AWS AgentCore Runtime
https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/
AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime hosts AI agents and tools in managed compute sessions. It offers serverless microVM sessions and managed EC2-backed Instances; Instances support persistent multi-day sessions, GPU workloads, and multiple agents on a shared instance.
| Pricing model | Consumption-based; per-second billing on actual CPU and memory usage, with a 1-second minimum and 128 MB minimum memory billing. |
|---|---|
| Pricing The headline compute price as the provider states it. Sorting ranks prices stated per vCPU over time, converted to hourly. Other pricing models sort after, unranked. | $0.1276 per vCPU-hour for Runtime V2 consumption pricing |
| Free while idle Whether a stopped, paused, or sleeping sandbox costs nothing. | ✕ |
| Elastic Resources flex with what the sandbox actually uses, and the bill follows: yes when the provider bills on active or observed use, no when capacity is reserved or allocated and billed while it runs. | ✓ |
| Memory snapshots Whether RAM state survives a pause and resume, not just disk. | ✕ |
| Wake on request Whether a stopped sandbox wakes automatically on inbound traffic. | ✓ |
| Start / resume Typical time from create or resume to running. Sorting ranks stated times, converted to seconds; claims with no figure sort after, unranked. | P75 1.9–2.0 seconds for 200 MB–2 GB container images on Runtime V2 |
| Max runtime The longest a sandbox may run. | Up to 8 hours per microVM lifecycle; up to 14 days on Instances. |
| Isolation The isolation technology between sandboxes. | Dedicated microVM per user session for serverless compute, with hardware-enforced session isolation; Instances use managed EC2 compute. |
| GPUs Whether GPU instances are available for sandboxes. | ✓ |
| Docker Whether Docker containers can run inside the sandbox. | ✓ |
| SDKs | Python, TypeScript |
✓ yes · ✕ no · – no cited public fact.
Capabilities depend on the compute type: microVM sessions run for up to 8 hours per lifecycle, while Instances can run for up to 14 days and provide GPU support. Persistent filesystem state is documented, but RAM snapshots across stop/resume are not. V1 remains the default platform version, and AWS bills it at $0.0895 per vCPU-hour, less than the V2 consumption rate. For microVMs, AWS charges for the span from ready, through idle periods, to termination, plus system overhead and a 128 MB memory floor.
Sources
- http://github.com/aws/bedrock-agentcore-sdk-python
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/new-agentcore-runtime-generally-available/
- https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/agents-tools-runtime.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/harness-environment.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/runtime-how-it-works.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/runtime-instances-how-it-works.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/runtime-lifecycle-settings.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/runtime-security-best-practices.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/runtime-sessions.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/runtime-stop-session.html
- https://github.com/aws/bedrock-agentcore-sdk-typescript
Last verified 2026-10-03. Corrections land through the update log.