AWS Launches Agent Registry to Track and Share Secretive AI Bots

As companies rapidly deploy software automations, they are increasingly losing visibility into what their autonomous scripts are actually doing. To combat this issue of "secret agents," Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled the Agent Registry—a centralized enterprise repository designed to discover, share, and reuse AI agents and tools. Built to work seamlessly with Bedrock AgentCore, the registry acts as a single source of truth for storing metadata on agent ownership, capabilities, and invocation instructions, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises. By offering end-to-end visibility and standardizing protocols like MCP, AWS hopes to prevent disparate corporate teams from blindly reinventing the wheel with redundant bots. The AWS Agent Registry is currently available in preview across five global regions.

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