agents, and its kill switch can block them.Source 66, Source 67
Workday Agent System of Record
Workday system of record to find, add, register, configure, monitor, and manage AI agents
Where it sitsSource 68, Source 69, Source 70
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Agent System User per agent
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry in Management Hub
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Agent Gateway for Workday APIs
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A functional area you set up in each Workday tenant to register, configure, monitor, and manage agents, each with a unique Workday identity.Source 68, Source 69, Source 71 Workday security policies and groups govern what each agent can access.Source 72
Gateways, identity, and security
4 alternatives
Cloudflare MCP server portals
Cloudflare One feature that puts MCP servers behind one governed endpoint
Where it sitsSource 73
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Identity provider or service token
- Registry and governance: Offered, Centrally managed MCP servers
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Proxy for MCP tool calls
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A portal that puts multiple MCP servers behind one HTTP endpoint, governed through Cloudflare Access.Source 73, Source 74 A portal lists MCP servers; AgentCore can host agents and catalogs agents as well as tools.Source 1, Source 5, Source 73
Kong AI Gateway
Gateway that governs LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic
Where it sitsSource 75, Source 76, Source 77
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Per-agent allow or deny lists
- Registry and governance: Preview, Konnect Catalog agents
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Gateway for LLM, MCP, A2A
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A gateway for LLM, MCP, and A2A traffic, proxying to agents at their own URLs; in version 2.x, you run its data plane nodes.Source 75, Source 78 Kong’s docs describe reaching AgentCore Runtime agents with SigV4-signed requests.Source 75
Okta for AI Agents
Okta offering that gives AI agents a first-class identity so organizations can discover, onboard, protect, and govern them
Where it sitsSource 79, Source 80, Source 81
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Agent identity and credentials
- Registry and governance: Offered, Universal Directory with human owners
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Preview, Agent Gateway for MCP tools
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
Okta says it gives AI agents a first-class identity.Source 82 Agents built in-house or elsewhere are registered in an Okta org, and admins define what each can access.Source 83, Source 84 Okta can import Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents.Source 85
Zenity AI Agent Security & Governance Platform
Security and governance platform for AI agents, aimed at security teams
Where it sitsSource 86, Source 87
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Not publicly documented
- Registry and governance: Offered, AI Observability agent inventory
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Tool-call blocking for coding agents
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A security and governance platform for AI agents.Source 88 Zenity says it discovers agents, including inside Copilot Studio and Agentforce, and can block some actions in real time.Source 86, Source 89 It describes how it secures agents in AgentCore.Source 90, Source 91
Build it yourself
1 alternative
Not a product: your own team assembles the pieces.
Build it yourself (DIY)
Building agent connections and controls in-house from open protocols, existing infrastructure, and open-source tools
Where it sitsSource 92, Source 93, Source 94, Source 95, Source 96, Source 97
- Build agents: You build it, Open-source frameworks like ADK
- Host and run agents: You build it, Self-hosted, like LangGraph
- Identity and access: You build it, Your own identity provider
- Registry and governance: You build it, Your own agent registry
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: You build it, Your gateway and service mesh
- Agents across organizations: You build it, A2A with API management
Your teams connect and govern agents themselves, on open protocols such as A2A and MCP that leave authorization logic to the implementer.Source 98, Source 99, Source 100 A2A’s docs say a curated registry means deploying and maintaining a registry service.Source 95
Questions buyers ask
Does Amazon Bedrock AgentCore keep a registry of every agent?
AWS Agent Registry, generally available since August 2026, catalogs agents, MCP servers, tools, and skills, including ones on premises or in other clouds, behind an approval workflow.Source 1, Source 5, Source 101 With AWS Organizations, it currently auto-detects only AgentCore Runtimes and Gateways; other agents are published as records.Source 102, Source 103
How is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore priced?
Can Amazon Bedrock AgentCore manage agents built elsewhere?
AgentCore Runtime works with frameworks such as CrewAI, LangGraph, and Google ADK.Source 1 For agents hosted elsewhere, AWS says its Registry works with agents on premises or in other clouds, and Identity covers self-hosted ones.Source 1, Source 104 Observability can show their metrics after extra setup.Source 105
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Sources
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Source 1: Overview - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Developer Guide) Back:abcdefghijk
Source 2: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: A secure AI gateway for agents, tools, and models Back to text
Source 3: Provide identity and credential management for agent applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity Back:ab
Source 4: Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Control Agent Interactions Back to text
Source 5: AWS Agent Registry: Discover and manage agents, tools, and resources Back:abcd
Source 6: HTTP passthrough targets - AgentCore Gateway Back to text
Source 7: Sharing a registry across accounts with AWS RAM Back to text
Source 20: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) Back to text
Source 23: AI Agent Builder | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Back to text
Source 24: Welcome to IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit Back to text
Source 26: AI Agent Control Plane | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Back to text
Source 29: Regional availability and outbound IP addresses Back to text
Source 32: Prerequisites for configuring agent identity Back to text
Source 38: LangSmith: The Agent Engineering Platform Back to text
Source 46: Why Blocks? Back:ab
Source 51: Pricing Back:ab
Source 53: Agent 365 SDK frequently asked questions | Microsoft Learn Back:ab
Source 54: Microsoft Agent 365 SDK overview | Microsoft Learn Back:ab
Source 56: Agent Registry in Microsoft 365 admin center - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 57: Bring your own (BYO) MCP server in Microsoft 365 admin center - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 58: Microsoft Agent 365 - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 62: See Every Agent. Govern Every Agent. Control AI Costs. (mulesoft.com home page) Back to text
Source 63: What's new in AI Gateway v3.4 - September 2026 release (ServiceNow Community, AI Control Tower articles) Back to text
Source 64: AI Control Tower - ServiceNow (product page) Back:ab
Source 65: AI Gateway Implementation Guide (ServiceNow Community, AI Control Tower articles) Back to text
Source 66: AI Service Graph Connector for Amazon release notes (ServiceNow Store version history) Back to text
Source 67: Control enforcement points (ServiceNow product documentation, Australia release) Back to text
Source 68: Concept: Agent Security (Workday Administrator Guide) Back:ab
Source 69: About Workday Agents (Workday Administrator Guide) Back:ab
Source 70: Concept: Workday Agent Gateway (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 71: Set Up Agent System of Record (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 72: Setup Considerations: Agent Security (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 73: MCP server portals · Cloudflare One docs Back:abc
Source 74: MCP governance · Cloudflare Agents docs Back to text
Source 79: Add AI agents manually (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 82: Okta brings first-class identity to AI agents with Agent SSO Back to text
Source 83: Add and register AI agents (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 84: AI agent resource connections (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 85: Apps that support AI agent imports (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 86: AI Observability | See Every Agent, Know What it Touches | Zenity Back:ab
Source 89: Runtime Boundaries | The Runtime Boundary for Autonomous AI | Zenity Back to text
Source 90: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Security | Full-Lifecycle Control Back to text
Source 91: Inside the Agent Stack: Securing Agents in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Back to text
Source 93: langchain-ai/langgraph README (GitHub) Back to text
Source 94: Integrating with Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Keycloak Back to text
Source 96: Designing MCP Gateway Uber's MCP Management Platform - Uber Blog Back to text
Source 98: Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification Back to text
Source 99: modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol LICENSE (GitHub) Back to text
Source 100: Specification - Model Context Protocol 2026-07-28 Back to text
Source 101: Release notes - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Back to text
Source 102: Key capabilities - AWS Agent Registry Back to text
Source 103: Concepts and terminology - AWS Agent Registry Back to text
Source 105: Add observability to your Amazon Bedrock AgentCore resources Back to text