Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models
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This article announces the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in tool that enables OpenAI models to ground responses with current web knowledge while maintaining data residency within AWS.
- Web Search performs semantic snippet extraction from Amazon's web index spanning billions of documents
- Eliminates need for third-party search providers, separate API keys, and vendor security reviews
- Integrates through standardized tool-use interface compatible with OpenAI Responses API
- Single API parameter enables grounding with server-side search lifecycle management and citations
- Available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon)
Web Search simplifies adding current web knowledge to OpenAI models on Bedrock without external vendor complexity or data egress.
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