Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds temporal policies and rate limiting
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers temporal policies for stateful agent authorization, allowing for context-aware security rules based on prior actions within a session. It also introduces rate limiting to control AI traffic flow per user or group. These features enhance security and manage resource consumption for agents, impacting developers and architects building agent-based applications on Bedrock.
- →Temporal policies for stateful agent authorization
- →Rate limiting for AI traffic
- →Regional availability and documentation
Features (2) ›
- Temporal policies for stateful agent authorization
Temporal policies enable stateful authorization rules that consider an agent's previous actions within a session. This allows enforcement of workflow sequencing, argument matching, human approval for privileged actions, and data freshness requirements.
- Rate limiting for AI traffic
Rate limiting provides per-user or per-group controls on traffic to tools, models, and agents connected to the gateway. Rules can be scoped by OAuth or AWS IAM to set limits on requests, inference tokens, and concurrent connections, improving downstream service availability.
Notes (1) ›
- Regional availability and documentation
Information on regional availability, detailed documentation, an announcement blog, and a reference implementation are available for these new controls.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/temporal-policies-agentcore/
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