Web Search on AWS Bedrock now supports domain filtering and user location controls
GAyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 24, 2026
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock now supports domain filtering to restrict sources and user location controls to improve result relevance.
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Every Amazon Bedrock releaseAgentCore Gateway now supports Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports the Amazon Bedrock InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs on its inference endpoint, along with model fallback routing for inference traffic.
Structured outputs for Claude models available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs for all Anthropic Claude models across both the bedrock-runtime and the bedrock-mantle endpoint. Whether you call Claude through boto3 and the bedrock-runtime APIs or through the Messages API and the bedrock-mantle endpoint, you can now receive schema-compliant JSON responses that conform to a defined...
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports Standard tier for contextual grounding checks
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers a Standard tier for contextual grounding checks, which detect and filter hallucinations by checking whether a model response is grounded in your reference source and relevant to the user's query. The Standard tier is more robust than the Classic tier.
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization now supports prompt shortening
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization now supports prompt shortening, an optional setting that reduces the length of your prompt while maintaining or improving your evaluation scores. Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes prompts for any model on Amazon Bedrock against your own evaluation criteria. Until now, optimization focused on quality alone.
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work in AWS GovCloud (US). Grok 4.7 builds on Grok 4.6 with better mixed-document handling, more dependable repo-scale coding with planning and error recovery, and enhanced browser-use agents for form fills and portal navigation.
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to AWS GovCloud and 3 Regions
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports configurable time-to-live for long-term memory
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets you set a time-to-live (TTL) on long-term memory records, so they are automatically deleted after a retention period you define. By default, long-term memory records do not expire.
Announcing consumption-based pricing for short-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Announcing consumption-based pricing for short-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore memory now prices short-term memory (STM) based on the data your agents ingest, retrieve, and store, replacing the previous flat rate per event.
Also shipped on Oct 23, 2026
AWS in October 2026Retrieve Cortex Search (Public Preview)
The CORTEX_SEARCH_RETRIEVE table function is now in public preview, allowing users to execute low-latency search queries directly from SQL for RAG and chatbot applications.
DataFrame caching on serverless compute is now in Public Preview
Databricks now supports DataFrame caching on serverless compute via df.cache() or df.persist(), allowing users to reuse results within a session.
Box Audit Logs managed ingestion connector (Beta)
The Box Audit Logs connector for Lakeflow Connect is now available in beta, enabling the ingestion of enterprise audit events into Databricks.
Manage Test Engine workflows with Terraform and the REST API
Users can now manage Test Engine workflows using the buildkite_test_suite_workflow Terraform resource or the REST API, enabling code-based configuration of monitors and actions.
Flagship - Target Flagship feature flags with structured evaluation context
Flagship now supports nested objects and arrays in evaluation context, allowing developers to target feature flags based on complex user profiles and tags.
Responses API for the Cortex REST API (Preview)
The new Responses API in the Cortex REST API provides OpenAI-compatible endpoints for accessing models.