Amazon Bedrock AgentCore & Nova Act
AWS building blocks for agents that need a computer: AgentCore Browser (a managed cloud browser), AgentCore Code Interpreter (a code sandbox), and Nova Act, a service for automating browser workflows in production.
✓ Last verified October 15, 2026 from official sourcesAgentCore Browser and Code Interpreter: $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and $0.00945 per GB-hour, billed per second, and idle time during I/O waits is free. Nova Act: $4.75 per agent hour.
- Teams already building on AWS
- Production browser automation at scale
Runs in your AWS account's chosen Region, with IAM controls. Nova Act runs in US East (N. Virginia). Skill level: Advanced.
What it's great at
- Browser automation at scale
- Running agent-written code safely
What it can do
- AgentCore Browser: isolated cloud browser sessions with Live View and Session Replay
- AgentCore Code Interpreter: sandboxed code execution in JavaScript, TypeScript and Python
- Nova Act: build agents that automate web UI workflows
Example tasks to try
- A travel agent that searches flights and fills booking forms in AgentCore Browser.
- A data analyst agent that runs Python in Code Interpreter.
Start in 5 minutes
- Open Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in the AWS console
- Start a Browser or Code Interpreter session from the SDK
- Watch it with Live View, then review the Session Replay
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Watch out for
Costs are per second of CPU and memory, plus any model tokens, so set AWS budgets.
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