Amazon Bedrock changelog 2025
101 announcements, 2025
All Amazon Bedrock changes · 219 announcements since January 2025 · 20 GA · 2 previews · 2 price changes · 15 Region expansions
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December 20259
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation launches instruction optimization for your document blueprints
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Policy (preview), Evaluations (preview) and more
Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models, the largest expansion of new models to date
Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 family now available first on Amazon Bedrock
Announcing Amazon Nova 2 foundation models now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming
November 202512
Multimodal retrieval for Bedrock Knowledge Bases now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports synchronous image processing
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports OpenAI GPT OSS models
AWS Marketplace adds A2A server support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Amazon Bedrock introduces Priority and Flex inference service tiers
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now in Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports direct code deployment
October 202510
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now reduces CAPTCHAs with Web Bot Auth (Preview)
TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 3.0 for advanced video understanding now in Amazon Bedrock
4 new image editing tools added to Stability AI Image Services in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock simplifies access with automatic enablement of serverless foundation models
Open Source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server now available for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Cohere’s Embed v4 multimodal embeddings model now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now provides support for enhancing transcriptions
September 202516
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand, Malaysia, and Taipei) Regions
DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI open weight models expand to new regions on Amazon Bedrock
Qwen3 models are now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
Announcing on-demand deployment for custom Meta Llama models in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway supports AWS PrivateLink invocation and invocation logging
TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 2.7 can now be used for synchronous inference in Amazon Bedrock
AWS adds support for three new condition keys to govern API keys for Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports Global Cross-Region inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Simplified Cache Management for Anthropic’s Claude models in Amazon Bedrock
August 20255
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports 5 additional languages for Document Workflows
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Count Tokens API supported for Anthropic’s Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now provides simplified access to OpenAI open weight models
Amazon Bedrock now supports Batch inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS models
June 20256
Citations API and PDF support for Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of persistent long-running execution and inline-code support
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces tiers for content filters and denied topics
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available on Amazon Bedrock in London
Powertools for AWS Lambda introduces Bedrock Agents Function utility
May 20257
Amazon Bedrock models get FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US)
Anthropic's Claude 4 foundation models now in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports generating custom insights from videos
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports cross-region inference
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports extraction of custom insights from audio
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is now generally available
April 202512
Meta’s Llama 4 now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
Writer’s Palmyra X5 and X4 models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports modality controls, hyperlinks and larger documents
Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock RAG and Model Evaluations now support custom metrics
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available on Amazon Bedrock in Europe
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities to safely build generative AI applications
Amazon Bedrock now offers Pixtral Large 25.02, a multimodal model from Mistral AI
Amazon Bedrock announces general availability of prompt caching
March 202517
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Amazon OpenSearch Managed Cluster for vector storage
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import introduces real-time cost transparency
Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation LLM-as-a-judge is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock now supports RAG Evaluation (generally available)
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces policy based enforcement for responsible AI
Meta’s Llama 3.2 models are now available for fine-tuning in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) Regions
Amazon Bedrock’s capabilities now generally available within Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon Bedrock Flows and Prompt Management now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and more regions
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases supports GraphRAG now generally available
Announcing latency-optimized inference for Amazon Nova Pro foundation model in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region
February 20254
Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for GenAI applications (Preview)
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in service quota limits
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions