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This section covers how to interact with Amazon Bedrock programmatically. For new applications, we recommend the bedrock-runtime endpoint. Pick an API, and start making inference requests.

Quick start

Your situation	Recommended path
Want a unified AWS-native interface across all models	Use the bedrock-runtime endpoint with the Converse API
Need direct model control or non-text modalities	Use the bedrock-runtime endpoint with the Invoke API
Migrating from OpenAI APIs	Use the bedrock-runtime endpoint with the Responses API or Chat Completions API — same OpenAI shape, plus Amazon Bedrock features such as Guardrails and cross-Region inference.
Migrating from Anthropic APIs	Use the bedrock-runtime endpoint with the Messages API

Topics

• Endpoints supported by Amazon Bedrock

• APIs supported by Amazon Bedrock

• Making inference requests

• Use a tool to complete an Amazon Bedrock model response

• Web Search

• Projects (OpenAI-compatible)

• Workspaces (Anthropic-compatible)

• API keys