AWS announces general availability of Bedrock AgentCore Web Answer
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AWS announces the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Agents can obtain synthesized answers with source citations in a single tool call, without having to build their own search, retrieval, synthesis, and citation pipeline. The feature is currently available only in the US East (N. Virginia, us-east-1) region, and AWS says it will expand to more regions later. Under AWS pricing, Web Answer costs $10 per 1,000 tool calls; both Gateway and Web Answer calls are billed, and creating AWS resources by step also incurs charges.
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- AWS Machine Learning BlogGetting started with Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon announced the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a managed Gateway tool that takes a natural-language question and returns a synthesized answer with source citations in seconds, replacing a self-built search, retrieve, synthesize, and citation pipeline. The post contrasts it with Web Search (which returns ranked URLs and lets you keep your own model), then walks through granting the Gateway service role bedrock-agentcore:InvokeWebAnswer, creating a Web Answer target, and calling it from a Strands agent. It is available in us-east-1 at $10 per 1,000 tool calls, with a 10 transactions per second per account rate limit.
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