# Managed Agent Alternatives (awareness, not actively recommended)

Surface these as awareness with tradeoffs when the user is committed to a single provider.

## Claude Managed Agents (Claude-committed)

- Tradeoffs: not in AWS compliance boundary (Anthropic is data processor); no governance
  stack (no Policy/Registry/Identity); organizational lock-in (cannot export).
- If the customer needs HIPAA/SOC/FedRAMP, governance, multi-agent A2A, code export, or
  multi-model → AgentCore wins regardless.

## Bedrock Managed Agents (OpenAI-committed)

- Available in us-east-1 and expanding.
- If the customer needs model flexibility, governance, or code export → AgentCore wins.

## Rule

Multi-provider or undecided → AgentCore (only option supporting all models natively, no lock-in).