Tilde vs Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The short answer

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the most complete platform in this comparison series. It covers agent hosting, an MCP gateway, a token vault, memory, a managed browser, policy, evaluations and a registry, all as AWS services you can use together or on their own.

Tilde covers much of the same ground outside any one cloud. The clearest differences are where things run, how many integrations are ready to use, and how agents reach people: Tilde deploys on-prem as well as in Tilde cloud, hosts hundreds of integrations for you, and adds channels and voice in a click.

At a glance

Where Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is strong

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is broad and modular. It hosts agents from any framework in isolated sessions, turns APIs into MCP tools, stores credentials in a KMS-encrypted vault, and adds memory, a managed browser, code interpreter, evaluations and a governed registry.

Its Cedar-based policy checks every tool call, and Bedrock Guardrails can block prompt attacks and sensitive data. For teams already standardised on AWS, it fits naturally with IAM, VPCs and existing billing.

Where Tilde is different

AgentCore gives AWS teams building blocks. Tilde gives any team a ready platform, wherever it needs to run.

• Integrations without the plumbing. Create MCP tool servers from our catalog of SaaS providers, proxy an existing MCP server, or forward requests to your own API.
• Credentials you don't have to build. Tilde handles OAuth, API keys and custom authentication, including encryption and rotation.
• Security middleware on every agent. Tilde blocks jailbreak attempts and redacts personal information (PII) in agent inputs and outputs.
• Access scoped to the work. Workspaces and grants limit which people and agents can reach which resources, with single sign-on through your OIDC provider.
• Control on sensitive actions. Govern checks policy, asks a person to approve and records the decision before an action runs.
• Channels in a single click. Add WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Telegram or GitHub to an agent without writing an adapter. ChatKit adds message history, sessions, webhooks, schedules and agent-to-agent delegation.
• Secrets kept out of the model. The secure browser signs in to websites with injected credentials the agent never sees.
• Voice when you need it. Build realtime voice agents on the same tools and permissions.
• One inventory. The Registry records every agent, who owns it and who can use it, whichever framework built it.
• Runs where your data lives. Use Tilde cloud, or deploy Tilde on-prem in your own infrastructure. Embedded engineers can help you set it up.

Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Tilde together

Tilde is framework- and cloud-agnostic, so the two can work side by side. An agent hosted on AgentCore Runtime can call Tilde MCP servers for integrations AgentCore doesn't host, with Tilde's security middleware and permissions applied.

Teams that can't run everything in a public cloud can use Tilde on-prem for the systems that must stay inside their network.

flowchart TB
  People["People on Slack, WhatsApp or voice"] --> Channels
  subgraph Tilde["Tilde cloud or on-prem"]
    Channels["Channels"]
    Guard["Security middleware"]
    MCP["MCP tools and managed credentials"]
  end
  subgraph AWS["AWS"]
    Runtime["AgentCore Runtime agent"]
  end
  Channels --> Runtime
  Runtime --> Guard
  Guard --> MCP
  MCP --> Systems["SaaS APIs and on-prem systems"]

Which should you choose?

• Choose Amazon Bedrock AgentCore if you're committed to AWS and want modular services you can assemble inside your AWS account.
• Choose Tilde if you need hundreds of hosted integrations, single-click channels, voice, or deployment on-prem or outside AWS.
• Use both if some agents run on AWS and others need to stay on-prem. Talk to our team if you'd like help planning it.