Amazon Web Services has put its weight behind the Agentic Resource Discovery specification, publishing a detailed account on August 24, 2026 of how the open standard is meant to work alongside AWS Agent Registry, its managed catalog for AI agents, tools, and skills that entered preview earlier this year. The AWS post frames ARD as the answer to a problem AWS’s own product leaves open. AWS Agent Registry, available through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, gives an organization a centralized, searchable…