# Amazon — Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-29T16:20:28+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/authenticate-with-private-key-jwt-using-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-identity/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2434-authenticate-with-private-key-jwt-using-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-identity

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication, allowing agents to authenticate to identity providers using a signed JWT client assertion instead of a shared client secret, with the private key stored in AWS KMS.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/authenticate-with-private-key-jwt-using-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-identity/:

> Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents.

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