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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Adds Web Bot Auth Preview

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now previews Web Bot Auth, a draft IETF protocol that cryptographically identifies AI agents to websites. The feature automatically generates credentials, signs HTTP requests with private keys, and registers verified agent identities to reduce CAPTCHA interruptions and human intervention in automated workflows. It streamlines verification across major providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, and HUMAN Security, and is available in nine AWS Regions on a consumption-based pricing model with no upfront costs.

Securing Agentic Commerce with Web Bot Auth and Payments

🔒 Cloudflare, in partnership with Visa and Mastercard, explains how Web Bot Auth together with payment-specific protocols can secure agent-driven commerce. The post describes agent registration, public key publication, and HTTP Message Signatures that include timestamps, nonces, and tags to prevent spoofing and replay attacks. Merchants can validate trusted agents during browsing and payment flows without changing infrastructure. Cloudflare also provides an Agent SDK and managed WAF rules to simplify developer adoption and deployment.

Responsible AI Bot Principles to Protect Web Content

🛡️ Cloudflare proposes five practical principles to guide responsible AI bot behavior and protect web publishers, users, and infrastructure. The framework stresses public disclosure, reliable self-identification (moving toward cryptographic verification such as Web Bot Auth), a declared single purpose for crawlers, and respect for operator preferences via robots.txt or headers. Operators must also avoid deceptive or high-volume crawling, and Cloudflare invites multi-stakeholder collaboration to refine and adopt these norms.