Anthropic Just Shipped the Layer That’s Already Going to Zero

Author(s): Gaurav Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic shipped Managed Agents this week. AWS Bedrock AgentCore has been GA for five months. The interesting question isn’t who wins the runtime — it’s where the value migrates when the layer goes flat. On April 8, Anthropic launched the public beta of Claude Managed Agents. The launch coverage hit the predictable beats: ten-times-faster shipping, Notion and Asana as adopters, sandboxed execution and checkpointed sessions and credenti