Document history for the Amazon Bedrock User Guide - Amazon Bedrock

Document history for the Amazon Bedrock User Guide

  • Latest documentation update: November 8th, 2024

The following table describes important changes in each release of Amazon Bedrock. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Region expansion

You can now use Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and Europe (Zurich).

November 11, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock now supports knowledge bases in US East (Ohio).

November 8, 2024

New feature

You can now view the trace for a prompt flow to track the inputs and outputs of each node.

November 7, 2024

New feature

You can now include guardrails for a knowledge base or prompt node in a prompt flow.

November 7, 2024

General release

Prompt management is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock.

November 7, 2024

Region expansion

You can now create application inference profiles in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Seoul).

November 6, 2024

Region expansion

Cross-region inference profiles have been added for Anthropic Claude and Meta Llama models.

November 6, 2024

New model

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3.5 Haiku with Amazon Bedrock.

November 4, 2024

Feature update

You can now create application inference profiles to run model inference and use them to track costs and metrics.

November 1, 2024

Feature update

You can now include model-specific inference parameters when defining a prompt in Prompt management or in a prompt node in a flow.

October 31, 2024

New model

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2 with Amazon Bedrock. You can also use computer use tools with Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2.

October 22, 2024

Updated managed policy

Read-only permissions for Custom Model Import were added to the AmazonBedrockReadOnly AWS-managed policy.

October 21, 2024

Feature update

The topK field is no longer supported in the inferenceConfiguration object when creating a prompt in Prompt management.

October 21, 2024

Feature update

The text and chat playgrounds are now merged into a Chat/text playground in the Amazon Bedrock console.

October 21, 2024

Feature update

The text and chat playgrounds are now merged into a Chat/text playground in the Amazon Bedrock console.

October 21, 2024

Region expansion

Batch inference is now supported in Asia Pacific (Seoul).

October 7, 2024

New regions supported

You can now use Amazon Bedrock in AWS Region US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Seoul).

October 1, 2024

New models

You can now use Meta Llama 3.2 1B Instruct, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct, Llama 3.2 11B Instruct, and Llama 3.2 90B Instruct models with Amazon Bedrock.

September 25, 2024

New feature

You can now use binary embeddings with Titan Text Embeddings V2 model in Amazon Bedrock

September 25, 2024

New feature

You can now monitor Guardrails with CloudWatch Metrics in Amazon Bedrock.

September 24, 2024

New feature

You can now assess an inference profile using model evaluation.

September 24, 2024

New models

You can now use AI21 Labs Jamba 1.5 Large and AI21 Labs Jamba 1.5 Mini with Amazon Bedrock.

September 23, 2024

New feature

You can now use an inference profile when using a prompt in Prompt management or including a prompt in a prompt flow.

September 23, 2024

More model support for Provisioned Throughput

You can now purchase Provisioned Throughput for Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet models in US West (Oregon).

September 23, 2024

New feature

You can now monitor status changes in batch inference jobs using Amazon EventBridge.

September 18, 2024

New feature

You can now submit files from an S3 bucket owned by another account to a batch inference job.

September 16, 2024

New feature

You can now use a VPC when submitting a batch inference job.

September 16, 2024

New feature

You can now use an inference profile when generating responses based on results queried from a knowledge base and when parsing a data source.

September 11, 2024

Updated content

Updated topic titles and reorganized content to improve readability. If you'd like to provide feedback on these changes, use this Provide feedback link.

September 4, 2024

New model

You can now use Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core models with Amazon Bedrock.

September 4, 2024

Updated managed policy

Inference profile read-only permissions were added to the AmazonBedrockReadOnly AWS-managed policy.

August 27, 2024

New feature

You can now use cross-region inference using inference profiles to increase throughput and improve resilience.

August 27, 2024

New feature

You can now request confirmation from your application users before invoking the Amazon Bedrock Agent action group function.

August 26, 2024

Updated managed policy

Read-only permissions for Batch inference (model invocation job), Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, and Amazon Bedrock Model evaluation were added to the AmazonBedrockReadOnly AWS-managed policy.

August 21, 2024

New feature

Asynchronous model invocation with multiple prompts with batch inference is now generally available.

August 21, 2024

New feature

You can now run model inference on multiple prompts asynchronously using batch inference.

August 16, 2024

New model

You can now use Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 V2 with Amazon Bedrock.

August 6, 2024

Region expansion

You can now use Meta Llama 3 Instruct models 8B and 70B in AWS Region AWS GovCloud (US-West).

August 1, 2024

New feature

You can now copy custom models into other regions in Amazon Bedrock.

August 1, 2024

New feature

You can now share custom models with other accounts in Amazon Bedrock.

August 1, 2024

New managed policy

Amazon Bedrock has added AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary to limit permissions of the provisioned IAM principal that the policy is attached to.

July 31, 2024

New model

You can now use Mistral AI Mistral Large 2 (24.07) model with Amazon Bedrock.

July 24, 2024

New model

You can now use Meta Llama 3.1 Instruct models with Amazon Bedrock.

July 23, 2024

New feature

You can now use Prompt management and Amazon Bedrock Prompt flows with Amazon Bedrock Studio.

July 22, 2024

New feature

You can now string together different Amazon Bedrock resources into a workflow for end-to-end solutions.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now create and save prompts to reuse in different workflows.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now modify query configurations during runtime for knowledge bases that are attached to an agent.

July 10, 2024

New feature

Amazon Bedrock now offers semantic and hierarchical chunking, and advanced parsing of more than standard text. You can also use Lambda function for custom data transformations.

July 10, 2024

New feature

Amazon Bedrock now offers query decomposition to break down complex queries into smaller, more manageable sub-queries.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now connect to and crawl your data stored in Confluence, Salesforce, and SharePoint for your knowledge base. You can also connect to and crawl web URLs.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now use code interpretation in Amazon Bedrock to generate, run, and troubleshoot code in a secure test environment.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now use memory for your agents to retain conversational context across multiple sessions.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now use an independent API to call your guardrails in Amazon Bedrock.

July 10, 2024

New feature

You can now use contextual grounding check with guardrails.

July 10, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock Agents is now supported in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1), Europe (London) (eu-west-2), and South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1).

June 28, 2024

New model

You can now use AI21 Jamba-Instruct with Amazon Bedrock.

June 25, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is now supported in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1), Europe (London) (eu-west-2), and South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1).

June 21, 2024

New feature

You can now include documents in the chat playground or while using the Conversation API.

June 21, 2024

New model

You can now use Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Amazon Bedrock.

June 20, 2024

New feature

Cohere Embed V3 models now support int8 and binary embedding types in the response.

June 20, 2024

New feature

You can now use guardrails with the Converse API.

June 18, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1), Europe (London) (eu-west-2), and South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

June 13, 2024

New feature

You can now view information in the trace about whether agent action group results were sent to be handled by a Lambda function or whether control was returned to the agent developer.

June 13, 2024

New model

You can now use Claude 3 Opus with Amazon Bedrock.

June 7, 2024

New feature

You can now use the Converse API to create conversational applications.

May 30, 2024

New feature

You can now use tools with Amazon Bedrock models.

May 30, 2024

More model support for embedding data sources in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

You can now use Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 model to embed your data sources in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

May 30, 2024

New model

You can now use Mistral Small with Amazon Bedrock.

May 24, 2024

New feature

You can now use guardrails with your Agent in Amazon Bedrock.

May 20, 2024

New feature

You can now modify inference parameters when generating responses from knowledge base retrieval.

May 9, 2024

New model

You can now use Amazon Titan Text Premier model with Amazon Bedrock.

May 7, 2024

New feature

Preview release of Amazon Bedrock Studio.

May 7, 2024

New feature

You can now associate a Provisioned Throughput with an alias of your agent in Amazon Bedrock.

May 2, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

May 1, 2024

New feature

You can now select MongoDB Atlas as a vector index source in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

May 1, 2024

New model

You can now use Titan Embeddings Text V2 model with Amazon Bedrock.

April 30, 2024

More model support for Provisioned Throughput

You can now purchase Provisioned Throughput for AI21 Labs Jurassic-2 Ultra.

April 30, 2024

New models

You can now use Cohere Command R and Cohere Command R+ models with Amazon Bedrock.

April 29, 2024

New feature

You can now import a custom model into Amazon Bedrock.

April 23, 2024

New feature

In Amazon Bedrock Agents, you can now return the information that an agent elicits from a user in the InvokeAgent response, rather than sending it to a Lambda function.

April 23, 2024

New feature

In Amazon Bedrock Agents, you can now define an action group by the parameters that it requires from the user.

April 23, 2024

New feature

You can now chat with your document with Amazon Bedrock.

April 23, 2024

New feature

You can now select from multiple data sources in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

April 23, 2024

New feature

You can now use Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to implement safeguards to block harmful content in model inputs and responses based on your use cases.

April 23, 2024

New model

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3 Opus with Amazon Bedrock.

April 16, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

April 9, 2024

AWS CloudFormation support for Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

You can now set up and manage your Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases resources with AWS CloudFormation.

April 5, 2024

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in Europe (Paris) (eu-west-3). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

April 4, 2024

More model support for querying knowledge bases in Amazon Bedrock

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku for knowledge base response generation.

April 4, 2024

New model

You can now use Mistral Large with Amazon Bedrock.

April 3, 2024

More model support for querying knowledge bases in Amazon Bedrock

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku for knowledge base response generation.

April 3, 2024

New feature

You can now purchase Provisioned Throughput for base models with no commitment.

March 29, 2024

More model support for Provisioned Throughput

You can now purchase Provisioned Throughput for Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet, Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku, Cohere Embed English, and Cohere Embed Multilingual.

March 29, 2024

New feature

You can now create a network access policy in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to allow your Amazon Bedrock knowledge base to access a private OpenSearch Serverless vector search collection configured with a VPC endpoint.

March 28, 2024

New feature

You can now include metadata for your source documents in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and filter on the metadata during knowledge base query.

March 27, 2024

New feature

You can now use a prompt template to customize the prompt sent to a model when you query a knowledge base and generate responses.

March 26, 2024

More model support for querying knowledge bases in Amazon Bedrock

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet for knowledge base response generation.

March 25, 2024

Decreased latency

You can now optimize on latency for simpler use cases in which agents have a single knowledge base.

March 20, 2024

New model

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku with Amazon Bedrock.

March 13, 2024

New model

You can now use Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet with Amazon Bedrock.

March 4, 2024

New model

You can now use Mistral AI models with Amazon Bedrock.

March 1, 2024

New feature

You can now customize the search strategy in Knowledge Base for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless vector stores that contain a filterable text field.

February 28, 2024

New feature

You can now detect images with a watermark from Amazon Bedrock Titan Image Generator.

February 14, 2024

Updated AWS PrivateLink support

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to create interface VPC endpoints for the Amazon Bedrock Agents Build-time service.

February 9, 2024

IAM role update

You can now use the same service role across knowledge bases and use roles without a predefined prefix.

February 9, 2024

Model in legacy status

Stable Diffusion XL v0.8 is now in legacy status. Migrate to Stable Diffusion XL v1.x before April 30, 2024.

February 2, 2024

Code examples chapter added

The Amazon Bedrock guide now includes code examples across a variety of Amazon Bedrock actions and scenarios.

January 25, 2024

New feature

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now offers you a choice between a production and non-production account when you choose to quick create an Amazon OpenSearch Serverless vector store in the console.

January 24, 2024

New feature

Amazon Bedrock Agents now lets you view traces in real-time when you use the test window in the console.

January 18, 2024

More model support for embedding data sources in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports using the Cohere Embed English and Cohere Embed Multilingual to embed your data sources.

January 17, 2024

More model support for Amazon Bedrock Agents and querying knowledge bases in Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases response generation now support Anthropic Claude 2.1.

December 27, 2023

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

December 21, 2023

New vector store support

You can now create a knowledge base in an Amazon Aurora database cluster. For more information, see Create a vector store in Amazon Aurora.

December 21, 2023

New managed policies

Amazon Bedrock has added AmazonBedrockFullAccess to give users permission to create, read, update, and delete resources, and AmazonBedrockReadOnly to give users read-only permissions for all actions.

December 12, 2023

New feature

Amazon Bedrock now supports creating model evaluation jobs using automatic metrics or human workers.

November 29, 2023

New feature

You can now monitor and customize your model versions.

November 29, 2023

New Titan models

New models from Titan include Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 V1 and Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1. For more information, see Titan Models.

November 29, 2023

New feature

With Continued Pre-training you can teach a model new domain knowledge. For more information, see Custom Models.

November 28, 2023

New feature

You can now query knowledge bases through the Retrieve and RetrieveAndGenerate APIs. For more information, see Query a knowledge base.

November 28, 2023

General release

General release of the Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases service. For more information, see Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

November 28, 2023

General release

General release of the Amazon Bedrock Agents service. For more information, see Amazon Bedrock Agents.

November 28, 2023

Customize more models

You can now customize models from Cohere and Meta. For more information, see Custom Models.

November 28, 2023

New model releases

Updated documentation to cover new Meta and Cohere models. For more information, see Amazon Bedrock.

November 13, 2023

Documentation localization

Amazon Bedrock documentation is now available in Japanese and German.

October 20, 2023

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

October 19, 2023

Region expansion

Amazon Bedrock is now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1). For information on endpoints, see Amazon Bedrock endpoints and quotas.

October 3, 2023

Gated general release

Gated general release of the Amazon Bedrock service. For more information, see Amazon Bedrock.

September 28, 2023