Amazon Web Search on Bedrock Reaches General Availability as Server-Side Built-In Tool | cloud-ai
AWS announced general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock on August 4, 2026, extending an earlier AgentCore feature from June 17, 2026. The server sid…
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Aug 5, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC
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Aug 4, 2026
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Aug 5, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC
News summary
Web Search on Bedrock is generally available in the US with in region query handling in us east 1, us east 2 and us west 2. The feature is enabled via a single tools entry in the OpenAI Responses API call with type web search, requiring AWS IAM permissions AmazonBedrockMantleInferenceAccess and bedrock websearch:InvokeSearch. Web Search uses a multi source grounding approach combining Amazon's web index spanning billions of documents with a built in knowledge graph for factual queries. By default Web Search on Bedrock offers zero data egress, with all processing occurring within Amazon Bedrock infrastructure in region. At launch only indexed web retrieval is served; live web retrieval is scheduled for a future update. Web Search calls are integrated with AWS CloudTrail as management events capturing calling identity, timestamp, action and account/Region context; query text and raw page…