When AI Agents Pay and Sellers Monetize: Building x402 Apps on AWS — Anil Nadiminti, AWS
AWS presents solutions for a practical problem: AI agents make millions of tiny purchases (one ten-thousandth of a cent per API call), but traditional payment systems require a 25-cent minimum — making each purchase 250 times more expensive than its actual value.
Anil Nadiminti from AWS shows how AI traffic now exceeds human traffic on the web, forcing sellers to choose between blocking agents (and losing discoverability) or absorbing the cost. AWS's answer is AgentCore Payments on the buyer side — a 'wallet' for agents with spending limits — and bot detection on the seller side that classifies over 650 bot types and prices based on whether the request is for training or search.
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