Amazon Q3: AgentCore Deployments Double as Jassy Says Bedrock Could Become as Big as EC2

Amazon's third-quarter 2026 results, published on October 29, report that tens of thousands of customers are using Bedrock AgentCore, and that the number of agents deployed in the quarter was double the combined total of the three previous quarters. The figures come from the company's official earnings release and its 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

On the earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy argued that Bedrock could one day be as large as EC2, reasoning that enterprise customers want access to many models without giving up security controls or accepting vendor lock-in. The quarter's supporting releases — the Strands harness and the Strands Box agent sandbox preview, plus the Bedrock Managed Agents preview — indicate AWS is assembling a full stack for enterprise agents, from harness to guardrails to managed runtime.