Amazon Bedrock Web Search for OpenAI models now GA
Amazon Bedrock has launched Web Search, a new server-side tool for OpenAI models, enabling them to ground responses with current web data without data egress. This feature eliminates the need for third-party search providers, custom orchestration, and separate vendor management, simplifying the integration process. Web Search is now generally available in specific AWS regions, with documentation and pricing details provided.
- →Web Search for OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock
- →Simplified integration with standardized tool-use interface
- →Web Search powered by Amazon's index and knowledge graph
- →General availability and regional support
Features (1) ›
- Web Search for OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock
Web Search is a new server-side tool for OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock that grounds responses with current web knowledge, maintaining data residency within AWS. It simplifies grounding by removing the need for third-party providers, API key management, custom orchestration, and vendor compliance reviews.
Enhancements (1) ›
- Simplified integration with standardized tool-use interface
Web Search integrates via a standardized tool-use interface compatible with the OpenAI Responses API, requiring only the addition of the web search tool to an API call. Bedrock handles the entire search lifecycle server-side, returning a grounded response with citations.
Notes (2) ›
- Web Search powered by Amazon's index and knowledge graph
The feature is built by Amazon, utilizing a web index of billions of documents and a knowledge graph for verified facts. It performs semantic snippet extraction for context-efficient results with low latency, rather than returning raw pages.
- General availability and regional support
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon). Resources for getting started include a blog post, user guide documentation, and a pricing page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-bedrock-web/
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