Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Billing
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- SDKs
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtimeaws
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.217 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001.
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