The regional change
AWS announced general availability of Agent Registry in AWS GovCloud (US-West) on November 6. The service is available through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and gives an organisation a searchable catalog of agents, MCP servers, tools, agent skills and custom resources.
The announcement is about availability in GovCloud US-West, rather than the first launch of every Agent Registry capability or confirmation that the service is available in GovCloud US-East. AWS identifies public-sector organisations and their partners as the audience for this expansion.
A catalog controls discovery, not every underlying service
An administrator creates a registry and configures its authorisation and approval settings. Publishers submit resource records, curators review them, and users or AI agents can find approved resources through hybrid search, catalog browsing or a native MCP endpoint. AWS also describes CloudTrail logging for registry activity.
The documentation separates the registry from AgentCore Runtime, where agents and MCP servers can be hosted. Cataloguing a tool does not itself mean its code has been deployed or that every user has permission to run the underlying service.
What eligible teams can check
AWS describes GovCloud US as a separate environment for verified US government agencies and entities, with account-holder eligibility checks and separate credentials. The new announcement does not open that environment to every ordinary commercial AWS account.
Teams already working in GovCloud US-West can review the linked registry documentation for the administrator, publisher and curator workflow. The release gives no new price and does not make an organisation automatically compliant merely because it uses a registry.
