Coinbase and Amazon Web Services are letting publishers using AWS CloudFront and Web Application Firewall charge AI agents for content access through the x402 protocol.
The integration covers infrastructure AWS says powers roughly a quarter of the internet, according to an announcement on Monday.
Publishers can toggle the feature on within their existing AWS configuration without new accounts, invoices, or API keys. When an AI agent requests content, the server returns an HTTP 402 "Payment Required" response specifying the price.
The agent can then pay using USDC on Base, after which Coinbase's x402 Facilitator verifies the payment onchain and the content is served, all within a single request cycle, the crypto exchange stated.
The new service supports per-request charges, batch settlement for high-frequency micropayments, subscription models, and variable-rate pricing for usage-based workloads such as inference or compute-heavy API calls.
