Amazon Bedrock changelog
240 announcements since January 2025 · 51 GA · 8 previews · 2 price changes · 20 Region expansions
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October 202621
GPT-5.6 Cyber for vulnerability research offered to eligible customers in GovCloud (US-East)Region
Standard and Express workflows usable as AI agent tools through AgentCore Gateway
Rebuilt with faster startup, consistent commands, and support for more AgentCore resourcesGA
Added in London, Frankfurt, Ohio and Canada (Central), for nine Regions totalRegion
Canada cross-Region inference routes only between Canada Central and Canada West
1 million token context, text and image input, token prices at least 50% lower than GPT-6.1 SolGA
Domain filtering of up to 100 allowed or blocked domains and user location controls added
Optional prompt shortening returns shorter prompts that score at least as high
Available in AWS GovCloud (US) for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge workGA
Expands to US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and GovCloud (US-West)Region
reasoning.summary parameter supported for OpenAI models through the Responses API
Bedrock costs can be grouped and filtered by model, provider, inference type and feature
Fastest Claude 5.5 model, offered on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWSGA
Fastest Claude 5.5 model offered through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)GA
Z.ai open weight model with 1M-token context and prompt cachingGA
Supports private CA-signed TLS certificates on MCP, OpenAPI and HTTP proxy targets in VPC
September 202619
Premium speed tier with up to 6x faster inference, up to 300 tokens per secondGA
In-region inference added in UK (London) Region, keeping data processing in the UKRegion
OpenAI-powered agents run inside AWS with IAM roles, durable sessions and MCP toolsPreview
Upgrade to GPT-6 Sol for agentic coding and computer use, with explicit prompt cachingGA
Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 offered in India, South Korea and SingaporeRegion
Coding and agentic model with US Geo and Global cross-Region inferenceGA
Offered through Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, with stronger coding and knowledge workGA
Native Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors sync articles and community posts
Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter open model with vision, 1M-token context and prompt cachingGA
Next-generation Runtime reclaims unused memory and gives P75 cold starts of 1.9 to 2.0 secondsGA
OpenAI's latest model on Bedrock, with a context window of up to 1 million input tokensGA
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) for GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.6 Terra and LunaRegion
Managed consent portal removes need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure for AgentCore Gateway
Anthropic's frontier model available through Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWSGA
Anthropic's frontier model on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)GA
August 202616
Private catalog for agents, tools and MCP servers adds IaC support, RAM sharing and auto-detectionGA
Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) with 500k context windowGA
Available in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)Region
Available on Bedrock in GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East) with 1 million token contextGA
Now $4 per million input and $20 per million output tokens, through at least November 21, 2026Price
AI agents can pay for APIs, MCPs and content, with Coinbase and Stripe Privy walletsGA
Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions through Amazon Bedrock with zero data retentionRegion
Cyber defense models GPT-5.6 Cyber and GPT-5.6 Sol for eligible customers in US East (Ohio)GA
IAM principal cost allocation now covers the bedrock-mantle endpoint
Memory, policy and managed harness added in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Run agents on EC2 instances through capacity providers, with sessions up to 14 daysGA
Built-in server-side web search for OpenAI GPT models, with no data leaving AWSGA
1 million token context windows supported on Bedrock, with prompt caching discount
July 202610
Open source tool drafts business ontologies for AI agents, stored in a Neptune knowledge graphGA
On-demand prices drop 80% for Luna and 20% for Terra from July 30, 2026Price
31B, 26B-A4B and E2B variants available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), adding xAI as a model provider thereRegion
Anthropic's most advanced Opus model, offered via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWSGA
Agent traces, prompts and logs delivered to a single per-agent CloudWatch log group
Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) via bedrock-runtime and bedrock-mantle endpointsRegion
Standardized Bedrock product metadata including model provider, model name and inference type
Available in Bangkok, Malaysia, Milan and Spain RegionsRegion
June 202620
Anthropic's latest Sonnet model offered via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWSGA
FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approved in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Cross-account access to memory resources and delivery destinations via resource-based policies
Two automated policy refinement workflows: iterative improvement and ambiguity reduction
Managed agent harness defines agents in configuration, exports to Strands-based codeGA
Insights, recommendations, batch evaluation and A/B testing to improve agents from production tracesGA
Bedrock Guardrails evaluate agent action outputs and gateway target inputs in policyGA
Managed RAG service with six data source connectors and agentic retrievalGA
New resourceless InvokeGuardrailChecks API applies individual safeguards in agent loops, detect-only
Automated Reasoning checks added in Asia Pacific (Sydney) RegionRegion
Managed web search tool for agents, exposed via AgentCore gateway over MCP, in US East (N. Virginia)GA
Mythos-class model available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWSGA
Interactive shells give terminal access into agent sessions, up to 10 concurrent shells
Credential Providers can reference existing AWS Secrets Manager secret ARNs, in 14 RegionsGA
CloudWatch metrics for inference counts, token totals and client errors
Models and Codex run on Bedrock at OpenAI first-party pricingGA
May 20269
Inference quotas for the bedrock-mantle endpoint now visible in AWS Service Quotas
Request-level usage attribution added to InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs
Optimizes prompts for any Bedrock model and compares results across up to 5 models
AI agents pay for APIs, MCP servers and content via Coinbase or Stripe wallets with spending limitsPreview
Mounts Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS access points as bring-your-own file systems
Connects AI agents to SAP ERP systems on AgentCore Runtime using MCP and ODataGA
April 202612
On-Behalf-Of token exchange lets agents access resources for users without repeated consent flowsGA
Adds recommendations, batch evaluations and A/B tests to validate agent performance changesPreview
Node.js supported for direct code deployment from a .zip file, alongside Python
Limited preview of OpenAI models, Codex and Managed Agents powered by OpenAIPreview
Adds managed harness (preview), AgentCore CLI and skills for coding assistantsPreview
Anthropic's most capable Opus model, served by Bedrock's next-generation inference engineGA
Cost allocation by IAM user and role in CUR 2.0 and Cost Explorer
Private catalog for discovering and governing agents, tools, skills and MCP servers via AgentCorePreview
OS-level mouse, keyboard and full desktop screenshot actions beyond Chrome DevTools Protocol
Gated research preview in US East (N. Virginia), limited to allow-listed organizationsPreview
March 202611
Automated quality assessment for AI agents with 13 built-in evaluators, in nine RegionsGA
Chrome Enterprise policies for Browser and custom root CA for Browser and Code Interpreter
Managed session storage keeps agent filesystem state across stop and resume, up to 1 GBPreview
WebRTC added for real-time bidirectional streaming, in fourteen RegionsGA
Open hybrid MoE model for multi-agent applications added to Bedrock in select RegionsGA
New InvokeAgentRuntimeCommand API runs shell commands in a session, streaming output over HTTP/2
Supports the AG-UI protocol for deploying real-time agent servers in fourteen Regions
Streaming notifications to Kinesis when long-term memory records are created or modified
Stateful MCP servers support elicitation, sampling and progress notifications in 14 Regions
Centralized agent-tool access controls written in natural language converted to Cedar, in 13 RegionsGA
February 202613
Supports Converse API as a model invocation type for batch jobs
AgentCore Gateway tools run server-side in a single Responses API callGA
Open-weight coding model available through the Bedrock managed API in select RegionsGA
Adds open-weight models Qwen3 32B and GPT-OSS 20B, plus OpenAI-compatible fine-tuning APIs
Anthropic model for coding, agents and computer use, upgrade from Sonnet 4.5GA
PrivateLink now covers the OpenAI-compatible bedrock-mantle endpoint in 14 listed Regions
Supports customer-provided HTTP and HTTPS proxy configuration for browser sessions
Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles
January 20268
Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side custom tools using the Responses API
Amazon Bedrock now supports 1-hour duration for prompt caching
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions
Amazon Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5
AWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usage
Amazon Bedrock introduces API keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions