Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region
Build and deploy AI agents in South America with full feature parity—no more waiting for regional availability.
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What's New
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) Region as of May 1, 2026. AgentCore is AWS's unified platform for building, connecting, and optimizing AI agents, supporting any framework and any model. The full suite of AgentCore capabilities — including agent runtime, identity, gateway, policy, observability, code interpreter, and browser tools — is available in São Paulo at launch with no feature gaps relative to other supported regions.
How It Works
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides a managed infrastructure layer for deploying and operating AI agents at scale.
- The agent runtime executes agent logic with lifecycle management, while identity handles authentication and authorization for agents interacting with enterprise systems.
- The gateway enables agents to connect to external APIs and tools, and policy enforces guardrails and access controls at the infrastructure level — meaning security constraints cannot be circumvented by agent logic itself. Observability provides tracing, logging, and monitoring of agent behavior, while code interpreter and browser tools give agents the ability to execute code and interact with web-based interfaces.
- All of these components operate within the São Paulo Region, meaning data processed by agents remains within the region's boundaries unless explicitly configured otherwise.
Why It's Important
- The São Paulo expansion is significant for several reasons.
- First, it enables South American customers — particularly those in Brazil operating under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) — to meet data residency and data sovereignty requirements by keeping agent workloads and associated data within Brazilian borders.
- Second, deploying agents in-region reduces network latency for end users in South America, which is critical for real-time, interactive agent applications.
- Third, it signals AWS's commitment to making its most advanced agentic AI infrastructure broadly accessible across global regions, not just in primary US and European markets.
How It's Different
- Prior to this expansion, South American customers who wanted to use AgentCore had to route workloads through other AWS regions (such as US East or EU regions), introducing latency, potential compliance complications, and data egress costs.
- Compared to building custom agent orchestration infrastructure using raw AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch), AgentCore provides a purpose-built, integrated platform that eliminates significant undifferentiated engineering work.
- Unlike open-source agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen) deployed on self-managed infrastructure, AgentCore enforces security at the infrastructure layer, meaning developers cannot accidentally or intentionally bypass policy controls through application-level code.
When to Prefer It
- Choose AgentCore in São Paulo when your use case involves Brazilian or broader South American end users who require low-latency agent interactions, or when your organization must comply with LGPD or other regional data residency mandates.
- It is particularly well-suited for enterprise deployments where security, auditability, and policy enforcement are non-negotiable — since AgentCore's infrastructure-layer security model provides stronger guarantees than application-level guardrails.
- Teams that want to iterate quickly across multiple agent frameworks and foundation models without rebuilding connectivity, observability, or identity plumbing for each project will also benefit most from AgentCore's unified platform approach.
Availability
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is generally available (GA) in the AWS South America (São Paulo) Region (
sa-east-1) as of May 1, 2026. - All core capabilities — agent runtime, identity, gateway, policy, observability, code interpreter, and browser tools — are available at launch with full feature parity.
- Pricing follows the AgentCore pricing model (see the AgentCore pricing page for region-specific rates).
- For a complete and up-to-date list of all supported AWS regions, refer to the official AWS Supported Regions documentation.
- No preview or limited-access restrictions are noted for this region at launch.
