AWS AgentCore Browser Proxies

AWS AgentCore allows you to proxy agent browser sessions around the world.

I both love and hate this feature. As the guy writing scrapers, I love the fact that I can now proxy my agents around the globe.

As the guy fending off bot attacks, these AI agents can really bounce around, making it hard to track.

The good news from a security perspective is that, despite AWS 100% having the ability to proxy the requests for you, instead they require you to bring your own proxy servers.

I think this will dial back the ease at which this could be abused slightly… only slightly, because it would take me all of a few minutes to set up an account with a proxy service that is indifferent to whether or not the traffic it proxies is malicious, and give the agent access to that account.

Let's assume in this case the agent is being used for legitimate reasons, and you had some on-prem tasks that needed to be performed on your local network.

You could spin up a proxy, then give the agent access to the proxy to do the work. Alternatively, you could probably also just run your agent locally.

Aside from malicious activity, I actually don’t have the best use cases for this yet, but I am excited to play with it.

What would be your use cases for AgentCore Browser Proxies?