AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/memory-integrate-lang.html
AWS managed memory service for agents running on Bedrock AgentCore. Native integrations with LangChain/LangGraph and Strands. Drives long-running MCP servers + agent workloads.
At a glance
- Type
- Managed memory in Bedrock AgentCore
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Platform-provider memory
- Created
- 2025-07-16 (preview launch); 2025-10-13 (GA)
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- Pay-per-use
- Funding
- Amazon/AWS public (AMZN); market cap ~$2T
Taxonomy
- storage
- proprietary
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- cross-session
- update
- extraction
- unit
- fact
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- none
When to use
Optimised for: AWS Bedrock-native managed memory + IAM governance
Anti-fit: not for non-AWS stacks
Pros & cons
Pros
Native to Bedrock with deep integration into IAM, KMS, CloudWatch — enterprise compliance posture is built in.
Cons
AWS-only; pricing tied to Bedrock; cross-cloud portability requires rework.
Claims & capabilities
GA 2025-10-13; native integrations with LangChain/LangGraph and Strands; powers long-running MCP servers + agent workloads; SOC 2 / HIPAA / FedRAMP High / PCI-DSS / GDPR compliance; customers include Caylent / Epsilon / Cox Automotive / Thomson Reuters / Workday / NTT Data / MongoDB / PGA TOUR / Pulumi / Snorkel.ai
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST, SDK: AWS SDKs (boto3, etc.)
- Backend storage
- custom (AWS-managed)
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- multiple supported
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation
- MCP
- native (first-party) — AgentCore supports MCP
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- first-class — CloudWatch + OTel
Similar systems
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- Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory T3
Mounts memory as files on a managed filesystem; Claude reads and writes via the same bash/code-execution tools used for agentic tasks. Unit of storage is a file — inspectable, editable, exportable by developers. Full audit log per session. Memory beta launched April 23, 2026, two weeks after Managed Agents itself launched April 8.
- Cloudflare Agent Memory T2
Managed persistent memory service for AI agents on Cloudflare's edge. Beta-launched April 2026. Sits alongside Workers AI / Vectorize as the memory tier of the Cloudflare agent stack.
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Memory Bank (rebrand of Vertex AI Memory Bank) T1
GA at Google Cloud Next 2026 (2026-04-22). Vertex AI rebranded as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform; Memory Bank now "Agent Platform Memory Bank" with new continuous event-streaming + automated memory generation triggered by configurable criteria (event count or idle time). Backed by Agent Runtime that supports long-running agents that maintain state for days. Note: separate "Memory Profiles" feature reported in TheNextWeb but not surfaced in official Google Cloud release notes — treated here as unconfirmed.
- Google Gemini Memory T1
Personal Context setting + Personal Intelligence packing. Memory import from ChatGPT/Claude (Mar 2026).
- Grok Memory (xAI) T1
Extracts and persists facts from past conversations; applies them to future responses. Per-memory deletion UI; user can also clear all.
Related systems
References (3)
- Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires AWS Bedrock + AgentCore
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — Native integrations with LangChain/LangGraph and Strands.
- LangGraph Persistence integrates with — Native integrations with LangChain/LangGraph and Strands.
Referenced by (2)
- Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — d 2025; Apache-2.0; integrates with AWS Bedrock; used internally before OSS release.
- Strands Agents Memory (AWS) integrates with — ource SDK from AWS; integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory (SEMANTIC, SUMMARIZATION, USER_PREFERENCE strategies); used